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Socialist republican groups have piled pressure on Pat McDonnell Paints following the shameful suspension of a Blanchardstown store worker for wearing an Easter Lily.
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The Irish asylum regime functions as a conveyor belt: global crises in, public money out, private profit in the middle. Profiteering from IPAS, migration and division can no longer be ignored - it must be confronted head on.
Critical Analysis
This could have been a beautiful story of farmers and workers taking back the power from a PLC, but instead due to the issuing of transferable shares, this is a disaster in the making.
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Socialist republicans have condemned the use of Blackwater private security to “intimidate and harass” residents at their ongoing housing occupation in the Liberties.
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Synergy Security Solutions, the private security company now under scrutiny following the death of Yves Sakila outside Arnotts, has also secured a multi-million euro contract with the Department of Social Protection to provide security services across 88 state buildings nationwide.
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A video circulating on social media shows the eviction of a woman, Nora, from a house on Ranelagh Road in Dublin, during a tense confrontation involving Dublin City Council enforcement officers and Gardaí.
Critical Analysis
Each country adapts the culture war to their own conditions. While the same political and financial elites are as firmly entrenched as ever, serving multinational corporations and US-led western imperialism, a circus of performativity is dominating public life.
When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland.
Sinn Féin members are expressing increasing discontent with the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald after poor results in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections.
Aontacht Media can reveal that the private security firm contracted by Arnotts has ties to Israel and Big Tech companies, sparking deep alarm among community groups, following the death of Congolese man Yves Sakila, who died after being forcefully restrained by the firm's guards.
Gavin Reilly is wrong about carbon tax. It can be lowered if the regressive rebate scheme is shelved. Furthermore, Spain and Poland have gone ahead and lowered VAT in conflict with EU law and have so far gotten away with it, so could the carbon tax be shelved as well too?
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As a grassroots (unfunded) working-class anti-imperialist organisation, we do not deny the importance of anti-racist mass mobilisation. But we must ask why outrage continues to emerge in fragmented, selective bursts that leave both the underlying social order untouched, and activists exhausted.
The HSE, stuck price haggling with a multinational pharmaceutical lobby consuming taxpayer money, declines to reimburse the only medication for a rare chronic disease.
When it comes to trusting people with our votes, at least, anti-immigration sentiment remains a minority camp in Ireland.
Sinn Féin members are expressing increasing discontent with the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald after poor results in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections.
A tense standoff looks to be continuing over the weekend between locals and the forces of the State at the Garrymore Bog in County Laois.
At a protest outside the Dáil today, campaigners called on Enterprise Minister Peter Burke to intervene over hundreds of planned redundancies at Covalent.
The Silk Road Café is being forced to close by state and EU bureaucrats as part of the draconian security measures being erected around Dublin Castle.
A video circulating online has reignited debate over Garda stop-and-search tactics after footage appeared to show two Gardaí physically confronting and threatening a young Irish teenager during an incident in Dublin.
Today I attended the unity protest following the murder of Yves Sakila by the Arnotts security staff. Death at the hands of private security staff is not unprecedented here, in the past few years at least two other men have been killed by overly-aggressive night club bouncers.
Bertie swapped brown envelopes while in power for political capital on hate against brown and black people. Irony: he and FF built the crises they blame on immigrants. The Irish right blaze a path for FF rule at the expense of everyone darker than milky tea.
“It is cynical because he is not advocating for himself or his party, he is threatening neglect. That he is the feckin mayor as well makes it hilariously cynical, ” wrote one person.
The state and mainstream media are comfortable for the public response of this tragedy to be trapped between a dishonest strain of anti-racism politics by the NGO ecosystem and liberal left, and fear-politics.