Comment on Pro-union Catholics… by benmadigan
whether it was promised in the GFA or the STA makes no difference – it was supposed to come into being. It is also EU policy for minority languages. It was only one example of several deliverables that...
View ArticleComment on Pro-union Catholics… by Garibaldy
I’d say it makes quite a bit of difference in terms of who is responsible for promises made not being implemented. The most important deliverable not yet introduced is the Bill of Rights; or is it a...
View ArticleComment on Pro-union Catholics… by Tomboktu
Don’t know, but here is the European Commission’s page on regional and minority langusges. I don’t see references to directives (or regulations or more generally legislation), so without further...
View ArticleComment on Bits and Pieces: Libraries gave us power… Civilization/Despot,...
I robbed a book. I had so many problems with the local ‘authority’ at that time and the pinch-faced, narrow, library staff, were in full offensive mode. Mainly though, I just managed to conceal the...
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Comment on Mel Smith by Starkadder
Very sad news. “Not the Nine O’Clock News” was, to me, the funniest UK sketch show after “Monty Python”, and “Alas Smith and Jones” was great too. RIP.
View ArticleComment on That last opinion poll and the remarkable rise of Sinn Féin by...
Sorry,I don’t know what the gnomes did there! To continue, The Stormont gov. latest bill , rather amendments to the Planning Bill will enable the OFMDFM, allow SF & DUP, to over-ride the Dept of t...
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile, in amongst Independents and Others… a new party? by...
Dáil standing orders currently only allow for one technical group in the Dáil which must: 1) Have at least 7 members 2) Be open to all eligible members (non party deputies and deputies in parties with...
View ArticleComment on Bad pint or fair game? by Steepling Media Wonk
” ‘ordinary’ people (a term you introduced)” No, I didn’t. It was Blisset in #4that introduced that idea. I have no problem with people choosing to organize with strongly-worded petitions which will...
View ArticleComment on Sitting on a fence… by richotto
The drawing of publicly acceptable boundries for debate is a well known form of censorship and Waters example was intended to highlight the double standards, comparing how a similar description in a...
View ArticleComment on Bits and pieces… by wireless gaming keyboards mac
Hi there just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The words in your article seem to be running off the screen in Chrome. I’m not sure if this is a format issue or something to do with browser...
View ArticleComment on Irish Left History Project: Independent Socialist Party, 1976 –...
[…] This is a fascinating thread from the CLR in 2009. Particularly to read and reconsider after five years or so. Work on the intellectual life of the Irish working classes is long, long overdue. […]
View ArticleComment on The intellectual life of the Irish working class… reprise by Bob...
Is that the right link?
View ArticleComment on The intellectual life of the Irish working class… reprise by...
If you look down the comments, there is discussion of the topic.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by richotto
Possibly. I remember being startled seven or eight years ago when Colm McCarthy on a 5′oc drivetime programme came on specifically to advocate abolition of planning permission requirements for the...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: An Phoblacht, Vol. 1, No’s 3 and 4, Irish...
The author of an Phoblacht/1966, a youngish man at the time is an old friend of mine, we didn’t always agree on political issues but were on the same side of the barricades in Derry in ’69. It would be...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: An Phoblacht, Vol. 1, No’s 3 and 4, Irish...
It’s not trapped in the spam filter or anything, so don’t know what has happened it.
View ArticleComment on What are you reading this summer? by fergal
Lewis Mumford’s The City in History-stunning David Kynaston’s Austerity Britain 1945-1951-fascinating
View ArticleComment on What are you reading this summer? by Florrie O'Donoghue
*curses himself for not having something more highbrow* I just finished two Paul Theroux travel books; Dark Star Safari and The Pillars of Hercules. He’s grumpy and generalising much of the time, but...
View ArticleComment on What are you reading this summer? by Brian Hanley
John Borgonovo’s ‘The Dynamics of War and Revolution: Cork City 1916-1918′ is excellent, as is Borgonovo’s short book on the early part of the Civil War in Cork....
View ArticleComment on What are you reading this summer? by Northside Socialist
So far this Summer: 1. Robert Kee, The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism. 2. Paul Mason, Why it’s STILL Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions. 3. Paul Mason, Meltdown: The End of...
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