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A Morning Thought @ 1447

North Inner-City Dublin Has By Far The Most Ukrainian Refugees, Unlike Killiney Or Templeogue

Matt Treacy ✒ There are a number of interesting things which jump out from the figures issued by the Central Statistics Office on refugees coming to Ireland from Ukraine. The starkest perhaps is that the local election area covering the north inner city of Dublin had, up to May 22, become the place of residence for 1,156 Ukrainian arrivals.Presumably a lot of that has to do with the location of

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The Irish Civil War ✒ The Taking of Dublin

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ As in any War the side which controls the capital city of a country has a huge strategic and psychological advantage. The Irish Civil war which lasted eleven months from 28th June 1922 to 24th May 1923 would be no exception to this military rule of thumb. This applies to all wars and although control of the metropolis of a country does not guarantee victory for the successful

A Morning Thought @ 1446

My Great Great Grandchildren

Noel Byrne ✒ My six grandchildren were born between 2006 and 2018.If I am fortunate enough for my genes to continue in a diluted form through two more generations, my great great grandchildren will be living around the beginning of the next century. What sort of a world will they be born into? Will they be looking back and questioning how this generation destroyed the planet, their home? Will

In Quillversation ✑ A Russian Imperial Project

Simon Pirani and Anthony McIntyre ✒ discuss the Russian war on Ukraine.AM: You have a long-time immersion in Left politics. We know each other almost forty years. On my first trip to London in 1995 you and I visited the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery. I have always held to the descriptive potency of Marxism while finding it prescriptively impotent. I distrust the doctrinaire. Whatever

A Morning Thought @ 1445

Marry In Haste ✑ Repent At Leisure

Mick Hall ☭ Some thoughts on national borders, NATO, Sweden and Finland's application to join it. One only has to look back at the recent history of NATO to understand it needs to be poked with a very long stick. To put it bluntly. its US leadership are warmongering thugs and not to be trusted.* The Ukraine war has been manufactured in Washington and Putin foolishly took the bait. As to Zelenskyy

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