I have just finished reading a book by Dick Clarke, who was a senior counterterrorism advisor to Bush Senior, Clinton and Bush Junior, as well as working in the Regan administration. In these book, "Against All Enemies", Clarke outlines the anti-terrorism policies (which is a bit ironic in the US when one talks about Regan and the School of the ( Read more... )

On Tuesday evening after work I got the train into town and went along to a public meeting in Pearse Street, organised by the Irish Section of Amnesty International. Amnesty were hosting a talk by Jeff Halper, who is the coordinator of a group called the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. I have to say the talk was fascinating, and made ( Read more... )

I really shouldn't like this, but George Michael's new " Flawless (Go To The City)" single is fantastic. I don't know the background as to how it came about, but it heavily samples The Ones "Flawless" from a couple of years ago (for all I know, The Ones may not have been the original either, but it was also fantastic ( Read more... )

Anyone in the Dublin or Galway area of Ireland might like to come along to this public meeting, hosted by the Irish Section of Amnesty International. I'm definitely going along to the Dublin meeting tomorrow night. It will be an eye opener for me I think.

Jeff Halper on a visit to Ireland the week of June 14 to 18, 2004. Jeff is the Coordinator ( Read more... )

In the early hours of the morning Mary Lou McDonald secured the last Dublin seat, after Bacik was eliminated. Now McDonald, De Rossa, Ryan and Mitchell are in ( Read more... )

I went into the Phoenix Park yesterday to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers / The Pixies / The Thrills / Groove Armada gig. Very big crowd there (110,000 according to some reports, but it was hard to estimate) so later on in the evening the queues for beer or food were massive ( Read more... )

Today it is no longer good enough just to be born in Ireland to be Irish. The referendum was carried with almost 80% of the voters voting "yes". I, along with about 300,000 other, did not have our wish granted. I will disagree, but commit. However, I fear that many people either did not understand what the referendum proposed, or thought that I was ( Read more... )

Countering is underway this morning in the Local and European elections, and the Referendum ( Read more... )

Once again I have slipped way behind in keeping this journal up to date! So much so at this stage I'm not bothered to go back over the events of the last month and type them up. Not that anything too wild has been happening or anything! I'll just start off again from this week ( Read more... )

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