Posted in racism, dublin, football on Apr 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Attention should be brought to this post by hxci over on ‘Come Here To Me’ regarding a march tomorrow in memory of Toyoshi Shitta-bey murdered in West Dublin on Good Friday. hxci makes a particular appeal to L of I fans to turn out - but I’m sure the more diverse the turn-out the better.
I […]
Posted in Education on Apr 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Workers Solidarity Movement have a couple of posts on the recent INTO conference that are worth reading.
One
In what is being described by RTE as a blow to the leadership, delegates at the INTO annual Congress in Galway today (Tuesday) passed a motion which declared that the Public Sector Agreement 2010 -2014 […]
Posted in satire, Politics on Apr 9th, 2010 No Comments »
A nice little piece of satire here.
Enjoy.
Posted in books, blogging on Apr 9th, 2010 18 Comments »
A couple of weeks back I got an email from a publisher, asking whether I was thinking of writing a book, and if so would I keep them in mind. So I wrote back saying yeah, I’ve got a couple of ideas, and I sent them on a proposal. I gave them a brief synopsis […]
Posted in Irish journalism, irish culture, Irish Economy on Apr 8th, 2010 7 Comments »
Or so said Shane Ross in 2007.
Here’s what Shane wrote. Emphasis is mine:
Posted in obituary on Apr 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
Posted in Internet, blogging on Apr 6th, 2010 8 Comments »
In response to speculations that North Korea has executed its Minister of Economy because a failed monetary reform. This news was issued by YONHAP (South Korea) and soon reproduced systematically by many media of other countries, among them the most important Spanish newspapers. In order to begin, YONHAP mentions as origin of the news: ‘ […]
Posted in United States, Iraq on Apr 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
The U.S. army loves video war games.
Find out why.
[For more on this see Collateral Murder. The text below is taken from the YouTube posting]
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache […]
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Apr 5th, 2010 8 Comments »
Some photographs from today’s ceremony
Posted in Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 4th, 2010 No Comments »
On Easter Monday the 5th April 2010 The North Inner City Folklore Project will unveil a plaque to Captain Sean Connolly of the Citizen Army who was killed on the roof of the City Hall during the 1916 Rising.
1 At Liberty Hall, 12 noon, a pageant will take place which will include the unfurling of […]
