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national / environment Saturday July 18, 2009 - 14:35 by AM
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Serica, the British energy company, has found oil in the Slyne basin, off the west coast of Ireland. Under current licencing agreements, all oil found in Irish waters will belong exclusively to the finder, with no royalty payable to the people of Ireland. All exploration and development costs will be claimed back before tax is paid. Minor changes to the licencing terms, brought in by Eamon Ryan in 2007, won't apply to this find. In a Reuter's interview last year, Paul Ellis, the company's chief executive, said of the Irish exploration: "They are look-a-like prospects to Shell's Corrib prospects, and are attractive partly due to the tax rate in Ireland." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday July 17, 2009 - 19:42 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, a powerline, a landfill, a quarry and the turfcutting campaign intensifies ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 17, 2009 - 08:18 by Margaretta D'Arcy
8 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 - 10:14) 3 images
Michael Clifford's piece from The Sunday Tribune (12th July) is a serious misrepresentation of our 27th-June Shell2Sea street-meeting in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / crime and justice Thursday July 16, 2009 - 19:22 by Alison Kelly
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This is an update to a previously published story from Alison Kelly, a woman who was misdiagnosed regarding Breast Cancer, and the subsequent twists and turns of trying to take a civil legal action against the HSE. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 16, 2009 - 14:42 by Paula Geraghty
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Pickets close Department of Environment for business to defend cleaning contract jobs. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 16, 2009 - 01:30 by Michael Gallagher
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Images 1-9 © Michael Gallagher ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 15, 2009 - 23:01 by Mick Collins
4 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 - 12:59)
Natalia Estemirova (50), has been found murdered in the North Caucasus, after having been abducted this morning (July 15th) shortly after leaving for work in the Chechen capital Grozny. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 22:11 by Paula Geraghty
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On Monday 13th July at 1pm the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest in support of 13 contract cleaners who were unlawfully dismissed by the private contractor in the Custom House. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 19:51 by Contaminated Crow
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A telemast, an incinerator, a waste treatment plant, turfcutting rights and sewage sludge spreading ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 15:26 by PBPA
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People Before Profit Councillor Brid Smith and patients’ families learned today from the HSE in Cherryorchard Hospital that the controversial decision to close the Beech Unit has been reversed. The Beech Unit will remain open for the foreseeable future. This has been the result of a magnificent campaign by the families who care for the patients and the local community ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 09:25 by Tara Tara Tara
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Emergency Call Out ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 13, 2009 - 19:54 by Free Derry Activists
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A make shift camp was created at Free Derry Corner earlier today in Derry's Bogside as a gesture of international solidarity with the continued Israeli Policy of wide spread house evictions. Activists also held a street collection in an effort to raise money for Derry - Gaza Medical Aid Convoy currently being organised by the Derry Anti War Coalition who will be taking part in an international convoy to Palestine this coming October. Several hundred information leaflets were also distributed to passers by on today's world wide event of which Derry played an important role. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 12, 2009 - 21:20 by Jio
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Founded in 1977, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is the oldest political organization active in Afghanistan. Its' priority is the establishment of a democratic and secular regime, based on the self-determination of the Afghan people and the recognition of the rights of women [1]. RAWA conducts clandestine educational operations. The activists are constantly at risk and thus act under cover of humanitarian action. However, RAWA is 'not a humanitarian organization', and its social activism is driven by political goals. As part of a lecture tour in February, Alternative Libertaire had the opportunity to speak with one of its activists, Zoya. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday July 12, 2009 - 15:54 by Visteon Occupation supporter
Visteon Corp., which moved last week to cut off retiree health-care benefits, has asked a bankruptcy judge to authorize up to $80 million in management and insider bonuses. ... read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 11, 2009 - 20:01 by Le Chéile Saor
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I.R.A Continue To Resist Occupation. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 10, 2009 - 20:00 by TD
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Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon (IFPAL) is an organisation founded in June 2009 to call for a No vote in the imminent second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on the grounds that the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is inimical to the interests of the Palestinian people and detrimental to Ireland's relationship with the Arab and Islamic world. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 10, 2009 - 17:56 by Al Giordano, General Joe, and jamie
3 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 - 19:52)
"No, it's not parody. Rather, it's instructive of the state of mind of the coup defenders. (You can see it in repeated online comments on Twitter and elsewhere attacking Organization of American States chairman Jose Miguel Insulza because he was part of the elected Allende government before Allende was assassinated by Pinochet's forces.) They see the Pinochet coup of 36 years ago as a heroic act, and long for the bad old days when they could simply stamp out democratic will by rounding all dissenters into a stadium and assassinating more than 3,000 in a single week, which is what happened after September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile. It is another proof positive that they are trying to start that ball rolling all over again throughout the hemisphere. And it demonstrates exactly why not a single government in América or in the entire world recognizes their illegitimate regime." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 10, 2009 - 13:39 by Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)
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MANILA, Philippines. Members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest action in front of the World Bank office here today to demand the total and unconditional cancellation of all debts it is claiming from the Philippines and developing nations. The protest action coincided with the opening of the Group of Eight Nations’ (G8) 35th Summit in Italy which sets among its agenda the development of a comprehensive response to the global economic crisis. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Friday July 10, 2009 - 10:17 by Vincent O'Malley
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On RTE news on 18/5/09, Mary Hanafin stated, in her usual Orwellian fashion, that the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) had now provided a financial incentive to encourage those under 20 to go into training or education. This ’financial incentive’ involved cutting the dole to €100 per week for new claimants under the age of 20. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday July 10, 2009 - 01:42 by Residents Against Racism
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As the Dáil drew to a close, a group of Irish citizen children gathered to deliver a heartfelt message to Minister Dermot Ahern: please don't send our daddies away. ... read full story / add a comment |
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