Comment on Trying by CMK
If he does, then factor in a half.an hour. Leaving less than half an hour. Not much time to think up aspirational or inspirational slogans? I think Dr. X’s point in the previous Sean O’Sullivan column...
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …Number 45 by irishelectionliterature
not quite but you’re along the right track with FF
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …Number 45 by irishelectionliterature
No,….. does that church worship at the Altar of 4-5-1 like Trevor Croly?
View ArticleComment on Trying by RosencrantzisDead
The definition of ‘work’ is the key here. Having lunch with someone, arranging meetings in bars and cafes, talking on the phone, reading your email, attending a function, waiting for some documents or...
View ArticleComment on Workers’ Party Anti-Austerity Treaty Platform by college basketball
Woah! I’m really digging the template/theme of this website. It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s difficult to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and visual appearance. I...
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by Bob Smiles
Sinn Fein has at least three positions on the Quinns – one in Dublin, one in Cavan and one in Fermanagh.
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by sonofstan
@rexio – With respect, that’s prejudiced and completely offensive bullshit. You come here complaining of unfair and dismissive comments about country people and then dismiss 1.2m people as being...
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by Hey! Look, they...
[…] Perhaps worth remembering all this when we are next subjected to rhetoric from the government and Troika on ‘redesigning’ welfare or ‘labour activation measures’. […]
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by WorldbyStorm
I think pitting one against the other isn’t helpful (and ‘modernisation’ as a myth has been around in various forms as long as the state so it’s hard to see that as a specifically ‘neoliberal’ or...
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by eamonncork
Speaking as a culchie, those comments by Rexio are perhaps the stupidest which have ever been posted on this site. I pine for the relative intelligence and perspective of Bartley and Richotto. ‘I was...
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Comment on And while we’re talking about the Left Archive… by Gewerkschaftler
“Nobody’s allowed a split until we’re finished.” Take your time. Please.
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by sonofstan
<i>The ‘culchies’ I have worked with tended to have a ‘fuck the bosses, stick with your colleagues’ loose class consciousness. </i> That would explain the support for the likes of Sean...
View ArticleComment on It can’t all be about Sinn Féin, can it? by rexio
It’s nice to see the much valued around here comradely tone disappears once something is said that the comrades dislike. @Worldbystorm: Modernisation theory has been the backbone of much of the...
View ArticleComment on Televisions or food? Surely it’s televisions and food by Michael...
Very good New Statesman comment on Oliver, especially his fantasy of how Italians live: http://www.newstatesman.com/food-and-drink/2013/08/dear-jamie-oliver-poverty-isnt-picturesque-mediterranean-either
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 28th of August 2013 by Roger Cole
The US/UK/France are about to launch yet another imperial war, this time on Syria. PANA had organised a public meeting on Iran & Syria on Saturday 7 at 3.30pm with Ian Chamberlain of the Stop the...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 28th of August 2013 by Roger Cole
The venue had been previouly posted (see http://www.pana.ie)
View ArticleComment on Televisions or food? Surely it’s televisions and food by CMK
Very few things irritate me more nowadays than these ‘how to eat well for less in times of austerity’ articles in newspapers; which seem to be proliferating. Invariably penned by people who will never...
View ArticleComment on Televisions or food? Surely it’s televisions and food by CMK
I’ve always felt Oliver’s affinity with Italy was superficial and mediated through the London based Anglo-Italian chefs he trained with, rather than any in depth knowledge of the society. I’ve watched...
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