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As the country prepares to green fountains and dust off leprechaun hats for the national day, a coalition of grassroots activists is planning a very different kind of St. Patrick’s Week demonstration.
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Environmental activists gathered outside the Four Courts in Dublin this week to protest the proposed expansion of the Aughinish Alumina refinery in County Limerick.
Critical Analysis
Despite what many may assume, the song Dirty Old Town was not about Dublin but instead Manchester, though if it were to be written today, would there be a place more fitting?
Critical Analysis
The purpose of this text is to assess the shortcomings, failures and issues that surrounded the split of the communist movement in Ireland.
Critical Analysis
We celebrate the men & women of 1916, the heroes of the War of Independence, & we remember the Civil War with solemn respect. We tell ourselves that their sacrifice gave us this Republic. But did it?
Critical Analysis
The city of Kilkenny was the setting for a small but important protest on Saturday gone, where the issue of social housing privatisation was brought to the fore by a small group of activists from mixed backgrounds, Nationalist, Republican and Socialist and a handful of concerned locals.
Critical Analysis
We awoke last morning to the United States of America invading Iran and greeted the evening with the news that Khamenei is dead. It has legitimated this using the standard clichés of bringing democracy to the Middle East.
Critical Analysis
The dismantling of this culture of silence is key to the bridging of divides between South Asian communities – steered by our large middle class, the primary beneficiaries of this silence – and the broader Irish working class.
Critical Analysis
An Irish socialist perspective on ICE, weaponised innocence, & the pedigree of exclusion.
Critical Analysis
From the birth of our Republican struggle, the pen of the oppressor has always sought to drown out the voice of the Republic.
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A new report examining the extent of corporate influence over Irish public policy and everyday life was launched at an event in Dublin this week, drawing activists, researchers and independent media to discuss what authors describe as a growing democratic deficit in Ireland.
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I am appalled and insulted at the recent price hikes by Diageo amounting to no more than 20 cent on the already rapidly rising price of a pint.