Features
In September, the British Government announced they were pulling the plug on the funding needed to rebuild Casement Park as a venue for the 2028 European Championships. Now that the dust has settled on that decision, and as Casement continues to wither, Somhairle Mag Uidhir discusses the competing visions for
Features
Eamon Ryan announced his retirement this week and a leadership context to replace him is under way. Owen McCormack assesses Ryan’s significant service to the neoliberal State and argues that the Green Party’s coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has been a disaster for the climate movement.
Features
László Molnarfi was elected president of Trinity College Students’ Union this year after campaigning on a radical left platform. We interview him here about the issues facing students, the growing politicisation among young people, and the possibilities of campaigning for radical change. You were elected President of TCDSU last year
News
In March, four major banks failed. Brian O’Boyle looks at why this happened and assesses the risk of further instability in the global banking system. Warren Buffet famously quipped that “it is only when the tide goes out that we find out who has been swimming naked”. Chair of
Ecosocialism
Bríd Smith TD explains why buying carbon credits for missing targets is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ireland’s climate action fraud. The news that Ireland will buy carbon credits worth up to €3 million from Slovakia to make up for missing targets in 2021
Covid-19
Ireland was one of the most unequal societies in Europe when the pandemic began. A year later, Brian O’Boyle highlights how the Irish government’s response has widened those inequalities, and it is only through workers organising that these trends can be reversed. The crisis associated with Covid 19
Covid-19
2021 has started out with Ireland, north and south, being in its worst position since the pandemic began. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin takes both governments to task for their Covid response, arguing that it has been nothing short of neoliberal catastrophe. We have entered the year 2021 in total disaster. Ireland
Features
In the first of two articles in the run-up to new Bolivian elections on October 18, Mike Gonzalez analyses the mass movements of 2000-2005 which led to Evo Morales becoming the country’s first indigenous president – and the right-wing coup which ousted him late last year. Bolivia