Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Pádraig Ó'Meiscill
Penname for Seán Prior
Irish Housing Network stand with homeless residents in protest of the eviction of twenty families from emergency accommodation in Dublin
Date: Tue, 2016-07-26 16:17
O’Connell St, July 22nd - amid Ireland’s worst housing crisis in decades, people gather outside Lynam’s hotel to protest the eviction of five homeless families, including ten children. Fifteen of the twenty families granted temporary shelter at the privately ran hotel have already been pushed out by DCC, and now find themselves forced living off the couches of friends and family. The remaining families who do not want to leave, deciding to take a stand against the apathy and cruelty shown to them by the Irish state now find themselves under huge strain and uncertainty as their quality of life hangs in the balance.
Resisting closed borders at the Ha'Penny bridge in Dublin
Date: Sat, 2016-02-27 14:11
27 Feb at the Ha’penny bridge, as part of a European-wide day of protest, a crowd gathered to make a public display of resistance against the closed borders and direct provision policies of Ireland. The people refuse to silently tolerate the way mothers, fathers, sons and daughters who find themselves attempting to escape war and/or poverty are treated by and in our comparatively affluent society.
Two climate activists hunger strike at Dail in election week
Date: Thu, 2016-02-25 14:15
On Kildare street this week, two climate activists have been helping inject a taste of sober reality into a week filled with faux-politics and pantomime electioneering. Nils Sundermann and Phil Kearney began a five day hunger strike on Monday in an effort to draw attention to an issue, which whilst one of the most pressing of our times, has failed to make it into the election discussions in any serious way.
