The Oirish Independent Spins Itself Dizzy
The Oirish Independent presents the perfect example of how to spin a story to match a set political agenda. InContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Bigot’s Day Out
There’s a nicely paranoid opinion piece in today’s Oirish Independent newspaper attacking Ireland’s Irish-speaking citizens. Why? For daring to speakContinue Reading
The English Republic Of Ireland
More news on the dramatic walk-out from Dáil Éireann by Opposition parties in protest at the Fine Oibre coalition’s attemptContinue Reading
Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Rights
For once an Sionnach Fionn is speechless. Someone has actually stood up for the civil rights of Ireland’s Irish-speaking communities andContinue Reading
The Final Solution To The Irish Problem
Well it would seem that the anglophone supremacists driving the anti-Irish agenda in Fine Gael and the Labour Party areContinue Reading
Militant Versus Supplicant
WalesOnline reports on a new Welsh civil rights group, Dyfodol i’r Iaith or “A Future for the Language”: “Dyfodol i’rContinue Reading
The Orange Order – Bringing Fear And Intimidation To A Community Near You
To their members and supporters (not to mention sympathisers) the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is a purely “cultural organisation”Continue Reading
Kill All Taigs – Fuck All Papists – The Tory Party Plays The Orange Card In Scotland
Ever heard of Tory Hoose? No? Well you’re about to: “Tory Hoose is a new chapter in progressive thinking andContinue Reading
Fine Gael Blues: Dr. James Reilly And Cllr Anne Devitt
Those investigators of all that is grubby in Irish politics over at Broadsheet.ie reveal some interesting facts about the relationshipContinue Reading
Ardoyne Residents Respond To Orange Order Intimidation
In response to the annual violence sparked by a handful of intimidating marches through Irish communities in the British Occupied North of Ireland by the militant British nationalist andContinue Reading
From The Five Demands – Tensions In Ardoyne
BREAKING NEWS. RIOT IN CORSO AD ARDOYNE More here…
Speak Irish? Get To The Back Of The Line!
The total percentage cost from its budget for all of the Irish language services provided by just one government department in Ireland,Continue Reading
In The Shadow Of The Maple Leaf
In recent years Canada has become something of a prestige go-to-destination in these economically straitened times for many people inContinue Reading
Celebrating British War Crimes In Ireland – The Orange Kulturfest
In light of the attempts by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland and other British Protestant fundamentalist organisations in theContinue Reading
No Democracy, Now!
Right-wing Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne expresses a view in the National Post on Québec independence that I suspect many CanadiansContinue Reading
Cork City Council Supports Same-Sex Marriage
Talking of appealing to the liberal centre-right and left, some more Varadkar-related news on the back of the passing byContinue Reading
An Eye To the Future?
According to the Oirish Independent Fine Gael golden boy Leo Varadkar is off to improve his Irish language abilities in theContinue Reading
The Irish Unarmed Struggle
The Journal carries an article on the Irish language from Ian Mac Eochagáin, a professional Russian-English translator. Or more accurately itContinue Reading
Gaeltacht Bill 2012 – Another View
Donncha Ó hÉallaithe, Irish language and community researcher and writer, examines the new Gaeltacht Bill 2012 in the Irish TimesContinue Reading
Raidió Rí-Rá
Some good news from the Irish language radio station Raidió Rí-Rá, featured in an article over on Radio World: “Irish-languageContinue Reading
Better Apart
Quick post on two articles. One is an interview in the British left-wing magazine Red Pepper with Plaid Cymru’s progressiveContinue Reading
A Win For Seán And Síle Citizen
Wow! Logic and reason has been displayed by the Irish civil service in relation to the Irish speaking citizenry of the state. Or did the barrage of national andContinue Reading
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