Recently Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, took a symbolic step over the border. Unusually, this step took him back in to Honduras from Nicaragua for but a few fleeting moments.
Zelaya was deposed in an army coup on June 28th and forced into exile in a fundamentally anti-democratic move by the Honduran military. The armed forces [...]
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July 25, 2009
Strange homecoming
June 8, 2009
Thank You!
I wish to thank my campaign team and all my supporters over the last couple of months. In the count at the RDS on Saturday I polled 639 first preference votes. This was the strongest ever showing for a socialist candidate in the constituency. On the first count we blew out of the water the [...]
June 2, 2009
Vote EVANS 1 on Friday
Although the sentiment for change politically has become almost hackneyed at this stage, it is crucial to remember that Friday’s election marks a genuinely historic stage in the politicl development of the Irish nation. FF are at an historic low in the polls and the Irish left currently enjoys such urban support that the political [...]
June 1, 2009
Canvassing This Week
If you want to help with the campaign’s final push this week, please show up at the Swan Centre Rathmines at 5.30pm Monday-Friday. Alternatively, please call me on 085-7751426 for alternative canvassing options.
May 26, 2009
‘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 [...]
May 19, 2009
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!
May 5, 2009
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
May 5, 2009
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, [...]
May 5, 2009
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 [...]
April 17, 2009
Protest Against Budget Cuts
I have nothing against Chris Andrews personally. In fact, I contacted him during the Gaza crisis to express my support for his calls for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. However, as an elected representative of Fianna Fail, he too is accountable for the most savage budget in living memory.
Lenihan’s budget doubled the levy on [...]
