Comment on Socialist Party Name Change by Jolly Red Giant
you seem a bit confused que – fortunately it isn’t an issue for too many people.
View ArticleComment on Services and manufacturing by WorldbyStorm
It is true that they included financial services, but my sense is that it went a fair bit further than that, that it was a belief in what’s sometimes called the tertiary sector which incorporates a...
View ArticleComment on Socialist Party Name Change by doctorfive
CWI colleague can get in under a ‘socialist alternative’ banner in Seattle of all places. Don’t understand the need for all the shape shifting here tbh.
View ArticleComment on Missing the point on the recovery? by ivorthorne
What a nasty piece! We were always told that this would be a jobless recovery and we were always told that there would be cuts for many, many years. As far as the powers-that-be are concerned, when...
View ArticleComment on Socialist Party Name Change by Jack Jameson
Isn’t it unwise for the SP to hitch its political name to one campaign wagon such as stopping the water tax? Wouldn’t it have been a bit embarrassing if it had called itself ‘Stop the Bin Tax –...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by EWI
Is what’s-her-face a historian either, though?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by WorldbyStorm
Without disagreeing with your thoughts G, I wonder if some of those are a given anyhow, sanctions (let alone war which I would have thought was deeply implausible) were always fairly unlikely against...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by EWI
Or would a critical historian be put into the ‘Harris mould’ She seems to have rather an obsession with doing-down the Countess. Do you really consider that a trait of a “historian”?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by WorldbyStorm
Isn’t it odd, why would anyone bother making the point he makes re language, why is it even worth thinking about? It’s not as if there was a choice in the matter and I think he overstates the case as...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by EWI
It’s the reverse of the same coin as Jim Molyneaux’s old speech claiming that Ireland was never Gaelic.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by EWI
One response, which might induce apoplexy among the intended audience for this, is to observe that the likes of Daniel O’Connell and Edmund Burke were fluent Gaelic speakers.
View ArticleComment on Review… Sins of the Father – Conor McCabe. Irish History Press...
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View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by Tomboktu
Do you know which EU judgement?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by Lightweight
most of the present generation of union leaders and officials – need to get out of the unions asap
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 12th March 2014 by workers republic
Bull Island! I thought “the National Interest” was a redundant phrase, the new buzz-word is “the Public Interest”.
View ArticleComment on Political speech by irishelectionliterature
Its a simple and I’d imagine a popular saving too. From memory the only time a leaflet was addressed to the family as opposed to individual voters in my house was in the 1989 European Elections when De...
View ArticleComment on Political speech by WorldbyStorm
True, but in a house with five non-related voters how does that work?
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Comment on Political speech by irishelectionliterature
I presume you’d go by surname. That’s what I’d say they did in 1989 before computers etc. It will also get rid of the fashion of different kinds of leaflets. A trend popular with bigger parties. By...
View ArticleComment on Who is the second longest serving columnist at the Irish Times? by...
Hope you’re on the mend, WbS; some nasty doses going round.
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