News Posh Boy Varadkar Backs Down Over Fuel For a brief moment, Leo Varadkar let his mask slip. One of his junior health Ministers, Jim Daly, had suggested that elderly people keep their heating on during the extreme 28 Feb 2018
News Manipulation And Spin: How Varadkar Pays For Propaganda Varadkar’s government used tax payers’ money to generate ‘positive’ stories about its national plan. His ‘Strategic Communication Units’ contacted journalists from the Independent Group of Newspapers to write good 27 Feb 2018
News Why is Shannon Being Used as a Military Hub? Last year, the government approved 334 applications for military flights to land at Shannon airport. These are overwhelmingly US military planes who were supporting different wars in the Middle East. 26 Feb 2018
Housing Meet Ireland’s Biggest Landlord Ireland’s biggest landlord is a little known Real Estate Investment Trust, known as Irish Residential Properties Reit- IRES. A real estate investment trust is a North American concept whereby 22 Feb 2018
News People Before Profit Call for a Sustainable, Green Light Rail System For Cork People Before Profit are a green socialist party. We are calling for Light Rail systems to be publicly developed in Cork and other regional cities. We are calling on Cork 21 Feb 2018
Housing Here Is How To Tackle Vultures The decision of Permanent TSB to sell off distressed mortgages to vulture funds has raised the prospect of mass eviction for up to 14,000 households. These funds bought up 21 Feb 2018
News Gerry Carroll: Arlene Foster as First Minister would be a “betrayal” With reports that a deal at Stormont could be imminent, Gerry Carroll has warned that any return of Arlene Foster as First Minister would be a ‘betrayal’: “It was the 20 Feb 2018
Education National Planning Framework – A Fantasy Charter for the Private Sector The government’s latest planning framework – Ireland 2040 – has been met with great fanfare. Since Friday the government spin machine has been in overdrive ably supported by the mainstream press. 20 Feb 2018
News DUP Is The Problem Contrary to all conventional expectations, the DUP has walked away from an agreement to set up a new Northern Executive. But these were based on a misunderstanding of what the 19 Feb 2018