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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Roisin Davis -
Until very recently Ireland was, as the saying goes,“a nation run by men in dresses” (cassocks).
Perhaps this is why the image of someone in a dress—a form-fitting rose-pink dress—was one of the most captivating to come out of Dublin on Saturday: drag queen Panti Bliss (real name Rory O’Neill) addressing a cheering crowd shortly after it became known that the nation would be the first to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
Not only was the...
Harry Browne -
Dublin - For many years, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the member of the British parliament for West Belfast in Northern Ireland, albeit one who refused to take his seat in London. Since 2011, however, he has served in the Irish legislature, without abstention, representing constituents across the border in the Republic of Ireland’s County Louth.
But if you can take the man out of Belfast, you can’t take the terrible history of Belfast out of the man. A few weeks ago he was...
Over the weekend, in Ireland thousands of people protested against austerity measures and against bearing the burden of the Irish crisis. Ireland's austerity program involves raising the sales tax or VAT to 23%. At the same time corporate tax is pegged at 12,5% and will not be raised.
Just how did the Irish miracle turn into the Irish nightmare?
Professor Leo Panitch at York University says Ireland arrived at this mess via the bust of the financial sector that Ireland didn't cause. It...
Harry Browne -
The Chains of Capital are Only as Strong as the Weakest Link
Around here lately there’s been much talk about the Easter Rising. It’s nothing particularly interesting: just the “Men of 1916” turning up as the stars of a series of rhetorical questions that boil down to: “Was it for this that they gave their lives?” The Irish Times, bitter enemy of those rebels 94 years ago and rarely friendly toward them since, bundled the refrain into an editorial last...
