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international / environment Thursday September 10, 2009 - 13:26 by one drop   image 3 images
As part of the global mobilisation for climate justice at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, young activists prepare for four days of action and media skill-sharing in Dublin this October ... read full story / add a comment
The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]
national / arts and media Thursday September 10, 2009 - 10:13 by Captain Green   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 13, 2009 - 17:02)   image 2 images
The Irish Times reports the death of former owner, Major McDowell, September 10, 2009:

Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell
Former Irish Times chairman dies, aged 86


Widely known as “The Major”, he kept clear of involvement in editorial content, insisting that that was the domain of the editor.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0910/1....html

The Irish Times changed during the Major era, from a newspaper reflecting the protected but significant interests of a distinct Protestant business class to one that reflected the moderninsing interests of Irish capitalism. It was not as smooth a transition as the Irish Times usually reports.

In 1969 Major McDowell was 'hot under the coller" about the Irish Times. So wrote Andrew Gilchrist, the British Ambassador in Dublin to Whitehall. He went on: ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 23:55 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - monday september 14, 2009 - 13:53)   image 20 images   video 1 video file
Positive story of communities organising and defending what they have. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 16:46 by Dublin S2S   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 - 11:27)   image 2 images
Retired school principal Maura Harrington has been jailed for the fourth time this year in connection with her opposition to Shell’s experimental inland refinery and high-pressure pipeline in north Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
Ringleader Joseph McKenna (RDF member)
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 13:30 by Dublin Antifascist   text 26 comments (last - friday april 25, 2014 - 12:03)   image 14 images
Text of a leaflet distributed around the Temple Bar area today by a group of 40 antifascists. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 08, 2009 - 10:16 by Workers Solidarity
During his recent visit to Dublin, Workers Solidarity took the opportunity, over “bad coffee”, to chat to 93 year old Roma Marquez Santo about some of his experiences of the Spanish revolution. In 1936 Roma was a metal worker and a member of both the UGT trade union and the POUM, an anti-Stalinist communist party. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 08, 2009 - 09:57 by big_ron   image 5 images
Shell to Sea banner drop on the N7 on Sunday morning, the day of the All Ireland Hurling Final ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 07, 2009 - 23:59 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Over 120 protested the treatment of MTL workers and show their support at Dublin City Council. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 22:17 by fired_pet   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 17, 2009 - 19:07)   image 1 image
SHell was found in contempt of a District Court order last week. The company was found by the judge to have entered common land in Rossport despite having been prohibited from doing so by a 2007 court order. Presumably the judge, when she returns to sentence the company next week, will treat them as harshly as she has treated opponents of the project to install the experimental gas pipeline in North West Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 16:36 by Contaminated Crow
Detention of fishing vessels, two quarries, a telemast, a pet crematorium and an airport runway extension ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 15:56 by gurgle-tweet iosaf mac diarmada
Until this week most young people doing juggling two worthwhile tasks like convincing their elders to vote No to Lisbon (either for the second time or the all important first) or researching a hefty Junior Cert project on international strategic relations and peace studies - would have had to rely on figures on the official arms trade dating from 2007. Since then we've seen a celtic tiger die and a mismanagement of the US economy under its war presidency of Bush infect the world with an economic crises. Unsurprisingly therefore arms trading of the official kind is down. But in good news for pro-Americans and pro-Lisbon Europeans, the share of the US in arms trading has jumped and second place globally is now taken for the first time not by Russia but our own catholic soulmates of the Italian Republic. ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / racism & migration related issues Monday September 07, 2009 - 11:12 by Davy Carlin   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 - 13:21)   image 2 images
The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. This statement comes not long after more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes in South Belfast due to racist intimidation and attacks.

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Speakers at International Peace Conference, including Patricia McKenna, Joe Higgins and Mary Lou McDonald
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 10:00 by Edward Horgan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 - 02:26)   image 5 images
A very successful peace conference was held at Shannon airport on Sat 5 Sept 09 for the purpose of highlighting the interconnections between the establishment of a US forward airbase at Shannon airport, the militarisation of Europe, the abuse of Irish neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty. The attendance of over 80 was mainly for Dublin, so it was great to get such a dedicated group of peace activists to Shannon to show them very clearly to extent to which Irish neutrality has been abandoned at Shannon airport and the extent to which Ireland is complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. ... read full story / add a comment
Leaving aside Shannon, do you think the 7 strong Irish contingent to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan is making a difference?
international / eu Sunday September 06, 2009 - 15:46 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 - 12:19)   image 3 images
According to the Swedish "Dagens Nyheter" newspaper's updates in the last two hours, the US military entered a hospital run by the Swedish Committe for Afghanistan this week in pursuit of a patient who according to them held valuable intelligence on the Taliban. This would constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions. This newsbreak follows coverage of the strongest statements critical of the NATO strategy so far by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at the meeting of EU foreign ministers held yesterday. Anyone who prizes Irish neutrality or perhaps those who sneer at such a thing, ought know that Sweden is a neutral state. It is unique amongst the neutral states of Europe in that it boasts a highly developed arms industry which indeed is also one of the oldest happily supplying military hardward to all and sundry since before Napoleon. The Swedish share the northern "Provincial Reconstruction Team" with the Finnish under German command. ... read full story / add a comment
WSM meeting in 1986
national / anti-capitalism Sunday September 06, 2009 - 14:44 by Kevin Doyle   text 13 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 - 09:57)   image 1 image
The Workers Solidarity Movement is twenty-five years old this autumn. A quarter of a century ago anarchists in Ireland came together to establish an organisation to promote and fight for our ideas. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 05, 2009 - 20:00 by Ann Murphy   text 8 comments (last - saturday september 12, 2009 - 20:42)
ENFO; the environmental information centre and public library was yesterday closed by the Department of the Environment. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday September 05, 2009 - 08:49 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 05, 2009 - 17:46)
He is coming to Ireland at the invitation of Republican Sinn Féin from September 21 to 23.

On September 21 he will address a press conference in Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth St, Dublin at 12 Noon.

That evening he will be the keynote speaker at a public meeting in Wynn’s Hotel, Middle Abbey St at 7.30pm.

The next day he will travel to Galway where he will address a meeting in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square at 8.00pm. The meeting will be chaired by Republican Sinn Féin member of Galway County Council Tomás Ó Curraoin. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / eu Friday September 04, 2009 - 11:05 by Bazra B   text 5 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 - 18:26)   image 5 images
The People's Movement No2Lisbon Meeting in Newbridge, Co. Kildare on Wednesday, September 2nd. ... read full story / add a comment
Planes like this US Hercules are regular visitors at Shannon Airport
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 03, 2009 - 19:06 by Shannonwatch   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 05, 2009 - 23:27)   image 1 image
Information provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs sheds disturbing new light on US military use of Shannon Airport. According to the Minister the troop and air force crews that pass through the airport are not the only US military there. There are also two US officers of military rank permanently based in the airport. Their official role is to assist with the transit of US Government and Government contracted flights. The arrangement has been in operation since 2003 and was done without Oireachtas approval. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Thursday September 03, 2009 - 15:32 by Sorcha Ní Bhéara   text 6 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 - 20:55)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin activists and T.D's demonstrate at the Fianna Fáil 'Yes to Lisbon' launch. ... read full story / add a comment
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