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Issue #10 Summer 2015 Published Whenever FREE. rabble aims to create a space for the passionate telling of truth, muck- raking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority. INSIDE. The Iveagh Trust Donal Fallon looks at co-operative housing in Ireland way back when... Follow The Piper Harry Bradley fills us in on how uptight arseholes screwed up trad... Smithfield Does the Horse Fair belong here anymore? READ ABOUT DR. SHEEHY Poetry How angry verse is SKEFFINGTON'S channeling the mood of DISCRIMINATION the nation... CASE AT NUIG. Comics Swag Zero Hours Harry Hangover returns once Stock up on rabble goodies Find out how McDonald's had again to ruin your Monday. before we go all corporate innit! its ass whooped in New Zealand. 2 {THE RANT} the psyche of the nation withers away. Keep I Up! Workers from fucked over Dunnes staff to Dublin Bus are on increasingly political strikes, with support from all AS WE SIT HERE corners. Music seems to be heading SCRATCHING OUR HEADS back underground too, with tonnes of IN BEWILDERMENT AT interesting new venues, events and THE FACT THAT WE collectives organising shindigs in MANAGED TO MAKE TEN every corner of the country, legal and OF THESE RIDICULOUS otherwise. FUCKING THINGS, WHEN WE NEVER EVEN KNEW Everyone hates Penis O’ Brien. IF #RABBLE1 WOULD GET Everyone hates the cops. Nobody PAST OUR LATE-NIGHT, trusts the government. Nobody has ROUND-TABLE, MASHBAG any money. The curious sense of {EYE} DISCUSSIONS, THIS community and movement being born FUCKING MADHOUSE from these sad facts has certainly Never Give Up Hope OF A COUNTRY piqued our interest. BECOMES INCREASINGLY And all of this, ladies, gentlemen and Inspired by the punk attitude and the grey of Dublin in the 80's, Barry fell in love with fi lm photography. He UNPREDICTABLE, otherwise, is why we’re still at it. Back took off travelling the globe eking out a living however he could before returning to Dublin to settle down. LEAVING US TO WONDER in 2011 we saw a country in the shit, These days however, you may bump into him wielding a camera on the streets of Dublin, Limerick or Belfast. IF, JUST MAYBE, IT IS ALL with disparate groups of angry and He has been documenting them since the heights of the Celtic Tiger in 2007. His photos bear witness to the STILL TO PLAY FOR… unhappy people at a loss as to what to economic collapse and subsequent social fallout. As he says himself: “I never liked the Celtic Tiger, but do about their situations. Nowadays Shit’s gone wonky, there’s no doubt. certainly Dublin city has changed from the dark days of 2010. In fact I still see some of that swagger coming it looks as if they’re slowly but surely Chunks of land, public services and back, the underclass will always be there no matter how well the economy returns, but I always say never give fi guring things out, and realising that marginalised people, even work up hope”. and public transport are packaged even though it’s lurching dangerously off to slimy twenty-headed hydras astarboard and taking on water faster in heat, looking to hump anything than you can say “Siteserv”, we’re all For more of his work visit www.barrydelaney.ie that smells remotely like a “business in the same boat. investment”. Meanwhile, private The small part that rabble plays in the construction workers, under protection change of attitude from “boo hoo” to HIGHLIGHTS of our national police force, are being “fuck you”, we reckon, is well worth marched out of communities and Gombeen #10 the stress, deadline mania, lack of p6. Jasper Matthews neighbourhoods nationwide to chants social life and (literally) last minute catches up with Fran ON A PHOTO OP WITH STRIKING WORKERS of, “You can shove your water meters proof reading that goes on every time up your arse!”. Empty buildings in the Hartnett and Giles RECENTLY, OUR MINISTER FOR SOCIAL we try to give birth to this monstrosity. Armstrong. Two names DESTRUCTION JOAN BURTON REMINISCED portfolios of property speculators and So take so take a bundle and order a synonymous with Irish ABOUT HER YOUTH AS A CHECKOUT GIRL IN NAMA are being occupied at a very swag bag, get this out to your mates, Techno. DUNNES WHILE A JUNIOR UMBRELLA-HOLDER exciting rate. leave it in school or put it in the jax p8. Simon Price takes SHELTERED HER FROM POTENTIAL WATER The nation is about to vote on equal of your local, then go out and join in a look at how NUIG is BOMBS. marriage and fundamentalist weirdos the fun. utterly failing to Corrib Burton compared the Jobstown protesters that blocked her car to and the decrepit Catholic right gasp in Maybe the last hundred