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Controversy over Newry Play Park
In 2001, a childrens’ play park in Newry was named after hunger striker Raymond McCreesh. The move remains intensely controversial to this day. In recent weeks sectarian politicians from Sinn Fein and the unionist parties have clashed repeatedly in the council chamber, on the airways and in the press on the issue.
Capitalist profiteering is destroying our planet
The world is hurtling towards environmental disaster. In the words of prominent American climate scientist, James Hansen climate change has brought us to the "precipice of a great “tipping point” where we are facing the prospect of the earth transitioning into “a different planet” in terms of climate and environment.
NAMA fire sale: Vultures make a killing
97% of NAMA property sales have gone to US and Irish vulture funds
Poisonous bigotry must be challenged
Vote yes to Marriage Equality in May!
Stormont faces crisis over welfare reform
Only weeks after the “historic” Stormont House Agreement, the Assembly Executive hit another bump in the road, with Sinn Féin withdrawing support for the programme of attacks of benefits known as welfare “reform”.
European Union: A Europe for the markets and corporations
By Finghin Kelly The thin cloak of democracy that EU leaders like to cover themselves in was graphically…
Government must ban home repossessions by banks
· Profitable state-owned banks should write down mortgage debt · Repossession crisis will become intensify homelessness crisis The…
Why is Big Business showering Sinn Féin with money?
By Manus Lenihan Last November, Friends of Sinn Féin held a dinner at the fanciest hotel in Manhattan,…
Joe Higgins on SIPTU’s support for Sinn Fein
During the last seven years of austerity, the Irish Congress of Trades Unions (ICTU) and its biggest component,…
Damning report on inequality
By Diana O’Dwyer A new report by TASC shows that Ireland has the worst ‘market income’ inequality in…