This government is thoroughly contemptible. Its policies of facilitating the super-rich and its worshipping of private sector greed have resulted in the shameful fact that 455,000 people are on the live register.
The Risen People, playing at the Abbey Theatre until February, follows the lives of a group of working-class Dubliners through the heroism and suffering of the 1913 lockout.
This afternoon Joe Higgins TD on behalf of the Socialist Party submitted an amendment to the Sinn Féin private members' motion on the death of Savita Halappanavar.
John Pilger, the renowned investigative journalist and award winning film maker, has recently completed a new film, Utopia, which deals with the subjugation of the Aboriginal First Australians. Niall Mulholland interviews John about the film’s themes, followed with a review of Utopia.