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BOOK REVIEW | ‘THE LONG ROAD HOME’ – MARY LYNCH (Free article)
28 October 2010
Damaged goods: dealing with the legacy of childhood trauma g BY JACK MADDEN WHEN we think of children and trauma, we comfort ourselves with a few universal ‘truths’: children are resilient, they develop coping mechanisms, they will ‘get over it’. Armed with these ‘truths’, adult protagonists, whether to a domestic row or armed warfare,…
Remembering the Past | BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA (Free article)
28 October 2010
Centenary of ‘Irish Freedom’ newspaper THE first decade and a half of the 20th century saw a flood of new publications including weekly and monthly journals and newspapers reflecting the political and cultural revival known as ‘Irish Ireland’. These papers reflected the rebirth of the Irish language, the growth of the labour movement, the…
INTERNATIONAL | ‘COLOMBIANS FOR PEACE’ ACTIVIST MEETS PARTIES IN NORTH (Free article)
28 October 2010
Learning from Ireland to help build peace in Colombia g BY PEADAR WHELAN A COLOMBIAN peace activist and director of the biggest-selling left-wing journal in his country, Carlos A Lozano Guillen, made a fact-finding visit to the Six Counties in recent weeks and met Sinn Féin Junior Minister Gerry Kelly as well as representatives of the…
‘Ireland’s Greatest’ (Free article)
28 October 2010
BY the time you read this, RTÉ will have announced John Hume the winner of its TV series, Ireland’s Greatest. Each of the five finalists was the subject of hour-long documentaries, broadcast from September onwards. Michael McDowell made the case for Michael Collins, Dave Fanning for Bono, Joe Duffy for James Connolly, Miriam O’Callaghan for…
Maternity leave: Good news for mothers and gender equality (Free article)
28 October 2010
THE European Parliament has voted in favour of extending both maternity and paternity leave across Europe. The proposal calls for the minimum period of maternity leave to be extended from 14 to 20 weeks fully paid. It also approved an entitlement to paid paternity leave of two weeks. The vote has been welcomed by the European Parliament…
If you’re reading this, what are the chances of you...Being in Sinn Féin (Free article)
28 October 2010
BY DECLAN KEARNEY National Chairperson, Sinn Féin THE chances are if you’re reading this you are not a member of Sinn Féin. You probably have at least a passing interest in republican politics; you may even have played a previous active role in the republican struggle, depending on your age. If so, read on. The savage nature of this…
FOCUS IRELAND FUND DRIVE | ‘KEY TO A HOME COLLECTIONS’, NOVEMBER 19th TO 21st (Free article)
28 October 2010
Fair City’s homeless Bob joins street appeal BY LUCINDA McNALLY Communications Officer, Focus Ireland TV STAR Bryan Murray’s character, ‘Bob’, was homeless in RTÉ’s Fair City. Now the actor is taking the issue from the screen to the street as he calls on people to volunteer for Focus Ireland’s ‘Key to a Home Collections’ on November…
Child homelessness up 60% in 3 years (Free article)
28 October 2010
THE revelation that child homelessness in the 26 Counties has increased by 60% over the last three years has been described by Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald as “horrific”. The Dublin Central Sinn Féin representative said: “Just last week two former members of The Commission of Taxation said that €2.5billion could be saved in…
My plank for the Presidency (Free article)
28 October 2010
YOU THINK you’re angry, do you? Reading the paper, watching Brian Cowen on TV, seeing the bankers, developers and financial gurus who got us into this mess get off scot-free while everyone else gets it in the neck makes you a little mad? Peeved perhaps? I’m so mad I’ve started randomly setting things on fire. I stand outside Brian Lenihan’s…
STIEG LARSSON | INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING CRIME WRITER ‘TRAINED ERITREAN GUERRILLAS’ (Free article)
28 October 2010
Stieg in the tale IT WAS ONLY when comments from friends and colleagues that they were either “doing the Millennium” or “I had to stay up and finish Millennium” got to double figures that I realised something was up and maybe I was missing important stuff. It was a bit like those teenage years when schoolfriends were re-reading Lord Of the…
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