Over 50,000 Protest Water Taxes
Last Wednesday I suggested that the imposition of water charges at the behest of the IMF-EU-ECB could do for theContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
John Redmond, From Gun-Running To Civil War
In recent years the historical figure of John Redmond MP, the head of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and self-declaredContinue Reading
Water Charges, The Irish Poll Tax
In 1989 the Conservative Party government in Britain, under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, introduced the officially regarded “community charge”Continue Reading
The Scandal Of The 1916 Battlefield Quarter
As Dublin City Council continues to debate and prevaricate over saving what is left of the capital’s 1916 Battlefield QuarterContinue Reading
Right2Water Demonstration, Saturday 11th October 2014
Last week I touched upon the new Troika-imposed water-tax that it is being rolled out across the country by the FineContinue Reading
The Imposition Of Water Taxes Goes International
The imposition of the new Troika-dictated water tax on Irish households by the Fine Oibre coalition government has started toContinue Reading
The Irish Neo-Ascendancy: You Pay So We Don’t Have To
Just when you believe that resigned familiarity has made one desensitized to the arrogance of Ireland’s Neo-Ascendancy class along comesContinue Reading
Irish Politics Or Looking After Your Own
When the coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour took power in 2011 they did so on a waveContinue Reading
The Origins Of The Name Irish Republican Army Or IRA
Back in 2011 I wrote a short piece on the history of the terms “Irish Republican Army” and “IRA“ by conducting aContinue Reading
The Problem With Irish? Not Enough Politics!
There is a great article over on Diaga on the importance of persecuted communities with distinct languages and cultures achievingContinue Reading
Creationist Lunatics Put In Charge Of The Stormont Asylum
Ach, you couldn’t make this excrement up, you really couldn’t. From a report by the British Guardian newspaper onContinue Reading
Promises Broken Are Votes Negated
Sixteen years after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, thirteen years after the “reform” of policing, seven years afterContinue Reading
Bend Over And Spread Your Cheeks
Not only does Irish Water want to fuck you up the ass, they want to tell others that they have fuckedContinue Reading
Woe To The Vanquished
Well I’ve waited half the morning to write this post and I’m still unsure of what to say. The feelingContinue Reading
#VoteYes Dominates Scottish And Irish Twitterspheres
From Trends Map an incredible graphic displaying early morning tweets supporting the “Yes” and “No” sides in the Scottish referendum.Continue Reading
Scotland Arise
James Connolly, son of Edinburgh and Dublin, with a message at the end of the 19th century for the land ofContinue Reading
Tweeting For #VoteYes In The #IndyRef #Scotland
Some recent tweets by @ansionnachfionn on the #IndyRef #BritNats so desperate they referencing #DadsArmy in #IndyRef so #VoteYes for #ScottishContinue Reading
The Common Struggle
Just time to highlight three articles that deserve your attention. The first is “10 Reasons Why Irish Is An AbsolutelyContinue Reading
The Embarrassment Of Being Irish
So after eighteen years of an online presence our self-proclaimed “national public service broadcaster”, RTÉ, has finally got around toContinue Reading
Joan Burton, Minister For Amnesia
Joan Burton, the unapologetic “minister for austerity” and now Labour Party leader on the (unlikely) possibility of Sinn Féin beingContinue Reading
New Europe Defies Old Europe
Last Thursday over 1.8 million men, women and children took to the streets of Barcelona demanding independence for Catalonia in aContinue Reading
Ian Paisley 1926-2014
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
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