That's Limerick City kid.

At long long last, SSY’s favourite comedy hip hop outfit The Rubberbandits are getting the recognition beyond their Limerick empire that they deserve. Their single Horse Outside looks set to beat boring X Factor winner Lazy Decorator to the Irish Christmas number 1 spot.  They’ve earned the support of Fianna Fail politician and erstwhile hash dealer Willie [...]

Really remembering the consequences of war

Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day when we stop for a moment of silence, or watch veterans’ parades, or wear red poppies on our tops “to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts”. It was originally named the Earl Haig Appeal [...]

Millions of Europeans on strike and in the streets

You might not have noticed yesterday, what with the UK news much more concerned about what high paid cushy job David Miliband will be getting next, but across Europe millions of people were on strike and in the streets to protest the austerity policies of the EU governments. Just like the ConDem government here, governments [...]

What's an appropriate salary for being a notorious public wankstain?

Michael O’Leary is the head of Ryanair, one of the richest men in Ireland, and loves nothing more than seeing his own name in the papers. The main job he does for his company is making ridiculous public statements about what cheapskates Ryanair are, like that they might start charging you to use the toilet [...]

Glasgow gets its own Public Assemblies Bill

Glasgow City Council are poised to bring in new legislation that could effectively ban public processions and demonstrations from the city centre, among other draconian measures which together form an unashamed attack on democratic rights in the city. As we reported earlier this year, this comes as part of their much trumpeted drive  to cut [...]

"Have a bike round the head ya cunt…"

Nationalist youth hate the polis more than they love their bikes If you’ve seen News 24 over the past few days, you’ve probably noticed that something strange is afoot in Belfast: everyone’s been infected with the rage virus and started fighting with da cops, employing such deadly weapons as planks, slabs and bikes (decommissioning has [...]

From Derry to Gaza: no more state massacres, no more state cover-ups!

As one inquiry into state-sponsored murder ends, another begins. The former being Tuesday’s eventual publication of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday – when British paratroopers massacred 14 unarmed civilians at a Civil Rights demonstration in Derry in January 1972. The intervening forty years have seen countless smear campaigns against the victims and their families, [...]

The Rubberbandits (They're in the RA)

Every now and then a musician or band comes along which redefines how we enjoy music, how it relates to our lives and how we interpret the world around us and the people who live in it with us. The Rubberbandits are not that band. They are two guys from Limerick who wear plastic bags [...]

Ulster gets sexy

First Gerry Adams reveals his father was a child abuser and calls for his brother to come out of hiding and hand himself in to the police. Now it’s been revealed a 19 year old toyboy has been firing into Iris Robinson, the Christian fundamentalist wife of Democratic Unionist Party First Minister Peter Robinson. And [...]