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national / consumer issues Friday October 29, 2004 - 12:09 by Michael Hennigan
 9 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 - 19:07)
'The Irish poet Brendan Kennelly once described Bewley's Café in Grafton Street as the 'heart and the hearth of Dublin'. Dublin, he said, would not be Dublin without Bewley's. These sentiments have been echoed by generations of Irish people since Joshua Bewley first introduced tea to the Irish public in 1835. Bewley's is a name synonymous in the history of Dublin and more recently of Ireland as a whole. Bewley's itself has a rich history of growth and survival which has proved it to be one of the last bastions of tradition in a changing Ireland.' ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Thursday October 28, 2004 - 00:37 by never trust the rich
10 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 - 04:51)
For as long as time immemorial, the greedy rich, have been waging war against the poor/working class/peasants, all over the world. From the shanty towns of africa, to the slums of brazil and sprawling run down council estates of the developed world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday October 27, 2004 - 23:51 by Michael Hennigan
3 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 - 17:12)
Some years ago, when I worked in a Swedish multinational, it issued a communication from HQ which read: 'Mr. X has asked to be relieved of his position as President of Y Division (the biggest in the group)..We wish Mr. X well in his future career.' Mr. X of course go a pay-off to keep his trap shut and agree to a 2 yr non-compete clause. He was soon forgotten and the usual self-serving tripe about 'Group culture' continued to be peddled as if nothing had happened. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 23, 2004 - 16:44 by Michael Hennigan
9 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 - 22:25)
More than a decade ago, Leona Helmsley*, New York’s ‘Queen of Mean’ famously said that ‘only the little people pay taxes.’ She could have been talking about Ireland and yesterday’s announcement that 11 millionaires paid zero tax legally, can only add to the perception of inequity in our society. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday October 23, 2004 - 02:57 by Keith Martin
3 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 - 01:37)
Cllr Keith Martin, an Independent Cllr on Westport Town council says it is time to "get real" about industrial jobs in the town. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 20, 2004 - 20:53 by Nina Ni Cheallaigh
12 comments (last - friday october 22, 2004 - 12:37)
Intimidation and racism in Dunsink ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 20, 2004 - 13:55 by James O'Brien
62 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 - 21:00)  2 images
This is the text of the talk I gave a couple of weeks back at the Irish Social Forum. A number of workshops were merged into that one, the SWP had requested one on the Party and the Anti-Capitalist movment, ourselves on anarchism, and somebody else on alliances, fronts and left organisations. So this talk concentrated on introducing anarchist ideas on and left it up to the discussion from the floor afterwards to see where things went. Kieran Allen of the SWP and Dermot Connelly formerly of the Socialist Party spoke from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint. Thanks to all the people in the ISF for putting the work in to make the weekend, at least, possible. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Sunday October 17, 2004 - 00:38 by skafrican
3 comments (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 - 07:51)
Racists blocking internet information about veteran two tone ska gigs. Both Neville Staples/The Beat were due to play Belfast recently, both are Touring Ireland but no information about their gigs was available on the internet or even at the venues they were supposed to be playing at. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 15, 2004 - 06:31 by Black commentator
"...And now the de facto Prime Minister [Gerard Latortue] has said he is going to sign a contract with the former military to kill us one by one. In a secret meeting he had with the Minister of justice, a friend inside heard Latortue estimate that it would be necessary to kill 25,000 people in the capital, in the capital alone to stop the calls for the return of President Aristide." ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 14, 2004 - 23:40 by Michael Hennigan
20 comments (last - thursday october 21, 2004 - 16:05)
There is a significant minority who oppose non-white immigrants. The asylum system shambles is used by some to paint immigrants on work permits as spongers. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 14, 2004 - 19:47 by Ken O'Keefe
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Justice for Palestine ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 14, 2004 - 16:27 by Akrasia
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This is a call for meaningfull debate amongst the left in Ireland regarding anti fascist campaigning in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 14, 2004 - 03:48 by James F. Harrington
10 comments (last - saturday october 23, 2004 - 13:16) 1 image
Open letter to my grandfather, Austin A. O’Malley, who I never really got to know, as he died when I was only four years old. He came over to the United States from his native country, Ireland around 1889, as a little boy of eleven years. Like many other Irishmen from Louisburg, County Mayo, he settled in Clinton, Massachusetts. I know that he worked there for a baker for awhile untill the Spanish American War broke out. I also know that he was in and out of the Veteran’s Hospital all through his life. I also know that he liked to drink at bars in South Boston, sometimes with his dog beside him. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 12, 2004 - 14:54 by Jack White
7 comments (last - wednesday october 13, 2004 - 22:10) 1 image
This October the Jane's “Less Lethal Weapons Conference” is taking place in The Berkeley Court Hotel, Ballsbridge on Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th of October. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 12, 2004 - 09:55 by Niall Meehan
118 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 - 18:52) 2 images
Before departing for the US as EU Ambassador John Bruton questioned the War of Independence that saw the emergence of his party and that eventually paved the way to his becoming Taoiseach. He effectively disowned his Fine Gael Party and claimed allegiance to the defunct Irish Parliamentary or Home Rule Party that had failed to secure a subsidiary Irish parliament under the Crown. He said that having southern MPs in Westminster would have tempered British policy, seeming to forget that it had little impact on what Professor Roy Foster once called the famine “holocaust”. Indeed Bruton admitted that it resulted in the slaughter of many of the thousands of Irishmen who followed John Redmond’s lead in the First World War, as Redmond was “obliged to support imperial policy”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 11, 2004 - 21:57 by Alois Vincenzo
22 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 - 11:16) 15 images
An article on the experiences of a handful of activists from Ireland's libertarian left in Palestine this summer. A belated personal account, some of which subject matter has been reported on this site as it happened by one of the other participants. See links below. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday October 11, 2004 - 20:27 by Michael Hennigan
Michael McDowell has ministerial responsibility for the Equality Authority but for the second time in months, he has shown his contempt for it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 11, 2004 - 18:33 by liz
1. In order to facilitate the security, safety and comfort of all attendees, UK ESF 2004 (London) Limited reserve the right to refuse admission of an attendee to the Forum and refund the registration fee in full. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 11, 2004 - 08:49 by Michael Hennigan
9 comments (last - friday october 15, 2004 - 00:53)
The massive response of the Afghani people to the presidential election is very positive news after a quarter century of civil war and upheavel. This positive development should not be seen through the prism of the US elections. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / crime and justice Monday October 11, 2004 - 02:38 by David McCarthy
29 comments (last - friday march 31, 2006 - 10:21)
Mainstream media reaction to the Traveller protest at Dunsink has been interesting, writes Dave McCarthy of the Traveller Visibility Group in Cork. The action has given the darlings of the right wing media the time of their lives this week, as they got their first excuse in years to peddle their hatred of Ireland’s only ethnic minority. But are we all losing out because of this? ... read full story / add a comment |
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