Upcoming Events

National | Politics / Elections

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Police Chief Says St George?s Flags Are ?Disturbing Tools of Division? and ?Intimidation? Wed Nov 19, 2025 11:20 | Will Jones
The display of St George's flags on Britain's streets is a "tool of division" and "intimidation", a policing leader said yesterday ? as she also said Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is "demonising communities".
The post Police Chief Says St George’s Flags Are “Disturbing Tools of Division” and “Intimidation” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Retracted by Nature, Traduced by Michael Mann ? Gianluca Alimonti is Back and He?s Taking No Prisone... Wed Nov 19, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
In 2023, a group of activists including Michael 'hockey stick' Mann got Nature to retract a paper pointing out that extreme weather is not getting worse. Now the author, Gianluca Alimonti, is back, writes Chris Morrison.
The post Retracted by Nature, Traduced by Michael Mann ? Gianluca Alimonti is Back and He’s Taking No Prisoners appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Great Mental Illness Grift Wed Nov 19, 2025 07:00 | Mary Gilleece
Who is making money from children with mental illness? It's not just Big Pharma, says Mary Gilleece. There's a whole industry of mental illness farmers earning tidy profits from keeping young people in misery.
The post The Great Mental Illness Grift appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Nov 19, 2025 01:39 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Does the UKHSA?s Refusal to Release Covid Vaccine Excess Deaths Data Give the Game Away? Tue Nov 18, 2025 20:30 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
Does the UKHSA's refusal to release the Covid vaccine excess deaths data because they could "have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake" give the game away, ask Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
The post Does the UKHSA’s Refusal to Release Covid Vaccine Excess Deaths Data Give the Game Away? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Richard Boyd Barrett suggets a way forward.

category national | politics / elections | other press author Thursday June 07, 2007 19:00author by Red Wedge Report this post to the editors

Richard Boyd Barrett on coalition, Joe Higgins and the future of the Irish left. From the Irish Times of 7-6-2007.


Labour, the Greens and Sinn Féin had no real record of leading campaigns or protests on the issues that concerned the public. For the most part their opposition to the Government was limited to parliamentary rhetoric and point-scoring rather than active political campaigning on issues.

With little evidence of major policy difference or a campaigning track record, the failure of the three mainstream left parties to inspire the electorate was hardly surprising. Further to the left, while some Independents and Joe Higgins's Socialist Party had a considerably more consistent and active record of challenging the Government on real issues, the problem was fragmentation and division.

Despite a number of attempts to group together socialists and left Independents into an independent left alliance with a national profile, petty sectarianism prevented this from materialising. The socialist lefts' failure to ditch bad habits of ideological and organisational dogmatism also remain a major block to its advance.

Against the background of a very poor overall performance for the left, the shock caused by the People Before Profit Alliance in Dún Laoghaire in coming so close to taking a seat may be a small but significant pointer towards a possible way forward.

