Dublin Opinion

[Photo taken from CPI website. Mick O’Riordán is front row, third from the left.]
Another tape that was recently passed onto me, this time of an Anna-Livia (now Dublin City FM) radio interview from 1993 with Mick O’Riordan, then general-secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Spanish Civil War veteran, who passed away in […]

 

 Mick O'Riordán interview c.1993 [15:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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I was recently handed a copy of this interview, and got around to digitizing it today. I don’t know who the interviewer is, nor the exact date, although in the course of the conservation Betty Sinclair mentions that the troops have been in the North for twelve years, which would date it to sometime in […]

 

 Betty Sinclair 1981 pt 1 [31:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Betty Sinclair 1981 Pt 2 [0:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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I was in Seomra Spraoi last night to pick up the latest edition of Loserdom and while I was there I called up to the zine archive. It’s on the first floor and it has a couple of hundred fanzines and alternative media publications from around the world, but mainly Ireland, UK, and USA. They […]

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[Padraig Yeates writes:]
There is a petition to protest at the deportation of John Recto, his wife Liezel and their three children to the Philippines Ireland at www.teeu.ie and we would ask you to sign it.
ICTU General Secretary David Begg and TEEU General Secretary Designate Eamon Devoy have written to the Naturalisation and Immigration Service seeking […]

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The website of the wonderful Loserdom is here.
you can read a short history of Irish fanzines here.
Directions to Seomra Spraoi are here.

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[Original image courtesy of Boycott Goodfellas Pizza Facebook]
Sign the petition in support of the strikers here.

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I was passing by Butt Bridge and the statue of James Connolly this evening, when I snapped the photo above. Fotosketcher did the rest.

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Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.

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Des Brannigan was born in Dublin in 1918. His family lived in the basement flat of no.19, North Great Georges Street. He went to sea at an early age, where he first became active in trade unionism, eventually becoming general secretary of the Marine, Port and General Workers’ Union.
In his later years he was […]

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February 28th, 2010,
A number of media outlets persist in describing the dispute between the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union and Green Isle Foods in Naas as being about inappropriate emails.
This is not the case.
The dispute is over the unfair dismissal of three workers and union recognition.
The Labour Court, which has adjudicated on the dispute and […]

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