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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 14, 2009 - 23:30 by Edward Horgan
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The monthly peace vigil at Shannon on Sunday 13 Sept took place on a beautiful Indian Summer's day when nature seemed to be at peace with itself. However, a closer look inside the airport fence showed very few civilian planes, with Aer Lingus cut backs on Shannon services, Air France/CityJet about to abandon its Shannon Paris route, and Ryanair also planning schedule cutbacks. There was plenty of military activity however, with four warplanes surrounded by Gardai and Airport Police. ... read full story / add a comment 
'As feminists and pro-Europeans from the community, politics, trade unions, academia, the media, and entertainment we reject the Europe proposed by the Lisbon Treaty and call on women to Vote No Again. ' ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday September 14, 2009 - 16:45 by Allen Meagher
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The campaign to save Community Development Projects from cuts has gone from 0-60mph in the space of a week. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Monday September 14, 2009 - 14:29 by DSF
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Speaking during a Sinn Féin canvass in Dublin city centre today Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams yesterday urged voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty '”in order to build a Fairer Ireland and a Better Europe”. Membersof the party distributed leaflets in Dublin city centre asking people to reflect on why they were being asked to vote again. Responses varied, with most people saying they were going to vote the same way they did last year. However a worrying number of people were confused by the government's campaign on the treaty, and were unclear on the status of the so-called guarantees. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing Monday September 14, 2009 - 14:25 by PoorPerson
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Single persons seeking rent allowance can now look forward to being net 7-8% worse off than previously was the case thanks to new rates. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday September 14, 2009 - 10:52 by Seami Mac
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Last week the BBC reported that three men on trial for possesion of an armoured piercing mortor has been under observation by British special forces ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 13, 2009 - 14:29 by Paula Geraghty
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Not everyone could get to the impressive Shannon Peace conference organised by the IAWM and PANA. Go knock yourself out. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 12, 2009 - 15:52 by IshtarCelt
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One of the original protagonists of the Cuban revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque, has died of heart failure at the age of 82, according to state media. Almeida was one of several vice-presidents in the Council of State under Raul Castro. He was the only black commander in the Cuban leadership. From a poor Havana neighbourhood, Almeida was in the group of guerrillas led by Fidel Castro which eventually seized power in Cuba in 1959. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 12, 2009 - 15:29 by Contaminated Crow
A quarry, turfcutting, asbestos waste, a landfill, a compost plant, pylons and four telemasts ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 12, 2009 - 14:16 by David L
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As part of the international campaign of boycott against Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign today launched an action against Dead Sea Products, an Israeli cosmetics firm which has a stall in Jervis Centre in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday September 12, 2009 - 12:20 by Gregor Kerr
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NAMA is nothing short of straight class robbery – robbery from ordinary workers in order to shore up the property developers and big bankers who got us into this mess in the first place. It can be described as unfair, it can be described as immoral but in reality it’s naked capitalism at work. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 11, 2009 - 17:54 by Gregor Kerr
Dublin City North branch of the Irish National Teachers Organisation expresses support for striking MTL dockers ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 11, 2009 - 12:27 by Andrew
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Last night saw the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 11, 2009 - 00:38 by Emma Clancy
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The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign has welcomed the news this week that the petition against the extradition to Spain of Belfast-based Basque pro-independence activists Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva now has more than 1,000 signatories from Ireland, Britain, the Basque Country, Spain and around the world, including elected representatives, human rights campaigners, lawyers, academics and community leaders. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 22:54 by ARAN
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Kicking off a visual demonstration outside Harold’s cross stadium and working our way with the help of local activists in Northern Ireland down through Cork city, campaigners and supporters of Animal Rights Action Network held peaceful protests and tabling events to highlight the cruel greyhound racing industry in Ireland. During a week of action from August 24 to 30 we worked hard to get the facts out to the general public about the cruelty and exploitation of greyhounds in the racing industry. Over the week and during the month of September ARAN will be working hard to raise awareness of the Irish campaign to abolish cruel greyhound racing and to educate people about the horrors of what gentle greyhounds endure before, during and after their racing lives. ... read full story / add a comment 
tipperary / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 20:24 by Bernie Wright
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An allegation that the offices of the Sporting Press in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, which describes itself as the “official organ of the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), has been raided within the past few days by the Garda Fraud Squad has been leaked by Coursing supporters. This allegation is contained on an Internet chat forum called the “Greyhound Knowledge Forum”. In the course of an exchange of views and comments by forum members, mainly in relation to Minister John Gormley’s upcoming decision on whether to grant a hare-netting license to the ICC, a person calling himself “Vinny Grennan” refers specifically to the presence of the Fraud Squad in the Sporting Press offices in Clonmel. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / crime and justice Thursday September 10, 2009 - 14:38 by Rudiger
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Yesterday in Belmullet District court, Maura Harrington was jailed for the fourth time this year over her opposition to Shell's plans in Mayo. Judge Mary Devins sentenced Ms Harrington to 3 months in jail for assaulting an employee of IRMS, and 3 months for trespassing in a farmyard close to the landfall site in Glengad on June 19 2008. Ms Harrington was also fined a total of €1000. This incident occurred shortly after Shell began drafting in security into the area and they had begun filming people in the locality (it hadn't been discovered these were working for IRMS at that stage). Yesterday, marked one year to the day that Maura Harrington began her hungerstrike which lasted 11 days until the Solitaire left Irish waters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday September 10, 2009 - 13:26 by one drop
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As part of the global mobilisation for climate justice at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, young activists prepare for four days of action and media skill-sharing in Dublin this October ... read full story / add a comment ![The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/sep2009/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_sunind26jan03.jpg "The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]")
national / arts and media Thursday September 10, 2009 - 10:13 by Captain Green
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The Irish Times reports the death of former owner, Major McDowell, September 10, 2009: Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell Former Irish Times chairman dies, aged 86 Widely known as “The Major”, he kept clear of involvement in editorial content, insisting that that was the domain of the editor. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0910/1....html The Irish Times changed during the Major era, from a newspaper reflecting the protected but significant interests of a distinct Protestant business class to one that reflected the moderninsing interests of Irish capitalism. It was not as smooth a transition as the Irish Times usually reports. In 1969 Major McDowell was 'hot under the coller" about the Irish Times. So wrote Andrew Gilchrist, the British Ambassador in Dublin to Whitehall. He went on: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 23:55 by Paula Geraghty
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Positive story of communities organising and defending what they have. ... read full story / add a comment |
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