Anthony McIntyre's Blog, page 697

Scandal

Cllr Frank McBrearty Jnr ✒ challenges Fine Gael TD, Joe McHugh over the Mica building scandal.FAO Taoiseach Micheal Martin FF, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar FG, Minister Eamon Ryan GP, Minister Darragh O'Brien FF, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe FG, Minister for Public expenditure and reform Michael McGrath FF. Minister for foreign affairs Simon Coveney FG. Dear Joe, The evidence that I have

Belief Not Relief

Anthony McIntyre ✒ It sometimes seems that Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly is given the shitty end of the stick, almost as if he is being punished for some transgression the rest of us know nothing about.No doubt, Kelly has his indiscretions like everybody else, probably pisses in the street after a beer or takes a hammer to a wheel clamp. Nothing that should concern the rest of us, apart from some

The Government Must Protect The Rights Of Women And Girls

Radicailín members ✒ call for the rights of women and girls to female-only, single-sex spaces and services.On 27th November 2021, Radicailín, alongside the Irish Women’s Lobby, The Countess, The Irish Resistance, Socialist Democracy, LGB Alliance Ireland, Women’s Rights Network NI, and Deep Green Resistance Ireland, gathered outside Dáil Éireann to call for the rights of women and girls to

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Divide And Conquer ➖ It's the Imperialist Way

Fra Hughes ✒ How is the US deliberately attempting to provoke civil wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon?First Published InAl Mayadeen English.IraqWhen America, Britain, and the coalition of the greedy decided to crush Iraq under a barrage of bombs, cruise missiles, and multiple munitions, in its campaign of Shock and Awe to destroy Iraq, it was only the beginning.With claims that Iraqi

Fake Storm

Davy Clinton ✒ Do not believe all that you hear about this coming storm. This is coming from those with a vested interest in keeping you afraid and keeping you locked in your own home. There is no real evidence of a major storm. This storm will in effect just be like a normal windy day. There are always windy days. Do you actually know anyone who has been killed by a storm? No. You may know

Nothing Lasts Forever

Peter Anderson ⚽ I thoroughly enjoyed Sunday's Super Sunday offering from Sky Sports.Villa entertained Leicester in a midlands derby made all the more exciting by the fact that they were both managed by old club mates: Stevie G and our Brendan. This pair had come within a whisker of winning the EPL together a few years ago. They also had gone toe to toe in Glasgow as managers of the Old Firm. The

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A Spectre Is Haunting Ireland

Tommy McKearney ☭ on the spectre of a democratic and progressive country.What on earth was that event last month in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, all about? We were told that it wasn’t a celebration of partition, nor a commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Six-County political entity. Rather, it was – the organisers informed us – an occasion to reflect on and mark

Why “Net Zero” Is A Fraud ➖ Science, Technology And Politics

People And Nature ✒ Here’s a talk by Simon Pirani – “net zero” is a fraud: science, technology and politics – given at an on-line session earlier this month, hosted by the COP View group. That’s the first 20 minutes of the video; then comes a talk by Jonathan Fuller on media coverage of climate issues.More to read on “net zero”It’s a “dangerous trap”, climate scientists James Dyke, Robert Watson