Posted in Irish Economy, Fine Gael on May 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
Always I have done my best to keep the public fully informed and up to date about the economy. As danger loomed larger I consistently highlighted the risks of inaction and complacency. These warnings were ignored. Instead the Government chose to portray them as an effort to talk down the economy. It is now too […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Labour History, Media on May 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Both myself and Donagh are part of a group called the Alternative Media History Group and over the next few weeks we’ll be working on a series of four programmes for DCTV which will look at various Irish left-wing publications from the 1960s to the 1980s. The first one will focus on The Irish People, […]
Posted in Irish Society, Iraq, Ireland on May 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Another embed video from DCTV, this time an interview with Eamonn Crudden on his film, Route Irish. Eamonn is also the man behind the Wormhole video posted here last week.
for those with torrent software installed, Route Irish can be downloaded by clicking here.
Enjoy.
Interview with Filmmaker Eamonn Crudden (Route Irish) from DCTV on Vimeo.
Posted in Irish Economy on May 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is the audio from the segment in Monday’s (4 May 2009) edition of The Sound, DCTV’s current affairs programme, which dealt with the current banking crisis in Ireland. I extracted it for convenience sake. The visual can be seen below, it starts at 54:23.
Enjoy.
Posted in Banks, Irish Economy on May 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
The Sound is a monthly current affairs programme, made by members of DCTV, Dublin’s public access station. Below is the first edition of The Sound, along with its contents. The programme is 73 minutes long, and is broadcast on DCTV (NTL Channel 802) on Mondays @ 12.30pm and Tuesdays @ 7pm. It is also available […]
Posted in irish culture, Irish Society, Irish social history on May 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
I was at a car boot sale in Finglas the other week and I picked up a handful of albums, one of which was “How Are ye Flower” by Sonny Knowles. Now, I’m not a fan, by any means, but I do acknowledge that the showbands were an integral part of Irish music and culture, […]
Posted in capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Middle Class, Banks on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Hilarious little clip from RTE’s Questions and Answers, 27 April 2009, when the former CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Ireland), Mark Duffy, was asked his opinion on the government’s wasteful electronic voting debacle.
Enjoy.
Posted in great irish bands, irish culture, Irish working Class Culture on May 1st, 2009 11 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to post Wormhole for a while now. Donagh mentioned them to me during the week, so that was the prod I needed to get it done.
I know very little about the band, having only picked up their Chicks Dig Scars CD last year second-hand. Thankfully, there’s a couple of websites dedicated […]
