Features
Unimaginable horrors are being inflicted on Gaza by the Israeli State, supported by Western imperialism. In the first of two articles on Palestine, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at how the ground was prepared for this genocidal attack. “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin discusses Patrick Costello’s call to make July the 12th a public holiday in the South, arguing that the shallow form of unity being pushed by the establishment will not help us to overcome sectarianism. On Monday, Green Party TD Patrick Costello issued a statement calling for
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The RTÉ payments scandal has provoked widespread outrage. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin warns of how the Government could use the opportunity to gut RTÉ, and argues that we need to fight for a proper Public Service Broadcaster worthy of the name. The RTÉ dumpster fire continues to blaze. The spark that
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Sinn Féin spokesperson for Housing Eoin Ó Broin was on the receiving end of an establishment backlash last weekend after he tweeted out an artist’s impression of Gardaí overseeing an eviction. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explains how this is part of a larger effort to discipline Sinn Féin and soften
Ecosocialism
The Irish Government survived a vote of confidence today, two days ahead of the lifting of the eviction ban. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the record of the Green Party and how they have kept this landlord Government going. When the Green Party were on the brink of entering coalition
Ecosocialism
Who fears a Left Government? Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin explores the media meltdown that heralded the arrival of People Before Profit’s new pamphlet. In 1996 BBC journalist Andrew Marr interviewed Noam Chomsky about his theory of the media, Manufacturing Consent. Among other things, Chomsky spoke about the role of the
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In the wake of recent attacks on migrants, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that we need to counter the far right on the streets in order to defeat it. The attack on a camp in Ashtown shows us the new dangers we are facing in the wake of recent racist agitation
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Horrific scenes at the Melilla border with Morocco cast a sharp light on how the EU works with other regimes to crack down on migrants. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the funding, training and support the EU provides in order manage migration. Last week in the Dáil, Paul Murphy TD
News
People Before Profit introduced a bill to the Dáil today for a referendum to enshrine Irish neutrality in the Constitution. The Irish government will vote against it, despite the of calls Fine Gael in particular for “mature debate” on the issue. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes a look at why this
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As Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine continues, the US, EU and UK have begun introducing harsh sanctions on Russia. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin looks at the aim and impact of these sanctions and makes the case that they ought to be opposed on the basis that they will hurt ordinary
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The Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Green Party government’s new carbon budgets will soon be passed by the Dáil. These budgets map out how they plan to reduce carbon emissions over the coming decade. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues, these proposals are totally lacking in ambition and will leave
Covid-19
After months of pressure, the Irish government recently announced travel quarantine measures. However, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues they fall far short of what’s required, another example of the government putting the wealthy first. At the end of January 2020, US president Donald Trump declared a ban on all foreign