Comment on The CLR Political Quiz… Number 38 by Joe
I’d say yes for Dublin County Council back in the WP days. A postman called Callaghan? would have been elected with him. Was Colm Breathnach elected to the council with him too?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 3rd of July 2013 by Garibaldy
Interview with that Syrian who was filmed eating from the corpse http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23190533
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz… Number 38 by irishelectionliterature
Denis O’Callaghan never stood on the same ticket as Gilmore in local Elections in both of their WP days. O’Callaghan was based in the Glencullen LEA in his WP days, whilst Gilmore was elected in...
View ArticleComment on So here’s to you Mr. Bevan. The NHS is 60 years old today… by...
[…] …July 5th is the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the NHS, as noted in this post from … […]
View ArticleComment on This Week At Irish Election Literature by Ciaran
In fairness, that JFK poster was hilarious. Satire is with O’Leary in the grave. According to the Phoenix, begrudgers demanded the poster be taken down. Spoilsports.
View ArticleComment on Ruairí Ó Brádaigh – 1932 – 2013 by 1285 Muscle Review
I really like it when people get together and share opinions. Great site, continue the good work!
View ArticleComment on Speaking of anniversaries… by Garibaldy
I’ll continue the anniversary fest here rather than in another post. 70th anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Kursk.
View ArticleComment on Can you feel the empathy? by smiffy
Actually, that makes her even more of a hypocrite. There is a logic – a twisted logic admittedly – but a logic to the 14 year sentence. If you accept as axiomatic that a foetus has equal status to a...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 3rd of July 2013 by...
Henry on Crooked Timber spotted this in the Wall Street Journal: http://crookedtimber.org/2013/07/05/noted-without-comment/ Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the...
View ArticleComment on Can you feel the empathy? by RosencrantzisDead
A reduction to five years would be welcome. Given the source, however, it is difficult to see how this is nothing but Creighton’s attempt to snatch some kind of ‘victory’ to either soften her ejection...
View ArticleComment on And the orthodoxy rolls on… by the majority football passe-temps...
…Check this out [...]Wow, superb weblog structure! How lengthy have you ever been running a blog for?[...]
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 3rd of July 2013 by Michael Carley
The readership don’t do much for their reputation. The first comment when I looked read: Good luck finding a Milton Friedman in this day and age, as Pinochet did. http://tinyurl.com/nu7thpd
View ArticleComment on Bits and Pieces… by Tomboktu
My own piece to add to the bits and pieces. This would be some pub crawl: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/essential-guide-to-bars-at-the-end-of-the-world
View ArticleComment on Bits and Pieces… by Starkadder
I’m still waiting for “Charles Stewart Parnell : Demon Slayer”.
View ArticleComment on Bits and Pieces… by smiffy
Or “Constant Markievicz and the Freemen of Doom”.
View ArticleComment on That sounds like that which sounds like… by WorldbyStorm
It does indeed! Wow, and it has all the elements, glam guitar, harmonica behind the chorus as it builds up to a crescendo tha would be found in the Bowie version too. And I just discovered Bo Diddley...
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by WorldbyStorm
Can only comment briefly now but the point about union leaderships eschewing a political leadership role is crucial. In fact thy went further as seen during CP2 and effectively made the case for the...
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by critical media review
As far as dialogue goes if a party leadership refuses to dialogue with its own rank and file membership (beyond paternalistic ‘patient explaining’), it is quite unlikely it will dialogue with...
View ArticleComment on New poll… by ivorthorne
We are a confused nation. The Labour party deserve their punishment but they must take hope from FF figures.
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