Before downloads and smartphones, back when club culture looked forward and the Celtic Tiger was roaring drunk after a rugby match in Temple Bar, you had to get your musical fix by tuning into stations like Power Fm. This short profile is taken from Sampler, a short lived (but loved) sort of counter-cultural collage show on Bog 2. It gained some notoriety for broadcasting footage from the RTS riots. And … Read More
Frankfurt’s Way
Below is the email from the Labour parliamentary party to it’s councillors on the IBRC legislation rushed through without reading last night. “Farewell to Anglo! Last night’s legislation brings an end to Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society. These two institutions, names that will live on in ignominy, are forever associated with the recklessness and greed of a tiny clique that brought this country to the edge … Read More
No communion for “culture of death” TDs!
“As long as (a Catholic politican) continues to support legislation which fosters abortion or other intrinsic evils, then he should be refused holy communion.” So says Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke (pictured). The Cardinal is one of the big frocks in the Vatican and had sent a raven to Hibernia with a message for the local bishops to “teach clearly in the matter” and should encourage his priests to make sure that … Read More
Revolution once again?
Chokri Belaid shot dead in Tunis. The prominent opposition politician Chokri Belaid was shot once in the chest and once in the head in an assassination style killing yesterday. Paris24 news reports that he had received anonymous death threats recently. A prominent opponent of the moderate islamist ruling party, Ennahda, he was the co-ordinator of the leftist Democratic Patriots party which is amongst the opposition groups that counter the ruling … Read More
State Collusion
A photograph that indicts the pillars of church and state as well as the very foundations of our society. Magdalene Laundry ‘inmates’ in a religious procession flanked by Gardaí. The scene is from Gloucester St., Dublin in 1960. The Gardaí should have been arresting the religious figures here not aiding and abetting their horrific crimes. The women who were tortured and enslaved in these institutions and have passed away are … Read More
Irish Slavery
Your reporter was out for an Indian last evening with a few boyos of this parish. UPDATE: Mohammed Younis & MRCI have been awarded SOLIDAR Silver Rose 2013, the first Irish based award winners. As we munched our way through bhajis and vindaloos and sank our icy cobras we couldn’t fail to notice the extended family at the next table celebrating a birthday with bags from Brown Thomas and iPhones and … Read More
Reilly couldn’t give a f*ck
He really doesn’t care what you think. Almost as though he is modelling himself on Brendan Grace’s frightful character, Father Stack, Reilly seems to genuinely not give a flying fuck as long as he has his fun. Here’s a beautiful letter he wrote to the people of Roscommon prior to the last election…and prior to his closing the hospital’s A&E Department. For more great political leaflets, letters and posters visit … Read More
Should we all be racist now Father?
If it wasn’t passed around as fact it would be laughable. The Jerusalem Post is carrying a story which furthers Ireland’s reputation as the world leader in anti-semitic hate. Yeah, and here was us thinking it was the Chinese that Ted wanted us to hate. A bizarre attack on Caherciveen and Ireland by Sarah Honig (see here), a political analyst for many decades of the Jerusalem Post, begins by positing … Read More
Free Wi-Fi in Dublin
Dublin City Council has begun rolling out free public Wi-Fi access in a dozen sites across the capital. They are : Smithfield Square Barnardo’s Square Clarendon Street St. Patrick’s Park O’Connell Street Plaza / GPO Temple Bar Square Wolfe Tone Square Frontage to the Convention Centre Dublin Merrion Square Henry Street Grafton Street Outdoor amphitheatre located at Civic Offices. We’d like to hear from rabble out there what they think … Read More
Ming attacks Garda corruption
‘A vindictive action by, I believe, a corrupt police force’ – TD Luke Ming Flanagan gives his view of the leaking by Gardaí of TD Clare Daly’s arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence. Ming was appearing on the Tonight with Vincent Browne show on TV3, last night (Tuesday 29th Jan ’13). He went on to severely criticize the Ombudsman’s office and the system for investigating complaints against individual … Read More