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Back to homepageReport says unification of Ireland can prevent Brexit economic crash
A new international research study has concluded the reunification of Ireland would lead to a massive economic windfall for the whole island, while Brexit will have disastrous consequences
Read MoreHealth Apartheid in Ireland
Ireland has just been identified as one of the most unequal countries in the EU regarding access to healthcare
Read MoreIreland: Death and Rising of Emma Mhic Mhathúna
So far, due to a variety of ignoble reasons, not least public healthcare being farmed out to private laboratories, 221 women have now been identified whose smear tests had been read incorrectly with tragic consequences
Read More‘A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot’ – documentary film
Released in Irish cinemas on Friday 14 September – ‘A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot” – is a new documentary from journalist and filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea who takes a look at the divided city of Derry in the “still occupied” 6 counties of Northern Ireland 20 years after the “peace process”
Read MoreTroubles On the Way: Border Concerns Raised in Northern Ireland
With the deadline for negotiations on a british departure from the e.u. fast approaching, the reality of a “no deal” brexit is becoming increasingly likely
Read MoreIRELAND: CIVIL RIGHTS? OR CIVIL WRONGS?
Cause for concern should grow following the violence witnessed on September 11 at North Frederick Street in inner city Dublin
Read MoreDUBLIN, Ireland “Masked Garda threaten housing campaigners with batons”
Pepper spray, dogs and batons were deployed, there were 5 or 6 arrests and four housing campaigners required hosptial visits from injuries received in the course of the eviction of the Frederick St occupation
Read MoreIreland “Summer of the Vultures”
“The tsunami that I warned about has been delayed and outsourced, but it is coming.”
Read MoreIreland: No Longer Homes – Only (Bank) Assets Now?
Thus “vulture” funds have come to be recognised (despised?) as a relatively recent feature in the ongoing capitalist ‘revolution’ that has replaced the 20th century
Read MoreIreland: Constitutional Ban on Abortion Defeated
Many of the civil liberties enjoyed elsewhere in Europe (contraception, divorce, abortion) were, for a long time, denied in Ireland, largely on the grounds of the Roman Catholic faith
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