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For eight decades, the sugar beet industry was an integral and constant component of the functioning of rural Ireland. It employed farmers, machine operatives, maintenance, factory workers. What followed was EU membership, sovereignty lost and a colossal mess.
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Child poverty remains one of Ireland’s most pressing social issues, even as average household incomes have risen in recent years.
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Olive trees (Olea europaea) in the Gaza Strip were never merely a source of fruit and oil. For decades they were a pillar of the agricultural economy, a renewable resource for thousands of families, and an integral part of Palestinian identity and family memory.
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Earlier this month, the Waterford City and County Council refused the planning proposal for the third largest data center in Ireland after a year of protests and awareness campaigns by the locals.
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Authorities secretly transferred Fergie Chambers’ phone to the FBI despite written assurances, adding to mounting allegations of procedural abuses and political persecution.
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The test is not whether leaders condemn racism abroad, but whether a Congolese IT worker in Dublin, a Roma man in Teplice and an asylum-seeker at the Belarus border can expect equal protection.
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Within this febrile atmosphere, two distinct documents emerged that, despite their radically different political trajectories, shared a profound and forward-thinking ambition: the democratisation of the economy in favour of those who created its wealth.
The Socialist Republican organisation Anti-Imperialist Action (AIA) has released a statement calling for a concerted national effort against drug debt intimidation, the drug barons behind the scenes and the gardaí & PSNI officers who enable them.
Kaspar is one of three actionists who stormed Shannon Airport in November 2025. An Aontacht reporter gets his views on the solicitors' strike, the legal aid system and the impact of State persecution.
The new rules mean that Irish immigration officers will inspect the military documents of Ukrainian refugees, and refuse those who cannot provide “satisfaction of military obligations”.
Allianz is threatening legal proceedings against a number of people who signed a letter to schools who use the company for insurance, which pointed out that the company is complicit in profiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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In the tourist towns that sit near the border of West Cork and South Kerry the housing crisis isn’t an abstract national problem that appears in the broadsheets.
Defence Minister Helen McEntee has stated that she wishes to see Irish troops sent to Lebanon as part of a new EU mission created on the backdrop of Israeli and US pressure on the Lebanese government to suppress Hezbollah.
Are you on the side of those Ukrainians who are critical of the Zelensky regime and will face legal consequences if forced back? Or are you siding with professional Ukrainians and NGOs receiving 200,000 euros of Irish taxpayers’ money to push war propaganda?
Helen McEntee told the Dáil it was "absolutely crazy" that five countries could decide where Ireland sends its troops. That line speaks directly to the rugby dad: a middle-aged middle-management bravado that mistakes military alignment for maturity.
President Connolly has it within her power to tactically resign the presidency at an opportune moment to kill the bill. If she resigns, it was the Left who saved the day with a brave sacrifice that will define the political destiny and identity of this nation for decades to come.
Yesterday, Netanyahu flew to Hebron in a flak jacket and promised to destroy entire neighbourhoods and build settlements on the ruins in a military operation larger than we’ve seen in decades.
The economic dependence of the Dublin government cannot be separated from a rapid militarisation and the drive to war. The Irish state has more than doubled its military budget, is signing up non-citizens to the army and has integrated into European and NATO structures aiming at war with Russia.
In the modern Leninist cult, modelled on the Bolshevik top-down structure, an anachronistic Politburo entrenches itself as the central committee, establishing a bureaucratic inertia which festers the solidification of internal party despotism.
International law has repeatedly affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people and the abuses of core features of the Israeli occupation. Yet the gap between judicial pronouncements and conditions on the ground remains stark.
In 1974, Official Sinn Féin published a slim, yellow-covered pamphlet with a title that was less a slogan than a verdict: ‘Ground Rent is Robbery.’ Reading it now, half a century later, it's striking how much of it still lands.
The French government has effectively suspended the right of assembly in towns and cities across the country, as a week of protest movements continues to intensify across Albania, Belgium, Serbia, France, Spain and Italy.
Red Network councillor Madeleine Johansson has condemned a recent vote by South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to rezone a parcel of open space land opposite Liffey Valley Retail Park on the Coldcut Road for residential development.