Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Production on series two of Looking Left will be starting soon, and we’re looking for volunteers. If you liked the 1st series, and would like to get involved, please get in touch. If you’re in town today or tomorrow (12-13 Sept), I’ll be at the Desmond Greaves Summer School, selling the DVD of the first […]
Posted in fuckwits on Sep 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
If you haven’t already, have a read of this. Pure gold.
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Sep 8th, 2009 6 Comments »
Last Friday on the Late Late Show, Ryan Tubridy tried to get the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to apologise to the Irish people for the state of the economy. It was an all-too-familiar routine - one that frames the roots of the present crisis in terms of moral failure, and the beginnings of a solution […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish Society on Sep 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
Eircom have blocked the torrent website piratebay.com. Eircom customers who go to the website will see this:
Which is really funny, when you think about it, ‘cos one of the best torrent search engines on the web is Google.
The link to Google Torrent Search is here.
So, will Eircom be banning Google? Will they fuck.
Time […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty on Sep 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
The problem with the various campaigns around the Lisbon Treaty is that in order to get a simple message across to a wide audience you have to reduce a complicated topic to a simple black and white argument. However, simplification does not mean basic distortion, like using a dodgy doctored photo originally used by a […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Marxism, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, politics/Ireland on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
This week sees the release of Lost Revolution, the Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party, by Dr. Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. Below is a episode of DCTV’s Looking Left, which looked at the Workers’ Party’s newspaper, the Irish People. On the panel are Brian Hanley and one of the former editors […]
Posted in Idle Thoughts on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
While coming to work on my high-nelly, wibbling down the motorway, knees sticking out and a bunch of gardenias and sweet pea in the front wicker basket, the thought struck me that the best thing that ever happened to Garrett Fitzgerald, politically, not personally, was Charlie Haughey.
But that may be because I don’t hold […]
