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Eamon McCann

Vigorous opposition: anti-cuts protesters drum up support while Alex Maskey and Sinn Fein decided against rejecting the Bill

Getting blood from a stone while the fat cats roam free

De Valera never said that "Labour must wait". Not in so many words. But he might as well have. Similarly, Alex Maskey hasn't exactly declared that "welfare recipients must wait". But that's what his words mean.

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Less well-off will pay for a crisis they did not create

Friday, 5 October 2012

A measure which will inflict severe damage on some of the least well-off in our society was introduced at Stormont last Monday. Hardly anyone noticed.
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Ulster Covenant had as much to do with class as constitution

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Mcclaw must be a Home Ruler, no matter what he says or thinks." William Mcclaw was standing as an Independent Unionist in South Antrim in 1910. He was against Home Rule. But the Newsletter of the day wasn't about to be confused by a detail of that sort.
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Tiny minds leave McIlroy without a sporting chance

Friday, 21 September 2012

There is no neutral corner, Rory ... just go and ask Barry the Brit." Thus the back-page headline in last weekend's Irish Mail on Sunday above a typically sprightly piece by Joe Brolly.
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Are frontline carers carrying can for care home cutbacks?

Thursday, 13 September 2012

It emerged last week that the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) has suspended a number of employees following allegations of maltreatment of residents at a Derry care home.
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Are we so proud of adoption sham we need to export it?

Thursday, 6 September 2012

Gays along the Danube are asking for equality, but the man from Belfast has something to say about it. Attorney General John Larkin isn’t happy at moves to give gay and lesbian couples in Austria the right to adopt.
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Two-faced tradition proudly upheld by Irish republicans

Friday, 31 August 2012

Enda Kenny has taken a battering for his suggestion, at the annual Michael Collins commemoration, that the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin had a meeting with the Big Fellow to take counsel over matters of finance and economic development.
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Galloway's rape claims no help to war crimes victims

Friday, 24 August 2012

There is no excuse for George Galloway. Even if it turns out - as well it might - that Julian Assange is entirely innocent of the allegations against him, Galloway's remarks about rape will remain indefensible.
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How a punk band could be Putin's strongest opposition

Friday, 17 August 2012

Pussy Riot have been accused of blasphemy but may have saved the soul of music, and even rediscovered revolution for Russia.
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Even I had to utter phwoar at this Olympic spectacle

Friday, 10 August 2012

Still a bit of time to go. You can never tell. The Games could yet be remembered mainly for the riots. Certainly they'll be remembered for the BBC commentaries. If cheerful gush were an Olympic sport, the Beeb would be as far ahead in medals as New Zealand is ahead of Australia.
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Why this road is taking us all in the wrong direction

Friday, 3 August 2012

So upgrading two sections of the A5 will create "as many as 800 jobs"? Maybe. Tuesday's announcement that the project had been given the go-ahead offered no indication of how the figure had been arrived at.
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If we don't care for carers they can't care for the old

Friday, 27 July 2012

Old people just grow lonesome / Waiting for someone to say, 'Hello in there, hello.'" So wrote the poet and singer John Prine. He might have had the levels of homecare provision in mind.
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These whizz kids get gold even when they're useless

Friday, 20 July 2012

'I hope the next time any of our Assembly politicians consider privatisation, or are tempted to lambast public sector workers, that they remember three simple digits - G4S."
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UK Olympics are the deadliest games in town

Friday, 13 July 2012

They haven't armed the traffic wardens with Uzis yet, but the way things are going, don't rule it out. Olympic preparations already in place include an aircraft carrier parked on the Thames, surveillance drones flittering in the skies and an 11-mile electrified fence around a 'safe zone' reinforced with squads of special forces and 55 teams of attack dogs.
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Julian Assange has done us all a service. He needs support

Friday, 6 July 2012

Sympathy seems in short supply for Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks currently holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

Show of hands not enough to end sectarian divisions

Friday, 29 June 2012

Don't believe the hype. Martin McGuinness's handshake with the Queen yesterday was not designed to bring us together, but to encourage us to live contentedly apart.
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Lessons falling on deaf ears of the punishment-hungry

Friday, 22 June 2012

In the event that the Court of Appeal quashes Mr Holden's conviction, both he and his family are grateful that they are dealing with an appeal hearing and not a posthumous pardon."

How Catholic Church is no longer centre stage in Ireland

Friday, 15 June 2012

Springsteen is more popular than Jesus. The Italian-Irish troubadour from New Jersey who still comes on with bags of cred after more than 30 years on the road has sold out two shows at Dublin's RDS arena next month.
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RAAD is no moral crusade, it's terrorism in a new guise

Friday, 8 June 2012

Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) is on a high. It has been able to interpret actions and statements in Derry over the past week from the PSNI, community workers and others as implicit - if obviously unintended - endorsement of its role.

Abortion or life: don't people have the option of deciding?

Friday, 1 June 2012

In a flight of dark fancy spectacular even by their own standards, Precious Life last month declared that four women from the Republic who had travelled to England for abortions had started down 'the slippery slope to the Nazi Holocaust'.
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World must open its eyes and see Israel for what it is

Friday, 25 May 2012

Why pick on Israel when there's so much injustice in the rest of the world? The answer is to be found in the specific circumstances which gave rise to the launch of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign in July 2005.
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