Dublin Opinion

There is a stat counter in the Admin section in the backend of Irish Left Review that provides all sorts of useful information about how many people are visiting and what search terms they used in Google when coming across articles on the site.
My favourite search term so far is “When will the recession […]

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I hadn’t meant this to be one of those music for the weekend music posts - but I’ve dillydallied so long with getting it posted that here we are and it’s already Friday. It’s more of a post inspired by those shite K-Tel compilation albums from the 70s - not sure if there’ll be many […]

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Gilmore is very strong on the Pension Levy in the Dail today:
Mr Gilmore said the anger felt by striking and protesting workers was “understandable” when the lowest paid worker in a hospital was having his or her wages cut and hospital consultants were to get a major increase.
“One of the things the Taoiseach tells […]

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As promised last week, side two of the Gorehound’s 1989 album, Semtex.
Enjoy.

 

 Cargo Cult: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The Day My Love Turned Sour: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Hall of Imbeciles: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Ten Pairs of Shoes [2:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie: Play Now | Play in Popup

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[ Success story Jacques SEGUELA talks Rolex on French TV -
Daily Motion Screencap ]
I’ve never had much time for PR people, spindoctors, publicists or such botton-dwellers (sic). A controversial remark made over here last week hasn’t done a great deal to warm my heart to them. Jacques SEGUELA (pictured above) - PR adviser […]

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The Irish think tank for action on social change TASC, has just launched a new economics blog today, with the aim of providing a forum for progressive economists commenting on the Irish economy. While the media is awash with plenty of economic opinion at the moment, the majority of it seems to follow a narrow […]

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[Taken from irishrock.org.]
Following on from Seán’s post about the Gorehounds and haircuts, below is side one of their only album. I picked it up on Ebay and it arrived today. I hope that none of the members of the band mind the transfer to MP3. Any complaints and of course I´ll take it down. […]

 

 Ruby: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Sinking Down: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Eyeball Soup [2:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The Drop Starts Here: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The General: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Thanks to my rss reader I have just found out that the latest installment of the History of Electronic Music is available. It’s clearly a labour of love for the guy who presents them because the last one was published in August 2008.
This one concentrates on Krautrock (as did the previous one - […]

 

 History of Electronic Music - Part 8: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Were it the case that I paid my licence fee, I would only be half peeved that most of it would go to Pat Kenny’s crack legal team or the people who spray on Sharon Ní Bheoláin’s fake tan. As it stands, I don’t pay it (don’t have a telly / don’t currently live in […]

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Well, I’ve been much too busy trying to remain employed in these recessionary times to bother with anything as non-productive as writing for a blog. Actually, that is not completely true. While work does tend to stem the tide of beautiful blog posts streaming from consciousness, I can’t say that it is the only reason […]

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