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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 11, 2009 - 17:54 by Gregor Kerr
Dublin City North branch of the Irish National Teachers Organisation expresses support for striking MTL dockers ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 11, 2009 - 12:27 by Andrew
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Last night saw the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 11, 2009 - 00:38 by Emma Clancy
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The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign has welcomed the news this week that the petition against the extradition to Spain of Belfast-based Basque pro-independence activists Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva now has more than 1,000 signatories from Ireland, Britain, the Basque Country, Spain and around the world, including elected representatives, human rights campaigners, lawyers, academics and community leaders. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 22:54 by ARAN
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Kicking off a visual demonstration outside Harold’s cross stadium and working our way with the help of local activists in Northern Ireland down through Cork city, campaigners and supporters of Animal Rights Action Network held peaceful protests and tabling events to highlight the cruel greyhound racing industry in Ireland. During a week of action from August 24 to 30 we worked hard to get the facts out to the general public about the cruelty and exploitation of greyhounds in the racing industry. Over the week and during the month of September ARAN will be working hard to raise awareness of the Irish campaign to abolish cruel greyhound racing and to educate people about the horrors of what gentle greyhounds endure before, during and after their racing lives. ... read full story / add a comment 
tipperary / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 20:24 by Bernie Wright
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An allegation that the offices of the Sporting Press in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, which describes itself as the “official organ of the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), has been raided within the past few days by the Garda Fraud Squad has been leaked by Coursing supporters. This allegation is contained on an Internet chat forum called the “Greyhound Knowledge Forum”. In the course of an exchange of views and comments by forum members, mainly in relation to Minister John Gormley’s upcoming decision on whether to grant a hare-netting license to the ICC, a person calling himself “Vinny Grennan” refers specifically to the presence of the Fraud Squad in the Sporting Press offices in Clonmel. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / crime and justice Thursday September 10, 2009 - 14:38 by Rudiger
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Yesterday in Belmullet District court, Maura Harrington was jailed for the fourth time this year over her opposition to Shell's plans in Mayo. Judge Mary Devins sentenced Ms Harrington to 3 months in jail for assaulting an employee of IRMS, and 3 months for trespassing in a farmyard close to the landfall site in Glengad on June 19 2008. Ms Harrington was also fined a total of €1000. This incident occurred shortly after Shell began drafting in security into the area and they had begun filming people in the locality (it hadn't been discovered these were working for IRMS at that stage). Yesterday, marked one year to the day that Maura Harrington began her hungerstrike which lasted 11 days until the Solitaire left Irish waters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday September 10, 2009 - 13:26 by one drop
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As part of the global mobilisation for climate justice at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, young activists prepare for four days of action and media skill-sharing in Dublin this October ... read full story / add a comment ![The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/sep2009/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_sunind26jan03.jpg "The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]")
national / arts and media Thursday September 10, 2009 - 10:13 by Captain Green
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The Irish Times reports the death of former owner, Major McDowell, September 10, 2009: Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell Former Irish Times chairman dies, aged 86 Widely known as “The Major”, he kept clear of involvement in editorial content, insisting that that was the domain of the editor. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0910/1....html The Irish Times changed during the Major era, from a newspaper reflecting the protected but significant interests of a distinct Protestant business class to one that reflected the moderninsing interests of Irish capitalism. It was not as smooth a transition as the Irish Times usually reports. In 1969 Major McDowell was 'hot under the coller" about the Irish Times. So wrote Andrew Gilchrist, the British Ambassador in Dublin to Whitehall. He went on: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 23:55 by Paula Geraghty
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Positive story of communities organising and defending what they have. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 16:46 by Dublin S2S
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Retired school principal Maura Harrington has been jailed for the fourth time this year in connection with her opposition to Shell’s experimental inland refinery and high-pressure pipeline in north Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 13:30 by Dublin Antifascist
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Text of a leaflet distributed around the Temple Bar area today by a group of 40 antifascists. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 08, 2009 - 10:16 by Workers Solidarity
During his recent visit to Dublin, Workers Solidarity took the opportunity, over “bad coffee”, to chat to 93 year old Roma Marquez Santo about some of his experiences of the Spanish revolution. In 1936 Roma was a metal worker and a member of both the UGT trade union and the POUM, an anti-Stalinist communist party. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 08, 2009 - 09:57 by big_ron
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Shell to Sea banner drop on the N7 on Sunday morning, the day of the All Ireland Hurling Final ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 07, 2009 - 23:59 by Paula Geraghty
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Over 120 protested the treatment of MTL workers and show their support at Dublin City Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 22:17 by fired_pet
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SHell was found in contempt of a District Court order last week. The company was found by the judge to have entered common land in Rossport despite having been prohibited from doing so by a 2007 court order. Presumably the judge, when she returns to sentence the company next week, will treat them as harshly as she has treated opponents of the project to install the experimental gas pipeline in North West Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday September 07, 2009 - 16:36 by Contaminated Crow
Detention of fishing vessels, two quarries, a telemast, a pet crematorium and an airport runway extension ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 15:56 by gurgle-tweet iosaf mac diarmada
Until this week most young people doing juggling two worthwhile tasks like convincing their elders to vote No to Lisbon (either for the second time or the all important first) or researching a hefty Junior Cert project on international strategic relations and peace studies - would have had to rely on figures on the official arms trade dating from 2007. Since then we've seen a celtic tiger die and a mismanagement of the US economy under its war presidency of Bush infect the world with an economic crises. Unsurprisingly therefore arms trading of the official kind is down. But in good news for pro-Americans and pro-Lisbon Europeans, the share of the US in arms trading has jumped and second place globally is now taken for the first time not by Russia but our own catholic soulmates of the Italian Republic. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / racism & migration related issues Monday September 07, 2009 - 11:12 by Davy Carlin
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The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. This statement comes not long after more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes in South Belfast due to racist intimidation and attacks.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 07, 2009 - 10:00 by Edward Horgan
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A very successful peace conference was held at Shannon airport on Sat 5 Sept 09 for the purpose of highlighting the interconnections between the establishment of a US forward airbase at Shannon airport, the militarisation of Europe, the abuse of Irish neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty. The attendance of over 80 was mainly for Dublin, so it was great to get such a dedicated group of peace activists to Shannon to show them very clearly to extent to which Irish neutrality has been abandoned at Shannon airport and the extent to which Ireland is complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Sunday September 06, 2009 - 15:46 by iosaf
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According to the Swedish "Dagens Nyheter" newspaper's updates in the last two hours, the US military entered a hospital run by the Swedish Committe for Afghanistan this week in pursuit of a patient who according to them held valuable intelligence on the Taliban. This would constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions. This newsbreak follows coverage of the strongest statements critical of the NATO strategy so far by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at the meeting of EU foreign ministers held yesterday. Anyone who prizes Irish neutrality or perhaps those who sneer at such a thing, ought know that Sweden is a neutral state. It is unique amongst the neutral states of Europe in that it boasts a highly developed arms industry which indeed is also one of the oldest happily supplying military hardward to all and sundry since before Napoleon. The Swedish share the northern "Provincial Reconstruction Team" with the Finnish under German command. ... read full story / add a comment |
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