Comment on Characteristically gracious in victory… by EWI
I look forward to Murdoch’s numerous ex-wives and offspring tearing his empire apart after his death…
View ArticleComment on Characteristically gracious in victory… by EWI
Abbott, by the way, wouldn’t be out of place in the Tea Nut wing of the US Republican party. This is going to be a tumultuous government…
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Steve Earle by Eamonn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFNTRaXRiI John Walker’s Blues – an incredible song about the ‘american taliban’
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Steve Earle by Eamonn...
He also made a great album of Townes Van Zandt covers. Here he is with Lyle Lovett doing one of the tracks that is on that record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdIujzgXgY
View ArticleComment on Characteristically gracious in victory… by Brian Hanley
Historically it was, but that may have changed (just as it did a long time ago in America). There’s a fair few Irish-born and second-generation MPs and Senators, including a former Rose of Tralee...
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by Dr. X
Chief Justice Scalia, for example: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/13/tom-the-dancing-bug-judge-sca-2.html One of the many disgusting things about the Irish “elite” is the way they like to borrow bits of...
View ArticleComment on Characteristically gracious in victory… by Bartholomew
Plus a complicating factor – some of the the Irish in Victoria were prominent on the Democratic Labour Party, a type of anti-communist breakaway from the Labour party in the 50s and 60s that eventually...
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by workers republic
+1 Again we have a right-winger making unsubstanciated claims, actually false claims. Thanks Shay,for pointing this out with the stats.We must challenge all their false claims. Connolly called the...
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by WorldbyStorm
Astounding that CL doesn’t know about the restrictions on the franchise during that period. Oh. No it’s not. +1 WR re not accepting this sort of guff from the media.
View ArticleComment on The physical graffiti remains the same… by WorldbyStorm
I kind of agree. And even Banksy’s history is a cautionary tale about how outsider art/imagery can be coopted by the mainstream both in itself and in different ways (t-shirts, copies, rip offs, etc)....
View ArticleComment on Coming to a lamppost near you… by Roasted Snow
A bit out of touch with this lot. Are there now two RSFs or three? Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember a Limerick based lot with a right nationalist agenda. Anyone know? Also the CIRA are no...
View ArticleComment on Coming to a lamppost near you… by Roasted Snow
I think I’d take the advice from the ESB above and keep away!
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by RosencrantzisDead
I just wonder why anyone would bother to identify themselves as such. Especially when you are not a judge, and do not live in the US.
View ArticleComment on The physical graffiti remains the same… by rockroots
I’ve snapped some of the more creative graffiti I’ve spotted around Dublin in the last few years. A lot of it is that stencil kind of stuff but if you keep your eyes peeled and have a tendency to go...
View ArticleComment on The physical graffiti remains the same… by Tomboktu
“it could be twenty years old (enlarge the first one and note the ‘Punks Not Dead’ bit)” Scary bit: that could be thirty years old.
View ArticleComment on Here’s something you don’t see every day by hardcorefornerds
I’m a bit mystified by the SF slogan – whence ‘equality’ when you’re relying on the Dáil’s representative democracy? The ‘elitist’ description of the Seanad is somewhat incompatible with the portrayal...
View ArticleComment on Seanad abolition: A disturbance in the force? by LeftAtTheCross
The referendum isn’t about creating 3 or 4 chambers, it’s about abolishing the seanad. The maxim of first do no harm applies here. It’s far from perfect but abolishing it serves what immediate purpose...
View ArticleComment on Seanad abolition: A disturbance in the force? by Liberius
Of what counterbalance does an upper house with the same composition as the lower house provide? It’s quite fanciful to think people will vote differently just because it exists, certainly the election...
View ArticleComment on An interesting proposal aimed at increasing union membership in...
+1 and its a good idea to give free membership to apprentices/trainees, I know of a case where one social-minded young man, a 1st year apprentice enrolled all his peers. “Workers Representatives” on...
View ArticleComment on Seanad abolition: A disturbance in the force? by WorldbyStorm
True, but where’s the consensus? There’s quite a stretch from arguing that the argument is settled to one where socialists aren’t advocating for second chambers. Actually it seems to me looking at...
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