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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 02:42 by Seán Ryan
 7 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 - 14:24)
I got caught up in Monday's Rail Strike and Iarnród Éireann tried to trample on my rights ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 19:40 by Frank Hand
10 comments (last - sunday may 21, 2006 - 15:59)
Just how low the garda will stoop has been shown again when they arrested Pat Rossiter and put him into the cell where his 14 year old son had sustained the injuries which killed him. Pat has now won the Public Order case against him and intends to sue the gardai for wrongful arrest. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / racism & migration related issues Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 14:30 by Madam K
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There are around 70-80 people presently outside the Cathedral in support of the men ( Revolt Video Pics going up asap on new thread) A Group of students from the school across the road have joined in and there is lively chanting outside the Cathedrals front e. Three men from Afghanistan living in Waterford have joined the protest, and have been refusing food/water from yesterday. Presently two are outside the Cathedral and I believe one has gained access. That makes 44 people on the Hunger/Thirst strike now Latest news from the Hospital is that Abdul and Sultan are in a stable condition, some men inside are weakening and ambulances are on standby Joe Higgins TD, Jerry Crolly TD and A. OSnoddaigh TD are present at the Cathedral although as of yet have not gained admission. There are also people from RAR, Revolt Video, Unmanageables, Socialist Party, Sinn Fein, AWI, AY, WSM, IAWM, WV and SWP attending and plenty of unaligned! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 15, 2006 - 23:21 by Gar Fitzpatrick
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The International Court of Justice and successive United Nations resolutions have made clear that Western Sahara is Africa’s last colony, with a right to self-determination. For the past 30 years Morocco has occupied the territory and many of the Saharawi people have been forced into exile in Algeria. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday May 15, 2006 - 18:42 by Cllr Keith Martin
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Westport Civic Trust and supporters are trying to stop a road way from destroying the Westport Railway Line Walk and nearby wetlands. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Monday May 15, 2006 - 18:36 by Paul Baynes
Short report on gathering at Dolphin's Barn community garden ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday May 14, 2006 - 22:24 by richard whelan
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a&e protest easter week end. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 14, 2006 - 20:44 by Edward Horgan
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This aircraft was seen by Edward Horgan at Shannon airport on Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm. It took off about two hours later. Connor Cregan got some photos of the take off which will be published later. It has been seen regularly at Frankfurt in Germany. It is not yet clear whether it is controlled by the US Airforce or by the CIA. It is unusual for US Airforce to operate such unmaked planes. The Irish green white and gold colour scheme is a new innovation. It makes a change from World Airways flying in Aer Lingus colours. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 14, 2006 - 19:25 by Laure Akai
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For the second week in a row, Students’ Initiative organized protests across the country against the radical right. More protests planned. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 14, 2006 - 19:23 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The editor-in-chief of the conservative daily newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, is satisfied that he has now been charged with leaking classified intelligence documents in his newspaper in February 2004. The two journalists who wrote the articles about the leaked documents had already been charged at the end of April. Their editor expects all three to be acquitted if the case against them proceeds. In a series of articles in the newspaper from 22 February 2004, Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen published excerpts of reports which they had obtained from Major Frank Grevil of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE). Grevil, a secret agent who helped to write FE’s intelligence assessments of Iraq’s weapons capabilities for the Danish government, felt that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen had exaggerated existing information about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction in order to persuade the Danish parliament to participate in the ill-fated invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Grevil himself has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, but is appealing his sentence in the European Court of Human Rights, on the basis that evidence that might play a decisive part in his defence has been withheld. More detail about the most recent development, plus link to background article, below. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 14, 2006 - 18:28 by eoin
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"Steal what you will from the blueness of the sea and the sand of memory Take what pictures you will, so that you understand That which you never will: How a stone from our land builds the ceiling of our sky." -Mahomood Darwish 'Those who pass between fleeting words (Abiroon Abir) ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 14, 2006 - 17:16 by sper
Joe Higgins demands for social housing Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 14, 2006 - 14:33 by Fintan Lane
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The following is a personal report of the third open anti-war meeting, which was held in the Teachers' Club, Parnell Square, Dublin, on Saturday, 13 May, between 2.30 and 5.30pm. This isn't a comprehensive report - and I'm sure I'll miss a few things - so I hope other participants will add to it in their comments. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 14, 2006 - 04:02 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
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In a letter to the Ombudsman of the Danish Parliament, staff at the Danish Prime Minister's Office have invoked "very wide powers of discretion" under the legislation, to defend Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's persistent refusal to be interviewed by prize-winning journalist Bo Elkjær. In response, Elkjær points out that Fogh promised to give him an interview when they met at the offices of the Danish Union of Journalists in Copenhagen in January 2004. On that occasion, Elkjær had just been awarded the prestigious Cavling Prize for his work in exposing the lies by which Fogh and his cabinet persuaded the parliament to support Denmark's invasion of Iraq. By Elkjær's account, staff at the Prime Minister's Office have made the excuse that Mr Fogh "did not have space in his calendar," even though Elkjær has given the Prime Minister's Office complete freedom to set the time and place for an interview. Fogh's staff have repeatedly failed to keep promises that they "would call back". One of Elkjær's intentions for an interview is to ask why, at a press conference on 21 March 2003, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen "emphasised a nuclear threat [from Iraq] that the government several days before, in an internal paper, had clearly and unequivocally rejected." "It is clear from the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the government had several days previously arrived at the definitive conclusion that Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons programme, or indeed any nuclear programme at all," says Elkjær. Please read Billy O'Shea's translation of the latest exchange below. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday May 13, 2006 - 00:52 by Millie R.
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A snapshot at the fortunes of Ireland's top capitalist. Tony O'Reilly isn't going to be running out of money anytime soon. ... read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / miscellaneous Friday May 12, 2006 - 22:43 by Ógra B
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Friday 5th May seen Omagh PSNI base as the scene of the latest leg of Sinn Féin's ‘End Political Policing’ campaign. Ógra Shinn Fein had organised the protest to call for an End to the political nature of policing in the north of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 12, 2006 - 20:46 by Elaine
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Charlie McGlade Cumman in Drimnagh held a black flag vigil at the junction between Walkinstown Road and the Long Mile Road this evening between 5.30 and 6.30. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / sci-tech Friday May 12, 2006 - 20:37 by Florian Burkhardt
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My article is about the worldwide spread (including to Ireland) of a new form of potentially dangerous type of psychotherapy. It has reached Ireland from Germany via the UK where it is already a huge business. The new development is that followers of this semi-cult want to apply it to politics and other social areas. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday May 12, 2006 - 19:45 by Ógra B
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Ógra Shinn Féin held a white line vigil in Omagh town centre on Friday 12th May. Ógra activists were there to remember the 25th Anniversary of Francis Hughes. Francis was the second hunger striker to die in Long Kesh on the 59th Day of his hunger strike, on May 12th 1981. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday May 12, 2006 - 19:21 by Chekov
An Irish Times editorial on May 1st laid out the various options open to the UN Security council for dealing with Iran’s nuclear threat. These options ranged "from a solemn statement warning Iran to comply to consideration of sanctions or military force under Chapter VII of the UN Charter." The paper of record nailed its colours to the mast by favouring negotiations and UN action while declaring that "military action by the US outside UN auspices would be a dangerous folly." ... read full story / add a comment |
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