six days after bobby sands died, I was sad to learn of the death of Bob Marley. I thought it was fitting to have lots of black flags in the areas of my city where Marleys name was most sprayed or painted on the walls. Marley played Dalymount Park Dublin 10 months before he died…
Category: politics
O’Toole’s Law
remember O’Toole’s law, it states “Murphy was an optimist” Well outgoing Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole will have to be optimistic as she enters gangland Ireland with Donegal and the Garda reserve issues as a back drop. As the murder rate in Ireland rises, it would be nice to hear that O’Toole left a job…
Anti-Theft Dublin 1 – Tonight
Tonight 8pm Wynn’s Hotel Abbey Street Dublin 1. The ideas of James Connolly Today. Connolly meeting in Wynn’s, with trams passing outside, (like he did 90+ years ago) its a good setting to hear the ideas of the leader of the anti theft movement in Ireland, on the eve of the anniversary of his execution.
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Mary ‘hang them out to die’ Harney
At the PDs conference Leader Mary Harney said “We strongly support the sale of Great Southern Hotels and Aer Lingus. We`ll allow them to blossom in the full freedom of the open sun but our opponents would keep them in the shade and feed them fertiliser.” does she not mean that the PDs would let…
Leviathan Podcast#4 (May 4th 2006)
When Will The Property Bubble Burst? Why are the Irish so obsessed with owning property? Why do we continue to ignore the warning signs? Are the predictors of doom just determined to wreck our great boom buzz or are they wiser than most? Will it all end in tears? How on earth can first-time buyers…
so long solar; new clear way
would the last person to leave please turn out the lights
a hard days work never killed anyone?
from breakingnews.ie The family of a worker who was crushed to death by a truck today called for health and safety legislation to be fully enforced. Justin Foley, from Rush in North Dublin, was killed in December 2002 when a truck backed into him during a loading operation. At a protest outside the Health and…
can’t retract XML
as Michele Neylon has told me over and over, once it published its out there. RTE reported on the killing on Monday night at 11pm. they said and Google News has it “The shooting took place on waste ground in the Kilbarrack area at around 11pm last night.” I passed this location 50 minutes before…