Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012
photo credit: apanoply some rights reserved. Just keeping this for handy reference Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to …
The Oul’ Triangle
It costs €90,000 a year to keep a prisoner in jail. The Old Triangle is a fund-raising event for the Irish Penal …
Save Irish Forests
Here we go again. First our fossil fuel resources, now our forests. Have these people no shame or sense of history? Taken …
#ge11 and other Slim Links, February 13, 2011
What has happened in Rossport is a travesty and tragedy. The Pipe, The Film website Update: the video has been removed from …
CLAIMING OUR FUTURE
CLAIMING OUR FUTURE Saturday 30th October 2010 Demand for maximum income to cut gap between rich and poor emerges at Ireland’s first …
Christy Moore endorses Mannix
A simple but powerful video of Christy Moore endorsing Mannix Flynn. Note the luxurious campaign office
Mannix Flynn Fundraiser
Click for larger image. Can’t go myself, but if you can, do. Tickets are available on the door and you can chose …
Vote Mannix No 1!
We need artists in politics! Or at least artists like Mannix, who are crystal clear about the issues. See his website VoteMannixFlynn.ie …
Competence and responsibility is valued in US again.
First our US friends elected Barack Obama. Then a highly experienced, highly competent and calm pilot saves the lives of his passengers …
Able was I ere I saw Elba
Hilarious take on conservative double-speak – originating (vol.1) and (vol.2) with John Ridley on Huffington Post and taken up with gusto and …
Maman Poulet Scoop on Sarah Palin, US VP Candidate
Good lord, that’s quite a scoop for Suzy Byrne’s blog, Maman Poulet. Plaudits, Ms Byrne. Another award winging your way, I’d wager. …
Increasing Poetry Readership
Poet Michael O’Dea has suggested, as a means of increasing poetry readership …that Poetry Ireland, (since it will take such a central …
Robert Kennedy’s speech announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jnr.
This is Robert Kennedy’s impromtu speech announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jnr. He asked the crowd for “an effort to …
Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave
A beautiful essay as endorsement of Obama by the great Alice Walker, who argues that we must build alliances not on ethnicity …
Ireland owns part of US Debt – more than Germany
Who would have thought it? Ireland owns part of the US debt, according to a scary article in The Daily Telegraph. As …