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There’s some useful analysis here of the contrast between the ULA and RA launches also:...
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I’m not so sure i wish SF to be any kind of party. It is what it is regardless of my views. I’m merely pointing out that the imperial-brokered settlement,-such as it is-has been accepted and is being...
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Ed Walsh is surely a man whose time has gone. Endlessly pushing the same tired agenda, never backing it up with even a semblance of evidence. With a functioning media he wouldn’t be exposed. He would...
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Demographic of attendees anyone? Age profile in particular?
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The numbers are far from shocking given that thousands of pro-life supporters have previously protested outside the Dail. The contrast in the coverage of the ULA and the RA is, of course, also far from...
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I agree that the Americans were key in the GFA, but have always assumed that Clinton’s involvement was one of personal prestige and political capital, and even perhaps a genuine desire to stop some...
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The IMF and most recently Christine Lagarde have made the point a few times since the crash of the increasing level of inequality being a brake on growth. They even recommended in one of their reports...
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Anti-imperial nationalism is obviously not in imperialism’s interest. The Irish struggle was part of the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century. It was, and is, therefore in imperialism’s interest...
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GWS, -the above was meant as a reply to your piece. Let me add, all this b.s about Clinton as the ‘man from Hope’, let hope and history rhyme etc all the ballyhoo surrounding the ‘selling’ of the GFA,...
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I would be open to criticisms of nationalism so we are not so far perhaps but I wonder sometimes do some just pick one instance and tar it all with the same brush. To maybe use a parlance from the left...
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maith thu, will watch with a certain sense of local lad does well.
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re the Stephen Donnelly piece I think that’s an example of what they call cognitive dissonance
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Doh!… he was never minister for sport
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Micheál Martin that is ( referring to my earlier lame attempt to answer 8)
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According to the latest LookLeft ussue the WP is standing 10 candidates: South Dublin / Lucan: Mick Finnegan South Dublin / Clondalkin: Lorraine Hennessy Dublin City / Ballymun: John Dunne Cork City /...
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Nessa Childers now running in Dublin for Europe? WTF is that about?
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Well, if people getting shot dead in local pubs is gentrification than I’m sure Cabra is practically the same as Castleknock. (Reminds me of David McWilliam’s claim that Cabra was known as ‘Fabra’ in...
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There’s an interesting exchange of views in the Garret FitzGerald papers between FitzGerald and a BICO supporter on the two nations theory. FitzGerald admits he finds some of BICO’s views interesting,...
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For connoisseurs of deludedness, let me also mention Marc Coleman’s conclusion to his ‘show’ on Newstalk last weekend. After the usual hour of public-servant-baiting, he came over all affable,...
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