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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 22, 2008 20:50 by Floatingingalway   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 23, 2008 11:59)   video 1 video file
Galway, Ireland. This was filmed in November 2008. Thousands upon thousands of square metres of commercial space. All of it empty. Everybody is talking about the residential property crash while these buildings lay empty for years. Who is paying for this?
Commercial property is still seen as a sure investment by banks. Why? This is a very big elephant is dancing in the cupboard. read full story / add a comment
each a well worn step on the grapevine of global mass emotional interchange
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 16, 2008 18:23 by thoughtful type who only sees meticulous planning   text 25 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 14:11)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Everyone knows that an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at GW Bush in Bagdhad in December 2008. It's a story which got its global media coverage with predictable attitudes and spin & could easily be forgotten, were it not for a few factoids & considerations as well as precedents. Which I'd like to share with people here without going into too much pseudo-analytic expertise.

It's all about how shoe tossing was immediately explained to "us" as having resonance with muslims in general and Iraqi's in particular. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 15, 2008 12:54 by éirígí PRO   text 29 comments (last - thursday december 25, 2008 11:05)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
The accompanying video has been censored by various video hosting sites in quick succession since being uploaded on December 13. The video is now available for viewing at www.eirigi.org read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 14, 2008 17:11 by Conor. M   text 40 comments (last - sunday december 21, 2008 18:47)
This is basically about a new group formed in Swords, Co.Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday December 13, 2008 13:34 by Lapwing   text 16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 04:57)
Concern growing with regard to UCD security firm. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday December 12, 2008 20:29 by Ronoc   text 22 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2008 20:05)   image 2 images   video 3 video files
So you have voted incorrect, you must vote again. So the present Taoiseach tells us. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 11, 2008 14:52 by Sean Matthews (pc)
The insurrection in Greece is a violent manifestation of the flame of class war that is sweeping across the world. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 09, 2008 18:45 by Watchdog   image 1 image
Irish pork is being widely recalled because a percent of it was found dioxin contaminated. Governments acknowledge the harms and dangers of dioxin...a by-product of industrial chlorine.
But other far more dangerous sources of dioxin, namely typical chlorine-contaminated cigarettes, are being ignored. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 08, 2008 21:14 by Tom Cooper   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 19, 2010 12:47)
The recent 'Nationwide' programme on the national broadcastor RTE, on the life and times of 'Irishmen in British uniform' on their day to day life in Aldershot army barracks in England as they prepare for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps even to the country that gave them birth, peddled a pro-British pro-unionist line that implied both the Irish and British armies are synonymous with each other. Despite the fact that the British army has been engaged in the blatent murder of Irish citizens since colonisation right up to present times, RTE, in the making of this programme, acted like a recruiting agency for the foreign army that continues to colonise six counties of this island. The behaviour of RTE in this matter is both unsavoury and sordid and acts against the national interest. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 22:53 by Darragh Aiken   text 1 comment (last - monday december 08, 2008 12:53)
Much has been said over the Lisbon Treaty and the future direction of Europe under the heel of the emerging “European Soviet” (Reference to the EU by M. Gorbachev, London 2001). Yet there is little in the way of real debate on the more informative topics of nationhood, sovereignty and “que bono” (who benefits). This article sets out to stimulate such questions. The text of an informative Lecture called “The State of Individuals” by one of Americas most worthy Political Historians is provided for discussion. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 22:30 by FAS Scheme   text 22 comments (last - saturday july 25, 2009 16:02)
For years fas neglected the welfare of scheme workers throught-out Ireland.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 11:59 by S.C.   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 05, 2009 20:15)   video 1 video file
An overview of the recent raids on Irish "Head Shops", and the current controversy surrounding legal alternatives to street drugs. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 21:39 by Michael Murphy   text 46 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 14:37)
Proposals by the Socialist Party for a Local Election Socialist Alliance have been rejected by the Socialist Workers Party, People Before Profit Alliance and the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 18:52 by SeamusO'Rourke   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 11, 2010 12:26)
WE cannot Afford Incineration In Dublin or Ireland read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 15:52 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 18:55)
Despite rightwing media attempts to portray Barack Obama as a covert Muslim during the U.S. Presidential election campaign, his appointment of pro-Israel hard-liner Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff indicates that there will be no change in American policy toward Israel/Palestine. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 02:52 by John Fitzgerald   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 19:30)   image 1 image

My book Bad Hare Days is generating a lot of controversy, not unexpected given the long running debate on the ethics of live hare coursing in Ireland. I can accept criticism, but not the bullying and the blind unreasoning hatred that my legitimate opposition to this so called sport has elicited from some coursing fans read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 03, 2008 20:24 by Nixie Boran   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 18:29)   1 attached file
Why did Eamonn Gilmore’s New Labour pre-Christmas jolly in Kilkenny (Nov 29 – 30) blow up in his face?

Who is the shadowy eminence grise behind Gilmore's Twenty First Century Commission?

Why were the party faithful reduced to discussing leaked extracts from the Twenty First Century Commission report in Kilkenny?
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 02, 2008 02:05 by John McCoy   text 7 comments (last - monday december 22, 2008 16:32)
TEEU General Secretary wastes taxpayers money while bashing self-employed Electrical Contractors read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 02, 2008 01:41 by Gary Sudborough
The terrorism perpetrated by nation-states is much vaster in scope and cause many more casualties than that caused by individuals or groups of individuals even though the corporate media give the majority of attention and condemnation to the latter. read full story / add a comment
'purely for entertainment'
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday December 01, 2008 23:13 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
The mystery of why some people choose to be blatently cruel instead of engaging in some positive activity remains somewhat unsolved. We do know however, that animal cruelty in childhood is often associated with other signs of poor control over aggressive impulses and with parental deprivation. More importantly we are also aware that cruelty to animals is often the precursor to cruelty to other humans. Those who delight in the suffering and destruction of gentle creatures will obviously not be gentle and kind towards their own species. Whether legal or illegal, cruelty is cruelty.
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