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Capitalist media: cheerleaders for austerity
Socialist Party TD, Ruth Coppinger’s assertion that Independent Newspapers champion austerity, has drawn squawks of indignation from the media. In an attempt to rebuke this, Brendan O’Connor (presumably with a straight face) claimed: “[The Irish Independent] has campaigned hugely against austerity for the last six years”.
Water Charges protest in Jobstown: Our answer to Leo Varadkar
After 6 years of savage austerity and bullying, ordinary people are fighting back and you better listen!
10,000 March in Limerick with message: “No way, we won’t pay!”
A massive protest of 10,000 marched through Limerick city on October 25th against water charges. The demonstration was…
Denis O’Brien’s answer to a question that nobody asked
Another Sunday morning and yet again we see the mainstream media giving a massive plug for the Reform…
Suicidal rape victim denied abortion; 8th amendment must go
Under new act women are being treated as vessels without basic human rights While protecting the identity of…
Labour’s sell-out
An opinion Poll in early June showed the Labour Party with 4% support nationally. This is a measure of how comprehensively that party has disappointed those who voted for it in the 2011 General Election.
Joe Higgins TD on Banking Inquiry Nomination
The government’s actions in cobbling together a majority on the Committee has been unbelievably crude and hamfisted. However, while this has shown to the world the cynical manoeuvrings that go on among the establishment political parties in the Oireachtas as they jockey for advantage, it fundamentally changes nothing. All parties understood that the government was always going to use its Dáil majority to have a majority on the Committee.
Mother & Baby Homes: Both church & state are guilty
Appalling – abhorrent – grotesque – it’s difficult to find words to adequately express the horrors visited upon the poorest and most vulnerable sections of Irish society, particularly women and children, at the hands of Church and State in Ireland.
Joe Higgins TD not retiring from political activity, but not to stand in next General Election
For years to come Joe Higgins TD will be an active force fighting for the people of Dublin West and beyond, so not announcing retirement from political activity, but today he announces he won’t be a candidate in the next General Election.
Acquittal of Sean Fitzpatrick: Who will be held accountable now?
Not just individuals, but also the political and legal system that allowed banks and speculators engage in unbridled profiteering on homes and property, and the media that glorified them, that should be in the dock.
