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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
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For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link Town Councillor Who Asked Questions About 300 Migrants in a Hotel is ?Reported to Police? for ?Stirr... Mon Jul 28, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
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offsite link The State Will Do Anything But Fix the Migrant Crisis Mon Jul 28, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
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Car crashes and Pat Kenny's road rage

category national | arts and media | opinion/analysis author Wednesday February 11, 2009 23:29author by Paul O' Sullivanauthor email paulosullivan01 at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Oh, Pat. We really can't stand you now.

Many described Pat Kenny interviewing Pete Doherty as car-crash TV. But it wasn’t just any road traffic accident. These were Formula One class machines hurtling into the barrier after a long straight. The sentiment was akin to watching Jamie Theakston’s accident knowing nobody had died but quite easily could have, in a manner of speaking.

Many have described Mr. Doherty as doe-eyed. Caught in the headlights is an oft bandied phrase. Beneath the brightest lights in Donnybrook last Friday night what else could he have been.

So, in he walks, a man globally renowned for his creative, artistic and lyrical talent. A ground-breaker in his field, a man whose passion for what he does is so infused with his other occupations - the ‘vicious circle’ as he has described it during other interviews –that definition and clarity is nigh impossible (for the sake of clarity, Pat Kenny is the other guy.) And within nine minutes he finds himself subject to probing warranting a cushion-less couch.

A poster on www.boards.ie, who evidently dislikes Mr. Doherty, questioned what one would ask about aside from the rather easy, fickle and mundane topics media at large is so concerned with. Well, what would a champion of the Arts know most about? Straight forward enough.

The orbit of Jonathan Ross’s most recent interview with Mr. Doherty was on the same plane as that conducted on The Late Late Show, though Mr. Ross’s patronising paternalistic guardian role considerably softened the accident’s impact. Perhaps he reviewed tapes of Uncle Gay offering a cloak of protection from the wicked world to Sineád O’ Connor.

The point is that a key to journalism – in the broadest sense of the term - is impartiality. A journalist is a vessel of sorts; a person with the wherewithal to eek out the essence of a story, and carry that story to the audience. It is not in the journalist’s professional remit to be swayed by personal ideas, opinions, judgements or conclusions - in Mr. Kenny’s interview he has quite clearly exposed his own moral judgement on the lifestyle that his guest/interviewee/victim has chosen to lead.

And what ever became of Friday night light-heartedness. In the formula celebrities provide entertainment while commentators, politicians and activists weigh in with the meatier material. Which would an audience prefer if the roles were reversed, Mr. Kenny being engaged on his passion for politics and current affairs, or unfortunate petty land wrangles?

Beneath the stained hands, extraordinary dress and aloofness in conversation is an authentic creative spirit. I will refrain from drawing comparisons. Such judgement tend to be provocative, only to say that credit is due to Mr. Kenny for mentioning Pete Doherty and Shane McGowan in the same breath, and also distinguish between them. But this was small mercy in what was otherwise a merciless, ignorant and intentionally procrastinated provocation.

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