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Kieran Allen assesses Monday night’s RTÉ leaders’ debate and argues for a fighting left that refuses to be a prop for the establishment parties. RTÉ’s ten leader debate on Monday night was a slightly bizarre affair. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leaders were placed just beside the compère,
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Cian Prendiville reviews ‘A Very British Coup’, the Channel 4 series based on the book by Chris Mullin. Available to watch online on the Channel 4 website & app. Book by Chris Mullin also available. Also on audiobook. Earlier this year Varadkar accused PBP of advocating a ‘bonkers conspiracy theory’
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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What were they thinking? Eighty-one figures from the political, banking and judicial establishment were present at an Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in Clifden in blatant breach of the public health rules. One man staying in the hotel who had spotted the dinner told RTÉ Radio that he remarked to