LISBON – threat and treaty, nothing new

In the very first “exercise in democracy” in the newly established Irish Free State, the people of Ireland went to the polls to vote in the 1923 General Election, crystal clear in the knowledge that if W.T. Cosgrave’s “pro-Treaty” Cumann Na Gael failed to get elected as the new government, Britain would unleash it’s military might on the country, in what Downing Street solemnly promised would be a “terrible war”.

EDUCATION – Reverse the Cuts Now

The cuts introduced in the recent budget are, most certainly, the biggest attack on education in over 20 years and, very probably,  the most savage since the foundation of the state.