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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday November 29, 2004 - 23:52 by Indy Council Corr   text 80 comments (last - monday march 07, 2005 - 18:28)
The Council of Dublin City voted tonight to pass the Estimates, with a minor amendment from FF by 32 votes to 15. The Estimates were supported by Labour, FG and FF councillors.

Those who voted against were Sinn Fein (10) the Independents (3) and two others believed to be one Labour (Eric Byrne) and one FG.

More details tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment Sunday November 28, 2004 - 15:17 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - friday december 10, 2004 - 15:02)   image 11 images
{ photos by redjade } (c) ... read full story / add a comment
Cover of Meda Ryan's Book on Tom Barry (which answers Peter Hart)
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 28, 2004 - 14:28 by Barry McGarry   text 21 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 11:17)   image 4 images
Delivered at Kilmichael ambush site November 28 2004 at 1pm
By Meda Ryan (author Tom Barry IRA Freedom Fighter Mercier Press 2003)
For background to controversy with revisionist historian Peter Hart, see www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66994 and news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4043737.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 26, 2004 - 18:21 by ss   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 27, 2004 - 01:19)
Queens University Student Councils meeting held on 25th 11th 04, passed the following motions:

1. This council opposes the war on Iraq and the war on terror, and calls for the immediate withdraw of all occupying forces in Iraq.

2. This council support the Colombian trade unions call for a worldwide boycott of Coca-Cola, ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 26, 2004 - 10:37 by Tyler Durden   text 11 comments (last - thursday december 02, 2004 - 20:04)
(2004-11-25) -- Iran today announced that the plutonium it is allowed to produce under a recent agreement with France, Germany and Britain, is strictly reserved for human consumption. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Friday November 26, 2004 - 07:43 by Indy Freedom   text 21 comments (last - wednesday december 01, 2004 - 18:16)
An Iraqi student has been suspended from her school in Dublin after she had her photograph taken with the Irish President, Mrs Mary McAleese.

The principal, Mr Danny Cussen has defended the action, saying it was a disciplinary matter for the school only, and denied it was because of the students nationality. However, he told her "You can't touch the President'."" ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday November 25, 2004 - 21:35 by jp
The destruction of the Tara-Skryne valley was "cultural vandalism akin to ripping a knife through a Rembrandt", the Dáil was told during a bitter debate about the M3 motorway. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday November 25, 2004 - 14:50 by Women's Aid
Today, to mark International Day Against Violence against Women, Women's Aid is holding a minute’s silence outside the Dail in memory of the 107 women murdered in Ireland in the last 108 months. While groups nationwide are holding vigils locally around the country, Women’s Aid is marking the commemoration of the murders against the backdrop of a giant ‘In Memoriam’ card outside the Dáil, with each murdered woman represented by a white lily. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 25, 2004 - 14:45 by Paul Kinsella
About 100 An Post workers demonstrated outside a meeting of the An Post Board of Directors in the GPO this morning. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) were highlighting current dissatisfaction in SDS,loss of jobs etc. Members of the Civil Public & Service Union (CPSU) also participated in this morning's protest and the CPSU banner was also there as we were publicising the lack of payment of Sus.Progress (2 phases now worth 5%!) and related problems. There are a number of good media reports on this including Newstalk 106 http://www.newstalk106.ie/news.asp?id=6204 RTE http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1125/anpost.html and 98FM http://www.98fm.ie/Newsite/GENERAL/newsandsport/newsandsport.asp ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday November 25, 2004 - 13:19 by Anti-Bin Tax Activist   text 4 comments (last - saturday november 27, 2004 - 01:21)
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 25, 2004 - 02:05 by Jarlath   text 30 comments (last - sunday april 30, 2006 - 17:24)
The launch of the Cumann na Fuiseoige GAA Club in Twinbrook has raised a few eyebrows in the wider community. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 21:50 by Jimmy   text 3 comments (last - friday november 26, 2004 - 05:46)
Members of the public last night expressed outrage at the "heavy-handed" manner in which a security man at one of Dublin's leading department stores apprehended a young boy. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 20:33 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 27, 2004 - 23:44)   image 7 images
March for Tara-Skryne Valley - Saturday, 27 November 2004 - beginning at 1.30pm at The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin then march to Wood Quay ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday November 22, 2004 - 20:47 by Allen   text 85 comments (last - monday november 29, 2004 - 18:21)
Labour Youth has overwhelmingly rejected the party leader's electoral strategy.

At its annual conference in the Mansion House, Dublin, at the weekend, the majority of delegates backed a motion opposing any "rigid pre-electoral pact or voting arrangement" which would compromise the party's core values. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 22, 2004 - 15:09 by Dave   text 5 comments (last - monday march 14, 2005 - 06:24)
In 1982, a close friend of Kurdish freedom fighter Salah Ameydi was captured by the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Secret Police. They brought him back to his village, and seized his wife and eight-month-old son. The new parents were then tied up and made to watch as their baby was burned to death in front of them with a hot iron. When the agents were finished with the child, they forced the husband to watch as his wife was brutally raped by four Iraqi soldiers. The husband was then dragged off to Abu Ghraib and tortured for years on end as a “political prisoner.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday November 22, 2004 - 14:46 by Paul Kinsella   text 12 comments (last - friday december 03, 2004 - 08:34)
Now we have it confirmed from the horse's mouth! Swiss teenagers smoke more cannabis than their peers in every other European country, a survey has said, casting a pall over the country's prim and wholesome image. One in three Swiss 15-year-olds has lit up a joint within the past year, while the number of teenagers regularly smoking or getting drunk rose 10 percent between 1998 and 2002, the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse said in their survey. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday November 22, 2004 - 13:24 by Mark Murphy   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2004 - 21:46)
Lawrence Cox debates with
SWP’s Kieran Allen
this weekend in Trinity College on ‘Does the Movement need
Political Parties’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 22, 2004 - 12:37 by Ciaron   text 13 comments (last - monday november 29, 2004 - 12:49)   image 2 images
Over 16,000 people from across the Americas — including actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon — gathered this weekend outside the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia in the most diverse demonstration yet of opposition to the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC! ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday November 21, 2004 - 18:20 by Ronan from CYM   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 25, 2004 - 18:04)
Connolly Books, Irelands oldest radical bookshop has moved across the liffey to a brand new site at 7 Bloom Lane opposite the millenium bridge. ... read full story / add a comment
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