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Irish workers held a vigil outside the Dail yesterday in protest at the supposed ending of the country’s bailout and regaining of national sovereignty.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny gave a state of the nation address yesterday hailing a new era in the country which has struggled through three years of austerity to hit the bailout targets demanded by the troika of international lenders — the EU, IMF and European Central Bank.
Ireland received the last of its €85 billion (£72bn) loan on Friday and Mr Kenny declared that the country was formally standing back on its own two feet yesterday.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
Hurricanes might have natural causes but the tragedy that follows is entirely human-made and a consequence of capitalist greed, asserts ROGER McKENZIE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare