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23/09/2020

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch Notes On Rave In Dublin go online for the first time as part of .

If you missed it, you can watch it (and the panel discussion) over on Youtube now.

We were delighted with the numbers and the amount of donations made to MASI – the Movement of Asylum Seekers.

To go that little bit further we've made available this once-off t-shirt to mark the project going online. All profits again going to support MASI's work in seeking justice and freedom for all asylum seekers.

Head over to www.notesonrave.ie to order.

17/09/2020

There's a bit of a last-minute Notes on Rave in Dublin: Online Screening happening for Culture Night tomorrow.

Register via Eventbrite to receive the screening links. In the spirit of Culture Night, it's all free - but there is an option to give a donation with all proceeds going to MASI - Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland!

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Notes On Rave In Dublin will be made available to view online for the very first time as part of !

18/02/2020

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin wanting to be boss of the Labour Party is causing flashbacks to when he was off playing the big man in America.

https://www.rabble.ie/2017/03/15/playing-the-big-man-in-america/

Aodhan Ó Ríordáin jets off to the States this week to try and crack America with his unique brand of hypocritical liberalism, trumpeting himself as an anti-racist icon in contrast to Trump’s polici…

12/02/2020

Right, anybody from London in this place?! Announcing Doc'n Roll UK Premiere: Notes on Rave in Dublin +Q&A and DJ set in the Castle Cinema on Saturday, 25th of April. There'll be a Q and A afterwards and a DJ set. Get on it mateys. And spread the word.

22/01/2020

Back in 2018 we met activists from the Aramark of Our Campus campaigns in Trinity and UCD who were running rolling pickets on campus canteens run by Aramark - a multinational company famous for profiting off private prisons in the US and Direct Provision centres closer to home - at the same time as they serve up scones to the well-heeled of Dublin in Avoca!

Two years later Trinity has decided to cut its contract with Aramark. Direct action gets the goods!

http://www.rabble.ie/2018/05/14/ara-here/

Aramark is a giant multinational with its grubby fingers in all sorts of pies, not least the highly profitable Direct Provision system here in Ireland. But now a growing boycott movement against th…

22/11/2019

Happy birthday to all at PowerFM! Check out their series of events We Are 27 PowerFM events in Lucky's tomorrow!

17/10/2019

Tickets are flying out the door for tomorrow's Documentary Screening! Notes on Rave in Dublin! If you want to see it, then we STRONGLY ADVISE buying on Eventbrite in advance to ensure entry.

Doors at The Sugar Club will be open from 7pm and we'll kick off the film at 8pm. We'll let you know what's available on the door early tomorrow! But do buy in advance!!!!

It's a fundraiser for big studio move being undertaken by Dublin Digital Radio - ddr. Big announcements coming on that front!

26/11/2018

We’ve thrown some banging parties over the years and coming up this Saturday we have rabble's Final (ish) Ruckus.. It promises to top them all with some of Dublin’s best selectors set to blast the dancefloor in the Commerical Rowing Club.

It’s a deadly little venue with a cheap bar and a smoking area over-looking the river. The perfect place to unwind after what will hopefully be a historic housing demo.

26/11/2018

We’ve thrown some banging parties over the years and coming up this Saturday we have rabble's Final (ish) Ruckus. It promises to top them all with some of Dublin’s best selectors set to blast the dancefloor in the Commerical Rowing Club.

It’s a deadly little venue with a cheap bar and a smoking area over-looking the river. The perfect place to unwind after what will hopefully be a historic housing demo.

14/11/2018

Paul Dillon talks to the people that have turned tracking trolleys into one of the main statistical tropes of the crisis in our healthcare system about why it matters.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/11/14/bearing-the-brunt/

That our healthcare system is a source of fright for many isn’t anything new. it’s a dreaded rites of passage nearly to be left propped up on a trolley in a corridor as the numbers stuck waiting fo…

14/11/2018

Details of our Final(ish) Ruckus are up on Facepuke with tickets out via Eventbrite. Move fast and you might get the last of the early birds.

01/11/2018

Heeeor! Back from the dead just to let yiz know...

It's the one time of year you can dress up in a sack-cloth, attack your landlord and get away with plausible deniability because he may have seen a ghost.

Luv u Hun.

xoxo

10/10/2018

Sean Finnan caught up with Vinny Dermody, a 17 year veteran of Ireland’s independent scene with The Jimmy Cake to find out what kind of a contrary bastard starts a label at a time like this.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/10/10/putting-a-label-on-it/

Humble Serpent is a new record label launched at possibly the worst time you could pick to launch a record label. Sean Finnan caught up with one of the founders, vinny dermody, a 17 year veteran of…

08/10/2018

Suburban Super Cinemas! A small, but striking piece of Dublin’s cultural heritage was sold recently for 2.7 million to an unnamed European family. Rialto’s art deco cinema has lain in a state of disrepair for several years. Patrick McCusker takes a look.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/19/suburban-super-cinemas/

The only indicator it was ever a cinema are its steeped motifs and the fading letters RIALT above the boarded windows and “SOLD” sign advertising its potential to investors. The “O” not being repla…

08/10/2018

Tragic Terry and the Magic Cowboy were reunited at last in , and if you stick with we’ll be sure to update you with some whopper predictions for your future!
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/21/the-horrorscopes-from-rabble15/

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08/10/2018

Rashers Tierney talks to Seamus Bradley about a novel model of food supply that cuts out the big box retailers and puts a group of people and a local farmer into a mutually beneficial relationship.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/25/the-agricultural-revolution/

Rashers Tierney talks to Seamus Bradley about a novel model of food supply that cuts out the big box retailers and puts a group of people and a local farmer into a mutually beneficial relationship.

