New ads not ‘hunky dory’

Last update: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 13:34 | By: Siún Ní Dhuinn

Aren’t Hunky Dorys advertisements the same as every other ad on the television and in the papers?

Níos mó faoin gcogadh in aghaidh na sceimhlitheoireachta

Last update: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 13:23 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Cé go bhfuil an cogadh san Afganastán ar siúl anois le níos mó ná naoi bliain, níl aon dhíospóireacht oscailte sna meáin cumarsáide faoi chuspóir buanach an chogaidh sin.

France and the death of Freud

Last update: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 13:22 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

French intellectual circles have been buzzing with the name of one outspoken philosopher: Michel Onfray. One of France’s best known and widely read philosophers, Onfray was born into a poor family and attended a Catholic school, where he was heavily indoctrinated into the ideology of Christianity. This unhappy experience led to his vehement rejection of the faith and its precepts.

Tagann an ghrian

Last update: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 11:29 | By: Le Siún Ní Dhuinn

Trí ghruamacht, dorchadas agus duairceas an tsaoil, tagann an ghrian.

The sun breaks through

Last update: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 11:28 | By: Siún Ní Dhuinn

From under the gloominess, darkness and depression of life, the sun breaks through.

Ireland’s sorry predicament

Last update: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 13:07 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions” – so spoke a morose Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Claudius was a usurper of power; a liar, a murderer and a cad. His sad realisation that the shadows of his nemesis were encroaching could well epitomise the sorry predicament of an entire nation, one that has overdosed on its own villainous fantasies. I’m talking of course of Ireland.

An fhírinne faoi chinedhíóthú sa Ruanda

Last update: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 13:07 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Is minic a chloistear faoi chinedhíothú sa Ruanda i 1994 agus de réir an scéal oifigiúil a chothaíonn róinnt scannáin ó Hollywood, tuigtear go raibh an tréibh Huto taobh thiar den slad.

We need to think for ourselves

Last update: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 13:41 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Given the plethora of scandals surrounding clerical sex abuse in Ireland, stretching right back to the foundation of the State, is it not time we came to terms with the Catholic Church in Ireland? Shouldn’t we overcome the appalling legacy of this institution?

Tá rud éigin níos drochthuarthaí ag tarlú anseo

Last update: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 13:40 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

De réir fóinsí oifigiúila d’fheallmharaigh ETA póilín francach le déanaí. Dúirt uachtarán na Fraince Nicolas Sarkozy an lá ina dhiaidh sin go raibh an grúpa ETA taobh thiar an dhúnmharú.

The problem with Belarus

Last update: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:19 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

There is no other nation in Europe so maligned and demonised as Belarus. Ever since former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice branded the democratically elected president of the country as “Europe’s last dictator” in 2008, the image and reputation of this noble country has been callously tarnished.

An fhírinne faoi an Chóiré Thuaidh

Last update: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:19 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Is minic a chloistear faoi bhagairt atá ag baint le Daon-Phoblacht Dhaonlathach na Cóiré. Déanann na meáin cumarsáide fíoriarracht ó am go chéile an tír sin a léiriú amhal is dá mba thír chontúirteach i gceist ansin. Deirtear go as a meabhar go hiomlán atá siad agus go bhfuil dúil orthu cogadh núicleach a fhearadh leis an domhan go léir!

The decline of the west

Last update: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 11:47 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Although it has received little to no attention in the European media, the military coup in Honduras last year is highly significant. When the country’s president Manuel Zelaya tried to put constitution reform to a national vote last year, generals trained in the infamous School of the Americas staged a coup, and Zelaya was kidnapped.

The most democratic place on the planet

Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:50 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Students, intellectuals, hu-man rights activists or anyone interested in understanding how a participative democracy works should consider a trip to Venezuela.

Festival fortnight ‘a great opportunity to experiment with Irish’

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:49 | By: Chinedu Onyejelem

A 12-day annual festival which aims to promote the use of Irish language across the world is set to start this weekend.

Coiriúlú an Easaontais san Aontas Eorpach

Last update: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 10:48 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Nuair a bhí mé ag taisteal timpeall na Veiniséala an t-seachtain seo caite, bhuail mé le roinnt daoine ón gColóim. D’fiafraigh mé an raibh aon tacaíocht i measc na daoine sa Cholóim do mhilíste Farc, fuerzas armadas revolutionarias de Colombia.

Viva la revolución!

Last update: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 00:09 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

This week I’m travelling in Venezuela, home to one of the most extraordinary political revolutions of our time. Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chávez has transformed politics in this oil-rich country.

Defending the tyrants

Last update: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 20:43 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

In this post-democratic age, any politician who defends democracy is denounced as a tyrant or dictator. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Ahmadinejad of Iran and many others have been consistently demonised in the western press for their ‘anti-democratic’ politics. And the reason for this is simple: all three leaders defend economic policies that favour the poor over the rich.

Uachtarán Obama: Bush le cara nua

Last update: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 20:42 | By: Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Le seacht bunáite mileata nua faoi thógháil i gColomóim, níos mó lastais d’airm á thraisloingiú chug Iosrael, anord agus sceimhlitheoireacht faoi lánseol san Iaráic agus an slogadh mileata meiricáneach is mó ó chogadh sa Vítneam san Afghanistáin, fuair Uachtarán na Stát Aontaithe Barack Obama an Duais Nobel san Oslo an tseachtain seo caite.

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