The Politics of the Last Announcement
In December the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) published a comparatively critical review of the…
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Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System Part 1
I have just finished representing a client in a murder case and have plenty to…
LONG READ: The Degradation of SYRIZA
SYRIZA’s rise to power in 2015 created shock waves around the world. The international Left…
This Is The Leg I Use When I’m Thinking
His blue look was on the ground, as though it held the reason for the…
Raise the Bar Events
I’m the youngest of five, and I grew up in a home surrounded by musicians…
Musician of the Month: Squalloscope (Anna Kohlweis)
There is a poem by Mary Ruefle called „Provenance“. It ends with with the following…
Poem: ‘Year of The’ by Haley Hodges
Year of The Restless at the kitchen table, year of our Lord twenty twenty-four, year…
Fiction: The Sea of Pearls
TEL AVIV – SEPTEMBER – 2023 Noah Artowski, by now a six-year veteran of the…
Musician of the Month: Aoife Ní Bhriain
My formative years were spent growing up on a pretty amazing cul-de-sac called Verbena Grove…
The Cassandra Voices Podcast
The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with…
The Emerald Delusion
Let no feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause of, or men of, the…
Musician of the Month: Shortsleeve Conor
Shortsleeve Conor was born in Lisbon, but started playing in Aberdeen when I was a…
Allen Jones: Pulling the Trigger
When it comes to veteran rock journalists, few could lay more genuine claim to the…
The Passing of Shane MacGowan
I sat for a while by the gap in the wall Found a rusty tin…
Musician of the Month: Cara Coyle
The music I am performing at the moment mostly came from three different sets of…
Musician of the Month: Lewis Barfoot
I grew up in Walthamstow, London listening to my Dad play finger-picking folk covers on…
Why is the U.S. Supporting Israel?
As we witness the barbaric bombing of Gaza by Israel, and as the deaths and…
The Vanishing Cat
When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, when the clock…
The Empire Windrush
The Empire Windrush sails tonight, she’s got a one-way ticket, and she’s half way home…
The Cult of Literary Narcissism
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore…