24th October 2001
A FEW Saturdays ago I sat down around lunchtime to have a bite. I switched on the telly to have a quick look and was confronted by the Labour Party annual conference. Continue reading “The Labour coalition plan five years late”
Tag: politics
26th September 2001
SINCE the attack on the Twin Towers 15 days ago some 360,000 people have died of hunger. Over 800 million people are hungry on a day to day basis. Continue reading “Twin Towers coverage totally over the top”
19th September 2001
PERHAPS by the time you read this I will have woken up and it will all have been a dream. None of it will have really happened. Continue reading “Twin Towers – The world comes to meet us”
12th September 2001
LOOKING back it often seems that the course of history follows a straight line – that we came to where we are today by an inevitable series of events. Continue reading “People should listen to John Waters”
27th June 2001
BETTER you had murdered your mother with a meat cleaver than to be guilty of hypocrisy. There is no greater crime in modernity than to be caught in a conflict between opinion and action. Continue reading “A little hyprocrisy is a good thing”
25th April 2001
We’re halfway between Easter Week and May 1st, as good a time as any to ponder the health of Irish socialism. More like to wonder whether socialism exists at all and whether it has any future. Continue reading “Is there a future for Socialism?”
11th April 2001
ECONOMY of scale has led to a huge amount of the alienation that is haunting modern Irish life. Continue reading “The State needs to get out into the community”
14th February 2001
YOU lie down with dogs – you get up with fleas. I had as much populist contempt for politicians as anyone until I became a reporter. Continue reading “Why you should love your local TD”
19th May 2000
I’M absolutely fed up with people moralising on and on about the revelations coming from the tribunals as if the rest of us were more pure than the politicians. Continue reading “Corruption? Give me a break”
14th April 2000
So Charlie McCreevey reckons that anyone that doesn’t agree with his policies is a ‘pinko leftie’. Continue reading “Right wing claims of success are rubbish”
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