Comment on From the left to where…. by Michael Carley
It’s a kind of Zhdanovism: not only must we demonstrate that the writer who has fallen from favour is no good, but we must demonstrate that they were never any good. Phillips, for whatever reason, has...
View ArticleComment on From the left to where…. by CMK
I don’t know much about the science of climate change (or the science of anything else, for that matter) but what I heard and read this week about the breaching of the 400 parts per million of carbon...
View ArticleComment on From the left to where…. by Pete
Don’t know or wish to know much about this repulsive yoke. But is her shift to do with a loyalty to Isreal? A sad journey taken by all to many (but still a minority) of the Jewish left.
View ArticleComment on From the left to where…. by WorldbyStorm
I think that came later. And it’s fair to add that her position isn’t simple loyalty to Israel which in some respects is understandable as much as a credulous (or wilful) identification with the very...
View ArticleComment on From the left to where…. by WorldbyStorm
Yes, that is very very scary. And I think you’re spot on re red-green approaches. It genuinely is the only way forward given the challenges ahead.
View ArticleComment on Does this make sense? by Ghandi
That’s the thing Shay isn’t it, Shatter picking up the file, while we all have files on us I would not expect that uniforms, pulling up beside me in traffic would note it, different to the Branch...
View ArticleComment on Does this make sense? by Ghandi
IEL not so far fetched as the RUC are buying two new camera dromes at £1m for teh G8 so he will be well able to watch us all sleep and keep an eye over us, Shatter the new guardian angel.
View ArticleComment on Does this make sense? by shea
smiffy iam not sure it is a breach. if iam wrong i will put my hands up, but think shatters mistake is more presentation than legal. ghandi if wallace was given a warning i presume the gardai took his...
View ArticleComment on Huh? What’s the Technical Group got to do with it? by WorldbyStorm
Gossipy shite which can’t be proven one way or another Forbenius because none of us bar the principals involved know precisely what happened. If there is any substance to those assertions, which by the...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: An Phoblacht Issues 1 and 2, Irish Revolutionary...
They really are trying to keep the priests on-side.
View ArticleComment on Interview with Rayner Lysaght by anne
Did he graduate from Trinity? What did he take his degree in?
View ArticleComment on Professor Ray Kinsella in the Examiner on the Crisis by Paddy Healy
This is the link to the Examiner Article by Prof Ray Kinsella http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/troikanomics-is-a-form-of-self-harm-231729.html
View ArticleComment on Professor Ray Kinsella in the Examiner on the Crisis by Economic...
In a world a little braver, a bit more far-seeing and one which was capable of learning — and moving on — Ireland would host a meeting of the peripheral countries. They would hammer out the basis for a...
View ArticleComment on Professor Ray Kinsella in the Examiner on the Crisis by Economic...
Sorry the first paragraph is a quotation of Kinsella’s article. No comment editor available, unfortunately.
View ArticleComment on More on that penalty points issue… by smiffy
And surely if the concern is about secrecy leading to an abuse of police power, shouldn’t the decision to make the details of an interaction between a citizen and the police public lie with the...
View ArticleComment on More on that penalty points issue… by WorldbyStorm
Well that’s it. There are a raft of areas where citizens expect police forces to treat as private certain information. Indeed the police themselves for obvious reasons do so every day!
View ArticleComment on More on that penalty points issue… by Ghandi
Of course the focus on Wallace has moved us away from the key points in all of this incuding the inquiry being carried out by the cops themselves, teh Commissioners admission that his points were...
View ArticleComment on Professor Ray Kinsella in the Examiner on the Crisis by Paddy Healy
Dáil Private Members Motion on Future Direction of EU Thomas Pringle with the support of most Technical Group Deputies has proposed the motion below in the Dáil. The vote will take place this evening,...
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