So interesting finding the revolutionary generation in the 1926 Census.
Dorothy Macardle and Rosamond Jacob's Herbert Place flat is in this return. Dorothy lists herself as 'Free Thinker', Rosamond as 'Belongs to no religious sect.'
nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
But I think it's a sharper divide than that. The interests of certain groups in rural areas are given more importance than anything else. Just last yr the government prioritized International commodity exports over clean drinking water for the majority
In the 60s, the impetus to deal with slums was so great that families were being moved out of places like this into new council houses outside town before the electricity was connected up. Now, our leaders and managers having forgotten shame, there is no impetus left.
I think it's just bloodless, time-poor reporting rather than revisionism, but where the question of non-jury trials at the Special Criminal Court are concerned, we would all do well to remember our history.
Swarming Special Branch detectives stopped the three on trial for the kidnap of Tiede Herrema getting away, but Michael O'Rourke, a fourth republican prisoner, was only extradited from America years later. (So it's all sounding pretty well precedented to me.)
www.nytimes.com/1979/11/04/a...
It would be good if we banned the word "unprecedented" in news reporting unless followed by the word "since". The Provisional IRA succeeded in smuggling explosives into Green Street Courthouse in 1976 and blowing a hole in the wall.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
I could write a piece for Sunday Miscellany on the resonance on that theme tune
If the state can demand that level of flex from people in education it shouldn't have much trouble managing a mobile workforce to staff all these creches.
Call me crazy here -- but it is a matter of public record that the Dept of Education has been prepared to sanction SNA roles amounting to as little as 0.2 FTE (one day a week).
Sounds a lot like the private sector not agile enough to get the job done. Since the burden of returning a profit is suppressing availability of childcare, the state should step in and establish a service to staff them.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Imagine if you will a political action group so reactionary and sadistic that it was set up with the sole aim of forcing people to experience *Roscommon* without a protective cushion of mind altering drugs.
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Honorable mention to the Luas staff at Smithfield wrongly telling passengers to go out to the quays for buses which aren't running, and the RTPI panels saying tickets are being honoured by Dublin Bus (which, I emphasize, has no bloody buses running)
The abject failure to nip this in the bud has resulted in the security operation acting as a force multiplier for the blockaders.
The final leg of a pretty miserable journey back to Dublin from the west trying to navigate the blockades in a car leaking coolant capped off with an hour's hike across town with luggage because the buses and trams are all stopped for no discernable reason.
despite half a billion committed to caving in to their demands, the protesters are still blocking the roads
Just met a blockade at on the N4 at Dromod. No garda presence, as usual.
Presumably there will be a package of reliefs for people who are out of pocket from booking hotels and transport and other costs to attend these ceremonies right?
And the protesters will support this because those are mostly working people right?
Automatic transmissions sounds a bit frou-frou to me...
absolutely terrible precedent
Learning today that its middle class to use a ~€500 bicycle but working class to own multiple ~€20'000 hauliers
I feel like explicit death threats from motorists against cyclists should be taken very seriously considering how regularly motorists kill cyclists in this country. I think we need to start asking what role malice may be playing in some supposed accidents #spéirgorm
Struggling to understand this person's logic of idling a tractor engine on O'Connell Street because of high diesel prices
I have my doubts about the likelihood the blockade might be cleared in time for rush hour in view of the lorrying of pints
Separately -- there was a lengthy queue for fuel at the cheapest service station in the D7 area when I passed earlier.
Few enough protesters watching over their machines on O'Connell Street this evening, apart from thiae standing in a pub doors guzzling pints. A suitably motivated militant cyclist would have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever with a bag of lentils.
Friday’s Cork Echo: Fuel supply shortage #TomorrowsPapersToday
