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Medical card debacle – free healthcare for all!

“An attempt to improve the medical card system, to bring fairness and equity to the system” is the justification spewed by Health Minister James Reilly following the government’s announcement that 15,300 discretionary medical cards callously revoked from the most vulnerable will be

Jun 25, 2014

News & Analysis·The North

Gerry Conlon – victim of capitalist repression & fighter

The death of Gerry Conlon in Belfast has been met with mass sympathy across the world as people are reminded of the vile injustice of the British capitalist state against the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven.

Jun 25, 2014

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Right to strike under threat

If this goes unchallenged it represents a reversal for the trade union movement of a principle won in legislation over 100 years ago that unions could not be made liable for bosses loss of income arising from trade disputes.

Jun 24, 2014

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Climate change – preparing for war

The quickening pace of global warming poses a threat to US national security, says a leading, federally-funded military research organisation

Jun 23, 2014

Joe Higgins column·Latest·News & Analysis

Labour’s sell-out

An opinion Poll in early June showed the Labour Party with 4% support nationally. This is a measure of how comprehensively that party has disappointed those who voted for it in the 2011 General Election.

Jun 23, 2014

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Jimmy’s Hall directed by Ken Loach

How dangerous could a parish hall with dance nights, boxing, singing lessons, poetry and art classes be? Ken Loaches new film “Jimmy’s Hall” shows how dangerous the Catholic Church considered one they didn’t control. The film is based on the true story

Jun 20, 2014

World News

Iraq: Oil war’s bloody legacy

Escalating sectarian conflict threatens to draw in surrounding countries

Jun 18, 2014

Joe Higgins column·Latest·News & Analysis

Joe Higgins TD on Banking Inquiry Nomination

The government’s actions in cobbling together a majority on the Committee has been unbelievably crude and hamfisted. However, while this has shown to the world the cynical manoeuvrings that go on among the establishment political parties in the Oireachtas as they jockey

Jun 17, 2014

Anti-war·News & Analysis

Review: The Snowden Files

‘The Snowden Files’, by Luke Harding, exposes the workings of the vastly powerful intelligence services in the US and Britain.

Jun 12, 2014

Latest·News & Analysis

Mother & Baby Homes: Both church & state are guilty

Appalling – abhorrent – grotesque – it’s difficult to find words to adequately express the horrors visited upon the poorest and most vulnerable sections of Irish society, particularly women and children, at the hands of Church and State in Ireland.

Jun 11, 2014

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