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• More from Irish Election Literature Blog…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Many thanks as ever to AK who runs the IELB. Some great stuff this week. Particularly the last one from one A. Glenn… As AK explains: A leaflet from a Waterboys benefit concert for the Green Alliance from 1987. At the same time Red Wedge was running in Britain. The leaflet also advertises a CND demo at the ...
  11 hours ago

• The past and the present…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  We live in a state where significant elements of its apparatus, including most crucially those elements charged with security and oversight of such matters colluded (with some honorable exceptions) with Church authorities in covering up a range of acts which are difficult to credit both in their scale and severity. ...
  1 day ago

• Turning TINA

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 433
  The editorials of The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner yesterday are politically instructive, that is to say, they illustrate a situation in which politics cannot take place.  The differences in tone tell us much about their minimal market/political differentiation. The crowing populism of the Examiner still ...
  1 day ago

• The Downgrading of Equality and Human Rights: Assessing the Impact

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 433
  The Equality and Right Alliance conference, A Fairer Ireland: Equality and Rights at the Heart of Recovery is on today in Dublin. According to the Conference program, this morning’s speakers included Dr Kathy Walsh and Brian Harvey who are presenting their research into the real impact of government cuts in the ...
  3 days ago

• Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 433
  Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike Brian Hanley, author with Scott Miller of The Lost Revolution has some thoughts on the issue of whether those working in universities and colleges should join the strike today and provides his own thoughts on the matter. There is also a good discussion ...
  3 days ago

• The Strike…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Please feel free to post up observations in the comments to this post on what you see happening… or not. I’ll give my impressions later in the day. Anyone with photographs email me on the usual one…
  3 days ago

• Forth

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Some interesting material, albeit with some debatable propositions, on the recently launched Forth website. I’m particularly struck by the pieces on the North, some of the thoughts there which I’ll discuss soon. I’m not quite able to gauge the political position of the site, but seeing as the main person ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Immoral, perverse and deviant behaviour’

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 468
  The emails and letters to Oireachtas members in advance of the debate on the Civil Partnership Bill continue (#cpbill) Renew as you may remember is the new ‘national’ organisation campaigning for lots of ‘down with that sort of thing’ vigour. It would seem however that many of their emails landed in the ...
  3 days ago

• Instability ahead in Northern Ireland

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Dissident republican violence has the potential to set off a chain reaction that will strain the current political compromise Can the dissident republicans repeat the provisional IRA campaign? The answer, happily, is no. But they do have a purchase on events in Northern Ireland. Their activities serve to intensify ...
  4 days ago

• Harry McGee on Twitter: Nothing to see here.

  
  Tuppenceworth.ie blog — Authority: 100
  Harry McGee is the hot young thing of the Irish Times political reporting staff. Having proved his thrilling modernity by running a blog while working for the Examiner, he moved to the Times and was one of their founding Politics bloggers . He lists amongst his interests on his new site ‘New Media and ...
  4 days ago

• Pick a number… any number…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has indicated that he will use the 11.9 per cent pay cut private sector workers have already taken as a benchmark for public sector pay cuts, the Sunday Independent has learned. But not just any private sector workers… On Friday, the CSO published a report which showed that ...
  5 days ago

• The wisdom of ages…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Commenting on Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s much-discussed pledge to deliver cuts of €4bn in the Budget, Mr O’Leary said: “I’ve been asked if I were Minister for Finance, what I would do to reduce costs by €4bn. I wouldn’t reduce them by €4bn. I’d reduce them by €20bn in one year. I would ...
  5 days ago

• Northern Ireland: first minister vows not to abandon assembly

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Peter Robinson warns Sinn Féin that policing and justice row threatens devolution Northern Irelands first minister vowed yesterday not to walk away from the Assembly, even if the row with Sinn Féin over policing and justice remains unresolved. But Peter Robinson warned Sinn Féin that its threats to the assemblys ...
  5 days ago

• The Strike on Tuesday

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Earlier in the week Woodvale asked whether the CLR would have coverage of the strike on Tuesday. Got to admit first off I was thinking… hmmm… now how would that work. But, it’s actually a great idea. So on Tuesday I’ll just leave an open thread so that anyone who is picketing (I’ll be doing so in the ...
  6 days ago

• Huh? What’s that the CSO says about earnings? Seems a bit off message.

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Figures, released today from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), reveal … …hourly earnings including irregular bonuses rose 4.2 per cent from €20.35 to €21.20 per hour in the second quarter of this year. Hourly earnings including irregular bonuses in the financial sector fell by 11.9 per cent, from ...
  1 week ago

• Calling all stations… the Cedar Lounge and its political stance

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Okay, time for some solipsistic reflection so apologies in advance. On the other hand for those who post and comment or just visit here and for whom it provides a bit of entertainment or even better some utility perhaps it’s good every once in a while to explain what’s going on and why. The discussion on the ...
  1 week ago

• This weeks postings on the Irish Election Literature Blog…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Thanks again to AK for the following: For me [writes AK] two entries in particular stand out A Socialist Labour Party Recruitment Leaflet which I’m sure will be of interest to many. “Politicians on the Fiddle:Vote Them Out.” from the ‘Campaign for Honesty in Politics’ 1991 local elections. It gives a ...
  1 week ago

• Civil Partnership – All aboard in early December?

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 468
  Catching up on Civil Partnership related news… Confirmed in a question to An Taoiseach on Tuesday by Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party. Note the dig by Dermot Ahern. Deputy Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach have an update on when the civil partnership Bill will be before the House? The ...
  1 week ago

• More political material from Roscommon Historical Research.

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 437
  Another and very welcome addition to the world of Irish political ephemera is the Roscommon Historical Research website available here : Liam Byrne the webmaster has amassed a range of materials not merely political but more broadly about Roscommon and its history. It’s another resource. There are posters, ...
  1 week ago

• Putting the ‘Workable’ Back into the Economy: The Recession Diaries - November 19th

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 433
  One could despair. All the major political parties are supporting another round of fiscal contraction, though they may differ on the balance of tax increases and public spending cuts. In this respect, Fianna Fail has won that particular battle, we are just fighting within the parameters they have set. There is ...
  1 week ago

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