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7Jun

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Belfast urges expulsion of Nazi envoys

The City Council of Belfast in Northern Ireland has approved a motion calling on the governments of the UK and Ireland to expel Israeli ambassadors over the Nazi occupying regime’s crimes against the Palestinians. The document, passed with votes from left-wing parties, urged Belfast municipality to call on London and Dublin “to expel from office the Nazi ambassadors, with immediate effect.” Speaking at the voting session, Socialist councilor Fiona Ferguson said, “I think the expulsion of ambassadors is a first step – a preliminary step – to greater action, but it’s an incredibly important and symbolic step.” Ferguson, who has tabled the motion, demanded that the UK and Ireland lead by example and answer “the call from Palestinians across the world who have asked for ambas...

Will Ireland Use its Security Council Seat to Challenge ‘Israel’?

11May

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Ireland, ZIO-NAZI

Will Ireland Use its Security Council Seat to Challenge ‘Israel’?

DALE SPRUSANSKY Street art in Belfast, Northern Ireland draws a connection between the Irish and Palestinian struggles. Photo taken on July 30, 2014. (BRIAN LAWLESS/PA IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES)1111111111 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2021, pp. 57-58 Waging Peace On Jan. 1, Ireland began its two-year term as a member of the United Nations’ Security Council. Upon being selected to occupy one of the 10 non-permanent seats, the country said three principles would guide its time on the council: building peace, strengthening conflict prevention and ensuring accountability. Comhlámh, a Dublin-based social justice organization, held a webinar on Feb. 3 to assess if and how Ireland will apply these principles to the Israel-Palestine issue. Richard Falk, th...

5May

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Ireland

Cracks in Northern Ireland?

BY KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: David Stanley – CC BY 2.0 “I’d say I’m Northern Irish and British. I’m not Irish. I don’t live in Ireland”.– Zara Ferguson, a navy reservist living in Northern Ireland“I’m very pleased and proud to be in the UK and feel it’s the best way forward. It would have been better if all of Ireland had stayed in the UK”.– Tom Elliott, a former Ulster Unionist leader and MP Northern Ireland (NI) celebrated the centenary of its foundation on Monday. The political situation in NI remains febrile, despite a pause in the rioting. Arlene Foster, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader and Northern Ireland’s first minister, resigned after 6 turbulent years in that position. Foster would probably have been forced out if she had not resi...

New sex education programme published for Catholic primary school children in Ireland

27Apr

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Education, Ireland

New sex education programme published for Catholic primary school children in Ireland

BY: Harry Brent https://2b202cbef5c19e3b5009e1af38fde3ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html A NEW sex education programme for Catholic primary schools has been released designed to teach children in Ireland about relationships, sexuality and procreation. The programme will be available in all Catholic schools around the country - which accounts for around 90% of them - and will be available to all senior infants. It's understood however that these resources are not a mandatory requirement for any school curriculum, according to the Irish Times. The programme, called 'Flourish', has been developed by the Irish Bishops' Conference for infants up to sixth class. It describes sex and puberty as a "gift from God," and tells chil...

Partition: Bad in Ireland and Palestine, Good in Syria?

25Mar

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Ireland, Palestine Affairs, Syria, ZIO-NAZI

Partition: Bad in Ireland and Palestine, Good in Syria?

Posted by: John Phoenix By Gavin O’Reilly | American Herald Tribune Ask the question in left-wing circles of what affect partitioning a country along ethno-religious lines at the behest of an imperial power can have and the response will usually be straightforward. In Ireland, following the 1921 surrender agreement between former revolutionaries and the British government, a six-county statelet was formed in the north-east of the country remaining under British rule and with an inbuilt Unionist majority; the pro-British element descended from English and Scottish colonizers, planted in the region by King James in the 17th century in a bid to displace the native Irish population which had provided so much resistance to British occupation. The Nationalist populati...

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the ‘Irish Slaves Myth’

22Aug

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Human Rights, Ireland

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the ‘Irish Slaves Myth’

by BRIAN KELLY Mural of Frederick Douglass, Falls Road, Belfast. Irish people’s history has embraced both a legacy of identification with the oppressed, and in propagation of the Irish Slaves Myths, elements of racism. Photograph byRoss – CC BY-SA 2.0 Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish slaves’ and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The timing of the ‘debate’ is far from coincidental: a series of false and malicious assertions that the American far Right have pushed aggressively for more than a decade, embraced with enthusiasm by the most conservative elements in Irish America, have grown wings in the new context opened up by the rise of Black...

Ireland gets the government it didn’t vote for

5Aug

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Ireland

Ireland gets the government it didn’t vote for

In a desperate bid to stop Sinn Féin from forming a government, the century-old Irish duopoly has been brought to an abrupt end. Ella Rule Sinn Fein party supporters during the Dublin City count on 9 February 2020. In June, four months after the February general election, a coalition was finally able to form the new Irish government. This government is made up of what on the face of it appears to be an incongruous coalition between Ireland’s two traditional parties, Fine Gael (Gaelic Family) and Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny), and the Green party. Meanwhile, Sinn Féin (We Ourselves), the all-Ireland republican party that won the largest number of first preference votes, was unceremoniously excluded. The results in the general election were as follows: “Ballot...

There is a Spectre Haunting Ireland: Emigration

25Jun

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Europe, Ireland

There is a Spectre Haunting Ireland: Emigration

by KERRON Ó LUAIN Photograph Source: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland – CC BY-SA 2.0 The bargaining now underway between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, the traditional parties of the right, plus the centre-left/centrist/neoliberal Greens, in Ireland’s Twenty-Six Counties has provoked once more in the youth the urge to emigrate. In particular, the announcement that Mícheál Martin, leader of Fianna Fáil, will lead the state as Taoiseach until 2022 incited a wave of dejection. On social media platforms people in their teens and twenties recoiled at the thought of Martin becoming Taoiseach. This cohort – struggling students, vulnerable tenants, unemployed, precariously employed, and low-paid workers – recall Martin as responsible in bringing the state to economic ruin in 2008...

17Mar

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The IRA plan to kill Michael O’Dwyer

Irish national archives releases letter showing the close fraternal links between the Irish and Indian liberation movements. Lalkar writers Letter addressed to IRA chief of staff written in 1923 by an IRA man named Darley seeking approval to take action against Michael O’Dwyer, the inspirer of the Amritsar massacre. The anti-imperialist and revolutionary sentiments of the Irish people were on display in April when Ireland’s national archives published online a letter from an IRA man named Darley addressed to the IRA chief of staff in 1923. The letter asks for approval to take action against Michael O’Dwyer, the inspirer of the Amritsar massacre (Jallianwala Bagh). The National Archives of the Irish republic released a photograph of the letter to mark the 10...

17Mar

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Ireland

The Irish electorate cry out against austerity and bring reunification closer

The future is bright; the future is green. Lalkar writers Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald celebrates in Dublin after coming top of the polls. Sinn Féin won 37 of the 42 seats it contested, and gained the highest share of the overall vote. On Saturday 8 February, a general election took place in Eire (the Irish republic) and brought forth a quite amazing result. Sinn Féin, standing in just 42 of the 159 Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) seats being openly contested (the 160th goes to the speaker automatically), won 37 of them. This put the party in second place to Fianna Fáil (FF), which got 38, and ahead of Fine Gael (FG), which only got 35. The Irish Labour party sank almost without trace with six seats, and can no longer consider itself the third party in Ir...