This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
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IF THERE is one thing worse than a lie, its persisting in a lie. And if there is one thing more stupid than persisting in a lie, its persisting in it when everyone else knows it’s a lie.
But this seems to be the Tory strategy over austerity.
Theresa May told this year’s Tory Party conference that austerity was over. She was unlikely to be believed by anyone with a memory long enough to remember that the Tories had said the same thing a year earlier… and the year before that.
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