Month: October 2012
The Lab Foley Street Thur 25th October 6pm – From the Lockout to the Rising and the Treaty: (How) should we commemorate?
Digging_the_Monto_Final_Invite.pdf Download this file Chaired by Charles Duggan (Dublin City Council) / Padraig Yeates (Lockout Historian) / Pat Cooke (UCD) / Mary Muldowney (Centre for Contemporary Irish History, TCD) / Roisin Higgins (Boston College), Helen Carey (Limerick City Gallery)
Pyrite Report – response to Minister Hogan by Clare Daly TD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VCDitdIJAM more from Clare Daly TD http://www.claredaly.ie/ About Pyrite: The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula FeS2. This mineral’s metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue have earned it the nickname fool’s gold because of its superficial resemblance to gold. The color has also led to the nicknames brass, brazzle…
Priory Hall 1 year on
Yellow ribbons on the security fence at Priory Hall Donaghmede Dublin 13.
BBC on Saorview a commercial matter
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NO. 35 Dail Eireann To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the RTÉ Network Limited will begin transmission of UK public service broadcasts on the SaorView system to complete the reciprocation as envisaged in the MoU (details supplied).. – Clare Daly. For…
this TV’s tuner dies October 24th – Long live the TV
Digital Switch Over (DSO) or Analogue Switch Off (ASO) is happening October 24th 2012 at 10am. 11 days to go. Then this TV “tuner” will die, well it wont die but over the air signals from legal sources¹ will not be exciting its Belling-Lee² connector after that date. This TV was lovingly carried around the…
CIA role in split suggested by WP [June 1992]
read the last paragraph and look at the Labour leadership of late.
how the FF/PD govt in 1992 fiddled the unemployment figures down to 16% from 21%
south africa miners & the ANC
ANC press release http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=9867 no mention of the police shooting dead 34 strikers no mention of the invoking of ‘doctrine of common purpose’ apartheid era law where 270 strikers were charged with the murder of the 34 the police had gunned down. (charges later dropped by the police because the lunacy of such a law…