Stop the Education Cuts protest moves to the county hall swords as 400 parents students & teachers rally as councillors debate the education cuts. Today I was hoarse doing mega phone on the stop the education cuts demo outside Fingal County Council. Inside all the councillors voted in favour of the Socialist Party motion calling…
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DJIA Falls 777 while ISE Falls 13%
All week Joe Higgins had been scoring points. “Irish pensions,” he had thundered, “are being gambled away in a casino. It is insane,” he insisted. “Irish pension managers might as well be playing roulette with workers’ money”. So spoke the only real rebel on the Irish political scene. The Magnificent Seven – Clash Karlo marx…
128 miles from Howth lies Sellafield
One of our nearest Nuclear Plants Sellafield which lies 128 miles from Malahide – Howth will take 112 years to clean up at a cost of €92 billion euros according to a Westminster report released this week. As the site is still accepting orders of waste nuclear fuel from around the world the true cost…
second helpings
john handelaar said in January Never fear, though – this alternative programming strand “is also available on RTÉ’s trial digital service, RTÉ Choice”. Whoop-fucking-ee. I would like to draw your attention to this exchange (below) with Cathal Goan RTE on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 it was not known then (by the the public) or on…
mushrooms for breakfast TV
not connected to my last post, Juliet Turner on her new album “people have names” has a song called “trickster” about art group ztohoven which hacked the webcam feed of a TV weather stream this time last year. If you think of the film Czech Dream I wonder is there a trickster trait in the…
does this need a tv licence?
RTE NEWS NOW.
Drogheda: Cancer Unit Dóchas – protest march
back in the ancestral home of Greene’s, I was in Drogheda today for a Socialist Party stall / petition to oppose health cuts and for investment in a public health service. Followed by a 1000 strong demonstration march to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital where the cancer unit ‘dochas’ is facing closure under HSE /…
why should you vote no to Lisbon?
watch this qik video: (full audio podcast on 2.5 hour debate to be added in the morning.)
no nonsense ‘no’ debate on Lisbon Treaty
last night in Swords I chaired the no nonsense ‘no’ debate on Lisbon mp3 64kbits 90 minutes. Speakers Clare Daly Socialist Party & Patricia McKenna Green Party.