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IRISH Republicans voiced their beef with Brazil yesterday over imports of rotten meat.
Sinn Fein Dail member Martin Kenny demanded a Europewide ban on beef imports in the wake of the Operation Weak Flesh police swoop in Brazil on Saturday, which found dozens of meatpacking firms were bribing health inspectors to overlook shipments of date-expired meat.
The firms, including global giants JBS and BRF, reportedly used chemicals to hide the appearance and stink of rotten meat.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
