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With counting just finishing in the local elections, Kieran Allen analyses the results arguing that the establishment has used anti-immigrant rhetoric to shore up FF/FG votes. Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s decline is a direct result of their long-march to the centre ground strategy and an inability to
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Housing is the number one issue in these elections. Stewart Smyth argues that the local elections represent an opportunity to put campaigners in council chambers and evict Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The housing crisis remains the central issue for most voters. Housing is consistently the number one issue for
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The Irish Government recognised the State of Palestine yesterday. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that the move is a cynical one, designed to appease a persistent solidarity movement with symbolic actions of little substance. Yesterday, Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, recognised the State of Palestine in what was described in
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The Irish Government is gearing up to have Ireland opt into the new EU Asylum and Migration Pact. Niaṁ Ní Mháille explains the pact and the grave consequences it is likely to have on those seeking asylum. On 27 March 2024, the Department of Justice announced that Minister Helen McEntee
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin assesses Leo’s legacy and where we go from here. A day after Leo Varadkar’s unexpected resignation, the hagiography around him is already being constructed. “Clear-eyed, decisive politician without the common touch”, reads Harry McGee’s headline in the Irish Times. His coalition partners have
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The new year has opened in much the same vein as the old year, with far right agitators stirring up protests and hatred of migrants across the country. In this article, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin examines what the anti-fascist movement have gotten right and wrong over the past couple of
Ecosocialism
The RTÉ Prime Time documentary on the treatment of calves will have horrified many people, but as Owen McCormack argues, it is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to animal welfare and destructive environmental practices in a profit driven system. On July 10th, Prime Time Investigates showed the
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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
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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
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The Government’s refusal to extend the eviction ban beyond the end of March means thousands of people could face eviction in the coming months. Stewart Smyth argues that they are fighting for their class – so we need to fight for ours. This government is incompetent. I know this is
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Over the past week, the Irish government has indicated that it no longer has space to accommodate any more Ukrainian refugees. But is this really a refugee crisis? Or is the real problem, as Memet Uludağ argues, the abject failure of this government to tackle the housing crisis? Last week