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Too Old For The Playground, Too Young For The Pub.

In #rabble2, Culture, Interviews, Politics, Print Editionby redmonk2 Comments

Too often young people’s behaviour is rubber-stamped by the media and local authorities as ‘anti-social’. Redmonk talks to a bunch of teenagers in Blanchardstown and finds that they are struggling with the internalisation of their own demonisation. By being force-fed the phrase ‘anti-social behaviour’ they now believe this phrase exclusively applies to youth.

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{Clubbing} Stop, I’m Hungry for Italo.

In #rabble2, Print Editionby Kenny Hanlon1 Comment

Since it’s inception over 5 years ago Lunar Disko, a monthly club night ran by Andy Doyle and Barry Donovan, has placed Italo Disco as one of the main reference points in their music policy. So how has this quirky European off-shoot of late 70s Disco come to find a home in the Irish capital? Kenny Hanlon’s our tour guide through it’s history.

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{Movements} Process Not Protest – rabble Looks at #OccupyDameStreet and The Spectacle of Defiance

In #rabble2, Interviews, Politics, Print Editionby Julian Brophy3 Comments

Drums beat deeply all around me as people congregate for The Spectacle of Defiance and Hope. Face-painted and costume-clad performers run through carefully crafted renditions, eager children hold large replica tombstones above their heads bearing the names of the community projects they are defending. Julian Brophy reports from The Spectacle of Defiance.