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international / miscellaneous Saturday January 22, 2005 - 17:38 by Sean Crudden
 3 comments (last - monday january 24, 2005 - 15:53)  1 image
The tough guy (or the tough girl) is the accepted norm in politics and public affairs generally - particularly since the days of Margarer Thatcher. We have heard seductively in the past of the efficacy of "tough love." But what is toughness? Is it just cowardly bluster? Is it a real virtue in sport or in our personal lives, for example? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 21, 2005 - 17:10 by Soundmigration
5 comments (last - thursday january 27, 2005 - 08:36)
The difference between altruistic human responses and ‘political’ responses to continuing human misery. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday January 21, 2005 - 15:19 by Laura Synnott
5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 - 14:59)
Irish media is following the British tabloids in its coverage of celebrity lifestyle, little realising that people are growing tired of being bombarded with 'famous' peoples lives. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday January 20, 2005 - 19:21 by Media_Matters
17 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 - 21:14) 1 image
A query to users of this website, regarding the 'openess' of a self-styled open media forum. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 20, 2005 - 15:33 by - -
Now more than ever, we are one. In the world of global economy and global media, it is possible to consume products from the other side of the planet on a daily basis and to understand something of far away places as our cultural input speeds thousands of miles in a split second to reach us. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday January 20, 2005 - 15:08 by James R
18 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 - 04:11)
The latest McDonalds’ ad is telling. A man rushes to the counter and proceeds to push a microphone into the face of some bewildered kid bedecked in a green smock. “So what’s in your burgers?” he asks, in pursuit of the sort of anti-corporate expose that has fuelled Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me. Pressed, the kid blurts “100% Irish Beef.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday January 17, 2005 - 21:26 by John McDermott
1 comment (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 - 11:52)
Bertie and ordinary citizens pay for the massive expenditure to enrich Ireland,s fat cat hoteliers and golf course owners such as Oliver Barry(a Cork based Fianna Fail "soldier of destiny" whose name is linked to the corruption tribunals) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 17, 2005 - 11:40 by Henk Ruyssenaars
To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when? ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday January 16, 2005 - 21:58 by NorthStar Anarchist Collective
3 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 - 01:03)
(a response to Beyond Voting, by Chris Crass - Clamor Communique 42) ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday January 15, 2005 - 23:10 by Barry
28 comments (last - thursday november 03, 2005 - 02:38) 1 image
In the middle of his current visit to Tanzania, British chancellor Gordon Brown has claimed that "the days of Britain apologising for its colonial past are over". Some of us may beforgiven for wondering when we ever heard any of these apologies, but I suppose that would be unfair to the chancellor and highly cynical. Especially when one considers his follow up comment that it was time for Africans to start talking about "the enduring British traditions of liberty and tolerance". ANC leader Thabo Mbeki, for some strange unearthly reason, isnt highly impressed by the British chancellor. He claims that British imperialists have simply treated the African peoples whose lands they occupied as savages. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Saturday January 15, 2005 - 21:48 by Paul Kinsella
11 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 - 17:43)
Residents of the Lorcan Estate in Santry have expressed their complete opposition to plans which have been submitted to Dublin City Council to demolish the existing Kilmardinny Inn on Lorcan Avenue, Santry, which is a single storey pub, and construct a five storey apartment development containing 23 two bedroom apartments, 26 one bedroom apartments, with a public house at ground floor level. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday January 15, 2005 - 16:14 by The National Platform - EU Research and Information Centre
3 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 - 00:41)
Dear Friends, I sent you a document for your information last November on "Why the Left should oppose the EU Constitution". This had been drawn up by some members of the National Platform in consultation with various people on the Irish political Left. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Friday January 14, 2005 - 21:14 by Sean Crudden
6 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 - 21:37) 1 image
Will the democratic values of love, friendliness, listening, community, sisterhood, fun be squeezed out of the health system in my lifetime? What are the human priorities of the Health Services Executive? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 13, 2005 - 20:49 by Kevin Whelehan
15 comments (last - sunday january 16, 2005 - 18:28) 2 images
I deplore what has occured since 9/11/2001. Thousands upon thousands of people have been murdered by American bombardment of Afghanistan where the terrorists were based but the bombing has not affected the terrorists by an iota. We must use peaceful methods. But how? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 12, 2005 - 10:34 by righteous pragmatist
16 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2005 - 02:42)
Take an anonymous Pentagon leak from a “high level military officer,” add an appalling lack of knowledge of history, and compound it with ignorance of special warfare tactics. This process describes the article published by Newsweek breathlessly revealing that a “desperate” Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is “considering” employing the “Salvadoran option” to thwart the “growing quagmire” of the Iraq War. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 15:09 by Pipeline
28 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 - 09:07) 1 image
Abbeyshrule airfield has been upgraded. Runway resurfaced and military style numbers painted on both ends. Looks like there are plans to extend the runway and add bigger aircraft parking areas as part of a new development as the area is now fenced off.. Anyone know what the small white planes are that fly round? They look like US military drones of some kind? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday January 10, 2005 - 17:59 by Michael Hennigan
8 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 - 22:24)
Senator Feargal Quinn and his family have made an estimated €400 million gross from the sale of most of their holdings in the Superquinn supermarket group. Senator Quinn, as a person who became a public figure by choice, should set an example by allocating a significant portion of his family's fortune for charitable purposes. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Monday January 10, 2005 - 13:02 by Davy Carlin
9 comments (last - tuesday january 25, 2005 - 15:46)
Ideas and Ideologies – Davy Carlin 10/01/05 For, The Blanket, Indy media and Street Seen As an activist I have been involved in many campaigns over the last few years. From Anti Sectarianism, to Anti War, Anti Globalisation, to Anti Racism, Anti Privatisation to Anti Poverty and in each I have witnessed various movements, some mass, others less so. Nevertheless within each of them I had both seen and played an active part with others in initiating the coming together of not only peoples, Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter but of diverse organisations, groups and individual activists. Yet with all of these having been termed as being ‘Anti’ and against, what exactly then are we for. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Monday January 10, 2005 - 12:52 by R
57 comments (last - monday january 17, 2005 - 18:11)
Mayday 2004 fallout. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 05, 2005 - 04:28 by Peter Quinn
44 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2005 - 20:09)
In August 1984 the Dublin Governments Minister for Justice gave the oration at Beal na nBlath at the site where Michael Collins was killed by anti-treaty IRA men. Noonan told the crowd that they should follow Michael Collins as an example (I'm not sure if many of you are into selling out your country, but whatever floats your boat I suppose). During this speech he was also rebutting the legitimacy of the Provisional IRA however the question has to be asked, whats the difference? Many people claim the 'Old IRA' and the PIRA are completly different and chastise the PIRA at every chance you get and glorify the Old IRA when it suits. It is time for a reality check. Well lets look at Collins, the perfect example. ... read full story / add a comment |
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