Comment on SwindleWatch ’07 by Channel 4: pandering to people’s prejudices...
[...] once a bastion of investigative journalism is now reduced to being the platform for Tory hacks and former RCPers to spout nonsense and [...]
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Does the Sinn Fein fall coincide with the party’s support for the billionaire, anti-union arch-capitalist Sean Quinn? The Impartial Reporter, a Fermanagh-based paper, reports that 2 Sinn Fein MLAs were...
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …Number 7 …. by sonofstan
9) Brian Faloon 10) Alice Glenn
View ArticleComment on More on the latest IT/Ipsos MRBI poll… by EamonnCork
It does appear that those on this site who’ve cast doubt on the bona fides of SF as a genuinely left wing party are justified by SF’s approach to the Quinn affair. For all the spluttering against...
View ArticleComment on “True progressivism”? No, not even close… by ejh
<a href="http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/irish-left-archive-the-quality-of-life-in-the-new-ireland-sinn-fein-psf-1979/" rel="nofollow">Previously</a>
View ArticleComment on “True progressivism”? No, not even close… by ejh
<i>They spend decades peddling a three-card trick of deregulation, privatisation, and liberalisation as a solution to all the world’s problems; then, when the crisis hits, which they utterly...
View ArticleComment on “True progressivism”? No, not even close… by Cl
One of Ireland’s leading propagandists of the status quo, Dan O’Brien, learned his trade with The Economist.
View ArticleComment on “True progressivism”? No, not even close… by LeftAtTheCross
Article in the IT about the demise of the print edition of Newsweek. http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/theindex/2012/10/19/newsweek-says-goodbye-to-the-printing-presses-whos-next-to-go-digital-only/...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th October, 2012 by...
In case some of you missed this: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1020/1224325504143.html “SOCIALIST PARTY TD Joe Higgins was entitled to use a Dáil allowance to cover travelling...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Kitchens of Distinction...
The pub in the railway station was The Phoenix and Firkin which sold lethal varieties of Real Ale and Scrumpy and was I think one of the very first micro brewery pubs. I think the other pub you’re on...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Kitchens of Distinction...
That’s right on both counts. It was one of the first micro-breweries. Good pints in there. Ah, a great spot South London. The atmosphere was great that neck of the woods. I’d lived in Shepherd’s Bush...
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I spent most of my London time in the ’80s in Hackney and thereabouts, but for about 6 months in ’03, I lived in Bermondsey, and got into the habit of working in the morning and walking around in the...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th October, 2012 by WorldbyStorm
I always felt that was trumped up (and vindictive) nonsense against them. Totally unfair. FFS, they’re politicians who are committed to those causes! Good news anyhow.
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My sense was that at the time there were much fewer Irish around there. Not that there were none but compared to north of the Thames less. Yeah, it’s got an amazing atmosphere. Your point re long walks...
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This post has done me a huge service. I’ve a lot of this stuff on cassette mislabelled as The Family Cat… I wonder if I have Family Cat stuff somewhere misrepresenting itself as KoD… Was never into...
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“Dave Fanning DJing and being rather puzzled when people kept asking him to play The Wolfe Tones” What a wonderful image
View ArticleComment on That OIRA ‘navy’? by michael
It is likely that Mandel met Saor Éire when he came to Ireland. Going by this comment that was posted on a Saor Eire article on The Irish Revolution blog. Sadly, other comrades were with Mandel at the...
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