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An emigrée contrasts Poland’s reversion to hatred of LGBT+ with Ireland’s recent liberalisation. By Sara Chudzik. I was twelve when I first moved to Ireland in 2007. Ever since then with every passing year I would count how many years it is that I’ve lived in Poland and how many in Ireland. Now the Irish […]
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We need to move beyond tokenism to ensure genuine equality of access to training and jobs for teachers from minority backgrounds. By Sorcha Grisewood. In her memoir, ‘No You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America’, political activist Symone Sanders recalls her experience of school in America: “In Omaha, my sister and I went […]
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We need to move beyond tokenism to ensure genuine equality of access to training and jobs for teachers from minority backgrounds. By Sorcha Grisewood. In her memoir, ‘No You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America’, political activist Symone Sanders recalls her experience of school in America: “In Omaha, my sister and I went […]
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A reply to Adam McGibbon and Michael Rafferty of the Just Transition Greens. By John Vivian Cooke. Quo Virides (Whither the Green Party)? In their recent articles in Village Magazine, Adam McGibbon (Just Transiti ON) and Michael Rafferty, (Just Transition are Left insurgents in the Green Party aiming higher than ¨internal opposition¨), debated the future of the […]
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A reply to Adam McGibbon’s recent article in Village. By Michael Rafferty. Adam McGibbon’s summary in Village of the birth of the ‘Just Transition Greens’ (JTGs) recalls the relatively modest experience of the Green Party’s eco-socialists in mitigating some of the worst facets of their involvement in a previous coalition government. But these counted for little when […]
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More people die of economic inferiority in this country every year than died in 30 years of the Troubles. Even when our police force are shooting unarmed men, Irish liberals side with the establishment, in untypical silence.
In the four Dublin local authorities there are just 1000 units on-site and a further 1900 at various stages of procurement/planning. Over the coming years that’s under 3000 new build units – not even enough to house all those who will become homeless and those currently in emergency accommodation.
