Comment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by JD
Obviously OD is a secret organisation, so there can never be any confirmation outside of someone admitting to being a member. I claimed they are members or are close to OD, I don’t think that there can...
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Thanks PFPM. Some very good statements there. I’m thinking back to the GP in the last government and the almost total lack of any organised opposition to what they were doing from within their own...
View ArticleComment on Labour’s way, origins by Bartley
<i>the trade union think-tank, the Nevin Institute, has <b>calculated</b> that the austerity measures contained within Budget 2013 will cost 30,000 jobs.</i> Hmmm, God bless...
View ArticleComment on Labour’s way, origins by CMK
Fair play, lads. But, alas, you’re a racing certainty to have zero impact. I listened to my local ‘Labour’ TD (Ged Nash) defending this budget, tenaciously and aggressively, on local radio and it’s...
View ArticleComment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by CL
I don’t know what is the religious composition of the Irish Supreme Ct. But Catholicism is a minority religion in the U.S. That there are now 6 Catholics on the Court-and no Protestant-inevitably draws...
View ArticleComment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by JD
What is notable about it, and what gets attention, is that a few of them are linked to a secret religious cult that is far outside the mainstream of US society, and its reflected in some of their...
View ArticleComment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by CL
‘its impossible to verify any facts.’-exactly.
View ArticleComment on Labour’s way, origins by Campaign for Labour Policies call on LP...
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View ArticleComment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by JD
I’m slightly confused as to whether Im in the Hist or the Phil! Way to ignore the point which is not that there are 2 or 4 Catholic nutters on the US SC but that we know nothing about the people on...
View ArticleComment on Life and Death in Ireland – A System of Soft Terror by CL
Here’s some info on Ireland’s SC’s chief justice http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14219734
View ArticleComment on When you’re not queuing for Santa’s Grotto… by Tomboktu
At the other end of the scale from BT: Has anybody else noticed that Dunnes has wider aisles and lower shelf units?
View ArticleComment on When you’re not queuing for Santa’s Grotto… by CL
Not to worry. According to Olli Rehn the neoliberal technocrat in charge of Irish economic policy: .’there is light at the end of the tunnel … there are signs that confidence is returning’ and.....
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by...
Census published today (Tuesday) 9.30pm
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excellent post, what were the sdlp playing at? anyway pointed out the new census results re religion come out tmw
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by...
I think it’s just liberal moralising to rehash the old ‘curse on both your houses’ mantra that can’t see beyond a anacronistic paradigm that suggests that sectarianism just dropped out of the sky, or...
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by...
I am amazed at the number of times I have seen it stated recently that sectarianism is a product of partition, even from a senior political figure like Declan Kearney. I have one simple response to...
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by...
Just let me get this clear for once and for all. Are you suggesting that the racist assumptions at the heart of loyalist ideology are indistinguishable from the post civil rights struggle in the six...
View ArticleComment on Flags, Churches, Politicians, Sectarianism and Ordinary People by...
That’s an interesting characterisation of what the provisionals were doing, and one, of course, at variance with what the provisionals themselves said they were doing at the time. They were very clear...
View ArticleComment on When you’re not queuing for Santa’s Grotto… by makedoanmend
I suppose what’s interesting now is the time scale involved. We’re several years into the crash, but at the same time the entire perceptional shift in our ordinary economic expectations has been very...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Budget Day Open Thread, 5th December, 2012...
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