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national / animal rights Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:45 by Stephan Wymore
 3 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 08:47)  6 images
Today a joint ‘Rabbit’ from the Animal Rights Action Network turned up outside of Brown Thomas’s flagship store on Grafton Street to celebrate the long awaited campaign victory of the up market department store going fur free from February 2008. Joined by other ARAN members the giant ‘rabbit’ uncorked a bottle of champagne to crowds of onlookers whilst cheering ‘Brown Thomas Now Fur Free’ another member also held a sign saying the same! Luckily the campaign event on Dublin’s busiest shopping street was being covered by Ireland’s top media outlets. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:00 by Cllr Keith Martin
Westport Town Councillors call on Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD to protect area of great national and international significance as an environmentally sensitive, culturally and religiously important area with a massive intrinsic tourism value. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday December 14, 2007 - 13:44 by Madam K
8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 22:59) 11 images
The NRA communications officer threatened the individual/s responsible for entering site to gather images with criminal damage and trespass while at the same time refusing media access .The soutterains were bulldozed that very afternoon. Now Rath Lugh under threat. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Friday December 14, 2007 - 08:11 by éirígí
37 comments (last - sunday may 11, 2008 - 09:24) 2 images
éirígí say NO to Lisbon Treaty While European Union heads of state were gathering in Lisbon today, to sign away the sovereignty of their respective states, the removal vans were arriving in Dublin to cart off the last vestiges of the Twenty Six County state’s independence. In a bold visual display éirigí launched its ‘NO TO LISBON’ campaign outside Leinster House today. The centrepiece of the launch was a mock-up ‘EU NO_TO_LISBON Removals’ van sporting the slogan ‘Experts in the Removal of Independence, Democracy & Neutrality’. The vehicle pulled up outside Leinster House to highlight the fact that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will mean the end of the already limited form of national democracy within all EU states. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 14, 2007 - 01:28 by Uhuru Radio
UhuruRadio.com to broadcast Omali Yeshitela's keynote address on December 16 from "Africa and the West" conference in Huelva, Spain ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 13, 2007 - 18:41 by Joe
11 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 18:06) 1 image
The Israeli Amry Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi called for international pressure on Iran. He said the Israeli Army "recognized the need to prepare in the event that global efforts fail", in other words, they are prepared to start a war all on their own, if nobody else is. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 13, 2007 - 16:13 by sister licentia
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last week saw three members of controversial order, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, making a very public show of support for the shell 2 sea campaign ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 22:08 by VeChDi
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Sinn Féin held a major event in Dublin last Sunday to sketch out the beginning of a new way forward for the party, particularly in the 26 counties. The day-long conference, entitled 'Engaging Modern Ireland', was designed to re-start SinnFéin's electoral activities after the disappointing general election result last May. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 16:44 by pat c
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Kazem Darabi who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court was released on Monday 10 December after serving 15 years in jail. He had been convicted of involvement in the murder of three leaders of Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkord in Berlin. They were dining in the Mykonos restaurant and were in Berlin for a convention of the Socialist International. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 22:09 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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Irish, Basque and Catalan protesters picketed outside the GPO on 8th December to protest repression by Spanish authorities of Basque left-separatists. On the 7th, three traditional Basque musicians performing at the Long Note debut in Dublin were applauded when they stated that theirs was the oldest living language in Europe and their culture one of the oldest and that their people would continue to fight for their political and civil rights. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 13:47 by TaraWatch
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An Oral Parliamentary Question, regarding Garda 'Operation Bedrock' - which now appears to be an ongoing investigation into Tara campaigners, has been submitted to the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan. If the Minister chooses to answer, it will take place on Thursday afternoon. If not, a written answer will come early next week. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 10, 2007 - 20:06 by Ciarán Ó B
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A British Army recruitment stall in Belfast city centre was closed down today by anti-war activists who held a picket at the booth. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 17:16 by Gavin Harte
14 comments (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 00:56) 4 images
On Saturday about 800 hundred people gathered at the Dublin Civic Offices and walked to the Custom House as part of the “Parade for the Planet” to mark the international day of action on climate change. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 09, 2007 - 15:25 by TD
4 comments (last - thursday february 07, 2008 - 09:30) 7 images
The Israelis are deepening the cellar further with the Weapon of Mass Starvation; following Israeli cutoffs, the UN World Food Program now reckons that; "Food imports into the Gaza Strip are only enough to meet 41 percent of demand". Against such an obscenity and pleading guilty to what Martin Amis terms a "distorted sympathy" towards the agony of Palestine http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2221615,00....html Galway IPSC, yesterday, took to the streets for seven hours to protest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 14:20 by LY
8 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 19:16)
The UCD Labour Branch have published videos of the arguement for Shell to Sea made at the Labour Party Conference in Wexford. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 08, 2007 - 22:49 by Margaretta D'Arcy
9 comments (last - tuesday december 18, 2007 - 01:41) 4 images
The ghosts and spirits of the millions of women who have been murdered, violated, oppressed, excluded, driven into exile, denied freedom of speech, denied participation in any decisions concerning their lives, because of war, religion, race, culture, age, disability, sexuality, poverty, bonded slavery, domestic violence or bureaucracy, glided in and out of the shoppers of Galway on Friday afternoon, the 7th of December. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday December 08, 2007 - 19:58 by Des Dalton
Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin held a very successful picket in Kilkenny city on Saturday December 8. The picket was held at the Town Hall on High St between 1pm and 2.30pm. Members of Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin were joined by Republicans from Waterford, Wexford and Kildare. Leaflets were handed out explaining the situation of the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry, whilst copies of the Republican paper SAOIRSE were sold. Addressing the crowd Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton, Kildare, said that the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry were locked in a struggle to vindicate the right political status for which Bobby Sands and his comrades died on hunger strike in 1981. ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage Saturday December 08, 2007 - 12:56 by indyreporter
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Campaign to Save Tara (CST) began as a genuine effort to bring all the Tara campaigners together, in a positive and unified way, in late 2006. Now a year later, it has silently disbanded. What now for Tara? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Friday December 07, 2007 - 23:56 by Philip Ikurusi
Annual Remember Saro-Wiwa Seminar Report 2007 ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 07, 2007 - 21:44 by Firefox
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Pity the poor CIA. What use is a secret service that can't keep a secret? Agents of other secret services should be aware the the loose lips and poor tradecraft of the Americans put the foreigners at risk of arrest and worse. Here's what we mean: ... read full story / add a comment |
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