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international / arts and media Tuesday January 25, 2005 - 15:56 by James R
 14 comments (last - sunday june 26, 2005 - 02:45)  1 image
Mike Leigh’s ‘Vera Drake,’ is set in Islington, 1950. Surprise, surprise, this ain't no nostalgia trip. It’s a world not far removed from Orwell’s 1930’s ‘Down and Out In Paris and London’ with his amazement at an English working class ability to subsist on regular doses of bread and tea. The dry taste of soda bread, the smell of dampness and the comfort of a 'cuppatay' is as palpable as the scars of war staring blankly from the eyes of shell shocked characters like Reg (Eddie Marsan) who having lost his mother to the blitz lives a bachelors life on ‘bread and drippings’. Rationing is still a reality, nylons are traded for smokes and parasitical black marketers and creditors make a fortune door to door, in neighbourhoods perpetually clouded in grey. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 25, 2005 - 12:24 by Tim Hourigan
8 comments (last - thursday march 03, 2005 - 14:09) 2 images
Troops through Shannon up 26% on previous year. Workforce is down 50%. That's the same workforce who were force- fed the story that their jobs depended on US military use of the airport. Other lies surround the economic arguments of US Military use of Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 24, 2005 - 02:32 by Kevin Walsh
12 comments (last - friday february 04, 2005 - 20:56)
Reflection......Priorities.....Values...... The Peace Process......... ... read full story / add a comment 
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 |
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