Another year at the movies and another good one. Too often we hear jeremiads about the decline of cinema and the lack of good films out there (of course, such gripes are usually based on…
Monthly Archives For December 2008
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary Peter Lennon's 1967 documentary that was effectively banned for decades from RTE. An angry exposé of the stifling de facto theocracy then in place, it competed…
Is No Place Like Home!!
Si. Is Manuel!! (Is not my hand though) The Christmas is approaching nearby, and is time for everyone who have a home to go to to go there, escept for the homeless, who probly go…
We Need More Than Umbrellas in a Hurricane
There is much in Michael Taft’s ‘Towards a New Economic Narrative‘ that most socialists can agree with. The state must take measures to protect the majority of its population from the ravages of unemployment and…
Cutting Beneath the Radar
Last week’s resignation by Equality Authority head Niall Crowley has focussed belated attention on a round of Budget cuts which, at the time, went largely unnoticed – certainly by the general public. In October, the…
December 15th Evening: The Recession Diaries
You know it’s getting bad when one of the leading bank economists goes on the national airwaves and suggests that the nation pray. On Morning Ireland we had a number of informed commentators giving us…
The Climate Change ‘Debate’
“This debate will go on and on. It’s been an interesting discussion and hopefully we’ll come back to it again.” [Miriam O’Callaghan, RTE’s Prime Time, 25th November 2008] Miriam O’Callaghan concluding a recent Prime Time…
Getting Off the Long Run Roller Coaster: A Response to Michael Taft’s 10 Proposals
Michael Taft’s 10 point plan for addressing the profound problems which face the Irish economy is an excellent starting place for discussion of the response of the left. Its major strength is that it recognizes…
Book Review: Democracy: Crisis and Renewal
A system in crisis There were two remarkable things about the Lisbon Treaty referendum that have been almost completely ignored by the men and women whose job it is to chew over Irish politics on…
ILR Podcast: interview with Michael Taft, “Towards a New Economic Narrative”
Following on from the publication of “Towards a New Economic Narrative“, we interviewed Michael Taft about his ideas for the Irish economy. We started off by asking Michael what was actually wrong with the Irish…
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq – washingtonpost.com
I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq – washingtonpost.com Article by former US army interrogator: 'It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have…
A Missed Opportunity
Recently on South Belfast Diary I leaked the draft Section 8 of Labour’s 21st Century Commission, dealing with Party organisation in Northern Ireland. Since 2002, the Irish Labour Party has allowed membership in the North….
Against Commercialism in Irish Education
Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that…
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