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national / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 11:22 by Andrew
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Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 29, 2010 - 16:54 by Freda H
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Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:17 by Eleanor
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On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada
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Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent. The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality. ... read full story / add a comment 
donegal / miscellaneous Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 00:28 by KSI
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Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 18:30 by Cat
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Around 150 people came to Mayo's first street feast last weekend in Kilcommon Parish. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 17:04 by getouttamyhead
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Brave farming couple Michael & Claire Hussey of Ballydooley, Dunamon, Co. Roscommon, had to remain silent through two hearing of their case as barristers argued the merits of a zoning issue against An Bord Pleanala, the Irish planning authority which overrulled the decision of Roscommon Co. Council prohibiting a Tetra-bearing mast less than 30 metres from their farmhouse. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 24, 2010 - 17:56 by Madam K
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A lovely walk along the beautiful bay is enough to unnerve those recruited to steal our natural resourses. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday July 22, 2010 - 13:49 by Madam K
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Sruwaddacon estuary,the estuary is a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area ,National Heritage Area ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 22, 2010 - 00:51 by Eleanor
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Last Thursday evening news arrived that Derry City was victorious in its bid to be the UK's first City of Culture. The great and the good of the city lined up in front of the worlds media and to join in with the celebrations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 20:44 by Madam K
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After serving five months and one week for opposing Shell Pat O`Donnell arrives back home in Erris to a Hero`s welcome ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 15:23 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Beat the Boreholes continued yesterday with a walk on the strands of the estuary in the evening and leisurely paddle out earlier in the afternoon. Members of the local community walked close to the drilling barges at low tide and showed their opposition to Shell's willingness to destroy Sruwaddacon estuary. The estuary is not only a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area – it has been an integral part of live in the community for generations. Despite this Minister Gormley has given the go-ahead for Shell to damage it. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 01:06 by DD
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After serving the full five and a half months of his sentence local fisherman Pat 'The Chief' O'Donnell was released from Castlerea Prison on July 17th. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 19, 2010 - 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 19, 2010 - 04:53 by TD
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Last night, the West Bank village of Bil'in was subjected to yet another Israeli Occupation Forces terror raid at 1.30 am when an unusually large number of IOF soldiers intruded into the outskirts of the village to arrest a local youth; 17 year old Ahmad Abed Al-Fatah Burnat - which unfortunately they effected. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday July 16, 2010 - 10:46 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Yesterday saw the launch of "Beat the Boreholes"; a campaign of mass civil disobedience to stop Shell works in Mayo this Summer. At 7am in the morning campaigners entered the water in Broadhaven Bay in kayaks and a safety rib in a peaceful attempt to prevent Shell from bringing in a second borehole drilling platform. They were met with 5 Garda water unit boats, with approximately 16 Gardaí on board and 10 security boats. Campaigners attempted to approach the platform but were prevented from doing so by Gardaí who overturned their kayaks. Gardaí arrested 2 campaigners for minor Public Order offences and seized three kayaks, the safety rib & several paddles. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2010 - 11:06 by Gary
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Garda tells campaigner, “I have your last breath in my hands” ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 15:21 by Trade Union TV
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On Bastille Day, Otis workers hold a mass picket at Otis lifts head office in Bluebell. Watch the video and hear about their dispute in their own words. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 23:32 by Michael Gallagher
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A documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the people of Rossport in the West of Ireland and the efforts of the Shell oil company to lay a pipeline through their community. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment |
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