Posted in Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish social history, Property on May 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
The Kenny Report, the official title of which is “COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING LAND, REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ROBERT MOLLOY, CHAIRMAN MR. JUSTICE J. KENNY (DUBLIN,1974), was begun in 1971 and finally published in 1974. Its findings have never been implemented
Its recommendations formed part of the Green Party’s pre-election manifesto. […]
Posted in Film, Irish election, Media, politics/Ireland on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I was coming home on the bus today when I saw John O’Neill’s election poster, and couldn’t help think that I had seen him before.
Turns out that John, who’s the local Finglas candidate for Irish Socialist Network, is also noted film critic and überfan of the 1970s classic, The Exorcist, Mark Kermode.
Good luck in […]
Posted in Ireland on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
The Right to the City - part 1
Part 1 - The Right to the City Lecture: David Harvey
Here’s yet another David Harvey lecture. Not on the financial crisis per se, but based on his New Left Review article The Right to the City and how modern capitalism is closely tied to the development of urbanisation. […]
Posted in music on May 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
I have a long established rule with music. Never try to figure out what the lyrics mean. In most cases this extends to a sub-rule, not always followed: never read the lyrics if they are provided in the sleeve of the record. This is because a long time ago I mistakenly read the lyrics to […]
Posted in Ireland on May 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
Thanks to Cian Prendiville of the Socialist Party who is running the online campaign part of Joe Higgins’ EU Election campaign (www.JoeHiggins.eu), I found out that the debate organised by the European Anti Poverty Network (Ireland) between all the Dublin MEP candidates for the EU election 2009 will be streamed live between 2.00pm and 4.00pm […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish History on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s a link to a interesting blog called Hidden History of UCD. It states that it’s “a new blog dedicated to collating the radical and social history of University College Dublin (UCD). The articles first appeared in UCD’s student newspaper The College Tribune between Sep. ‘08 and April ‘09.”
I didn’t go to UCD myself - […]
Posted in capitalism on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Gavin has uploaded all the PDFs associated with the 2002 Ansbacher report with links to each of the Appendices. Needless to say, I haven’t read it all (or even 1% of it) but while scanning the introduction I was reminded that the ‘Ansbacher’ investigation started in 1997 as part of the McCracken Tribunal.
Considering that the […]
Posted in fuckwits, RTE on May 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
Donogh Diamond is programme editor for Prime Time, RTE’s “flagship” current affairs show. Recently, he got into a spat with the chief executive of the HEA, Tom Boland. Prime Time had asked Boland to appear on the show, one which had as its theme the topic of waste in public spending. Boland, having watched more […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
I was waiting for my no.40 bus on Parnell Street when I popped into the shop to pick up the Irish Times for the Friday jobs section. Waste of time, I know, but you have to keep the eye out. Anyways, while I was there I saw that the Evening Herald had an article […]
Posted in Film, TV, Media on May 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
A curio this. In the Readers Recommend: Songs about Revolution thread on that Guardian site that I look at now and again, I came across a track ‘When The Revolution Comes’ by The Last Poets that a commenter says is the inspiration for Gil-Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Check it out, niggaz. […]
