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WorldbyStorm - 00:12 Sun Apr 28, 2024 So, interesting findings – what good the recent round of party conferences has done them is unclear. And changes in leadership? Thin rewards there too. The full state of the parties is as follows: Sinn Féin is at 27 per cent (up 2); Fine Gael is at 20 per cent (up 1); Fianna Fáil is […]
guestposter - 20:50 Sat Apr 27, 2024 Far Right candidates are deliberately heightening tensions to build profile The increased violence of anti-immigrant thugs as witnessed in Newtownmountkennedy last night, coupled with the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric and on-line agitation of those inciting them, is designed to provoke fear, insecurity, turmoil and division in our communities and broader society in the run up to […]
WorldbyStorm - 11:59 Sat Apr 27, 2024 Could anyone possibly be surprised by the following news? None of us are getting any younger, but it appears the age at which we are considered old has moved upwards over the generations. What?s more, as adults get older, they shift the goalposts further still, a study has shown. The researchers behind the study said […]
WorldbyStorm - 10:34 Sat Apr 27, 2024 This sort of amused me: When Coachella 2024 comes to be remembered by future generations, the abiding image will be that of Damon Albarnattempting to engage the crowd in a game of call and response, and then failing, and then having a bit of a go at them. In fairness to Albarn, it was a […]
WorldbyStorm - 08:45 Sat Apr 27, 2024 Yes, the post-punk trawl continues. Last time it was Pauline Murray and this time that strangest of Cocteau Twins albums, Garlands. Now, Cocteau Twins have been dealt with previously, here, and their 1985 EPs. But this is a very different sort of artefact. Garlands, their debut, was released on 4AD in July 1982. In terms […]
WorldbyStorm - 11:38 Fri Apr 26, 2024 So, Michael McNamara, former LP TD and arguably a contrarian voice, has thrown his hat in the ring for the Ireland South constituency at the European elections. But look at the spread of candidates: Currently three candidates are confirmed in the Ireland South constituency: Derek Blighe from Mitchelstown for Ireland First; Ross Lahive for Cork […]
WorldbyStorm - 09:14 Fri Apr 26, 2024 Interesting framing on The Irish Times front page of their website this morning after last night in Wicklow at the site for asylum seekers. The headline reads: Six arrested after gardaí ?attacked? at site earmarked for asylum seekers in Wicklow Why the quotation marks around attacked? The Journal has: Six arrests over public order incident […]
WorldbyStorm - 07:44 Fri Apr 26, 2024 Well… A group of independent historians are to write a ?public history? of Northern Ireland?s troubled past. Prominent academics Lord Bew and Dr Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid are set to be involved in the initiative announced by UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris. The independent Public History project will see up to five […]
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WorldbyStorm - 16:17 Thu Apr 25, 2024 I did not know that Kathy Sheridan in the Irish Times had a father, Peter Joe Sheridan, who was a long time Independent TD for Longford-Westmeath. He was in office there from 1961 to 1981 and while originally from a Fine Gael background he did, at times, support Fianna Fáil government?s. She writes about Independents […] |
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