Jobstown

There’s another side to Tallaght that he thinks we should see. Following the the incident on Friday evening in which a digger was used to break into the Fortunestown Lane branch of Lidl in Tallaght, former prisoner, activist and Tallaght local Ibrahim Halawa has been attempting to change the current negativity directed towards the Dublin town. Sharing […]

8 years ago

The Royle Family actor stands in solidarity with the Jobstown protesters. Actor Ricky Tomlinson wrote the following letter, read out at Saturday’s Jobstown demonstration in Dublin, following the guilty verdict handed down to a teenager for ‘falsely imprisoning’ the former Tánaiste Joan Burton last year. Recalling the time he and his friend Dessie Warren were sent […]

10 years ago