Comment on That Sunday Independent lead article… by smiffy
This may well be a conspiracy theory too far, but I wonder if ‘freelance journalist’ Rory Fitzgerald is the same as ‘private citizen’ Rory Fitzgerald who complained to the BCC about RTE’s coverage of...
View ArticleComment on EVENTS TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF SLIGO DOCK STRIKE OF 1913 by...
On a related note: I’d imagine that Declan Bree (who is organising the Sligo May Day events) will be delighted at the news that Ken Loach is making a film on Jim Gralton. Declan, a tireless promoter of...
View ArticleComment on That Sunday Independent lead article… by doctorfive
Writes for the Irish Catholic & Huffpost too
View ArticleComment on That Sunday Independent lead article… by Wendy Lyon
I’d put money on it being the same person. BTW, this isn’t his first “scoop”. A few years ago in some Catholic paper that nobody else reads he broke the shocking story that one of the Choice Ireland...
View ArticleComment on That Sunday Independent lead article… by WorldbyStorm
Ah, I remember that article alright. It’s been reposted online in various places IIRC.
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Comment on This Weekend I’m Mostly Listening to… Twelve Tracks + 1 and a...
thanks for the headsup on Fabric 69. Looks great. And likewise Muslimgauze. Funny about them revitalising themselves for some live gigs I love Regis’s stuff but it’s dark dark stuff in places. I think...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by smiffy
Good old Jim. Great craic on gay marriage as well. And, weirdly, corruption in Russia (wherever that came from):...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by Ivorthorne
To be honest Smiffy, it’s the one pro-life argument I’ve ever actually encountered. Most people who are pro-life (not including the YD, Alive Iona Institute types) aren’t the kind of people who want to...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by WorldbyStorm
@dmfod, surely, but isn’t the key point there ‘as you (or I) understand it’. There’s plenty of socialists and leftists who’ve taken very different paths historically, and some who still do. Social...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by Forbenius
To WorldByStorm within generally agreed limitations later in term Ah, those generally agreed limits. Does a woman revert to a chattel at precisely 23 weeks 6 days 23 hours & 59 minutes into her...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by dmfod
@WbS I get your point, but to me it means that sort of social conservatism represents aspects of their belief systems that have nothing to do with left-wing politics and aren’t compatible with a...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by Mark P
The details of the legislation look worse and worse. As reported so far, it seems that Labour and Fine Gael have decided to put suicidal women through an inquisition panel of three consultants, who...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by WorldbyStorm
Again, I know where you’re coming from, and my own leftism is deeply inflected by post-68 thinking. But hundreds of thousands perhaps many more leftists of all stripes and from all places went to their...
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by WorldbyStorm
Isn’t it worse than that in that it could be up to six on the first panel. Who is for betting even this wont satisfy Creighton.
View ArticleComment on Such courage… by dmfod
@WbS Granted times change but socialism liberalism as an intrinsic part of socialism is by no means solely a post-’68 phenomenon. Socialists in the 19th and early 20th century were the most extreme...
View ArticleComment on Liam Sutcliffe Irish Republican- Soldier and Revolutionary. by mick.
After I did the interview with Liam about his amazing life. He started talking and he is a walking history book. Yes Jim Monaghan is spot on Sutcliffe is very decent.
View ArticleComment on Liam Sutcliffe Irish Republican- Soldier and Revolutionary. by Jim...
It questions the idea of Republicanism being a totally unitary movement. It was far broader and not as organised as some think. The dedication of those involved is and was huge.
View ArticleComment on Liam Sutcliffe Irish Republican- Soldier and Revolutionary. by...
Great story. Met and spoke with Liam in recent years. Pity some historian doesn’t put it all together, good and bad, as the late 50s & early 60s has been mainly ignored in the history of Republican...
View ArticleComment on Easing Austerity: It could be sunshine? by Dr. X
“There’s money somewhere in this country if there are people out there, which there clearly are, who can pay 60 euro for a bottle of wine then they can pay a bit more income tax and reducing their...
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