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[Flash Fiction] Miley’s Purgatory
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Miley from Glenroe dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. He’s met by St Peter who offers him a fat bowl of DMT straight from the inside of Salvadore Dali’s skull. Intrigued? Read on gentle reader… Wasn’t it that Prince Valiant fellah that once said “To [...]
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rabble 5 – Take Five!
1. Dublin’s Little Feckers They come in all shapes and sizes. Big ones, little ones, snotty-nosed, lazy-eyed, gap-toothed or freckle speckled. Cheeky chungfellas and yobby young ones that shout after you as your dog drags you along the street. Halloween belongs to them, a festival of chaos punctuated with bangers, stolen pallets [...]
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The Sun Always Shines On #Vinb
A Festival of Cruelty curated by as pure a curmudgeon as ever sprang from Eire’s grassy hills. Culturalfatwa looks beyond the haranguing to the true message of Tonight with Vincent Browne. By any measure Tonight with Vincent Browne at the unearthly hour of 11pm on TV3 is a weird yet wonderful phenomenon. In fact, in [...]
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Lessons Drawn From Our History
We got mad excited when word got to us that Paddy Lynch and Rory McConville were scribbling away on a graphic novel about the Lock Out. The wait is over and it’s been launched in The Workman’s Club this Thursday. We caught up with the lads for some background on the comic. Oh and to [...]
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rabble Fundit Update 5: Win Tix To Boomtown 8th-11th August 2013
Become a rabble Fund:it supporter and you could win two tickets to the UK’s most mental festival, the one and only Boomtown. Remember last year we teamed up with the festival organisers to bring you the Boomtown Banter Battle? Well, this year, upon hearing rabble was in a financial pickle they stepped up with tickets to [...]
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Class Dismissed: Marking The Lock Out
When the next issue of rabble returns from the printers, we will be well into 2013. While the country may be plastered with billboards encouraging you to bring your ‘Uncle Sam’ home for The Gathering next year, to many of us 2013 is first and foremost about the centenary of the Dublin Lockout . Donal [...]
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A gombeen-Nation once again
Gombeen (gƊm ‘bi:n). Anglo-Irish. Usury. Chiefly attrib., as Gombeen-Man, a money-lender, usurer; so also gombeen-woman. Hence gom’beenism, the practice of borrowing or lending at usury. The 19th-century term Gom’beenism, the practice of borrowing or lending at usury, is increasingly referenced in relation to Ireland’s domestic economic practices. Conor McCabe takes a look at [...]
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Squat’s That All About? Quick Report From Manor Street.
Word broke out around three o’clock today that there was an eviction taking place on Manor St. This rabbler slurped down the last of his coffee and sprinted over to the hipster side of D7 to find out what was going on. Not much to be honest when I got there. The cops had long [...]
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Youth Defence and Short Memories.
Bias! Censorship! Omerta! It’s been interesting to watch reaction to the Gosnell case both here and across the Atlantic. Naturally, a big effort is being made to link this to forthcoming X case legislation and this is of course typical bullshit from the very people who would, and do, drive women into dangerous situations as Carole [...]
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Postcards from the Parish Pump
The Irish Election Literature blog showcases the perverse nature of opportunism and spinelessness which runs deep in many who court our vote. Barry Gruff finds out more from its curator Alan Kinsella. It is fair to say most people don’t hold on to election flyers and leaflets for too long, before filing them to the [...]
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Gotta Pay The Bills!
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Our Fund:it ends on Monday May 27th – details here. Yeeow!!
We’re into the final stretch. It all ends on Monday morning at approximately 11am. So it’s time to donate and share good folks! We’re not home yet, but the final furlong is in sight. We need your support not more than ever. Share early, share often – let’s get word about what we are [...]
It’s not Prendeville but Corkonians who are racist.
In an interesting twist to the ongoing debate about Neil Prendeville’s latest foray into the immigration debate, UTV has offered it’s support for the controversial shock-jock and blamed Cork listeners for racist overtones. rabble contacted UTV Radio, which holds the broadcasting licence for Cork96FM – Prendeville’s station – following the controversy which was whipped up by [...]
Artane: suffer little children
At last night’s ‘rabble Babble’, Conor McCabe spoke about the historic importance of alternative and independent media in Ireland. Much of our society and history has it’s narrative framed by the institutional press, for example the Irish Times, Irish Independent and Irish Press. We have learned in recent years what was not known before, the [...]
rabble Fund:it Update 7: Less than 10 days left!!!
Right, so we’ve blown away the cobwebs from last nights rabble Babble and mocked up this sketch of what our Fund:it merch is going to look like. Any ideas on what to put on the tshirt? There’s lots of reasons to support this Fund:it, not only are there ace rewards on to go – but there’s a [...]
MAD Spy vs Spy
A bizarre story breaking from Moscow as Russia’s secret police, the FSB, has detained a US diplomat claiming he is a CIA agent attempting to recruit a Russian spy. Ryan Fogle (pictured) is a third secretary at the US Embassy. The FSB maintains he was captured in possession of ‘technical equipment and disguises’ as well [...]
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