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Posts tagged as “2019November”
It’s the grease that makes the economic wheels turn. But ask where your taxes go after you pay them; or how a bank makes a…
For anyone to become an opinion writer for the ‘paper of record’, the Irish Times, requires considerable ability. But does a particular viewpoint give an…
Overheard in the local last night D’ye go to mass at all? Ah, just the odd time, ye know, Christmas ‘n funerals. I see, I…
The great English chemist James Lovelock conceived the Gaia (Gr. ‘goddess of earth’) Hypothesis in 1972, later developing this alongside American microbiologist Lynns Margulis. Later…
George Orwell has never been unfashionable, and is in vogue now more than ever. His writing, best represented by his many essays on a variety…
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is under threat. More than half of all school-aged Syrian children…
Two stories were in the headlines this October illustrating how money is undermining our values. ‘Ah,’ I hear you say, ‘a story as old as…
A hegemonic, neoliberal logic based upon competition, exploitation, and inequality appears to have largely supplanted democratic principles of community, interdependence, and solidarity. The National Association…
What is the experience of a refugee caught in the crisis on the Mediterranean Sea? Approximately 18,910 lives have been lost or are missing since…
In 2015 comic Frankie Boyle penned a darkly titled article ‘What if David Cameron is an evil genius?’ Only slightly tongue-in-cheek, Boyle – citing…
I admire old people who live by their wits, like the ancient American, a real estate man, whom I met in Galway years. He wore…
In a press release, the ‘Dublin Commuter Coalition’ has described proposals for electric vehicles to be permitted to use bus lanes[i] as a ‘slap in…
Numinous Soup is an album I quietly made by myself in my spare room on child free evenings, releasing mp3s on Patreon as they became…
That summer of 1974 for the first time in my young life I felt proud of myself. For after one very hard week of sweat…
What is it they say about going bankrupt? Slowly at first, and then all at once. As we crossed the precinct yard and I saw…
The Resistance I never knew what they really felt how they survived the one world we shared across layers of fear and indifference never grasped…
There is many a country that has decided to establish a capital city with grandeur, efficiency and unity of the central government. In ancient times,…
The Steadfast-Starry Sky in the Shannon Do you remember last year when the weather was nice for ages? Six weeks of sunshine and warmth.…
UK Election 2019: Why has common sense become a ‘radical’ proposition?
Last week two young people were stabbed to death at London Bridge while attending a conference organized by the University of Cambridge on rehabilitation of…