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As Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael eye up potential coalition partners, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that a difficult election for the left will not necessarily mean an easy few years for the parties of the status quo. After Friday’s General Election which sees Fianna Fáil (48 seats) and Fine
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Housing remains one of the top issues in this general election. Here Stewart Smyth exposes the government’s spin and myths about the housing crisis and argues that another housing system is possible. In a stale and social media driven election campaign, where the mainstream candidates are mollycoddled by the
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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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With the general election campaign underway, and one poll recording a rise in popularity for independent candidates, Darryl Horan explores the political basis of this diverse grouping and whether they really provide a more accountable alternative. Independents are often seen – by some sections of the left and the right – as
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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
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Goretti Horgan explains how decades of underfunding and creeping privatisation has undermined the once treasured NHS. During the COVID crisis, People before Profit and others initiated a campaign for an All-Ireland NHS. The reasoning was simple: Covid-19 plunged the health and social care systems, north and south of
Ecosocialism
With a landmark surplus at their disposal the government have failed to make transformational change to fight the housing and healthcare crisis. Kieran Allen looks at what’s really in Budget 2025 and whether or not this will buy the election for the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. ‘Do you
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As construction workers across the country take strike action, Andrew Keegan and John Whipple explain what the dispute is about and why it is important that other workers support the action. Unite the Union (Ireland) has served a strike notice to the Mechanical Engineering and Building Services Contracting Association (MEBSCA)
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Below the surface of the Irish political establishment is a deep-seated anti-imperialism that is best represented at cultural events like Electric Picnic. The ruling class are terrified of it. If Electric Picnic is a barometer of the culture of Irish society, then the political establishment are in trouble.
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues that racism of the far right is also picked up by the political mainstream, which makes a clear anti-racist opposition to it all the more urgent. A week ago, the Irish Times reported that “Former Ku Klux Klan ‘grand dragon’ is mentoring Irish far-right
68' Legacies
Jenny Maguire, SU President of Trinity College Dublin, argues that neither students’ nor workers’ unions can be apolitical. That in order to actually affect change, our unions need to be more bold and more radical not less. The student movement, as said by my predecessor Lászlo Molnarfi, ‘woke up’[1]
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Chris Beausang, writer and socialist activist, revisits the politics of the signatories to the 1916 proclamation highlighting the sharp differences between Connolly’s revolutionary socialism and the nationalism of Pearse and others. In Easter 1916 over one thousand members of the IrishVolunteers and Irish Citizen Army seized a number of