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Halloween Treasure Hunt to visit homes of Bernard McNamara, Dermot Gleeson and others - press release
Date: Thu, 2010-10-28 16:49
“Brian Lenihan might claim that there is no pot of gold to be had from the wealthy. We intend to show him otherwise” - Gregor Kerr, 1% Network spokesperson
The 1% Network has announced details of the route of its Halloween Treasure Hunt, due to take place on Saturday evening, 30th October. Among the venues which the event will visit are the homes of well-known developer Bernard McNamara and former AIB chairman Dermot Gleeson.
€15 billion of cuts not necessary if wealthy made to pay their share
Date: Thu, 2010-10-28 16:43
Announcing their support for Saturday’s 1% Network ‘Halloween Treasure Hunt’, anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has said that the government’s proposed €15 billion of cuts would not be necessary if the wealthy were “made to pay their share.”
Benefit Table Quiz
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:35
Table Quiz to help defray legal costs of Mary Kelly, who took action against US war planes at Shannon airport.
Spailpin Fanach, South Main Street, Cork 8pm
Organised by the Independent Workers Union
Cork: Kropotkin the Anarchist Prince - Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:31
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books
Number 6
Kropotkin the Anarchist Prince
Jim McLaughlin who has taught political and social geography for many years will deliver this talk on the thought of this extremely groundbreaking thinker.
8pm Solidarity Books 43 Douglas Street, Cork
Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:20
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books
Number 4
Labour Militancy 1917-1923 Conor Kostick
Conor Kostick will speak on the subject of his ground breaking book, Revolution in Ireland , Popular Militancy 1917-1923. The book has been republished by Cork University Press this year. Conor lectures in history in Trinity and is aformer editor of Socialist Worker.
8pm Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Cork
Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:14
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books Cork
Number 3
The Spainish Revolution James O'Brien
8pm Solidarity Books , 43 Douglas Street Cork
Figures show 33,000 Irish millionaires still own assets worth €121 billion - Yes there is a pot of gold!
Date: Tue, 2010-10-26 13:27
Confirmation that a large amount of wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of Irish people has come from an analysis of figures by Tom O’Connor, Lecturer in Economics in Cork Institute of Technology. O’Connor has analysed the figures contained in the Bank of Ireland’s ‘Wealth of the Nation’ report which stated that there were 33,000 millionaires in Ireland in 2006. The total ‘net worth’ of these individuals (i.e. excluding the value of their principal residences and allowing for any borrowings) in 2006 was €156.21 billion.
Customs seize 1200 deliveries of abortion drugs for desperate women
Date: Tue, 2010-10-26 12:44
Through a 'Freedom of information' request the pro-choice campaigning group Choice Ireland have revealed that over a thousand desperate women were denied an abortion last year because customs seized the medicine that they had ordered over the internet. In many cases these women were unable to travel to Britain because of poverty or because they were immigrants who felt unable to risk leaving Ireland lest they be refused readmission.
Beware the Zombie Developers and Vampire Bankers. Beware the myth that the wealth has disappeared!
Date: Tue, 2010-10-26 11:08
Zombie developers….. Vampire bankers….. Ghost estate creators….. Black holes that swallow tens of billions of Euros…. They sound like characters from a particularly eerie Hallowe’en tale of horrors. However while they might be spooky, there’s nothing fictional about this array of characters. They stalked our land during the era of the recently-departed Celtic Tiger. But now they’ve gone to ground. They’ve disappeared, they would have us believe. And if they themselves haven’t actually physically disappeared, then their wealth most definitely has.
Winter Talks Underway at Solidarity Books, Cork
Date: Fri, 2010-10-22 11:26
The first in a series of ‘Winter Talks’ organised by Solidarity Books in Cork took place last Tuesday night and was a big success. Donal O’Drisceoil, the historian from UCC, introduced the ‘forgotten’ figure of Tadhg Barry who, as he pointed out in his introduction, had the largest funeral ever in Cork when his body was returned to the city following his death in 1921; Barry had died in suspicious circumstances at the Ballykindlar internment camp in Co. Down shortly before the Treaty was signed.