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Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are right-wing, unreconstructed and will eventually merge
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Catherine Martin
Michael Smith interviewed Catherine Martin, the Green Party’s deputy leader and newest TD
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Plan was a) get rid of austerity parties and b) work in progress of showing there is an alternative, of which we are a part
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Independent living
Not much has changed in 20 years for people with disabilities though autonomy is creeping into the discourse
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Voguish Commissioning
Commissioning tends to focus on the easiest pickings in public services because focus is quantity not quality
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The Community Platform proposes values of economic and social justice, social inclusion, human rights, equality, participation, and sustainability
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Equality and Human Rights Commission
Ambition and courage are not to the fore in the IHREC
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FoI reveals official antipathy to raising of carbon tax
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And BBC ‘Spotlight”s implication of Hanna brings matter of illegal ‘fixers’ firmly back to NAMA and Irish government
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Post-election 2016
The general election was tedious and it’s not really clear what message it purveys
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Much is made of the choice made by James Connolly to join the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) with the Irish Volunteers led by Pádraig Pearse for the Easter Rising in 1916. Across the British and European Left, notably but not exclusively among those on the side of the allies in World War I, there was […]
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Village Idiot March 2016
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Democracy and war
DEMOCRACY AT HOME General Election 2016 has thrown up an utterly unpredictable result with Fianna Fáil in the ascendant. At the time of writing the consequences of the vote including who will survive as leaders, who will be in government and who will lead the government could not be less predictable and, without resorting to […]
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Put in perspective
As we know well in Ireland cash is one of man’s greatest temptations. It’s a recurring theme in Russia. In the venal world, for example, of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ (1869) most of the characters succumb to greed. General Ivolgin desires money to support his addiction to alcohol and to allow him to spend time with […]
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As July 1, the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme – a asco in which one million soldiers were killed or wounded to make a six-mile advance for the Franco-British forces, comes nearer we will no doubt be asked to counterpose once again the heroism of the Easter Rising participants with […]
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Party climate poopers
To say that environmental issues didn’t have much of an impact on Election 2016 would be a bit like observing that feminism hasn’t exactly been the defining feature of Donald Trump’s exciting US presidential run. The topic was completely ignored in the botched opening Leaders’ Debate on TV3, and again, on RTÉ’s seven-way debate the […]