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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
galway / eu Sunday August 30, 2009 - 11:18 by Raymond Deane
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On Saturday 29th August, the indefatigable activist Tommy Donnellan of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) was arrested on the street in Galway while engaged in legitimate advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and against the Lisbon Treaty that will set in formaldehyde the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy that is so detrimental to that cause ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday August 29, 2009 - 15:23 by Contaminated Crow
Four telemasts, two superdumps, two waste projects, a quarry, a bogslide, turf-cutting and a World Heritage Site bid ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Saturday August 29, 2009 - 12:23 by TaraWatch
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The Irish Times reported on Friday, August 28 2009 that a 9,000 year old fishing trap was found in the Hill of Tara landscape at Clowanstown, near Dunsany, during excavations by the National Roads Authority (NRA), along the path of the M3 motorway. Settlement remains of agricultural, industrial and ritual nature were discovered amongst five man-made mounds, beside an ancient lake. Stone axes, jewellery and even a tiny wooden canoe were unearthed. The finds show once again that the Tara landscape masks an underground world of Irish pre-history, which should have been either left alone, or excavated as part of a proper research study, rather than as part of an archaeological salvage operation. ... read full story / add a comment
The guys n gals caught up with the public launch of the No to Lisbon campaign launch on YouTube. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / eu Friday August 28, 2009 - 14:24 by Desso
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Members from Infowars Ireland joined forces with women from the No-To-Lisbon coalition in Galway today (Thur, 27 Aug, 2009) to protest the arrival of EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, at the Meyrick hotel in the city centre. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 27, 2009 - 22:06 by Vasilis
In August 2008, two wooden Greek ships laden with 44 activists from 17 different countries managed something no other vessel had in 41 years and broke the marine blockade that Israel has unilaterally imposed in Gaza, in contravention of international law. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 18:27 by Peter Fitzsimons
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Today, August the 27th members of the Niall Fagan/Thomas Allen Cumann Contae na Mhí, held a picket in Navan town centre, for two hours, to highlight the rising problem of unemployment in the area ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 17:13 by Gregor Kerr
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Striking MTL dockers have taken to the water in Dublin port in 17foot boats in an attempt to block port traffic. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday August 27, 2009 - 12:54 by DCTV
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Woop! It's that time of the month again, and we've got a new schedule for September which you can read about below. We've got some treats in store this month, our Independent Media block has been given over to the work of Joanne Richardson and we've a new mould breaking drama called The House. Richardson films look at the lives of Romanian women, globalisation and the difficulties facing political activists in a post-communist Eastern Europe. We've also significantly revised the content in our Gimme the Camera block, packing it with the work of more up and coming film makers. If there's anything we're most proud of this month, it's bringing the drama series The House to the air. There's a download of the schedule and an online version available. Online >>> http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=833 Download >>> http://www.dctv.ie/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/sept...e.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 21:38 by Opinion Jay
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Domestic consumers not the only ones shopping across the border. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 12:26 by Brian
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Article on RTE.ie University College Dublin will this year introduce fees for its student health service. Students were informed of the new charges by email on Monday. From the start of the academic year, charges will include a €10 fee for a nurse visit and a €25 fee to see a doctor. Charges will not apply to students on medical cards, while counselling services will also remain free of charge. UCD student union president Garry Redmond says the new system will not affect vulnerable students. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 10:00 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí launched the first wave of the party’s No to Lisbon 2 campaign yesterday (Monday) outside the gates of Leinster House and the EU offices in Dublin city centre. ... read full story / add a comment |
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