Venture capitalists profiteer at expense of vulnerable in hospital scandal
Castlebeck Ltd and Winterbourne View Hospital are names that will not be familiar in this country. Nor will they be, given the very scant
Anglo write off €110 million in Denis O’Brien deal!
In April, billionaire tax exile Denis O’Brien did a deal with the former Anglo Irish Bank to purchase a company called Siteserv for €45
Interview with pro-choice campaigners
In April of this year, the government parties, including the Labour Party that claims to have a pro-choice position, shamefully rejected a bill to
UN: Arms Trade Treaty negotiations expose hypocrisy of industry
After a month of negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York, the discussions came to an ignominious end
Why I joined
I joined the Socialist Party because listening to the party’s ideas I realised there was an organisation planning to act in a radical way
FAI: Record seven clubs gone bust in six years
John Delaney, the chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland, has announced that he is to take a pay cut of 10% which
Syria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?
Syria’s agony continues unabated. Across the country there are indiscriminate attacks by the Assad regime forces and their militias, bloody sectarian reprisals by the
The inglorious history of Independent Newspapers
The history of Independent Newspapers has been a long an inglorious one of vilifying and slandering the left and workers movement both in Ireland