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Connolly Festival 2008 Liberty Hall Friday 22nd February 7 – 9 pm Will a Democrat in the White House bring peace? - Kate Fitzgerald Chair of Democrats Abroad Ireland - Mary Van Lieshout US Citizens Against the War - Ruairi Quinn T.D. Saturday 23rd February 11 – 1 “The Shock...

Just a reminder that this is taking place tonight at 7pm in the ATGWU Hall in Middle Abbey Street - everyone is welcome

Bob Doyle who fought for democracy and against Facism during the Spanish Civil War will be speaking at this years Connolly Festival. The festival takes place from Friday March 23rd to Saturday March 24th in the ATGWU Hall in Middle Abbey Street. The full timetable is as follows: Friday March...

Just a reminder that the Connolly Festival takes place this weekend starting at 8pm in the Teachers Club and all day Saturday starting at 10. Everyone is very welcome to come along and have your say

These are all fair points that are been raised. Basically the speakers will not be debating such things as should same sex couples continue to be discriminated against and treated as second class citizens? We are starting from the point of assuming that equality is what we want. It would be...

Some good points raised. I I agree with you that in fact most priests are to varying degrees probably good eggs, people who joined up because they wanted to serve God and their communities and so forth. The issue isn't with the individuals involved, it is more with the institution. Much...

Yes but when issues like abortion and divorce referendums arise then the Chruch kicks into full swing and issues letters from the Bishops which are read out at every mass telling people how to vote. Yes not every priest is a rotten egg - there's good ones out there like Peter Mc Verry who an...

Good question about getting speakers with opposing views - and the answer is yes we could ask them. But for example those who are pro life or against same sex marriage all ready have all main political parties lining up on their side along with the Catholic Church which has weekly meetings...

Well exactly. I was going out with someone a few years ago who knew I was interested in politics. Well he wasn't the slightest bit interested in politics himself but was anxious to make a good impression with me so the poor guy sat in on Monday night watching Questions and Answers...

I'm not convinced that young people aren't interested in politics. For a start just look at activism in Ireland at the moment and a lot of the campaigns and initiatives that have taken place over the last few years. Many of these initiatives have been organised by young people or certainly...

BTW I think comments about the aesthetics of Labour Youth members are pretty irrelevant and superficial.... I know your just having a laugh.... but the insinuation that politics has anything to do with aesthetics is what you'd expect to find on a young pds site ... not on a slightly alternative...

Fair question. Its all a bit hypothetical what would Connolly be doing if he were alive today. You could suppose that he might be in a whole range of left parties or just as likely would be setting his own up. And of course he wouldn't support a FG led government - but neither does Labour Youth...

Connolly was very clearly in his life time on the side of anti imperialist struggles and on the side of liberation particulary in relation to women. So of course there was no boycott Coke campaign at the time but he was one of the stongest advocates of international solidarity between workers...

A weekend of discussion and debate is taking place (Friday June 16th - Saturday June 17th) on topics including: Same Sex Marriage Boycott killer coke Pro Choice Activism Boycott Killer Coke US Military out of Shannon Shell 2 Sea For more information please see...