CuriosityCat: The Anglo Tapes: Give us the %$%%$# moolah
The tapes that have started a firestorm this week in Ireland do more than reveal the attitudes of the senior bankers involved in the destruction of Ireland’s financial system during the 2008...
View ArticleParchment in the Fire: Why have the Irish not revolted?
Reblogged from Sráid Marx: The defeat of the opposition to the property tax and the ability of the Government to impose a second Croke Park austerity deal might lead many to conclude that resistance...
View Articledrive-by planet: Maria the ‘mystery’ Roma girl and Madeleine McCann… racist...
Maria posters and headline/Maria’s biological mother Sasha Ruseva A story from Greece about a four year-old ‘mystery girl’ named Maria has been making headlines in the mainstream media. Maria who is...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jo Snyder discusses how poverty makes everybody less healthy, and recognizes the need for higher basic wages as a result. And Laurie Penny highlights the...
View ArticleParchment in the Fire: Capital, Labour, and the Eurozone Crisis
Most of the coverage regarding the Eurozone crisis has understandably focused on the politics of austerity. Less attention, however, has been paid to the longer term trends in the industrial relations...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Ireland and the Amazing and Historic Struggle for Marriage...
A wonderful thing may be about to happen in Ireland in just a few days.Millions of people are preparing to take on the power of the Catholic Church, and some of the nastiest bigots you can imagine.And...
View ArticleParchment in the Fire: After Greece and Spain, the rise of anti-austerity in...
After Greece and Spain, the rise of anti-austerity in Ireland.Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Ireland
View Articlemark a rayner: The Ruins — a new flash fiction at the Caesura Letters
I have a new flash fiction up this week at the Caesura Letters called The Ruins. It’s a different kind of piece — a meditation on the nature of Stoicism (though to be fair, it has a dash of...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Kevin Vickers: Hero or Embarrassment?
As you may or may not know, the Irish Republic is marking the 100th anniversary of the so-called Easter Rising. The brutal battle in the heart of Dublin, which eventually led to the independence of...
View ArticleParchment in the Fire: Ireland’s New Rising
Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Ireland . . . → Read More: Parchment in the Fire: Ireland’s New Rising
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Women as answer to the priest problem
Father Brendan Hoban, a co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, is concerned about the state of the Church in his native Ireland. Very concerned indeed. He describes priests in Ireland as...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Women as answer to the priest problem
Father Brendan Hoban, a co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, is concerned about the state of the Church in his native Ireland. Very concerned indeed. He describes priests in Ireland as...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Beach Washed Away in 1984, Returns
This is an interesting development for an Irish coastal town. Their beach was washed out to sea during storms in 1984, and this year without warning, it came back.
View ArticleThings Are Good: Tough Lobbying Rules in Ireland Work Well
Ten years ago when a bunch of bankers greatly damaged the economy the country of Ireland suffered quite a bit. The people of Ireland made the connection between influence on politicians from large...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Why Would the UN General Assembly Elect Canada to...
Prime Minister Trudeau has been hustling around the world, attempting to round up votes for Canada when the UN General Assembly elects members of the Security Council in June. Two seats are available...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Charles In Charge
Well, it finally happened. The Queen of Canada died, at 96 years old. She passed a couple days ago at her Scotland estate, and I still haven’t heard a cause of death, but I doubt the COVID bout she had...
View Articlemark a. rayner: The Ruins
Life and death were in the ruins. The old cottage was filled with a riot of primal green ferns and stinging nettles. The only bright… The post The Ruins appeared first on mark a. rayner.
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The Activist Left Working hard to Capture Irish Medical...
The medical establishment in Ireland is being led away from evidence based medicine by the gender ideologues. Nothing good can come of it. “This week another expert in his field offered a considered...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: An Open Letter from feminists in Ireland to the organizers of...
[Mirrored from the Feminist Ire blog.] We write as cisgender feminists in Ireland to the organisers of the ‘We Need To Talk’ speaking tour who plan to hold an event in Ireland in February [2018]. The...
View ArticleScripturient: Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
I had expected comedy. Maybe not laugh-aloud, rib-splitting stuff. Not slapstick and pratfalls. But humour of the British sort. Oscar-Wilde-ish witty dialogue. Banter like that from Fry and Laurie....
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