Rumours are circulating that there is a demonstration planned at Dublin Pride by Cóir or related organisations against the Dublin Pride Parade and/or protesting the Civil Partnership Bill 2009. Stewards attending training for the Pride Parade were informed that there had been two sources of information regarding the planned protests and that there would be [...]
Tags:Demonstration (people)·Dublin·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Ireland·Pride parade
I was lucky enough to see Mat Fraser perform most of his new show ‘From Freak To Clique’ when he visited Dublin in December. I’m delighted to hear he will be back again this Thursday at the Axis in Ballymun with a full production and think you should go see him because he’ll wreck your [...]
I was intrigued but not surprised on Saturday night to read Cllr Dermot Looney’s blog about wanting to bring Dublin Pride to Tallaght. I have long had difficulties with the Dublin Pride March and it’s lack of message and meaningless ending in a scuttle down the back of of Wood Quay hidden from everyone. South [...]
Tags:Dublin·Dublin City Council·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Gay Pride·Ireland
There is a nasty little spat underway between the Church of Ireland and the Department of Education over the funding of Protestant schools. Dr. John Neill, the Bishop of Dublin and Glendalough, has spoken last night about how Protestant schools will be forced out of business due to last years education cuts. He asserts the [...]
Tags:Church of Ireland·Dublin·Education·Ireland·John Neill·Religion·Society and Culture
Lisa Connell is standing as an Independent LGBT Candidate in Dublin South West Inner City/Dublin 8 area of Dublin City Council. Lisa is not the first independent LGBT candidate to contest an election in Ireland – the first I believe was Liz Noonan who ran as a Lesbian Feminist Candidate in 3 Dáil elections in [...]
Tags:Dublin·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·LGBT·LGBT social movements·Lisa Connell·Tonie Walsh
Déirdre De Búrca a name too hard for a url? Instead we get WhatIStandfor.ie for the Green’s Candidate for the Dublin Constituency in the European Parliament Elections. We also get an interesting spelling of thousands according to this picture of Senator De Búrca’s billboard in today’s Irish Times. Senator De Búrca launched her campaign yesterday [...]
‘If we decide to wallow in sea of doubt don’t be suprised if we remain in the turbulent waters we are in today…’ Brian Cowen, Dublin February 5 2009 What you mean you missed it again? Don’t worry you are not a completely incompetent media consumer – An Taoiseach Brian Cowen spoke without a script [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Dublin·Podcast·State of the Nation·Taoiseach
You might realise that there is a culinary blogger trying to break out of this keyboard from time to time and many thanks to the team behind the wonderful CheapEats.ie for allowing me to write about some recommendations and wants in terms of restaurants and food in Dublin’s City Centre. The website is a brilliant [...]
Tags:Blog·Dublin·Food·Restaurant
Since the crash/collapse of property prices in Dublin and the rest of the country there’s been a bit of a problem with affordable housing. It’s wasn’t affordable anymore. While there are several thousand people on the waiting list (Including yours truly) nobody is buying anything. The difference between the market price and the affordable price [...]
Tags:Affordable Housing·Dublin·Dublin City Council·Public housing
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