Model Supporters

 

Supporters Direct are a not-for-profit organisation who promote the benefits of sustainability, community ownership and supporter involvement in the running of sporting organisations, mainly football clubs. Andrew Donlan met up with Kevin Rye of Supporters Direct to find out how their various Irish interests are coming along.
As of this week, the three League of Ireland [...]

Victim of Hysteria?

Just over a year ago one of the weirdest chapters in recent Irish life drew to a close. Following protests, pickets, criticism and moral outrage, legislation was eventually introduced in the Dáil criminalising the so-called ‘legal highs’ sold in the infamous head Shops. One year on and the question is how successful has it been [...]

NAMA: In whose interest?

When NAMA was unveiled the then-government claimed it would actually make more than one billion Euros in profit. Already a loss of over €700 million has been revealed for 2010 and it is set to lose much more. So why does this agency exist asks Conor McCabe.
The creation of the National Assets Management Agency in [...]

Gombeens, Spivs and Bankers

The elites that have dominated the republic’s economy since independence have brought it to ruin. Conor McCabe, the author a major new analysis of the Irish economic crisis, identifies these classes and outlines their malign influence.
There have been many attempts to explain why the Irish banking crisis developed the way it did, and the argument [...]

Dirty auld town done up

Dublin’s street art scene allows for both artistic and political expression. Freda Hughes meets two of the scene’s most prominent exponents and discusses their work.
The morning after a night out, despite the driving rain, strong winds and hangover I was nursing, I found myself up early and heading off to find Suir Bridge in Kilmainham. [...]

Basques search for a political way forward

After over 40 years of intermittent violence which claimed many lives the Basque guerrilla group ETA renounced armed struggle in favour of political activity earlier this year but as Diarmuid Breatnach outlines the Spanish establishment has been slow to reciprocate.
ETA declared in January its six months-old official ceasefire to be “general, permanent …and verifiable by [...]

Whose revolution is it anyway?

The revolutions and attempted revolutions that have swept the Arab world have demonstrated the power of ordinary people, but also the adaptability of imperialism, writes Ultán Gillen.
The western media have a clear, simple narrative of the events that have swept the Arab world. Oppressed people suddenly demanded access to westernstyle democracy, and have succeeded in [...]

Listening to Máirtín Ó Cadhain

The name of Máirtín Ó Cadhain is better known than his work and political activity. Here his biographer Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh discusses a writer and fighter worth listening to.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905- 70) is someone many people have heard of, but usually only one aspect of him. People might speak of him as a leading [...]

Time to criminalise sectarianism

John Lowry
Sectarianism should be made a criminal offence in Northern Ireland and a summit involving all sectors of society held to draw up an action plan to combat the problem.
The Workers’ Party has written to the Office of First and Deputy First Minister to demand an early ‘Summit on Sectarianism’ and the immediate introduction of [...]

Bob Crow interview: No one likes us, we don’t care!

The Sun blockaded his home with a double-decker bus, Boris Johnson has described him as “demented” and the London Evening Standard called him the most hated man in London. He has earned a reputation as a fearless critic of New Labour, and a militant defender of strikes on London underground. Paul Dillon meets Bob Crow.
With [...]

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