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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Jemmy Hope – the most radical United Irishman

Historian Fergus Whelan outlines the story of United Irishman Jemmy Hope (1764–1847) and sees the radical Presbyterian’s belief in steadfast opposition to sectarianism being as important today as it was in the 18th century.
There are many people and groups in Ireland who claim for themselves the mantle of Irish Republicanism and the heritage of the [...]

The Trials of Citizen Garland

After over 50 years of involvement in political struggle Sean Garland faces one of his toughest fights.
Kevin Brannigan meets the man wanted by the US.
On the evening of the 7th October 2005 Sean Garland was sitting in a Belfast restaurant enjoying a meal with Workers’ Party colleagues prior to the start of the party’s Ard [...]

White Riot, a journey into punk’s racial history

Brian Whelan interviews the authors of a new book from Verso Press exploring the complex, contradictory ways in which punk has interacted with the politics of race.

From its birth punk rock has been obsessed with identity, exploding into the mainstream in the late 70s with filth and fury proudly exclaiming ‘no future’, the movement has [...]

The word according to Mighty Stef the Baptist

The Mighty Stef has long been heralded as one of Ireland’s finest emerging troubadours, something his latest album ‘TMS & The Baptists’ has placed in stone. Here he speaks to Barry Healy.

LookLeft needed no excuse for a chat with Stef before the Newbridge leg of his Irish Tour. We sought sanctuary in the corner [...]

The Saville Report – Still defending the realm

Kevin McCorry, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) chief march steward on Bloody Sunday, finds the Saville Inquiry sidestepped the key issue of who made the political decisions that led to the deaths of 14 innocent men.
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm”. Did the [...]

The Jemmy Hope Column

The Jemmy Hope – “As a people, we are excluded from any share in framing the laws by which we are governed. The higher ranks usurped the exclusive exercise of that privilege, as well as many other rights, by force, fraud, and fiction.”
The gangster, the super model and Bertie Ahern
“I’m a professional gambler…the more money [...]

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