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dublin / consumer issues Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 22:40 by Dave
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After 28 years of operation, Dublin Food Co-op is chronically sick: divorced from its founding principles and acutely dysfunctional. Following a deeply troubling incident in March, this author – until recently one of its most committed volunteers – has found it necessary to part ways. So, what’s gone wrong with the city’s pioneering consumer wholefood co-operative? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 19:22 by Battling Bloodsports in Ireland
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Great news from the Commercial Court today (May 18th) re the case of Greenband Investments v Irish Coursing Club! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 16, 2011 - 06:41 by ws
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We all rely on large companies to safeguard our health and we allow them to control and direct much of our science. Is this trust really justified? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 13, 2011 - 13:12 by Tom Stokes
Much-publicised initiatives to bring about political reform and constitutional change are a smokescreen to mask the maintenance of hegemonic control by the same privileged political class responsible for institutionalised inequality, injustice, and the destruction of our hard-won sovereignty and independence as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday May 13, 2011 - 12:05 by Anthony Coughlan
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AN IMPORTANT BOOK This is an important book on Irish republican and leftwing politics in the 1960s, on the background to the destruction of Ulster Unionist political hegemony by the Northern civil rights movement of that decade, and the formation of the Provisional IRA. Dr Treacy gives us much new information on a relatively neglected period. His book will be a significant source for those seeking to understand the explosion caused by the Partition of Ireland half a century after David Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act sundered Ireland into two parts in 1920. Unfortunately it will not be the definitive work on its subject. This is because Dr Treacy seems somewhat divided over what one might call “the conspiracy thesis” which has been subscribed to by sundry previous writers on this topic. This is that there was an attempt at some form of communist takeover-bid of the 1960s Republican Movement which contributed significantly to the 1970 split which gave rise to the Provisional IRA. ... read full story / add a comment |
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