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Defend the GPO and Save Moore St. | Best International Documentary | A Week in the Life and Death of GAZA

Defend the GPO and Save Moore St.

There is widespread anger at the decision by the Irish government to convert the historic GPO in Dublin into shops and offices. Last Saturday hundreds gathered in O’C…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

No Economic Block on Irish Unity | The Future of the GPO | World Premier in Galway of ‘A Ballymurphy Man’ | Crann na Saoirse - Mayo

No Economic Block on Irish Unity

In recent years there have been encouraging signs of growing support for Irish unity in successive electoral results, demographic changes, contributions from civic soc…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Palestine | Internment | Defend the GPO | Kneecap Abú | Féile an Phobail – A festival extravaganza

Palestine

The Israeli forces as part of their on going genocide, in the last 24hrs have killed 142 Palestinian civilians, and injured 487. 

Internment

A British Supreme Court judgement in 2020 ruled tha…

Published on 4 months ago

Féile Launch 2025 | Ceasefires Now | Mol an Óige | Family Album | Kneecap Abú

Ceasefires Now

Should we have been surprised by the decision of the US President Donald Trump to attack Iran? No. Shocked maybe but not surprised. The weapons of mass destruction spin, that was used t…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Stand-Up to Racism | Defending Neutrality | Pat Finucane - End the Delay

Stand-Up to Racism

In 1972 Catholic families – who had endured three years of sustained sectarian attacks on their homes – fled Annalee St in North Belfast. Last month - fifty-three years later - Cath…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Jim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell | Health and Care in a New Ireland | An Act of International Piracy

Jim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell 

Regular readers of this column will know that I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Moore St. Preservation Trust to preserve the 1916…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Escape | Old Farts

Old Farts 

As I get older I seem to be farting more than I used to. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t keep a record of my farts. That would be impossible but I do have a notion that my flatuence is more…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Mothers Against Genocide | ‘If I Must Die’ | Give the vote to 16-year-old citizens | Health & Care in a New Ireland

Mothers Against Genocide

This column makes no apologies for writing so much about the genocide in Palestine and the urgent need for ceasefires and a peace process.  At least 14,000 babies face imminen…

Published on 5 months ago

A Ballymurphy Man | Verbal Disorder | The Floodgates of Horror | The Catastrophe – Nakba

San Francisco – A Ballymurphy Man/A Work in Progress

If you live in the San Francisco area go along to the Vogue Theatre on 1st June to see a sneak preview of Trisha Ziff’s film – A Ballymurphy Man.

It…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Presidential Vote is a constitutional requirement | Donnacha

PRESIDENTIAL VOTING RIGHTS

In a historic vote in the Assembly last week its members overwhelmingly passed by 46 votes to 25 - a motion calling on the Irish government to implement the recommendation o…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago