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Broadcaster, historian and Irish Republican Éamonn Mac Thomáis tours his favourite parts of historical Dublin in the 1979 TV series 'Dublin - A Personal View'.

A TG4 produced documentary on the conflict between the personalities of trade union leader Jim Larking and millionaire employer William Martin Murphy.

British government officials remained “willfully blind” to the massacre of tens of thousands of dissidents in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe in order to protect the UK’s political and business interests in the violence-wracked country, new research claims. According to thousands of documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws by Dr. Hazel Cameron, a lecturer in international relations […]

Over a two year time span, South African Claudine Van Wyk lost three beloved family members in a series of gruesome farm attacks in the troubled African nation. Her story is hardly unique. The horrendous violence that has become so common in South Africa is a terror that even Crossborder violence or irrational violence against […]

A fascinating new map shows the routes trams took across the capital in Victorian London The interactive map gives fresh insight into the late 19th century tram network which ceased running completely in 1952. Experts have mapped the routes used in the Victorian era and revealed stark differences with major routes used in modern London. A detailed image […]

Ever wonder why no African Nations manage to get to the final stages of World Cup competitions? Could it be that Europe is once again indulging in colonisation and stealing Africa's best talent?   Is it any wonder African nations struggle to get their countries on a firm stable footing or to achieve on the world stage, when their citizenry are constantly being raided by high minded Europeans who groom talented citizens of African nations, with promises of wealth, fame and fortune to come to Europe for free handouts. Is it any wonder African are happy to sell their grandmother and risk their lives on a Kalergi boat across the Med with human traffickers?

Greece's parliament on Wednesday began a debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin. "These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece," parliament chairman Nikos Voutsis told reporters this week. The chamber is expected to approve later Wednesday, with cross-party support, a resolution calling on the government of Premier Alexis Tsipras "to take all the necessary diplomatic and legal steps to claim and fully satisfy all the demands of the Greek state stemming from World War I and World War II". A parliamentary committee last year determined that Germany owes Greece at least €270 billion for World War I damages and looting, atrocities and a forced loan during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Reclaiming war reparations has been a campaign pledge by Tsipras since 2015. He faces multiple electoral challenges this year, with his party trailing in polls. 'Historical responsibi

In today’s world of mollycoddled and spoilt millennials, it is unfathomable to imagine the horrors and despair of the trenches and battlefields in the First and Second World Wars. However this inability to understand the importance of what took place and to nonchalantly allow all and sundry to walk in and settle in your country […]

The film looks at inner city tenements, a proposed high rise scheme in Ballymun and the difficulties encountered by those seeking houses in Dublin. The report includes interviews with young families trying to get homes including a couple who have been forced to live in a caravan. One young mother describes the problem of trying to get a house in Ireland. The problem is so grave that emigration may be the only option. Reporter Cathal O’Shannon is in Ballymun where a new housing development is being built. He outlines the circumstances which might see an individual rent a local authority dwelling. Denis Larkin the chairman of Dublin Corporation Housing Committee explains the problems the Corporation has had in the past and what it is now trying to achieve. A married couple describe their efforts to get a home and the difficulties they face on a caravan site. Cathal O’Shannon’s report continues with figures for house building and numbers on the Dublin Corporation housing list. One man interviewed, who does not qualify under the statutory regulations, describes how he now finds himself back in his mother’s two-bedroom home with his wife and children. The report ends with Denis Larkin describing the hopes Dublin Corporation have for the construction of new homes and reductions on the housing list. He stresses the need for more land to build on and more resources at government level. This episode of ‘Newsbeat’ was broadcast on 19 May 1966.

A look at the critical state of public housing in Dublin in 1964. Reporter John O’Donoghue talks to people who are being moved from their city centre homes to new houses in the suburbs. The film opens with a row of dilapidated cottages in Dublin city centre. Reporter John O’Donoghue describes how people have been moving out of these cottages to new homes. There are various shots of run down Georgian houses in Dublin. John O’Donoghue talks with women who are being moved out of their city centre homes which have been condemned and with families who are being housed in an army barracks by the Dublin Health Authority. They describe the conditions they are living in and their chances of getting a home of their own. John O’Donoghue talks to one man who moved out of the barracks because of the conditions there and is now living in a tent to protest at the lack of housing in Dublin. A woman describes how she and her husband moved back from England but has not been able to get a house and now two of her children are sick in hospital. The final part of the film looks at newly built corporation houses in Finglas and talks to the residents who have moved there from the city centre. The families speak about their new lives and new homes.

In this video I will show you one of the many ways to say I want to in Irish. Is mian liom is one of those ways and I will explain the pronunciation as well as giving you some simple but useful phrases that you can use throughout the day. Slow and clear pronunciation along with subtitles to help you.

In a classic example of cold meticulously planned genocide, this deal with the devil is a horror story that is being played out time and again in the rural heartland of all European Nations. The Irish example, with its upcoming referendum on Abortion, clearly illustrates and exemplifies the rape and destruction of Europeans, in exchange for Coin, disguised as the "moral high road". This well practiced act of crime against humanity, that is being inflicted upon the very defenseless, well meaning citizens of European nations is nothing other than Selling out Kith, Kin and Country for Coin or False Virtue.

TWO IRISH FAMILIES LIVING UNDER NEW KILKENNY BRIDGE. Kilkenny local radio interviewed 2 families sleeping out rough in tents under the new Kilkenny city St. Francis Bridge on the CAS route, one from Kilkenny, one from Athlone, whilst 60 alleged "refugees" were given their own lovely new permanent houses in Kilkenny with all the trimmings.

In this video I will explain what the Irish is for Church, Priest, Candle and lots more, slow and clear pronunciation along with subtitles to help you. Learn Irish words and phrases to describe religion and the church as well as a wonderful bonus word at the end of the video.

Amidst a crisis in the health sector, the HSA seems to have found time and money to arrange for the selling off of our heritage. The title of the old St Felims Hospital sited on 11.32 acres on the old Belturbet Road out of Cavan Town, along with its cemetery, is in the process of being "regularised" with a view to selling it to the private sector, the HSE has confirmed. The HSE is currently working with a solicitor and the Property Registration Authority with a view to "regularising title" for the St Felim’s property. It is expected that this process will take some time and it is unlikely to be achieved before 2019 at the earliest.