On Wednesday (December 17th) the patronage for six new secondary schools in Dublin, Meath and Wicklow was announced. All six schools were awarded to the English-medium patron bodies Educate
Up to two dozen people attended a hastily arranged protest outside of the Herbert Hill apartment complex in Dundrum on Saturday (Dec 7th). The protest was organised by the local Éirígí ciorcal (branch) in response to
Liam Mellows was executed along with Joe McKelvey, Robert Barrett and Rory O’Connor on 8 December 1922. Their executions were justified as a reprisal for the killing of Pro-Treaty Cork TD, Seán Hales, the
The news that Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Council and the Department Of Housing have agreed to lease an entire apartment block from a vulture fund for the first time represents a dramatic and worrying
In the last twenty-four hours it has been reported that Glenveagh Properties has sold all 90 apartments in the Herbert Hill development in Dundrum to the German investment fund, Real IS. The purchase price
Rest easy fellow citizens, the horror of the housing crisis will soon be over! You million people who have been denied your right to affordable, secure homes can sleep easy tonight. Salvation is at hand!
An Gorta Mór, otherwise known as The Great Hunger, was the single most devastating and important event in Irish history. Over one million, predominantly Irish-language speaking men, women and children died of
Éirígí For A New Republic members and supporters joined the March For Irish Unity which took place yesterday (Sunday, November 24th). The route of the march crossed Britain’s border in Ireland when it
This week saw Avestus Capital / Richmond Homes lodge a new planning permission for a staggering 564 apartments in blocks up to eighteen stories high on a 1.54 hectare / 3.8 acre site in Sandyford.
Kathleen Lynn was one of the most prominent women to have been involved in the 1916 revolutionary period, but one who was largely ignored until recent times. Her life work as a socialist republican and a
