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14 Nov 2006
David McWilliams V Joe Higgins. Debate 20/10/2006
Seen on Brian Greene
[direct link to mp3] over 300 packed into the Teachers Club for the annual debate. This year david mcwilliams took up the offer to debate with SP TD joe higgins. http://www.socialistparty.net/ http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie [line recorded from power amp desk with sony MX20; apologies no roaming radio mic] ... Continue reading »
02 Nov 2006
Gong for big Gearóid
Seen on From the Balcony, A Publisher's Blog
I’m impressed at how often people say to me, “read that on your blog” or “you are talking through your Erse on your blog again”; a sure sign that the proletariat are avidly following our online adventures here. The Irish News were on the blower for me today, following up my musings on the Long Kesh-Maze stadium. I didn’t get a chance to get back ... Continue reading »
13 Oct 2006
McWilliams V Higgins
Seen on Brian Greene
David McWilliams V Joe Higgins TD, I have podcast both of these guys separately before but never together, so now I can Oct 20th the big debate. Teachers Club Parnell Square Dublin 8pm. 20/10/2006.... Continue reading »
11 Oct 2006
You Hyprocrite
Seen on Tiny Timid Thoughts
To my mind it is the one thing that regardless of your opinions, beliefs or who you are as a person is an automatic insult. I might disagree with Joe Higgins, the sole Socialist Party MP , in the Irish Parliament but I can respect him for living on the average industrial wage rather than the salary that his position automatically bequeaths. He... Continue reading »
05 Oct 2006
Ryanair to put Ireland on the map
Seen on Irish Election
Ryanair to put Ireland on the map Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on October 5th, 2006 Read More: Transport Hey great news today. Ryanair are going to buy Aer Lingus. Now I know most people like Joe Higgins think that any one who makes money by hard work and talent are more evil then Martha Stewart. And that people being poor is far more... Continue reading »
03 Oct 2006
Friends in Low Places
Seen on Marking Time
How nauseating, in view of all this, to see Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, reduce this whole controversy, this nexus of patronage and sleaze, to a cynical game of scrabble, of bending and twisting words so that both parties can walk out claiming to be vindicated. Taking large amounts of money from... Continue reading »
joe blogs
Seen on Brian Greene
joe higgins TD (SP) speaking last week in the Dáil on Betrie’s loan. like playing handball against the haystack. thud. 4pm. Dáil TV today. [mp3] [Socialist Party]... Continue reading »
15 Aug 2006
GMV Complaint to Dept of Enterprise (Ireland)
Seen on CROWNBORN IRISH BUSINESS TRUTH
Minister Michael Martin Dept. of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Kildare Street , Dublin 2 10 th October 2005 Dear Minister Martin, I wish to inform you that Global Mobile Vision (GMV) has been forced to cease operating in Ireland. GMV has been subjected to a nasty and vicious campaign where particular individuals’ were intent on the... Continue reading »
29 Jul 2006
Real Politik – From a Plate of Chips to…
Seen on 1820
[ propa.jpg]There’s been a lot of speculation about who and what are the forces ranging against Sheridan that have led to this situation. None of the mainstream press seems to have been able to articulate any of this. Well why bother with boring old politics when you’ve got a three in the bed romp to report? One the one side are the corporate... Continue reading »
21 Jul 2006
The GAMA strike – DVD
Seen on Brian Greene
In 2005 a group of Turkish workers made history in Ireland when they took on their employer, Turkish-owned multinational construction giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party, whose members first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA to its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought battle which... Continue reading »
10 Jul 2006
Who Is The Industrial Realtions Minister
Seen on Cleveland Industrial Gases (News Brick)
God, it is depressing. I don’t know which is worse – listening to Junior Minister Conor Lenihan roaring across the Dail at TD Joe Higgins to ’stick with the kebabs’ (meaning the poorly-paid Turkish workers that Higgins, rather than. For the Record: 26 July 2005, Tuesday. Economy and Energy Minister nominee Born on July 5, 1952 in Burgas. So…... Continue reading »
09 Jul 2006
Capitalism means poverty, instability, war and…
Seen on Capitalism = Poverty for the Majority, Make Socialism our Future
A socialist world is possible Come to Socialism 2006 to discuss the fightback [ ISR demonstrate at the G8]Socialism 2006 is a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party, taking place on 25 and 26 November 2006. If you are involved in a campaign against cuts or privatisation, if you have been on strike to defend your pay... Continue reading »