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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,
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John Molyneux examines how a corporate agenda is seeking to hijack equality, and how real equality can actually be won. ‘I believe in equality’ said Leo Varadkar when he was supporting Josepha Madigan in her spat with the Archbishop over the right of women to be priests. Obviously we can
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Leo Varadkar wants to portray Fine Gael as the face of liberalism in Irish politics. But as Barney Doherty explains, he would rather you didn’t know about his party’s shady origins on the far-right of the political spectrum. Fine Gael’s new leadership have invested heavily trying
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In the wake of the landslide vote to Repeal, Kieran Allen looks at how the vote was won and what else can be achieved by people power in ‘conservative’ Ireland. The huge Yes vote to repeal the 8th Amendment has finally put an end to the myth that the Irish
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Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have benefited from some recovery in the polls, but as the confidence and supply arrangement appears to be coming to an end, Brian O’Boyle asks, can the centre hold? Delivering his budget speech in 2017, the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donoghue, stated that “those
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Kieran Allen dissects Leo Varadkar’s new-found liberalism Dressed immaculately, Leo Varadkar recently joined a Repeal canvass in his Dublin West constituency as a plain individual citizen. Yet two years previously he gave a very different response to a journalist in the same constituency. Here is her report: ‘On