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The Irish government has been pushing hard to undermine the traditional policy of Irish neutrality. Maurice Coakley analyses the global context of a new multi-polar world, arguing that it is more important than ever to defend neutrality. The end of the Cold War brought about by the collapse of
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Hundreds of people turned up at Cork City Library on Friday to stand in solidarity with library workers who have been targeted, abused and harassed by far-right agitators. Darragh Adelaide reports on the day and its significance in the wider fight against the far-right. Protestors turned out in
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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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A stacked, one-sided panel discussed the issue of Cyber Security at the Government’s Consultative Forum on Security Policy. As Ruairí Fahy outlines, the make-up of the panel meant that important viewpoints were not heard and the conclusions that can be drawn from it are highly limited. The
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The loss of hundreds of lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece last week has been met with sorrowful words from European leaders. But as Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Amanda Danson Brown explain, this disaster happened by design – it was created by the EU’s Fortress Europe policies.
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As people around the world celebrate World Refugee Day, Memet Uludağ looks at the global picture for refugees around the world. A 2015 Guardian headline said, “Record number of migrants expected to drown in Mediterranean this year”. The article explained, “in the first quarter of 2015, nearly 500 migrants have
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A €1.2 billion fine against Meta has been upheld by the Court of Justice of the EU. Kieran Allen explains how the Irish Data Protection Commissioner fought tooth and nail to stop this happening. In recent months there have been a series of news reports indicating that the Irish
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As people across the North prepare to go to the polls tomorrow, Alexandra Day takes stock of a rotten Tory budget that has faced little or no resistance from the big parties, arguing that it’s time to strike back with People Before Profit. The Tory budget – cuts upon cuts
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The outbreak of conflict in Sudan has provoked little sympathy for the Sudanese people from the EU. Instead, efforts have focused simply on evacuating European citizens. But as Muiz Hajaz explains, imperialist powers have a significant hand in the misery being inflicted on the Sudanese people they care so little
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The Dáil has agreed to mobilise an Irish Navy vessel in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Irini, whose main stated purpose is to uphold an arms embargo on Libya. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Niamh Keady-Tabbal explain, Operation Irini is also part of the EU’s Fortress
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Israeli protests against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms have been going on for weeks. Tom O’Connor looks at the nature of the protests and what they might mean for the Apartheid State of Israel. Should we support the anti-Government protests in Israel? The short answer is no. The protests
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As Irish war hawks seek to use the Sudanese crisis to argue for a bigger military force, Kieran Allen looks at how the EU funded the warlords who crushed the Sudanese revolution and are now facing off against one another. The mainstream media is running a story about how the