The James Joyce Centre at 35 North Great George's Street is hosting a number of ticketed and non-ticketed events. The Joycean activities taking place on the day will include.

Only after seven long years in Ireland did Zainab Disu finally wade through the bureaucratic mire and secure some sort of stable status here. This bright and determined young woman talks to Colin Murphy.

Claims about grand conspiracies encompassing the entirety of the media are normally the domain of those decidedly on the margins of political life. For example, Morgan Stack, who ran on an “Irish 9/11 truth” ticket in the recent election, receiving 116 votes, frequently complains of media censorship by shadowy forces.

The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Peter Chin Fah Kui was obviously lying through his teeth in one of the most disappointingly lame interviews I've seen on the BBC News on the 11 June.

The attendance of President Mary McAleese at the Peace Park in Messines, Flanders, marking the deaths of Irishmen in the Great War is further proof of the political ecumenism developing in Ireland and is to be welcomed.  

It now appears  that a special conference of the Green Party will be held on Wednesday, 13 June,  to endorse or reject the party's programme for government with Fianna Fail and the PDs. It is now clear that no commitment has been given to end the use of Shannon airport by the US war machine.

Very large numbers were expected to attend a protest public meeting in Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday 12 June, regarding the possible sale of St Michael's hospital to private developers. The public meeting will take place at 8pm in the Kingston Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.
 

Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin Aodhan O Riordain is to honour Irish soccer international Olivia O Toole in her native Sheriff Street by unveiling a portrait and plaque of her in the local community hall.

The recent conviction of a coursing club of trapping hares without a license serves as yet another reminder that our hare population is threatened by a practise that involves netting and baiting these gentle creatures for “sport”.

 Today Saturday  I had the privilege to take part in the march in Dublin city centre to highlight the justifiable cause of Palestinian freedom which has been denied to them by the Israeli Apartheid regime.