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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 21, 2004 - 11:17 by Paul McAndrew
Attacks on gay men in the North have reached the crisis point and it is "only a matter of time before someone is killed in a homophobic attack," an LGBT civil rights group warned Tuesday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 21, 2004 - 10:24 by Hilaal
 9 comments (last - friday july 30, 2004 - 12:20)
The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade which claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombings last March has issued another warning to Sylvio Berlusconi three days after the expiry of a three-month truce declared unilaterally on April 15 by Osama bin Laden. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 20, 2004 - 17:26 by Pit Stop Ploughshares
19 comments (last - monday july 26, 2004 - 19:50)
STATE OF PLAY - Well it 's 18 months since we managed to disable a U.S. Navy war plane at Shannon Airport. The plane was the only piece of military equipment turned around by the international peace movement and sent back to Texas. Meanwhile we were sent to Limerick prison. Initially denied any bail at all, we eventually had very restrictive bail conditions imposed - a ban from County Clare, a ban from a mile radius of the U.S. Embassy & signing on at a specific Garda Station daily. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 20, 2004 - 14:57 by Lasc
5 comments (last - sunday july 25, 2004 - 04:09)
The boycott which was called last year has been renewed for another year as Coke have not moved on the issue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 19, 2004 - 23:48 by rooster
20 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 - 14:20)
This year's Twelfth of July celebrations were the best I have seen for some time and having listened to various reports from different parts of Northern Ireland everyone seems to be of the same frame of mind. Bandsmen and women along with Orangemen and women perfectly turned out marching along to lively tunes celebrating their culture and heritage sending out a very clear message that this is a day everyone can join in and enjoy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 19, 2004 - 00:35 by Rooster
14 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 01:39)
THE DUP is compiling its own list of paramilitary activity over the summer, ahead of renewed political talks in the autumn. It is understood party leaders want their own list, as they don't trust Government figures on IRA activity. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 18, 2004 - 17:56 by Anon
3 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 01:44)
The Irish government is now threatening to deport immigrants on the grounds that their marriages to Irish citizens have broken down. Women who have worked legally in the republic for several years face being kicked out of the country because their partners have left them and their children. Notices of deportation were served within days of the Citizenship Referendum restricting access to Irish passports for the children of immigrants born on the island after 1998. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday July 18, 2004 - 14:13 by sharpening.
14 comments (last - thursday july 22, 2004 - 15:07)
the current Minister of Justice has spoken of reassuring rank and file members of the Garda Siochana that the force will not be emasculated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday July 18, 2004 - 13:44 by iosaf in his welly boots.
1 comment (last - sunday july 18, 2004 - 21:18)
Not suprisingly for a nation associated with little boys fingering dykes in times of trouble, the Dutch are concerned with the annual disasters cuased by Flooding in Europe. To which end they've organised a Euro-Water conference between governments, water industry directors and those who contribute to river safety both transport and flood mitigation in Maastricht this last weekend. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2004 - 23:27 by forwared by aLERTA!
urgent! the police is impeding the mobilization arrive to Claypole police station. by ((i)) Thursday July 15, 2004 at 02:44 PM forwared by aLERTA! ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday July 15, 2004 - 19:21 by guy
22 comments (last - monday april 17, 2006 - 17:37)
In the most startling display of people taking a film's inherent message far too seriously, almost 75% of Americans now base their religion on the story depicted in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ." Theologian Tom Sandell sat down and talked to us about this extraordinary phenomenon. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday July 15, 2004 - 18:31 by Barry Finnegan
2 comments (last - saturday july 17, 2004 - 21:35)
Greg Palast the investigative reporter and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, carried this story for the BBC television show Newsnight and The Guardian newspaper in the UK back in 2000 and goes as far as to have in his possession two computer discs contains the 97,000 names of mostly Democrat-voting African-Americans which were illegally removed by the office of the Secretary of State of Florida from the Florida electoral roll. The list was so faulty that Mr. Palast even interviewed an conviction-free electoral returning officer whose name was purged from the electoral roll. Palast will also be revealing the details he has uncovered regarding precisely how Governor Jeb Bush [Bush The Younger’s brother] managed to swing Florida for the NeoCons when he appears as a panellist on a joint Minority Outreach Forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Senator Hillary Clinton. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Thursday July 15, 2004 - 15:54 by Sinn Fein
38 comments (last - saturday july 24, 2004 - 17:13)
Christie to give up council seat Martin Christie announced yesterday evening that he will resign his Sinn Féin seat on Fingal County Council at the request of the party's Ard Chomhairle. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2004 - 14:17 by dunk
16 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 01:16)
"at the traveller site in black pool off gt william o`brain st. guards are here trying to evict or scare them off. we are supporting the travellers, could use more bodies. have just heard the gardai have threathened to block the travllers in. all help appreciated" recieved from cork activist at 14.45 yesterday ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2004 - 13:39 by Davy Carlin
43 comments (last - saturday july 31, 2004 - 10:09)
The American racist organisaton the Ku Klux Klan has sent its congratulations to the people of Ireland in the wake of the "yes" vote in the citizenship referendum. The klan`s "Imperial Wizard" - the head of the organisation - Ray Larsen spoke to Dubliner magazine, and has written to Ireland`s Justice Minister Michael McDowell in praise of his work. The KKK says it is "excited" by the Irish move to restrict citizenship, as it says, "according to blood-lines rather than birthplace". The klan has said it has no problem with white immigrants. ... read full story / add a comment
cavan / environment Thursday July 15, 2004 - 02:32 by M. Lynch
3 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 - 21:29)
Cavan quarry company, John Nulty Limited have finally lodged a planning application with Cavan County Council to extend their quarry at Ardkill More mountain, Carrickaboy, five miles south of Cavan town. ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 14, 2004 - 20:25 by Jim
2 comments (last - thursday july 15, 2004 - 03:13)
Comrades, families and friends gathered in Waterford to commemorate the international bridage from the town and county. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice Wednesday July 14, 2004 - 15:12 by dileacht
7 comments (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 - 00:15)
Money dries up for CIRA and their drug dealing/gun renting/ 'security' services ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday July 13, 2004 - 18:11 by Cllr Eoin o' Broin
14 comments (last - wednesday july 14, 2004 - 18:12)
The following is a report from the UTV website on SFs allignment in the EU and our broad agenda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 13, 2004 - 14:57 by Justin Morahan
2 comments (last - monday july 26, 2004 - 03:07)
Mordechai Vanunu, who served close on 18 years in prison in Israel for having revealed secrets about the Dimona reactor, has had severe restrictions placed on his freedom of action since his release last April. An Israeli Civil Rights group has made a petiton to the Supreme Court and on 11 July the case was heard. There was the equivalent of a reserved judgement, so we await the outcome. ... read full story / add a comment |
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