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national / consumer issues Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 12:40 by cirrius
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People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers. This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored. Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.” ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 09:37 by Paula Geraghty
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Symphysiotomy: The story of a cruel childbirth operation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 04:22 by Basque Info
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Protests were held in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, Omagh, Strabane and in Dungannon in solidarity with the Basque pro-Independence Left movement and in protest at a massive Spanish police repressive operation involving 650 police, raids on over 60 premises and the arrest of 34 Basque youth as a result of their political activities. The Basque Country itself saw a number of school strikes and other protests during the week, including one of 20,430 in Bilbao, the capital, on Saturday. Further protests are being organised. Thirty-one of the youth were sent to prison, bringing the total of Basque political prisoners to 762, the highest in 35 years. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 19:40 by ARAN
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This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / consumer issues Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 14:31 by Ramon Eyan
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The Department of Transport has issued a notice to mariners to steer clear of an area in Dublin Bay where an exploration vessel is to conduct tests to check the viability of a plan to convert under sea deposits of coal to gas which could be used to produce energy. The tests will be carried out on behalf of a company called VP Power in the Kish Basin, around thirteen miles east of Bray Head starting on December 7th. VP Power is group of investors who have raised money to fund the testing of the experimental gas-from-coal prospect. Brian Geoghegan, husband of health minister Mary Harney, is one of the backers of the scheme. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 11:41 by DCTV
The December Schedule from DCTV is here. Read on below for some highlights. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 30, 2009 - 17:05 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, two windfarms, two quarries, an electricity sub-station and an animal rights protest ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 30, 2009 - 14:57 by Medusa
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Taping Placards to the Main door at the Galway Cathedral high lighting churches abuse of children ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday November 30, 2009 - 12:24 by dunk
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“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 30, 2009 - 11:35 by Andrew
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On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 30, 2009 - 01:37 by iosaf
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A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters: * a ban on the construction of new minarets; * a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel; * a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 29, 2009 - 23:24 by Paula Geraghty
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Hear Public Sector workers give their side of the story from the picket lines last Tuesday 24th November 2009 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 29, 2009 - 10:49 by TD
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Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays the past five years, Bil'in villagers marched to the nearby Apartheid Wall to protest against the theft of over 60% of their land to facilitate the construction of a monstrous affront to international and humanitarian law and the illegal Israeli colonies skulking behind it. Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays for the past five years, the peaceful protestors were assaulted, this time, with unremitting blizzards of tear gas and percussion "sound" bombs with dozens of the marchers severly distressed from tear gas inhalation - thanking the good lord for small mercies, as it were, there were no high velocity tear gas projectiles used, "rockets" of the lethal kind that was fired point blank into the chest of Bassem Abu-Rahma last April 17th smashing three of his ribs one of which punctuted his heart thus killing, murdering him. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 28, 2009 - 15:57 by Conor. M
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TCD library has just been occupied by the students union ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:59 by Amnesty International
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A group of about 45 people (latest news figure is now 57) were ambushed and abducted by about 100 armed men, according to reports. The military recovered the bodies of 13 women and eight men—some of them mutilated. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:38 by ERS
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RTÉ Primetime Investigates next Thursday is a special on the death of Michael Dwyer. Dwyer worked for Shell as a security guard in Mayo last year, and while there, made contact with extremists from right-wing militia groups. He joined with a number of these men and spent time in Bolivia, where after an investigation he was killed when police stormed his hotel room. It will be interesting to see what spin RTE will place on the events in Bolivia and Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 26, 2009 - 02:38 by Bazooka Joe
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to meet with President Hugo Chavez. President Ahmadinejad is completing the third part of a successful South American tour where he also had meetings with President Evo Morales of Bolivia and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 13:57 by DSF
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Sinn Féin workers in Leinster House took a principled decision not to pass the picket lines during yesterday's industrial action. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / education Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 21:10 by Donal Fallon- Free Education for Everyone NUI Maynooth
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Solidarity pickets placed on both North and South campuses of NUI Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 19:21 by Basque Info
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In the early hours of today 34 Basque pro-independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched by 650 Spanish policemen. ... read full story / add a comment |
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