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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 15:56 by James R
 14 comments (last - sunday june 26, 2005 02:45)  1 image
Mike Leigh’s ‘Vera Drake,’ is set in Islington, 1950. Surprise, surprise, this ain't no nostalgia trip. It’s a world not far removed from Orwell’s 1930’s ‘Down and Out In Paris and London’ with his amazement at an English working class ability to subsist on regular doses of bread and tea. The dry taste of soda bread, the smell of dampness and the comfort of a 'cuppatay' is as palpable as the scars of war staring blankly from the eyes of shell shocked characters like Reg (Eddie Marsan) who having lost his mother to the blitz lives a bachelors life on ‘bread and drippings’. Rationing is still a reality, nylons are traded for smokes and parasitical black marketers and creditors make a fortune door to door, in neighbourhoods perpetually clouded in grey. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 12:24 by Tim Hourigan
8 comments (last - thursday march 03, 2005 14:09) 2 images
Troops through Shannon up 26% on previous year. Workforce is down 50%. That's the same workforce who were force- fed the story that their jobs depended on US military use of the airport. Other lies surround the economic arguments of US Military use of Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 24, 2005 02:32 by Kevin Walsh
12 comments (last - friday february 04, 2005 20:56)
Reflection......Priorities.....Values...... The Peace Process......... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 22, 2005 17:38 by Sean Crudden
3 comments (last - monday january 24, 2005 15:53) 1 image
The tough guy (or the tough girl) is the accepted norm in politics and public affairs generally - particularly since the days of Margarer Thatcher. We have heard seductively in the past of the efficacy of "tough love." But what is toughness? Is it just cowardly bluster? Is it a real virtue in sport or in our personal lives, for example? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 21, 2005 17:10 by Soundmigration
5 comments (last - thursday january 27, 2005 08:36)
The difference between altruistic human responses and ‘political’ responses to continuing human misery. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday January 21, 2005 15:19 by Laura Synnott
5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 14:59)
Irish media is following the British tabloids in its coverage of celebrity lifestyle, little realising that people are growing tired of being bombarded with 'famous' peoples lives. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 19:21 by Media_Matters
17 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 21:14) 1 image
A query to users of this website, regarding the 'openess' of a self-styled open media forum. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:33 by - -
Now more than ever, we are one. In the world of global economy and global media, it is possible to consume products from the other side of the planet on a daily basis and to understand something of far away places as our cultural input speeds thousands of miles in a split second to reach us. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:08 by James R
18 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 04:11)
The latest McDonalds’ ad is telling. A man rushes to the counter and proceeds to push a microphone into the face of some bewildered kid bedecked in a green smock. “So what’s in your burgers?” he asks, in pursuit of the sort of anti-corporate expose that has fuelled Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me. Pressed, the kid blurts “100% Irish Beef.” read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2005 21:26 by John McDermott
1 comment (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 11:52)
Bertie and ordinary citizens pay for the massive expenditure to enrich Ireland,s fat cat hoteliers and golf course owners such as Oliver Barry(a Cork based Fianna Fail "soldier of destiny" whose name is linked to the corruption tribunals) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2005 11:40 by Henk Ruyssenaars
To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday January 16, 2005 21:58 by NorthStar Anarchist Collective
3 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 01:03)
(a response to Beyond Voting, by Chris Crass - Clamor Communique 42) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2005 23:10 by Barry
28 comments (last - thursday november 03, 2005 02:38) 1 image
In the middle of his current visit to Tanzania, British chancellor Gordon Brown has claimed that "the days of Britain apologising for its colonial past are over". Some of us may beforgiven for wondering when we ever heard any of these apologies, but I suppose that would be unfair to the chancellor and highly cynical. Especially when one considers his follow up comment that it was time for Africans to start talking about "the enduring British traditions of liberty and tolerance". ANC leader Thabo Mbeki, for some strange unearthly reason, isnt highly impressed by the British chancellor. He claims that British imperialists have simply treated the African peoples whose lands they occupied as savages. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2005 21:48 by Paul Kinsella
11 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 17:43)
Residents of the Lorcan Estate in Santry have expressed their complete opposition to plans which have been submitted to Dublin City Council to demolish the existing Kilmardinny Inn on Lorcan Avenue, Santry, which is a single storey pub, and construct a five storey apartment development containing 23 two bedroom apartments, 26 one bedroom apartments, with a public house at ground floor level. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2005 16:14 by The National Platform - EU Research and Information Centre
3 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 00:41)
Dear Friends, I sent you a document for your information last November on "Why the Left should oppose the EU Constitution". This had been drawn up by some members of the National Platform in consultation with various people on the Irish political Left. read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday January 14, 2005 21:14 by Sean Crudden
6 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 21:37) 1 image
Will the democratic values of love, friendliness, listening, community, sisterhood, fun be squeezed out of the health system in my lifetime? What are the human priorities of the Health Services Executive? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday January 13, 2005 20:49 by Kevin Whelehan
15 comments (last - sunday january 16, 2005 18:28) 2 images
I deplore what has occured since 9/11/2001. Thousands upon thousands of people have been murdered by American bombardment of Afghanistan where the terrorists were based but the bombing has not affected the terrorists by an iota. We must use peaceful methods. But how? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 12, 2005 10:34 by righteous pragmatist
16 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2005 02:42)
Take an anonymous Pentagon leak from a “high level military officer,” add an appalling lack of knowledge of history, and compound it with ignorance of special warfare tactics. This process describes the article published by Newsweek breathlessly revealing that a “desperate” Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is “considering” employing the “Salvadoran option” to thwart the “growing quagmire” of the Iraq War. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 11, 2005 15:09 by Pipeline
28 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 09:07) 1 image
Abbeyshrule airfield has been upgraded. Runway resurfaced and military style numbers painted on both ends. Looks like there are plans to extend the runway and add bigger aircraft parking areas as part of a new development as the area is now fenced off.. Anyone know what the small white planes are that fly round? They look like US military drones of some kind? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday January 10, 2005 17:59 by Michael Hennigan
8 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 22:24)
Senator Feargal Quinn and his family have made an estimated €400 million gross from the sale of most of their holdings in the Superquinn supermarket group. Senator Quinn, as a person who became a public figure by choice, should set an example by allocating a significant portion of his family's fortune for charitable purposes. read full story / add a comment |
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