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A couple of union colleagues who have grandchildren were discussing this: http://www.chuggington.com/ and decided that it’s not pro-union, but it does have a strong health and safety message. The...
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And, actually, if you’re interested in The Tailor of Ulm, you should also have a look at: http://www.versobooks.com/books/476-the-comrade-from-milan
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Speaking of kids, a couple of things I got last year were WWF subscriptions and Puffin Post subscriptions. The money for the first goes towards conservation of rare animals and it gave them a massive...
View ArticleComment on From Spain: 16 December by EamonnCork
IS the linguistic argument your only one against immigration then? You’d have no problem with unlimited immigration by people from Commonwealth countries, including Asian and African ones, who speak...
View ArticleComment on Today’s Cabinet decision on abortion… by doctorfive
K Lynch said there is an expectation out there now but x is as far as they can go while the 8th is still in place.
View ArticleComment on From Spain: 16 December by Paul Wilson
EamonnCork I have presented no argument against immigration. My late Mother and her sister were shipped off from Ireland in the 50′s as cheap labour, repectively in the NHS and as a domestic servant....
View ArticleComment on Today’s Cabinet decision on abortion… by RosencrantzisDead
Better that than nothing. We should remember that the anti-choice crowd want no movement at all.
View ArticleComment on From Spain: 16 December by EamonnCork
Paul, I wasn’t saying you did present an argument against immigration. If I had I’d have posted under your argument rather than Logan’s. I just suspect Logan of being one of those people who appear...
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According to the FOI that Choice Ireland did on this a couple years ago, the abortion pill of choice is Misoprostol. Or at least that accounted for the vast majority of Customs seizures (1118 in 2009 –...
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Woke up. Turned on Morning Ireland. Big mistake, because I had to listen to the Bishop of Killaloe outline the RCC’s objections to legislation for X and repeat the canard about Ireland being one of the...
View ArticleComment on A question on Irish nationalist/Republican attitudes to Tito’s...
Two more things. - Check The United Irishman in the 1960s for the coverage of Tito’s visit to the Vatican. Much would have been made of this at a time in the context of the RM trying to build alliance...
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Nice article giving the history surrounding The Morriseys ‘Charlie’s Song’ (Arise and follow Charlie) http://rockroots.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/charliessong/
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Sorry -didn’t see the O Ruairc article was already posted. Worth pointing out that Costello/ the Irps also had contects with the PLO/PFLP during the mid ’70s.
View ArticleComment on CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO COILLTE PUBLIC FOREST ASSET...
IMPACT are campaigning on this as well – below from their website http://www.saveourforests.ie. 28 November 2012 Sale of Coillte forests will restrict public access and place up to 12,000 Irish jobs at...
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Are ye right there Eamonn are ye right? Last night I dreamed I was Ivor the Engine. Tonight I will listen to the soundtrack of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
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Sorry again -not sure why the last comment posted twice. Not sure how to delete these.
View ArticleComment on That abortion decision… better received than I’d have expected by...
The Socialist Party’s “manifesto” was an eight point document about the economic crisis and did not deal with other issues. The Socialist Party was, for many years, the only pro-choice party in the...
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A key issue will, of course, be exactly what system the government’s legislation puts in place to determine whether or not there is a suicide risk. It seems to me to be quite likely that they will put...
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