Provincial papers often provide fodder for magazine sections like The Phoenix’s Bog Cuttings. Apart from the reports of Nazi saluting drunks, men watering their horses and glass bottle fights; one thing that always stuns this rabbler is the court reports around drugs in his home town. Last Sunday Jim Cusak, a Sindo journalist published an article saying the state has lost the war on drugs. This was apparently based on the … Read More
Clare Daly’s Amended Bill
Clare Daly’s Medical Treatment Bill arrived today. Read it at the following link. It will be voted on next Wednesday coinciding with a protest outside the Dáil. Also see below the voting as it proceeded on Daly’s earlier unamended Bill in April. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [PMB] Follow the leap here for the voting record…
WalMart’s Black Friday
Some great posters going up on this Tumblr to celebrate the mass strike and labour movement against America’s greatest exploiter Wal-Mart. A little bit more about the Black Friday Strikes here
J007bridge
You thought JobBridge was a terrible scam? This rather suspect position was posted on the British equivalent….
Nice work boys!
The reputation of the NYPD, which traditionally has been less than stellar and suffered a tarnishing in the eyes of the world for the false arrests and violent treatment of thousands of Occupy supporters, has taken another dive. While looking for a killer of three people the NYPD released a template sketch of a black man with sunglasses. Salvatore Perrone, a 64 yr old, balding, mustachioed man of Italian extraction … Read More
Slaves to Love
Today in the slavery capital of the middle-east an Irishman and his English girlfriend have been sentenced to three months in jail, deportation and a fine of over €600 each. Their crime? Well on the word of a taxi driver with whom they had an argument over a fare, the couple are accused of having sex in the back of a taxi and being drunk. Conor McRedmond from Tullamore and … Read More
rabble Reels: Larry Levan
Okay, so this starts fairly slow and wanky. But let it go and you are in for a deadly history of some of the highs and lows of disco.
Any of you received this automated call?
This automated call has been doing the rounds over the last 48 hours. Looks like someone in the pro-life movement is getting scared. That’s democracy for ya!! Courtesy of our friends over on Shit Youth Defence Say this is a recording of an unsolicited automated message that has been doing the rounds in the last 48 hours. It’s the type of garbled yes speak the government referendum commission would be proud of. Churning … Read More
#rabbleRaker: Ireland’s Greatest Cover-Up?
What happened on the night of 8th July 1985 and is it still being covered up? At a meeting of the Oireachtas Justice Committee, convened to hear the views of Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan on all aspects of crime, TD Finian McGrath tried to raise the case of Fr.Niall Molloy. He was ruled out of order by chair David Stanton (FG TD Cork East). The committee went into closed … Read More
Pro Choice Rally
A large crowd estimated at 2,000 gathered outside the Dáil this evening to protest the tardiness of Ireland’s legislation on abortion availability in light of the tragic case of Savita Halappanavar. Speakers from the public sphere such as Clare Daly called for action to applause and shouts of ‘Never Again’ while private individuals such as Siùsaidh Laoidhigh told their own personal tales to a rapt crowd. The stage demanded that all come … Read More