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Jason ‘Political Blogger’ O’Mahony on the Inspireland Podcast

September 2, 2014 No Comments

This is a very listen-able interview with Jason O’Mahoney. Sample: The thing that attracted me to the PDs [Progressive Democrats] was that they were the first non-socialist party to talk about a secular Ireland, the idea that you didn’t have to be Catholic to be Irish. I’m old enough to remember the Guards raiding the […]

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History Politics

Dammit, Nancy

August 26, 2014 No Comments

This is an interesting little piece on the late Albert Reynolds and the 1994 IRA ceasefire. One last minute problem arose when the US refused Joe Cahill a visa. No visa, no Cahill in the States “conveying the news to the IRA’s long-time American supporters “in person””, and no ceasefire: Reynolds told me he spent […]

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History Politics Society

Why Ireland became the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion

August 26, 2014 No Comments

The Irish Responsible Society, of which five key PLAC leaders were members, was the Irish branch of the group led by the English right-wing Catholic activist Valerie Riches (now a papal dame). For Riches, the degeneration of society through sexual permissiveness was a conspiracy driven by International Planned Parenthood. She and her Irish followers were especially […]

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Ruairi Quinn TD at the Irish Labour History Museum, Beggar's Bush, Dublin. (The Labour Party / Flickr)

Politics Popcorn Time

Quinn calls it quits

July 2, 2014 No Comments

Ruairi Quinn resigns: The Minister for Education and Skills made a statement outside Leinster House this afternoon, outlining his plans for the future. The move comes ahead of a Cabinet reshuffle, planned for next week. He said that he will leave Cabinet on the day of the reshuffle. He also confirmed that he will not […]

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Middle East Politics War

Iran’s useful idiot…

June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 No Comments

Lara Marlowe in the Times: Iran opposed the 2003 invasion, saying it was immoral and illegal. But it brought Tehran’s proteges to power and gave Iran more influence than Washington in Baghdad. “The US fulfilled our goals for us,” says Hossein Sheikholeslam, a veteran Iranian diplomat and foreign-policy adviser to the Iranian parliamentary speaker. “No […]

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Bits & Bobs Politics

Today, it’s Ice-Cream Vans

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 No Comments

Or Senator would like to get in the news, please, and doesn’t really care how (“Senator wants to clamp down on ice-cream vans for ‘aggressive selling’ | BreakingNews.ie.”). The issue is questionable, but some of the comments are good: Phew, this is great news! It means that they have now solved all the big problems […]

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Delorean Moments History Politics

John Gormley’s lessons from Governments past…

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 No Comments

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green Party leadership, wrote a prescient article in the Village magazine around this time last year. In it, he listed some rules and lessons he’d learned the hard way during the Green Party’s term in government that led to […]

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Europe Politics

What does it mean? – The Aftermath

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 No Comments

The most annoying thing about most of the commentary about the European elections is that it is dominated (as usual) by people who are only interested in elections, and entirely uninterested in what is actually going on — and what in the long run it might mean for society. John Naughton hits the proverbial nail […]

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Politics

Gilmore to Go?

May 26, 2014 No Comments

On air on RTE 1 TV at 3.55 with what we expect will be Eamonn Gilmore's statement of resignation as Labour Party leader — Bryan Dobson (@bryansixone) May 26, 2014 And the twitterverse is like:

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People Politics

Some Neck – Miriam Lord on Shatter, The Irish Times – Fri, May 23, 2014

May 24, 2014May 24, 2014 No Comments

Shatter does it his way, indeed: Alan declared it would be appropriate “to mark the fact that ministerial surveillance, eh, ministerial . . . em, eh, er, whatever it is.” “Severance! Severance!” cried the hacks, in gleeful assistance ‘‘. . . eh, severance, ministerial severance is no longer payable.” Then, scarcely able to contain his […]

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Jason ‘Political Blogger’ O’Mahony on the Inspireland Podcast

Dammit, Nancy

Why Ireland became the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion

Quinn calls it quits

Iran’s useful idiot…

Today, it’s Ice-Cream Vans

John Gormley’s lessons from Governments past…

What does it mean? – The Aftermath

Gilmore to Go?

Some Neck – Miriam Lord on Shatter, The Irish Times – Fri, May 23, 2014

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