The Scottish Government Backs BBC Alba In The Wake Of Tory Budget Cuts
Last November I featured news from Britain on the decision by the Conservative Party government in London to make savage cuts to the public fundingContinue Reading
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#Jacobin1916 Launch 19.03.2016
On Saturday, March 19th 2016, an Irish edition of Jacobin Magazine will be launched in Liberty Hall, Dublin. The issue willContinue Reading
Rejected General Election Pigs Looking For A Trough
Way back in June of 2013 a post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution asked, “Is the Seanad really a dumping groundContinue Reading
John Redmond MP, The Historical Man And The Revisionist Myth
In recent days we have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Dublin city council erecting a 1916-2016 centenary banner at theContinue Reading
Abortion Prohibitionists Choose To Victim Blame Women And Girls
There are people of both genders around the world who oppose the provision of clinical abortion services to women for aContinue Reading
A New Dáil, A New Ceann Comhairle, An Old Taoiseach
Today was the first session of the post-election Dáil Éireann, the thirty-second incarnation of Ireland’s legislature since the revolutionary assembly of 1919-21. In the centenaryContinue Reading
Averil Power, Muire Na nGael
From the tabloid news and current affairs website, The Journal, a brief puff-piece reporting on RTÉ’s “Sunday With Miriam” radio show whereContinue Reading
Eoghan Harris: L’état C’est Moi!
Is there anyone who believes more in the preternatural abilities of the newspaper polemicist Eoghan Harris than Eoghan Harris himself?Continue Reading
Jesus Loves You But Everyone Else…
The people of Ireland took to the polls on two separate occasions to reject his faith-based description of marriage and hisContinue Reading
The Seat Bonus In The General Election Of 2016
I’ve alluded to the phenomenon of the “seat bonus” or “bounce” in a previous review of the results from the recent general election,Continue Reading
73% Favour Referendum On The 8th Amendment
The Irish branch of Amnesty International has published the details of a poll it commissioned from Red:C Research & Marketing which seems toContinue Reading
The Final Seat Numbers For The 32nd Dáil
So the general election of 2016 is finally, finally over. The Labour Party has managed to scrape one last seat in the constituency of Longford-WestmeathContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Is Neither Centrist Nor Progressive
With all the post-election manoeuvring going on at the moment, particularly in the press and the online commentariat, there seemsContinue Reading
The Winners And Losers Of General Election 2016 Were Foreshadowed In 2014
So that’s it, bar the odd recount or legal challenge. The general election of 2016 is over. Until the nextContinue Reading
FG And Labour Make Losses, FF And SF Make Gains, The Rest TBD
Despite the lingering pop-culture image of the radical “Irish rebel”, which was given a momentary fillip by the successful marriage equality referendumContinue Reading
The ASF Vote In The General Election Of 2016
Having spent the last several days sat atop the fog-shrouded Cruachán Aighle, or Cruach Phádraig to the tourists, I am sad toContinue Reading
Fergus Crawford And Mary Lou McDonald, Or The 1% Attacks The 99%
On Friday morning the Sinn Féin vice-president, Mary Lou McDonald, was confronted by a self-styled “concerned citizen” on O’Connell Street inContinue Reading
No Irish Please, We’re Fine Gael And Labour
In former times the British-born journalist and occasional Confederate-apologist, Kevin Myers, regularly used his newspaper column to discuss his race theory ofContinue Reading
The Demand For Self-Government In Cornwall
Last week the New Statesman magazine, an influential voice on the centre-left of British politics, featured an unusually sympathetic pieceContinue Reading
The Three Amigos And Others At The RTÉ Leaders’ Debate
Last night was the Leaders’ Debate on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live and it was a somewhat more even-tempered affair thanContinue Reading
Was A Serial Rapist And Child Killer A British Spy In Ireland?
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
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