The result bucked the national trend and suggests the left's poor showing in the election was not inevitable. A number of factors contributed to this relative success in Dún Laoghaire: crucially, the campaign was based on the development of social movements on a variety of issues. The People Before Profit Alliance in Dún Laoghaire emerged from a coming together of activists from the Save Our Seafront campaign, the anti-bin tax campaign, agitations around housing, planning and local services, the anti-war movement and a number of other campaigns.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Interview with Richard from latest Socialist Worker     e    Fri Jun 08, 2007 01:02 
   RBB     Observer    Fri Jun 08, 2007 09:04 
   IT article     IT reader    Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:13 
   Left division     Squirrel    Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:53 
   Patronising     SP supporter    Fri Jun 08, 2007 13:03 
   SP Supporter     pat c    Fri Jun 08, 2007 14:09 
   Pat C     Jolly Red Giant    Fri Jun 08, 2007 14:15 
   Who are the left Richard?     sp member    Fri Jun 08, 2007 21:56 
   pat c watch     o-l    Sat Jun 09, 2007 15:58 
 10   SWP mythology     Dub    Sat Jun 09, 2007 18:30 
 11   Facts Rather Than Fantasy     pat c    Sat Jun 09, 2007 18:49 
 12   gettin angry now     o-l    Sat Jun 09, 2007 20:44 
 13   Question     Jolly Red Giant    Sat Jun 09, 2007 21:58 
 14   Get As Angry As You Wish. It Wont change The Facts.     pat c    Sun Jun 10, 2007 20:43 
 15   listen please!!!!!!     o-l    Sun Jun 10, 2007 21:59 
 16   It really is a bit off the point...     Jolly Red Giant    Sun Jun 10, 2007 23:25 
 17   RBB Was Not Elected In This Universe.     pat c    Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:14 
 18   110 votes... get real... Regan was more close than RBB     Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:57 
 19   RBB highpoint?     Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:16 
 20   Talking up Dublin North     Realist    Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:40 
 21   Dublin North & local elections.     Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 13:15 
 22   We'll never know     Realist    Mon Jun 11, 2007 13:53 
 23   No ifs and buts     Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 16:22 
 24   "No if and buts." (ROFL)     Realist    Mon Jun 11, 2007 16:32 
 25   point is...     Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 16:47 
 26   "No if and buts."     Realist    Mon Jun 11, 2007 17:00 
 27   Leave him be     Asian Dub    Mon Jun 11, 2007 17:08 
 28   Ignore away Asian Dub     Realist    Tue Jun 12, 2007 00:05 
 29   What the constitution says:     Constitution reader    Tue Jun 12, 2007 00:24 
 30   No mention of 166 seats     I'm an SP troll ;-)    Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:33 
 31   FACTS     Dub    Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:38 
 32   Next Election     Dub    Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:07 
 33   Not just next election     I'm an SP troll ;-)    Wed Jun 13, 2007 00:21 
 34   God grant me patience     Leftie    Wed Jun 13, 2007 01:20 
 35   I am too     Disappointed    Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:00 
 36   Clarification     Dub    Wed Jun 13, 2007 13:15 
 37   Dub     I'm an SP troll ;-)    Wed Jun 13, 2007 18:34 
 38   Colm's negativity     Dr. No    Wed Jun 13, 2007 22:30 
 39   True, very true     CWI fan    Thu Jun 14, 2007 06:56 
 40   Answer me this     left observer    Fri Jun 22, 2007 17:42 
 41   yeah     left observer    Fri Jun 22, 2007 20:25 
 42   Left Obsever - a lengthy reply     Mark P    Fri Jun 22, 2007 21:09 
 43   no     left observer    Fri Jun 22, 2007 21:59 
 44   Left Observer - a second response     Mark P    Fri Jun 22, 2007 22:39 
 45   lets end this     left observer    Fri Jun 22, 2007 22:45 
 46   All your base are belong to us!     Mark P    Sat Jun 23, 2007 02:41 
 47   lol     left observer    Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:52 
 48   dunno     left observer    Sat Jun 23, 2007 13:54 
 49   Left Observer...     Left Activist    Sat Jun 23, 2007 14:05 
 50   must we go through this again?     left observer    Sat Jun 23, 2007 14:22 
 51   Lordy lordy     Cilla    Sat Jun 23, 2007 14:42 
 52   Cannot let this go -     Jolly Red Giant    Sat Jun 23, 2007 15:23 
 53   here     left observer    Sat Jun 23, 2007 15:36 
 54   left observer     Jolly Red Giant    Sat Jun 23, 2007 21:46 
 55   Lordy!     Neither Cliff nor Grant but international socialism    Mon Jun 25, 2007 16:55 
 56   left observer is all over the place     sp member    Mon Jun 25, 2007 16:55 
 57   ammmmmmm........     left observer    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:36 
 58   come again     .    Mon Jun 25, 2007 20:28 
 59   Again...     Jolly Red Giant    Mon Jun 25, 2007 21:33 
 60   well why didn't you say in the interview UNDER CAPITALISM?     left observer    Fri Jun 29, 2007 15:58 
 61   left observer...     Jolly Red Giant    Fri Jun 29, 2007 16:19 
 62   what's that? you're talking sh#t?     sp member    Fri Jun 29, 2007 16:57 
 63   ha     LEFT OBSERVER    Fri Jun 29, 2007 19:56 
 64   Take it easy kid (probably talking to a wall I know)     Neither cliff nor grant...    Fri Jun 29, 2007 20:24 
 65   ok     left ob    Fri Jun 29, 2007 21:01 
 66   Banging my head off a brick wall...     Jolly Red Giant    Fri Jun 29, 2007 23:08 
 67   Just another passing fad?     Curious    Wed Aug 01, 2007 22:47 


Number of comments per page
  
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy