‘Maser’ Joins Election Campaign

‘ DUBLIN ’S BANKSY’ JOINS LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
 
Dublin based graffiti artist Maser has pledged his support to local election candidate Bryce Evans.  Evans is a first time candidate under the People before Profit Alliance and is running in the Pembroke-Rathmines ward.  Maser – famed as ‘ Dublin ’s Banksy’- is working on a piece of [...]

Come Canvassing!

We are meeting for canvassing at 5.30pm and 7pm (you choose the time you can make) outside the Swan Centre, Rathmines every day this week. Please support!

Highlighting media complacency

A friend of mine is embroiled in some controversy over his exposure of the sometimes-lazy research techniques of newspaper obituary writers. Don’t believe everything you read on wikipedia!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/04/journalism-obituaries-shane-fitzgerald

Gay marriage

NATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY FEDERATION
Marriage Still a Burning Issue for Lesbian and Gay People – National Symposium
Marriage Matters for Lesbian and Gay People will be the burning issue of a national symposium to be held on Thursday, 7th May at The Westbury Hotel, Grafton Street, Dublin 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The symposium, [...]

Gay Marriage Rights

The upcoming civil partnership bill is welcome – it will grant gay and lesbian couples legal recognition in many key areas. But why stop there? Last month hundreds of activists protested in Dublin to call for marriage rights.
The government claims that gay marriage is unconstitutional, but let’s not forget that our founding document of independence – the Declaration of [...]

Allotments Campaign

In Ireland we are completely over-reliant on food imported from abroad. Around 90-95% of the fruit we eat is imported. As an historian of the Emergency period (1939-45) I am familiar with the perilous situation that such over-reliance on outside trade can cause, particularly during periods of crisis. Back then, Dubliners had many more plots available to [...]