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mayo / environment Friday November 11, 2005 - 16:54 by Parent
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Chairman of the Pairc Na Coille Residents Association issues a Cead Mile Failte to Gaelscoile Na Cruaiche ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday November 11, 2005 - 13:05 by S.Cat
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Will we see a lily at Easter? My grandfather fought in the first world war. He was in the Munster Fusiliers and fought in France and Belgium, and also at Gallipoli. I have no problem with people commemorating the first World War, and the many Irish men and women who were caught up in it. But I do have a problem with the Red Poppy, which is the symbol of the British Legion. As another contributor to this site recently put it: "[The Poppy] is worn to commemorate ALL of Britain's acts of war since the Great Slaughter of 1914-18- and that includes the Black and Tan War, Bloody Sunday, the invasion of Iraq, and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. If you want to wear a poppy, do so by all means. Just be sure you know what it stands for" So I think it's amazing that a supposedly neutral Internet Search Engine like Google should plaster a symbol associated with the British Army on the front page of its Irish site. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 11, 2005 - 11:49 by Jane Doran
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A Cambodian human rights defender, who came to Ireland to attend a conference, cannot return to his country because Cambodian authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest for signing a statement that criticised a border treaty with Vietnam ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism Friday November 11, 2005 - 00:16 by KD
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About thirty people protested tonight at the Shell Oil Petrol Station in Blackpool, Cork to mark the anniversary of the Shell Oil sponsored execution of the Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The protest was called by Cork Shell To Sea to mark the ongoing resistant and bloody struggle by the Ogoni people in Nigeria against the Shell Oil Corporation. It also aimed to promote the link between the ongoing struggle against Shell Oil in Rossport in Mayo and the international activities of the Shell Corporation which in the case of the Ogoni lands has led to huge environmental damage, resource robbery and repression at Shell’s behest. A huge banner proclaiming Nigeria 1995-Mayo 2005 was hung over the front of the Shell Station. Gardaí were in attendance but did not intervene. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 10, 2005 - 21:29 by Shell to Sea
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Below is the text of the letter which representatives from Ogoni Solidarity Ireland, Afri and Shell to Sea sought to hand in to Shell's Headquarters at Corrib House today, November 10th. The letter was accompanied with a wreath in memory of Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, who were executed 10 years ago today. At first Shell refused to even respond to us, but eventually they accepted the letter through the gap in the plate glass door at the side of the building. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 10, 2005 - 17:31 by Elaine
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 10, 2005 - 11:03 by Andrew
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This morning around 60 members of the UCD SIPTU Education branch had a protest at the main gates of the Belfield campus from 8.30 to 9.30. At lunchtime a speak out is being held on the campus (Arts; Theatre A). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday November 10, 2005 - 02:26 by rikki
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in november 1995, nigerian writer and activist, ken saro-wiwa, and 8 of his colleagues were executed by the military regime for campaigning against the devastation of the niger delta by oil multi-national shell. yesterday, demonstrators dropped nine nooses infront of the shell uk headquarters on the south bank to highlight the anniversary and highlight the current struggle on the north west of ireland, where shell is set to transform a remote conservation area into an environmental disaster zone with public health and safety implications. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday November 09, 2005 - 17:27 by UCD Alliance For Choice
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Youth Defence front "ultrasound" event canceled due to presure from students ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Wednesday November 09, 2005 - 12:15 by John Carmody
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A new hard-hitting campaign to stop the use of animals in circuses is being launched in Ireland today by Animal Defenders International (ADI) and Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN). The campaign report on Ireland’s circuses is based on undercover investigations by ADI Field Officers into seven circuses touring Ireland in 2000 and 2003. ADI Field Officers obtained employment with two Irish circuses, and observed many more. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday November 09, 2005 - 11:16 by xy
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This night the riots continued. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 07, 2005 - 10:33 by Aron Baker
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Brief overview of the skillshare weekend held at the Rossport Solidarity House in Mayo over the Halloween weekend, which had workshops on many issues as well as a tour of the area and a party Sunday night. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 06, 2005 - 23:28 by Elaine
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The usual Sunday Evening Liturgy in the Dublin Catholic Worker House was followed by soup and an Open House Gathering where all were welcome. This week was more poignant than normal because of the realisation that our friends may be going to jail. This could be the last time for a while that we can sit in community and literally, break bread together. Tomorrow, the jury decides. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 06, 2005 - 17:09 by Paul Doherty
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The photo of Martin McGuinness fraternising with infamous war criminal Kissinger - which is on the home page of www.ncafp.org - sums up the hypocrisy of the Sinn Féin leadership. They talk anti-imperialist in Ireland and kiss up to imperialists in Washington and across the US. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 06, 2005 - 14:36 by shane ocurry
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Aegis, the mercenary company headed by human rights abuser & former Scots Guards Colonel Tim Spicer, will be attending a conference at the Royal United Services Institute (nearest tube Westminister) on Tuesday 8 Nov. Those opposed to human rights abuses in Iraq and Ireland are asked to attend between 1pm and 2pm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 05, 2005 - 21:12 by Paul Kinsella
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The strike by members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) in An Post is to go ahead from Monday after last-ditch talks facilitated through the National Implementation Body (NIB) to avert planned strike action ended without a breakthrough. Pickets will be placed on the GPO in Dublin from Midnight Sunday, meaning the GPO will be closed, and a nationwide overtime ban will also come into effect. Things are slightly complicated by the fact, that, at the moment, only the CWU will be on strike from Monday. However many members of the other 3 unions representing An Post workers, the CPSU, PSEU and AHCPS have said that they will refuse to cross any picket lines, thus raising the prospect of suspensions, and a very rapid escalation of the dispute. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 05, 2005 - 18:54 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Five Danish peace activists were this week sentenced to pay a fine of DKK 3,000 each as a penalty for protesting from the public gallery against the Danish parliament's decision of November last year to extend the duration of Danish troops' participation in the war in Iraq. The text below is a translation of a press release issued by one of the activists. Coverage on a Danish anti-war website includes photos of the action and four of the protesters: http://tinyurl.com/955mx ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 05, 2005 - 17:14 by Éamonn Ó Flanngagáin
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We have it from Noel Dempsey that thre is no foundation to unsubstantiated rumours that SHELL and its asscociates in The Corrib Gas Field may have been generous with corporate hospitality to public servants. In answer to a Parliamentary Question from Treveor Sargent, the Minister replied : "There has never been sufficient corporate hospitality by any licensee involved in offshore exploration to warrant the necessity for a declaration under the [Ethics in Public ]Acts." ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 05, 2005 - 14:33 by Court Reporter
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Deirdre Clancy gave the rest of her testimony, followed by Nuin Dunlop. The junior prosecutor bored the jury while he made insinuations about Ms. Clancy's religious beliefs, the existence of a ringleader in the group, and hidden desires to get arrested. The senior prosecutor tried to portray Ms. Dunlop as not having thought the action through very well. Both ladies explained quite well the real context and motives of their action, from what they knew of the impending shock and awe, and the concerns for the people in Iraq. After lunch Cathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness and former UN Asst Secretary-General Denis Halliday testified as to what they had told the defendants about the situation in Iraq when they attended a peace conference in Kildare shortly before the action. Both of them related the first hand experience of the hard realities of Iraqi life to the jury as they had done to the defendants. This report is not verbatim, and is based on notes taken in court. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 05, 2005 - 13:11 by Roger Eldridge
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The recent outburst that penalties would be imposed on Poland by the EU if they did not protect the rights of homosexuals shows just how crazy the world has become. ... read full story / add a comment |
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