Dun Laoghaire's premiere pizza spot.

This machine can make a pizza in 3minutes. There are two tables and chairs and Dun Laoghaire shopping centre advertise it as a restaurant.

Guns Kill People.

Washington Post Journalist Todd Lindeman has compiled this graph to illustrate violent deaths in America by age and cause. The results are shocking. I don't know how the vast majority of people don't see through the NRA. It explains a lot about the power of lobby groups like them in America.

Continued State Prejudice: The Irish Travelling Community.

Wrote this a while ago for www.swp.ie 

In this article I want to examine the development of the state’s attitude towards the Irish Travelling Community and by doing that look at the relationship between settled and travelling communities.

Much like anti-working class discrimination, Traveller discrimination seems to be an acceptable form of prejudice in modern Ireland. In everyday society words like ‘tinker’ or ‘pikey’ seem to be thrown around as if there is nothing wrong with these sweeping insults. In Dublin city centre it is a common thing for pubs and clubs to refuse to serve travellers and people are often asked to leave