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I’m a bit familiar with the area from the 1990s. Theres still areas of hard core deprivation but in addition to private estates mainly around the Navan Road area theres a few quite attractive old...
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Makes sense: Leinster has been chopped in half, meaning she’d be trying to win votes in a constituency that now stretches all the way to Donegal. She might have a chance in Dublin, where the Labour...
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Fitzgerald,Bico and the sticks wouldn’t have been too far apart with regard to the North.I read a very interesting article about 10 years ago by a man called Sean Swann who had been a long time member...
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I remember the process leading to the GFA as being an attempt by the two governments to take control of where Hume-Adams was going, like the Anglo-Irish Agreement another attempt to disrupt Sinn Féin’s...
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I can’t remember reading that in Swan, but If you would have been more at home in FG then why join the WP because of their vitriolic anti-SF stance? Wasn’t FG’s anti-SF stance not vitriolic enough...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 22nd January 2014 by Tomboktu
RTÉ has paid compensation to the Iona Institute. http://www.ionainstitute.ie/index.php?id=3390
View ArticleComment on Sanctions against councillors by EWI
Less, I presume. “Two-thirds” means, what, six or seven out of ten councillors? FF and FG ought to be able to get that on many councils on their own. No need to have to go with the old-school methods...
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I have previously argued here that, since the boundary changes made Dublin North a 5 seater, there are potentially two left seats in the constituency. This poll (and we can only go by the figures...
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I don’t think Warren mentioned Ireland at all. His approach is that of ‘classical’ marxism, derived from the Marx of the communist manifesto; imperialism spreads capitalism throughout the world,...
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Without wishing to divert this thread from the one on the Euro elections, I don’t think “the situation in the Euros where the SWP are engaged in a sabotage attempt on Paul Murphy’s chances of retaining...
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JRG I wasn’t trying to make any form of slight on the reputation of the Socialist Party, simply careless wording on my part, maybe subconsciously influenced by all the talk of the SWP and the Euros....
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Glad to see Clare Daly doing so well. She has worked hard and even if the poll isn’t entirely accurate, she deserves that level of support. I really hope that the SP can work with her in the future.
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So according to you Roddy, the Workers Party were ” swapping weapons ” with the UVF, could we have proof of that other than your fevered imagination or virulent hatred of WP in tiochfaidh ár lá lá land...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by Gearóid Ó Faoleán
I think there are some weaknesses in D Breathnach’s piece. For example, he makes a fair point about how revolutionaries who complain about how censorship lost them the revolution should pack it in....
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 29th January 2014 by Johnny Forty Coats
Number 98 of the People’s Movement newsletter is now available at: http://www.people.ie/news/PN-98.pdf Contents: Fool you once … (on Noonan’s capitulation to the ECB) Troika Bullies “Preserving the...
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Thanks for the info in the article on the seats etc. Very interesting. However, I think this post is a good example of the culture of the left in general in Ireland, where campaigns and elections etc....
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I love looking through an article that can make people think. Also, many thanks for permitting me to comment!
View ArticleComment on After Smithwick… by Bob Smiles
A lot of CB enthusiasts in south Armagh. Ed Moloney says Provos had mole in Dundalk guards
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