Back in April, rabble reported from a squat eviction protest on Manor St. This morning we received details of another eviction attempt, this time a stones throw and a skip away in the Grangegorman area of D7. The squatters reported that Gardaí arrived down to the row of occupied empties in Lower Grangegorman last Thursday and Friday. The dilapidated houses are in an area that is expecting serious changes as … Read More
Sticking Up For Choice.
Stickers, fly-postering and generally getting creative with a sharpie are Dublin traditions at this stage. Whether it is rival football teams, antifascist sketches, maser designs or penned declarations of teenage love. But a recent wave of feminist activity has got the locals a flutter to the extent that it was even covered by those virtuosos of women’s rights VICE magazine. Aoife Campbell investigates… Women On Web are a non-profit group … Read More
Illicit and Licensed Pleasures.
With Author’s Day hype reaching boiling point, many are quick to draw the line that corporations like Diageo are just legalised dope peddlers. That notion of illicit and licensed pleasures is explored in the work of Fiona Measham, a Professor of Criminology in Durham University and a pioneer of testing club chemicals in the UK. Measham sits on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs across the pond and … Read More
Life and death at Supermac’s door.
A well-known Dublin twitter user (ExecutiveSteve) recounted this tale of his experience outside Ireland’s premier fast food outlet on the country’s capital street. So I tweeted about this late last night when I came home from a lovely evening of music with friends but you were all mostly asleep. Strolling through town on a hot summer night and there’s a man overdosing on heroin right outside Supermac’s on O’Connell street. A syringe … Read More
On The Horizon
Risteard Ó Domhnaill is the director of the award-winning documentary ‘The Pipe’, which memorably captured the nature of the local resistance to the Corrib gas project in north Mayo. His latest venture is ‘On the Horizon’, which looks at the unusual legislative twists and turns that created the conditions for both the Corrib gas controversy and the (to put it mildly) generous terms enjoyed by the oil industry in Ireland. … Read More
rabble Classix: Panti’s Pride Bangers.
The annual Pride march is coming up fast. We’ve left controversy aside for now and asked Panti to do some digital crate digging. She came back to us with this selection of Pride anthems. Her new show All Dolled Up: Restitched runs in the Peacock from July 9th to 20th. 1. I Am What I Am. First up, arguably the mother of all gay Pride anthems, Gloria Gaynor’s … Read More
Shatter’s U-Turn on Asylum Seekers’ Rights
In 1999 Alan Shatter criticised the Department of Justice for it’s ‘disgraceful reputation’ in dealing with refugees and demanded a right to work for asylum seekers. Now he sings a very different tune. Aisling Twomey asks will the real Alan Shatter please stand up? During the passage of the Immigration Act of 1999, questions arose as to the possibility of asylum seekers gaining employment. The Bill was rushed through the … Read More
The Green Line
THE first of a two-part radio documentary about the Irish in London will air on RTÉ Radio 1 this week. The Green Line and The Green Cab are produced by Irish Post journalist Robert Mulhern for RTÉ’s Documentary on One series. Each programme will look at the Irish experience in the English capital through the stories of ordinary people. Speaking about the documentary Mr Mulhern said: “This is a collective story linking a street drinker, boxer, singer, … Read More
Lessons Drawn From Our History
We got mad excited when word got to us that Paddy Lynch and Rory McConville were scribbling away on a graphic novel about the Lock Out. The wait is over and it’s been launched in The Workman’s Club this Thursday. We caught up with the lads for some background on the comic. Oh and to get our Fund:it moving, they’ve thrown in two signed copies of Big Jim with two … Read More
Helping Hands
“Those who need the service will continue to get a service”, Enda Kenny told the Dáil amid fresh calls from all sides for the cuts to Home Help to be reversed. Mr Kenny said that people with an assessed need for help will get it. rabble thought it better to go straight to the source and asked those on the frontline how these cuts were affecting them and those in … Read More