years have just sexism. fascists and her situation as similar to that of the Hooded Men tortured fear as the shadowy grip they had on been a bit of a breather after all... p10. Jamie Goldrick by British security forces during the Troubles. The remove at which dons his rain gear and has she stands from the troubles of many of her West Dublin constituency a very wet early morning is unfathomable. There are tens of thousands on zero start at Smithfi eld hour contracts and 11,000 companies Horsefair. using JobBridge in this country. p12. With the Celtic Phoenix me arse. A quick water war putting Daft search fi nds not a single the shits ups our gombeen elites, family home in her area under the Seamus L. Moore Rent Allowance cap she brought chatted to those in. Meanwhile the banks are turning the tables. applying for the fi rst of p14. Oireachtas Retort tens of thousands of looks back at how house repossessions. Regime Teilifi s Éireann In the week that 19 has been covering the were arrested in dawn Irish Water protests. raids, a young schoolboy, p22. Paul Herincx brings Amhra Carey, spoke at us to the heart of a thriving the Educate Together techno scene, a family of school iJoan visited. He producers and one sound addressed the double system that keeps it all taxation of water charges alive. and an unaccountable Irish p24. Sean Finnan chats Water behemoth. “This is to some heads making not a democracy, this doesn’t poetry a threat again. make any sense.” Illustration: Brian Burke, Redmonk, Cian Brennan, Paddy About us. Lynch, Patrick Murphy, Rob Stears, Luke Fallon, Catsmelodjan and Holly Pereira rabble is a non-profit, newspaper Photography: Al O’Neill, Barry Delaney, Nora Ó Murchú, AB from the city’s underground. It’s Cassidy, Chris Black, Beibhinn O 'Connor, Bob Jacques and collectively and independently run Ask us out at Muc and Fabio Barcellandi. Editorial Team: Darragh Lynch, James Redmond, Killian by volunteers. rabble aims to create www.rabble.ie Redmond, Jamie Goldrick, Paul Reynolds, Thom McDermott, Layout Lackies: Claire Davey, Thom McDermott & James a space for the passionate telling of Thomas McCarthy and Clare Davey. Redmond truth, muck-raking journalism and Words: Ciaran Milton, Donal Fallon, Jasper Matthews, well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate Distro Fairies: Alls y’alls. Yiz are stars. Oireachtas Retort, Paul Herincx, Seamus L. Moore, Sean authority. Finnan, Simon Price, Tommy Rash and David Fleming. Huge thanks to all our Workers Beer Crews. xxx Look Up mention of retail. A legal framework was even put in place for this which almost pulled in the National Museum's Decorative Chq i Arts Division. The restoration of Stack A cost €45 million. One economic crash and six years later it was sold for €10 million to Neville Isdell, a home-grown plutocrat and one-time CEO of the ever spotless Coca-Cola company. Mr Isdell immediately began to Shi Ou. put the building to good use remedying Dublin's serious lack of over-priced coffee shops. CHRIS MCCALL TAKES A LOOK AT A The Building’s website proudly announces it as “The Social FREE JACKS ON THE NORTH QUAYS AND Heart of the IFSC” - which probably explains why it is cold PROVIDES US WITH A COMPLEMENTARY and empty. It has class. Polished marble floors complete with PARABLE ON THE STATE WE’RE IN. original bare stone walls, lots of the old structure is visible and complimented with that “glass and steel everywhere” look a quickie everyone was on in the noughties. found myself on the North Wall during daylight with The empty, over-glazed retail units have full-height high- an hour to kill and a bladder to empty. I decided to look color posters containing buzzwords like “exclusive” and with... in to the CHQ Building for the craic. There wasn't any, “vibrant” to lure in posh shops. The centre is occupied by but at least I didn't have to pay to use the jacks. three or four upmarket franchise food vendors. The kind with THE ANNUAL EASTER WEEKEND COMMUNITY ICHQ was a wine and tobacco warehouse originally called shit puns in their name. Big-brand coffee shops are inevitable, Stack A, it opened in 1821 when Georgian Dublin was the They press themselves to the street-side entrance. That’s SKRATCH GAMES ARE DONE trade capital of the Empire. Stack A was a functional, fully where the money is. AND DUSTED. RASHERS TIERNEY stone building designed to outlast its mortgage; no wood was When not being used as an echoing cathedral of nothing CAUGHT UP WITH LIMERICK'S used in its construction so it couldn't catch fire and burn all or confusing tourists looking for Temple Bar it spends its DEVIANT FOR A CHINWAG ON that delicious American slave-tobacco.