Beyonce's trivialising of violence against women should be the last word in ridiculing her 'Feminist Icon' status

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On 13 December 2013, singer Beyonce Knowles released a surprise self-titled 'visual' album.

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This weeks columns from Paul Murphy MEP & Joe Higgins TD:

Occupational pensions crisis – capitalist failure to guarantee a future for retired workers

In recent and current industrial battles the crisis in pension funds has been centre stage. Between the nine commercial semi state companies in Ireland there is a deficit in the schemes totalling €3 billion, half of which is concentrated in one company alone, the ESB.

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Pantigate: End homophobia & Catholic right's influence on RTE

The decision of RTE to apologise and pay damages to the Iona Institute over Rory O'Neill's comments on the Saturday Night Show is a disgrace.

Free Margaretta D'Arcy

Galway anti-war activist Margaretta D'Arcy was shamefully jailed earlier this month for protesting the U.S. military's use of Shannon Airport and its violent reign of terror across the globe.

1984 State Papers: Plans for bloody repartition revealed

Every year, British cabinet classified files from 30 years previous are made public. While it would be wrong to assume that such documents tell the whole story, they do provide an important insight into the thinking of the ruling circles on key issues of the time.