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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   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 30, 2009 - 15:28)
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   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 02, 2009 - 12:42)
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
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national / arts and media Thursday August 27, 2009 - 12:54 by DCTV   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 - 01:59)   image 1 image
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   text 8 comments (last - friday august 28, 2009 - 14:17)
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   text 19 comments (last - friday august 28, 2009 - 13:16)
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.
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 10:00 by éirígí PRO   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 18:27)   image 3 images
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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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:45 by Gregor Kerr   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 16:26)   image 28 images
Several hundred protestors chanting ‘Scabs out. Dockers In’ engaged in a mass trespass on the premises of Marine Terminals Ltd. in Dublin’s docklands yesterday morning (24th August). ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:04 by Fred Johnston   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 01:08)
Development of a new Arts Strategy for Galway City has not included consultation with the City or County's artists, but has has been closely guarded at City hall ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 15:22 by TD   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Last Thursday, 20th August to an eager audience in an overbrimming room of the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, with contributions from Jenny Graham, Susan Johnson and Derek Graham, husband of Jenny gave harrowing eyewitness accounts of the Israeli/US/EU created hell on earth that is called Gaza, in the case of Derek Graham, he told his story about being kidnapped at gunpoint in Mediterranean international waters along with 20 other Free Gaza Movement human rights activists, on board the Spirit of Humanity on a voyage of mercy,, forced into the Israeli port of Ashdod and then in tune with the Kafkaesque perversion and inversion of morality and reality that is the hallmark of Zionism, bizarrely questioned for violating Israeli territorial waters. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 24, 2009 - 12:58 by Andrew   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 25, 2009 - 14:03)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
The dispute at MTL is escalating with hundreds of people taking part in demonstrations organised by the Port Workers Support Group. SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. Below are updates coming in from this mornings actions, sent via Twitter by WSM members who are present. ... read full story / add a comment
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kildare / miscellaneous Sunday August 23, 2009 - 22:57 by Kildare Sinn Féin   text 6 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 01:57)   image 1 image
The newly established Bob Doyle/Dinny Barry cumann was officially launched in Johnsons Bar on Saturday, August, 22nd ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / eu Sunday August 23, 2009 - 19:26 by Raymond Deane   image 3 images   video 1 video file
On Saturday August 22nd members of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) and Free Palestine Campaign spent 10 hours on the streets of Galway city providing information on why IFPAL is calling for a No vote in the Lisbon referendum as a protest against the EU's support for Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. Almost 1000 leaflets were distributed to passersby, who were mostly supportive.

The demonstration was joined in solidarity by a stalwart of the Shell to Sea Campaign, Naoise Ó Mongáin.
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national / environment Friday August 21, 2009 - 16:31 by Contaminated Crow   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 00:29)
Four masts, a windfarm, a climate camp, an airport, a piggery, powerlines, a helipad, turfcutting and prospecting for oil off Kerry ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 20, 2009 - 22:52 by Daithi Byrne   text 8 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 23:05)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin protested today against the arrival of the British naval vessel the HMS Mersey (P283) in Dublin Port. The vessel, which is armed with a 20mm cannon and two machine guns arrived in Dublin yesterday morning and is due to leave on Thursday at 0600.

Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin spokesperson Daithi Byrne said; ''This ship is representative of the same navy that is responsible for occupation and oppression across the globe. We are here today to tell the British Navy that there are not welcome in Ireland and to show our opposition to the display of British force. The open arm welcoming of this ship by the Government is insensitive and unacceptable.'' ... read full story / add a comment
Don't Burn our Bogs! - Climate Camp is the life buoy which can save our bogs and planet
offaly / environment Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 00:17 by Climate Camper   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 20, 2009 - 11:56)   image 3 images
Climate campers of all ages at Shannonbridge took a direct action this morning Aug. 18th, on a nearby bog by filling in trenches that are used to drain the bog for cutting. The peaceful demonstrations lasted 2 hours with police curiously onlooking at the hard working activists. ... read full story / add a comment
Mary Lou McDonald TD (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Bríd Smyth (People Before Profit) and Joe Higgins MEP (Socialist Party) at the press conference in UNITE Hall.
international / eu Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 22:05 by Michael Gallagher   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 01:50)   image 3 images
Today at UNITE Hall and Liberty Hall, the CAEUC held a press conference and official public launch of the No to Lisbon campaign.

Same Treaty - Same Answer -NO to LISBON.

Article to follow. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 20:37 by Bike are great!
Bicycle repair classes & Bike Workshop in Seomra Spraoi ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 17:27 by madam k   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 27, 2010 - 05:04)   video 2 video files
Ireland has some of the world’s most important bogs. Peatlands comprise almost a fifth of Ireland’s land cover, and lock away a massive 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon. They are also home to around half our endangered bird species and around a quarter of endangered plant species. Peat bogs are amazingly efficient carbon sponges. A healthy bog typically stores 10 times more carbon per hectare than any other system, including forests. Peatland protection, according to the UN Environment Programme is “among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change”. Damage to peat bogs is now producing the equivalent of over a tenth of total global fossil-fuel emissions.
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mayo / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 15:30 by Optimist   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 19, 2009 - 14:27)
Shell has published a public notice as part of its application for a Foreshore Licence in respect of the revised Corrib Gas pipeline route in the Examiner 18th August 2009, p.33. Public submissions are allowable for a period of 2 months from this date. ... read full story / add a comment
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