Comment on Colm Keaveney off to join Fianna Fail by Michael Carley
@WBS Are there not pockets of allsorts around the place? Why is Limerick the abode of the hardest left (Soviet, Kemmy et al) and the most reactionary bishops (Newman, …) in the country? It might be...
View ArticleComment on Official Republican Movement Statement on Decommissioning by Darren
Just for the readers the fella paul above has been found out and writting about a certain person to blame him for something he didnt do or knew nothing about is actually the one who did do it check his...
View ArticleComment on Brain scans and ‘good’ mothers… by More on brain scans and the...
[…] Many thanks to ivorthorne for writing this in response to the post here on the most recent report on brainscans and supposed “hard-wiring” of distinctivene…. […]
View ArticleComment on Collective confusion by collectivebargainingcanada
Nice post thanks for sharing .
View ArticleComment on As for the unions… by John Kennedy
http://www.centralbank.ie/stability/documents/sme%20conference/session%201/paper%202/paper.pdf
View ArticleComment on The Quinn Issue by richotto
Fintan O’ Toole performs a service reminding us about similarly cheap nationalist rhetoric being used by our elite or at least on their behalf in the media pre crash in “Ship Of Fools” when the Irish...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by sonofstan
I know what you mean, but Lady Di was a deeply political figure – or at least was used as such. Dark comedy on RTE last night when Miriam had to interrupt a brain dead ‘discussion’ about Smethwick –...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by CMK
Whatever else about the Primetime coverage last night, it was a useful reminder of just how vicious the Apartheid regime was; how complicit the West were in maintaining it; and, how many people were...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, of 4th December 2013 by Joe
Thought so! Be careful with it. Homosexualist would be an adjective derived from the noun homosexualism. The next thing some bunch of loolahs will start using the slogan “Down with homosexualism”.
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by LeftAtTheCross
What’s the bets on U2′s Mandela song “Ordinary Love” being the christmas number one?
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by EamonnCork
Plus 1 to CMK. Mandela wasn’t Martin Luther King or Gandhi and the ANC was not a pacifist organisation. They couldn’t have been in the circumstances.
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Eamonncork
Though obviously the big difference between the ANC and the republican movement is that the former were willing to call a ceasefire, engage in negotiations and a power-sharing arrangement with their...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Eamonncork
Point well made about the different roles played by the Soviet Union and the US as regards the apartheid regime. I’m not a communist apologist but that is one thing, along with its support for...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by irishelectionliterature
I was talking to my son about Mandela, South Africa and Apartheid this morning. It brought back how repressive and repulsive the regime was. I also remember that a lad in my class in school went off...
View ArticleComment on This Week At Irish Election Literature by Jim Monaghan
Campaigning for a women’s right to choose since 1971. Chapter and verse I would like. The Frank Ryan cummann put a resolution to the Official SF Ard Fheis in I think 1972 which mentioned abortion....
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Michael Carley
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. He was a non-state actor using violence to advance a political cause. Now, I’ve seen some people last night using the defence ‘OK, but he changed’. WRONG. The proper...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by que
My only contribution on this is to comment that Mandela survived 27 with up to 6 years in solitary, hard labour and all that. What inspires me about Mandela is that he survived that and became more...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by doctorfive
I think the desire to be seen & treated as human meant if not not becoming but being more human than the humans themselves. That is someway into the sanitised & simple version of events of...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Ed
The thing is JRG, I mostly agree with you about the nature of post-apartheid South Africa, but you’re not going to persuade anyone who’s not already convinced with that tone. I don’t think you would...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by WorldbyStorm
+1 Just as an example. I’m no unquestioning booster of the Cubans. I’d have serious problems about the gerentocracy, lack of democracy, etc, but Jesus, their efforts in Africa were honourable. And...
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