cry freedom – crying game – crying shame – 20 years after Mandela walked free

February 8th, 2010

racism free phone

February 4th, 2010

Eleanor McEvoy [1995]

February 3rd, 2010

a night on the lego tiles

February 2nd, 2010

Other side of Coke

February 1st, 2010

Coke side of Dublin

sacking workers and bringing in scabs [2009] http://url.ie/4u88 

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Six and the Footy

February 1st, 2010

on skype

January 28th, 2010

with posterous i don’t (over) subscribe to what i can’t read

January 28th, 2010

baby boom / Exemplar Network / spinning tops

January 23rd, 2010

Ireland: more babies were born last year than in any year since 1887. Educate the tax payers of tomorrow. Build the Exemplar Network NOW!

Ireland has the lowest death rate too. Oh and the highest natural birth rate, is that lots of screaming and no drugs or the birth rate excluding non nationals :)  

The exemplar network article on Silicon Republic was dated Dec 6th – Budget 2010 was Dec 9th and I have heard very little since from Minister Ryan on the subject. The last mention of it was in July 2009. This morning Mr. Ryan and his boss Mr. Gormley were yet again on the national airwaves spinning like spinning tops. Why don’t they ever get hard interviews? 

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Joe Higgins MEP declares his support for the suspended Air Traffic Controllers

January 21st, 2010
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS RIGHT TO STAND BY THEIR SUSPENDED COLLEAGUES

WHOLE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT NEEDS TO RESPOND TO MINISTER DEMPSEY'S THREAT TO RIGHT TO STRIKE
Joe Higgins MEP of the Socialist Party has declared his support for the air traffic controllers who have been suspended by the Irish Aviation Authority for refusing to adopt practices that are under dispute;

"The government and Fine Gael  grudgingly accept the legal right to strike in the abstract or when an action is not effective. However let's be clear, when strike action is taken by workers to defend themselves against employers seeking to attack their wages and conditions, they should take action designed to exact maximum pressure on employers."

"To say, as Minister Dempsey has, that workers in essential public services should not have the right to strike is a threat to allow further attacks on pay and conditions on workers of all pay grades and at the same time disarm them of the one legal weapon at their disposal to defend themselves."

"The establishment media have made a big play of the salaries that the Air Traffic Controllers receive in order to excite public animosity against them. Their decent conditions, which they deserve and which reflect the stress and responsibility of the job, is immaterial to this debate. That the workers were willing to take a hit in pay in order to defend their suspended colleagues is admirable solidarity."

"I call on the IAA to lift the suspensions immediately"

Ends

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