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The Long Betrayal – Lies, Direct Provision And The McMahon Report

Words by Subprime Images by Asylum Archive The McMahon Report into the Protection System and Direct Provision was published one year ago this week. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, the report...

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#repealthe8th | March For Choice 2016

The fifth annual March for Choice is just over two weeks away on Saturday, September 24th. This year’s theme is “Rise & Repeal – a comment on the failure of our Republic to fulfil the promise of...

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#repealthe8th | On the Importance Absence And Nuisance

On the launch of Telefís Éireann just over fifty years ago, President Eamon De Valera addressed the audience in one of station’s most remarkable broadcasts. Likening the power of television to atomic...

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Beware The Risen Jumpers

For a long time leading to the centenary of 1916 a running battle had taken place between those who claim to support “constitutional nationalism” as represented by the Irish Parliamentary Party and...

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Rot Behind the Magic Door

As RTÉ abdicates responsibility for production of children’s programming, Mark Cullinane takes us through a deeper cultural, institutional and potentially terminal malaise at the national broadcaster....

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The British Press, War Machine And Its Colonial Nostalgia.

Following recent events in Ireland, Rosa Gilbert finds British journalism struggling with ‘legacy issues’ of its own. Martin McGuinness’ death on 21st March gave a number of commentators in the British...

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Enda Kenny – The Most Successful Taoiseach Ever

Enda Kenny is fond of a few lines of poetry — if you could call it poetry. He quoted Heaney on his nomination as Taoiseach and book-ended the 31st Dáil with the following folksy claptrap. In March...

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A Blaze of Ignorance

Beyond the Blueshirt leadership circus business as usual continues in Leinster House. This Wednesday government bring a particularly despicable piece of legislation before Dáil Éireann. Recent months...

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Cop on Comrades

We are a group of activist women from a wide variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Last week, a good number of the left-wing men we work and organise with seriously...

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Reaction to Hook only looks like a “witch hunt” because these people are...

Anti-feminism has long underpinned the popularity of George Hook’s radio show on Newstalk. It has all gone too far, too fast, too soon, we are told, but despite tales of matriarchal mind control,...

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