08/10/2018

Harry Hangover met some rather esteemed gents in who had some rather devilish plans for the "appointed one..."
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/20/rabblecomics-harry-hangover-7/

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08/10/2018

Who is Conor Skehane? Could he be the overseer of an intelligent housing ecosystem where all and varied needs are humanely met, communities supported and at least shelter provided to all?
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/15/gombeen-15-conor-feckin-skehane/

Later he stigmatised one half of service-users and simultaneously pitted them against the other half by blaming the homeless for “gaming the system” to get social housing

08/10/2018

Giuliano Granato and Bethan Bowett-Jones of the new left radical party Potere Al Popolo to talk about rebuilding the left.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/12/avanti-popolo/

The experience of the Italian Communist Party has much to teach us, and we are of course very proud of that heritage, dating back to the resistance, but at the same time our world is now very diffe…

08/10/2018

Tom Mills is the author of the BBC - Myth Of A Public Service, a critical history of the BBC. Sean Finnan sat down with him to talk about role of public service broadcasting in a time of growing media distrust.
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/10/beep-beep/

The concept of public service broadcasting isn’t really a coherent blueprint for broadcasting practice. Rather is a rather vague concept based on a particular set of institutional arrangements and …

28/09/2018

Birra free culture anyone? The 4th Act is now free to watch online. The story about how gentrification tore the heart out of a militant working class community: https://vimeo.com/191627350

Check out our interview with the director here: http://www.rabble.ie/2017/02/13/the-regeneration-game/

24/09/2018

Primal Screaming doesn’t look like much of a buzz but Caitriona Devery decided to take a plunge into the strange anyway in this feature for .
http://www.rabble.ie/2018/09/24/shout-shout-let-it-all-out/

A woman kneels on a bed, as onlookers observe. Her face is twisted, she emits a guttural bellowing, grunts, thumps herself and spouts expletive-riddled abuse. Primal Screaming doesn’t look like muc…

21/09/2018

Y'know that countrywide movement on housing we've all been waiting for? Looks like it's finally kicking off!

20/09/2018

We're up in Drogheda for a Notes On Rave In Dublin Screening In Drogheda For Culture Night. If the weather permits, it's gonna be outside so wrap up. Dance-floor heaters from the production crew in the bar for afters!

19/09/2018

Terry Dunne takes us back to look at the riotous popular culture behind the façade of Georgian Ireland and at how resistance was shaped by borrowing from festive life, folklore and recreation.

https://t.co/3hf594OcWd

Terry Dunne takes us back to look at the riotous popular culture behind the façade of Georgian Ireland and at how resistance was shaped by borrowing from festive life, folklore and recreation.

12/09/2018

Yowser. It's impossible to keep up with them Nardai. This listicle highlighting their scum-baggery needs updating after their Frederick St antics yesterday.

  Above: Kerz knocked it out of the park with his illustrations for this feature in . He previously delivered the goods on Stephen Donnelly for Gombeen #13. To see his work in all its…

11/09/2018

Get down to Frederick Street now if you can.

10/09/2018

Great work from the video heads in Push Pull about the disease that is AirBnB and it's jaw droppingly devastating effect on our housing stock. Alt-media at its best.

06/09/2018

Ye still there? We're back after a summer silence and putting online. Landlords have been trying to raise the rent above the 4% biannual increase allowed under government rent caps announced last year through sly means. Cases like Paul Howard have highlighted the weakness of the RTB and the complete lack of any body supporting tenants. Sean Finnan investigates.

“There’s a constant effort at balancing the interests. However there are fundamental contradictions in the interests of the tenants and the landlords. The landlord’s aim is to raise rent to make mo…

29/08/2018

Get on down to Frederick Street if you're free.

The crowd keeps on building & the atmosphere here is amazing! This is what people power looks like ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

16/08/2018

Great primer on Summerhill Occupation from PushPull media. Get over to Summerhill tonight from 9PM to show your support for the occupation.

We caught up with the groups occupying Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy's office and vacant properties around around Dublin.

07/08/2018

Occupation in progress down in Summerhill, grassroots groups from around the city have taken over a building that was evicted a few months ago. Over 120 tenants were kicked out of slum conditions by the landlord back in May.

07/08/2018

Today we take back Dublin city for the people. A collective of grassroots groups seized a millionaire landlord's vacant property. In may this year, he evicted all the tenants from this row of houses , about 120 people altogether where evicted . Now we took it back