Time for Change – Elections 2024

 104 Years of Same Old Same Old It’s been 104 years since we first elected a Fine Gael government (and I know it had a different name then). We first elected a Fianna Fáil government 92 years ago. We’ve had a century in which power was shared by Fine Gael and Fianna...

Spicebag and the Guards – art in Ireland

An artwork that does not contain nudity or blasphemy provokes public outrage? What the hell is going on? It’s rare for a piece of art to make a stir in public discourse and when it does it’s usually because it’s terrible – the famous Anna Livia sculpture in Dublin is...

On the fascist attack on the Students of Florence

On Saturday 18th of February, a group of high school students, members of Collective Sum , peacefully occupying their school in protest at a variety of problems, were attacked by a group of fascists from an organisation called Azione Studentesca (Student Action) which...

First they came for the communists

Today is the International Day of Memory. We remember not just the six to eight million Jews killed by the Nazis but all of those who died in the gas-chambers and work camps, in the massacres, in the torture chambers. They included communists, socialists, anarchists,...