Hey, Listen To This

Last year I had the pleasure of working with Transition Year students as part of  a City Library initiative to record fiction for a CD of new stories by Cork teenagers.  We finally launched the CD just before Xmas.  There are five stories and it was great to have the opportunity to work with these young writers.  The CD is available throughout the library service in the Republic.  So check it out and well done to the young writers!

Waterford Glass Workers’ Interview…

This excellent interview, published on Indymedia, was conducted by WSM members in Waterford today.  They went to the Waterford Glass plant at Kilbarry where an ongoing occupation by the workers has stopped the receiver, appointed by Waterford Wedgwood, in his tracks. This action by the Glassworkers is the first major act of resistance this year against the onslaught by the Government and media against workers wages and conditions.   The workers at the Glass have been treated disgracefully but they have a fine tradition of struggle and giving solidarity themselves.   Their occupation deserves widespread support and as the interview shows, they are indeed getting that…

Solidarity with the Glass workers!

Interview with Joe Kelly, Waterford Glass worker

You Can’t Smoke A Shoe ….

During November and December I was involved in a great project linked in with Cork City Libraries and Labrinth Creative Health.  The project involved a number of creative art workshops with groups from a few city schools.  I connected in with a small number of these from the writing angle.  The process was a lot of fun for the kids involved, and for me too, and at the end a really cool book was produced using the art work and some of the text.  It was launched last Thursday at the Cork City Central Library and some copies are available there.  Anyway thanks to all the kids involved and hopefully we will get to work on something like this again soon …