Re-Generation Ireland

For the (re)generation of New Ireland based on an ethos of humanism and democratic socialism.

Entries for February, 2009

“The State of the Nation”

For Brian Cowen, who couldn’t.

Two hundred anxious and angry people met in a hotel in Dublin last Saturday (21st February) at a seminar sponsored by the PES and the Irish Labour Party. They were Labour members and trade union activists from across Ireland who had come together to discuss the “State of the [Irish] Nation.” [...]

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Diary of An Activist: The Week that Was…

Having appeared, in aural format, on the UCC Campus Radio (98.3FM) politics show, ‘The Week that was’, it is only fair to title this latest entry in the same vein. As what a week it was indeed.
Monday 2nd of February opened with a mass movement inside the Union to get events ready for RAG Week [...]

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The Labour Party is recruiting (and reforming)!

In a long overdue and oft called for move, the Irish Labour Party has launched its National Month of Recruitment for February. Co-inciding with this is the opening of job applications for Youth Officer of the Labour Party. As the Red C polls show Labour stabilizing at 14% and FF/FG dropping 2% to 28% and [...]

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