We continue from last week, with our one gripe against the Cedar Lounge Comrades – and still recommend readers to avoid the Sunday Independent, with one exception.

Once again Gene Kerrigan is well worth reading, this time on the subject of corporate donations :

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/

I can understand right-wing people reading the Sunday Independent, but cannot relate to lefties who insist on referring us all to a poorly researched, written and edited rag.

The Cedar Lounge site  is a great resource,

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/

but one regular column which should always be avoided is the “Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week”.

On the other hand Gene Kerrigan continues to write excellent articles every Sunday – surrounded by a media dung-heap :

and I strongly recommend this :

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/gene-kerrigan-enda-wants-a-nicer-cabin-on-the-titanic-2586302.html

Let’s hope ULA TD’s follow this up!

Tomás Ó Flatharta reports on this event, adding some impressions – other readers and attenders might like to add some words.

United Left Alliance post-election Rally: Why We Need A New Left Alternative

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/unite-left-alliance-post-election-rally-why-we-need-a-new-left-alternative/#comment-94327

Four of the five United Left Alliance TD’s spoke (Séamus Healy of South Tipperary was the only absentee).

Eddie Conlon (People Before Profit/Campaign for an Independent Left) chaired.

The room was packed – I estimate an attendance of more than 300.

The chairperson warned speakers to keep within 10 minutes, and to avoid repetition.  That way, more time would be available to contributors in the audience. Read the rest of this entry »

Peter King – a United States CongressPerson with Irish connections is going to hold Hearings which “will go ahead amid fears that they could whip up a McCarthyite-style hysteria against American Muslims”

See more here :

http://thebrokenelbow.com/2011/03/09/peter-king/

All civilised people in Ireland should denounce this nasty  Emerald Isle-American racism.

We prepare for St Patrick’s Day.

Deputy Enda Kenny the taoiseach will be in the White House with the US President to drown the shamrock on March 17.

Mr King, according to Ed Moloney, is fomenting ” a campaign of hate against American Muslims every bit as toxic and harmful as that which engulfed the Irish in Britain some thirty years ago.”

The editors are still gathering thoughts at this site, and found articles that are worth reading (we also had to plough through some awful rubbish).

Let us begin with a surprisingly positive piece from the right-wing Dublin tabloid, the Evening Herald :

History in the making as poster boy Boyd Barrett and hard left triumphs –

NEW FACES: ‘We won’t be doing any deals’

http://www.herald.ie/opinion/cormac-murphy-history-in-the-making-as-poster-boy-boyd-barrett-and-hard-left-triumphs-2559394.html

Harry Browne in the American radical magazine Counterpunch suggests :

Same Old, Same Old at the Top, But …

Irish Election Makes Room for the Left Read the rest of this entry »