Ireland's political and cultural magazine
This edition we look at Ireland’s Left. We scrutinise the Labour Party and find it a little short on radicalism. We also look at alternative political movements – particularly on the left – and find them somewhat wanting in clarity of purpose. More generally we also survey [ p80] Ireland’s currently-ubiquitous crisis-driven outpourings of ideas […]
Sinn Féin is now, by a short head, the North’s largest party with 25.5% of the vote. The reduction in its total vote from 174,530 to 171,942 since the 2005 General election can be attributed to its withdrawing from South Belfast, where it had taken 2,882 five years ago. Since then, the Sinn Féin leadership […]
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Ireland should abandon the Euro which was established for political not economic reasons and so has not worked Anthony Coughlan The political purpose of establishing the Eurozone was to reconcile France to German reunification following the USSR’s collapse. This political agenda used economic means that most economists who were not EU-ideologues regarded as quite unsuitable […]
End division of Dáil representatives on the real left, from grass-roots campaigners Richard Boyd Barrett Fianna Fáil and the Greens face electoral disaster at the next general election. Fianna Fáil promoted the greed of bankers, developers and the super-wealthy, which has brought the economy to its knees. They championed the neo-liberal economic madness of ‘light […]
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He is a little edgy when I ask if architects and their institute are reflecting the science of global warming
Like many professionals of his generation he was perhaps more comfortable with the idea of himself as radical some decades ago
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Food supplies are at risk from over dependence on oil
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The differences between David Cameron and Nick Clegg
The Smorgasbord of Washington politics
In Ireland, as in the US, government is bending backwards to Big Oil, despite safety risks
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Some of the best food and drink in Dublin city is to be found in this newly-vibrant quarter.
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The new, campagning side of the formerly religious alliance, CORI. You know: Sean Healy.
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Comhar SDC was first set up in 1999, as Comhar the National Sustainable Development Partnership.
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Proposal by NOAM Chomsky and ZNet (a large left-wing website) for a socialist inter-national.
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Here’s How by William Campbell, Brandon Books
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review by ciaran mccourt, a lawyer and businessman, who generally dislikes the ‘equality agenda’
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when the councillors vote on something as serious as the City Development Plan they have already been primed to agree the outcome
A new high-rise policy, promoted by Councillors – manipulated by management – is about to change the face of Dublin
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Only the allegiance to the personal over the political kept us – relatively – sane.
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The recent report from TASC confirms the interconnectedness of board directorships
