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Stewart Smyth looks at Roddy Doyle’s new film Rosie, arguing the movie sheds light on the reality of Ireland’s ever-deteriorating housing crisis. Another week in La La Land, or what is more commonly referred to as the official response to the housing crisis in Ireland. The huge
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October 3rd saw ten thousand march through the streets of Dublin, protesting the housing policies that have created a crisis. In his latest piece for Rebel, Dr Stewart Smyth looks at how problematic policies have left more homeless and with less opportunity to find housing. Late 2018 will be remembered
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In the wake of the heavy handed eviction of housing activists in Dublin, Stewart Smyth labels the move by masked gardaí as an own goal and lays out the socialist solution to the housing crisis. In many long running campaigns, a single event can capture the essence of the issue,
68' Legacies
50 years after the civil rights movements in the North and the US, Dr Stewart Smyth reviews the one off RTÉ special ‘1968: The Long March’ and analyses the particular narrative of the civil rights marches that s presented. The RTE documentary drawing parallels between the US Civil Rights marches