Friday, December 16, 2011

Household tax campaign. Guess I'm sort of obliged to join this one

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  Thursday's launch of the campaign against the new Household Charge. Clare Daly TD, Cllr Cieran Perry and activist Eoin Ryan in Busw...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Bosses pay too high? Then move to Cuba!

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A report has suggested that workers representatives should sit on company remuneration committees. But the idea is barking mad and if that...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Christina Rossetti - Remember

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. Remember me when I am gone away,          Gone far away into the silent land;          When you can no more hold me by the han...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

I muse on Frankenstein and his monster

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€1 in Mitchelstown on 28th Nov Whiling away a spare half hour before my bus to Cork last week, l bought a battered copy of Mary Shell...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Solidarity with all on strike in the UK today

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A picket at a York hospital this morning (York Press) Public service workers are not asking for more – they just want the pension...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Lowest common denominator ban declared

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Tahrir Square, 24th Nov. An injured protester wakes up. Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP Any decent revolution comes in two stag...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

An Irish solution to an Irish problem

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Ajai Chopra, an embarrassed axeman I must be slow on the uptake as I've only just grasped that whenever this cliché of Irish jou...