Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Fine Gael
Authoritarianism and the early Irish State
Date: Fri, 2012-12-07 17:22
Fin Dwyer looks at the latter years of Ireland’s first post independence government, which having successfully suppressed political opposition and the workers’ movement, went on to “attack women and enforce their moral and ethical values on wider society”. From the clearing of prostitutes from the Monto and the filling of the Magdalene laundries to the institutionalisation of child abuse, he describes how the state’s close association with the Catholic Church played a decisive role in forming attitudes to women and sex that have had a devastating effect on Irish society that can still be felt today.
Cringe Hard as Leo and Simon Try to Look Human
Date: Thu, 2017-07-20 16:05
If you want to cringe hard, watch the
Fine Gael PR team's latest attempt to make Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney look human. The comments section is uplifting and worth a read, another case of an arrogant elitist organisation thinking they can put out any auld waffle without a kickback from the people they abuse [1].
Minister for homelessness says beware of neighbours filling swimming pools in piss poor divide and rule move
Date: Sat, 2017-01-07 18:08
You can tell a lot about someone from what they worry about. The Housing Minister Simon Coveney isn’t so much worried about people sleeping on the streets at the moment. He is losing sleep about the thought that other people might fill their swimming pools with free water!
Spirits are High as of Thousands of Household Tax Protesters march on Fine Gael conference
Date: Sun, 2012-04-01 11:30
The Fine Gael Ard Fheis took place over the course of last weekend (31st March). While hundreds of politicians reinforced an austerity-laden approach to politics in Dublin’s Convention Centre, about 10,000 Anti-Household-Charge protesters took over the docklands in an electrifying show of strength. This was the final day of the governement trying to force people to register for the tax and by midnight it was clear that the campaigns goal of getting 50% to refuse to register had been met.
Understanding Kenny's Davos blunder
Date: Sun, 2012-01-29 15:03
Irish opposition politicians have called foul over Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s statement at Davos that the blame for the crisis in Ireland is that “people went mad borrowing” a month after he told the Irish people that “you are not to blame” in a national broadcast. But their are far more interesting issues that explain why the same man can make both statements without being aware of a contradiction than simple two-facedness.
