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mayo / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 22:17 by fired_pet
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SHell was found in contempt of a District Court order last week. The company was found by the judge to have entered common land in Rossport despite having been prohibited from doing so by a 2007 court order. Presumably the judge, when she returns to sentence the company next week, will treat them as harshly as she has treated opponents of the project to install the experimental gas pipeline in North West Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 16:36 by Contaminated Crow
Detention of fishing vessels, two quarries, a telemast, a pet crematorium and an airport runway extension ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 15:56 by gurgle-tweet iosaf mac diarmada
Until this week most young people doing juggling two worthwhile tasks like convincing their elders to vote No to Lisbon (either for the second time or the all important first) or researching a hefty Junior Cert project on international strategic relations and peace studies - would have had to rely on figures on the official arms trade dating from 2007. Since then we've seen a celtic tiger die and a mismanagement of the US economy under its war presidency of Bush infect the world with an economic crises. Unsurprisingly therefore arms trading of the official kind is down. But in good news for pro-Americans and pro-Lisbon Europeans, the share of the US in arms trading has jumped and second place globally is now taken for the first time not by Russia but our own catholic soulmates of the Italian Republic. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / racism & migration related issues Monday September 07, 2009 - 11:12 by Davy Carlin
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The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. This statement comes not long after more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes in South Belfast due to racist intimidation and attacks.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 10:00 by Edward Horgan
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A very successful peace conference was held at Shannon airport on Sat 5 Sept 09 for the purpose of highlighting the interconnections between the establishment of a US forward airbase at Shannon airport, the militarisation of Europe, the abuse of Irish neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty. The attendance of over 80 was mainly for Dublin, so it was great to get such a dedicated group of peace activists to Shannon to show them very clearly to extent to which Irish neutrality has been abandoned at Shannon airport and the extent to which Ireland is complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Sunday September 06, 2009 - 15:46 by iosaf
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According to the Swedish "Dagens Nyheter" newspaper's updates in the last two hours, the US military entered a hospital run by the Swedish Committe for Afghanistan this week in pursuit of a patient who according to them held valuable intelligence on the Taliban. This would constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions. This newsbreak follows coverage of the strongest statements critical of the NATO strategy so far by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at the meeting of EU foreign ministers held yesterday. Anyone who prizes Irish neutrality or perhaps those who sneer at such a thing, ought know that Sweden is a neutral state. It is unique amongst the neutral states of Europe in that it boasts a highly developed arms industry which indeed is also one of the oldest happily supplying military hardward to all and sundry since before Napoleon. The Swedish share the northern "Provincial Reconstruction Team" with the Finnish under German command. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Sunday September 06, 2009 - 14:44 by Kevin Doyle
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The Workers Solidarity Movement is twenty-five years old this autumn. A quarter of a century ago anarchists in Ireland came together to establish an organisation to promote and fight for our ideas. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 05, 2009 - 20:00 by Ann Murphy
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ENFO; the environmental information centre and public library was yesterday closed by the Department of the Environment. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday September 05, 2009 - 08:49 by RSF
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He is coming to Ireland at the invitation of Republican Sinn Féin from September 21 to 23. On September 21 he will address a press conference in Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth St, Dublin at 12 Noon. That evening he will be the keynote speaker at a public meeting in Wynn’s Hotel, Middle Abbey St at 7.30pm. The next day he will travel to Galway where he will address a meeting in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square at 8.00pm. The meeting will be chaired by Republican Sinn Féin member of Galway County Council Tomás Ó Curraoin. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / eu Friday September 04, 2009 - 11:05 by Bazra B
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The People's Movement No2Lisbon Meeting in Newbridge, Co. Kildare on Wednesday, September 2nd. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 03, 2009 - 19:06 by Shannonwatch
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Information provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs sheds disturbing new light on US military use of Shannon Airport. According to the Minister the troop and air force crews that pass through the airport are not the only US military there. There are also two US officers of military rank permanently based in the airport. Their official role is to assist with the transit of US Government and Government contracted flights. The arrangement has been in operation since 2003 and was done without Oireachtas approval. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Thursday September 03, 2009 - 15:32 by Sorcha Ní Bhéara
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Sinn Féin activists and T.D's demonstrate at the Fianna Fáil 'Yes to Lisbon' launch. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 02, 2009 - 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin
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Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday September 02, 2009 - 15:24 by Workers Solidarity
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The WSM is calling for a No vote in the 2nd Lisbon referendum on the grounds that people in Ireland can do a lot better than a choice between the clowns in the Dáil or those in Brussels. We oppose the EU's policies of privatisation, militarisation and attacks on workers' conditions but don’t insult people’s intelligence by saying that our current society in Ireland with its severe recession, diabolical public services and corruption is anything better. The major lack of democracy in our lives is not between us and the EU but between the Irish government and us. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday September 01, 2009 - 18:38 by fotdmike
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Climate Campers protest at Shell in solidarity with the Rossport campaigners ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday September 01, 2009 - 16:43 by Seami Mc Dermott
Huge Turn-out in Bundoran Co. Donegal for Hunger Strike Commemoration, Saturday 29th August 2009. Event organised by Republican Sinn Féin. 100's attended. It was as large as the Provisional Sinn Féin (PSF) Easter event in Drumboe, Co. Donegal. This shows the growth of Republicanism and is another indicator of the continuing decline of PSF. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 01, 2009 - 11:36 by Reel Thing
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Coca-Cola likes to sponsor sport events to promote its brands. But with threatening to destroy 130 workplaces in distribution in Ireland, Coca-Cola Hellenic clearly has scored an own goal. SIPTU members visited the Irish Football Semi Finals Saturday August 30 to inform fans about the companies plan, threatening the livelihoods of the workers and their families amidst a deep recession. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday September 01, 2009 - 03:31 by Fred Johnston
Galway's arts practitioners were promised consultation over any proposed Arts Strategy Plan - but Galway City Arts Office has put the clamps on it and curiously instructed the person brought on board to assist with the arts' strategy that she is not to meet individually with artists or practitioners ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Monday August 31, 2009 - 04:17 by iosaf
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Medical authorities in Colombia have confirmed that president Uribe is currently infected with AH1N1 (or the dreaded swine flu). Colombian state press officer César Mauricio Velásquez told press that on return from the emergency summit called in Argentina to discuss new US bases to Colombia, Uribe suffered an exceptionally high fever and all the usual symptoms at which point they did the tests (& one presumes brewed up some chicken broth and ordered in some tamiflu). The Colombian state medical officer Juan Gonzalo López confirmed to press that the president is receiving clinical care at the presidential palace rather than in hospital. On a trivial point this of course makes him the second head of state in the world to contract Swine Flu. The first was the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias who caught the virus during his attempts to broker a settlement between the legitimate and usurpist regimes of Honduras earlier this summer. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday August 30, 2009 - 14:55 by Thomas Janak
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Wild Time host Thomas Janak went to Dun Laoghaire on August 29th to record footage at the annual Festival of World Cultures ... read full story / add a comment |
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