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Fiach Moriarty – Revolution

Dublin singer songwriter Fiach (he’s married to music) writes:

“The song is about revolution in general. The idea came from the Arab Spring when all that kicked off with people using social media. It brought to mind my own childhood revolutionary stance….”

Fight!

And you might like this for bedtime.

Fiach Moriarty

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This afternoon.

Windmill Lane, Dublin

Leah writes:

The demolition of the iconic Windmill Lane studio took place yesterday and plans have been made to develop residential, office and retail units due to the site being purchased by Hibernia REIT in May of last year. Artists who recorded in the Windmill Lane studio include Van Morrisson, The Rolling Stones and Sinead O’Connor but the studios were best known for recordings carried out by U2, especially the Joshua Tree album

(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

margaret-heffernan-iMargaret Heffernan, Dunnes Stores CEO

Mandate Trade Union report that workers who took part in the strike have been sacked and others have had their hours drastically cut by management at the stores.The union highlighted a case of dismissal less than 24 hours after the strike where a manager told a worker “the business isn’t there” despite workers with less service and who hadn’t been on strike remaining in employment.

Dunnes sacking workers who joined strikes, union says (Newstalk 106-108 FM)

Dunnes Stores Shamefully Sack Workers For Striking (SWP)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5RD90o3WA

Recently posted by the Monty Python YouTube channel – the ‘find the fish’ segment from The Meaning Of Life (1983).

The film was the last to feature all six original Pythons and all six appear as fish here. Thirty two years ago.

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