Comment on There’s Noel Limits by Tomboktu
There is still, all these months after the Presidential election, stencilled grafitti in west Dublin showing a teddy bear with the slogan “Pedobear loves Norris”. I have reported it. South Dublin...
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by CL
“Was it last weekend’s stupid statement of the week had Havard Business graduate Stephen Donnelly claiming only market based solutions can close inequality gap?”-doctorfive. This is a misrepresentation...
View ArticleComment on There’s Noel Limits by CL
This just in: ‘New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade, deciding to skip one of his city’s signature celebrations because the event...
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by Starkadder
Apart from Ronald Reagan, I don’t right-wing US politicos were very popular among ordinary Irish people either.
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by RosencrantzisDead
<i>Ever hear of the PDs? Ever hear of neo-classical economics and its dominance in Irish universities? Ever hear of privatization, liberalization of the labour market?</i> This is my point....
View ArticleComment on Moving Gilmore… by WorldbyStorm
Happy Birthday. Just a short way behind you. Let’s raise a toast to the second half century, and the third!
View ArticleComment on Moving Gilmore… by Colm B
Yep Im look forward to socialism in the 22nd century!
View ArticleComment on Moving Gilmore… by WorldbyStorm
BTW. definitely return to the EG story soon. Very interested in that.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 5th February 2014 by doctorfive
The role of the confidential recipient is to be available to receive, in confidence, reports of corruption or malpractice within An Garda Síochána from Garda members or civilian employees. Mick Wallace...
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by EamonnCork
Brilliant response. Where did I say it was the greatest blah de blah Eamon Gilmore etc? And that ‘nice people’ is real John Waters stuff.
View ArticleComment on Moving Gilmore… by EamonnCork
I disagree with the headline. There’s nothing moving about Gilmore. Pat Rabbitte on the other hand is deeply poignant.
View ArticleComment on Safety nets… by EamonnCork
My daughters are obsessed with archery, I bought them proper bows and everything. Recently their mother caught one of them using the chickens for target practice so the instinct is obviously there....
View ArticleComment on Paying for climate change by sonofstan
Bit ‘relaxed’ of the government sending Hayes in to fight the flood waters – Big Phil might have been a safer bet.
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by WorldbyStorm
BTW Bob, I’m unconvinced about Breda O’Brien’s ‘left wing’ thinking on economic issues. It’s all a bit hedged. But it’s irrelevant anyhow. There’s vastly more on the left who hold progressive views on...
View ArticleComment on Paying for climate change by WorldbyStorm
True. Building up his profile in advance of the Euro’s?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 5th February 2014 by Johnny Forty Coats
Sure that’s the Irish for you – aways fighting about nothing! Either that, or else the absurdity of your conclusion might possibly be indicative of a flawed premise.
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by Wendy Lyon
Actually Ed, I have seen some women who object to intersectionality per se. Almost invariably white women. Notice a pattern? The concept was developed by women of colour as a means of describing their...
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by CL
Liberious, ‘in all seriousness’ I havn’t the faintest idea what you’re taking about.
View ArticleComment on Marriage Equality — Distracting our attention by Tomboktu
Senator Jim Walsh was the one whose contribution best suits the description ‘crazed nonesense’. The official transcript does him a service by re-presenting his contribution in a much saner way: Senator...
View ArticleComment on Being right wing? by Liberius
Well, the first paragraph is deliberately mocking the ethnocentric viewpoint of Americans of ‘Irish’ descent as displayed by Niall O’Dowd and his commentators in the article I linked to. Though I must...
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