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Tomboktu - 19:00 Wed Mar 17, 2010 HumanRightsInIreland, a blog run by Irish academic lawyers, has a series of posts today on the theme (to my ear, hi falutin) of ‘Human Rights Lexicon’. However, don’t let that put you off. I recommend the post by Illan Rua Wall on the right to housing in a post-crash Ireland. It gives some thoughts that [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 10:19 Wed Mar 17, 2010 Or somesuch given the day that is in it… Celebrate. Or something. It’s a bit problematic, given that it is on a Wednesday, so I wouldn’t be insanely keen to say, have a drink today. That was last night. And there’s work tomorrow. And Friday. So perhaps I won’t really celebrate. Not that I need [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 08:32 Tue Mar 16, 2010 It’s funny how off the radar, as it were, some issues can be if you restrict your reading/consumption of the media to certain areas. Socio-economic issues loom large in my life, and so does popular culture, so the issue of Johnny Ronan… indeed Ronan as a personality above and beyond his primary employment, didn’t have [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 08:31 Tue Mar 16, 2010 Some of us may be a bit puzzled to read a piece by Harry McGee in the Irish Times yesterday that references in some detail the Brendan Smyth controversy as it impacted on the Fianna Fáil/Labour coalition, leading to its eventual collapse.
IN OCTOBER 1994, Fianna Fáil and Labour had been in coalition for almost two [...]  A
Tomboktu - 16:39 Mon Mar 15, 2010 EQUALITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Registration is now open for an international conference at University College Dublin organised by the UCD Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI). The conference will open on the evening of Wednesday 5th May 2010, and will close at lunchtime on Friday 7th May 2010.
In the wake of the recent economic downturn we [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 15:08 Mon Mar 15, 2010 There’s no end of interest in the media over the Fine Gael document on political reform. And so far this is being strongly trailed with details spilling out all over. Got to say, I think that may be something of a mistake on the part of FG. By the time the document emerges in full [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 08:26 Mon Mar 15, 2010 STARRYPLOUDERRY72
The Starry Plough was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin in Derry ‘Derry’s own Republican newspaper’ as the subheading had it. This edition is of particular importance since it dates from just after the OIRA ceasefire of 1972. The front page is entitled Army Council Sees Growing Danger of Civil War: Why Officials Called A [...]  A
Garibaldy - 14:20 Sun Mar 14, 2010 I’m thinking of renaming this feature “The Sunday Independent Explains (Again) Why Trade Unions are the Most Evil Thing Ever”. Not even worth trying to rank this week. Better simply to read and be astonished.
This entire story by Daniel McConnell has left me somewhat enraged. There is the stress on the sufferings of the private [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 20:44 Sat Mar 13, 2010 Groups with parents in the band…
Given the brouhaha over Crystal Swing, what of other parents involved in rock and… er… in the case of CS… er… well, summat…
Here’s two to start us off…
Spirit… the step-dad (does that really count?)… “I’ve Got a Line on You”… Now frankly, I think this is pretty cool (and [...]  A
WorldbyStorm - 08:15 Sat Mar 13, 2010 Let’s start with a sad story. Or sadish. Way back when in the 1990s I heard an interview with Terry Hall, who had at the time just released his first solo album, discussing how, when he was in the Fun Boy Three he used to be on Top of the Pops and he’d see Echo [...]  A |
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