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galway / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 12:34 by Airport Worker
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SIPTU members at Galway Airport have voted decisively for industrial action because of the airport management’s decision to impose cuts to workers's hours rather than work through the normal industrial relations process. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 10:17 by Stuart Williams
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A World Poverty Commemorative Stone, crafted by Irish artist Stuart McGrath, was unveiled on Custom House Quay during this year’s commemoration to mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The work is a collaborative effort undertaken by The 17th October Group, (a coalition of over 25 anti-poverty community groups and NGOs) and Dublin City Council and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. This year events also took place in Arklow, Thurles, Shannon, Westport, Tipperary Town, Rosmuc, Letterkenny, Blanchardstown, and Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 20, 2008 - 19:19 by Polly tix
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Students have occupied part of the Smurfit business school as Lenihan visits ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 20, 2008 - 18:50 by Paula Geraghty
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People before profit organised a picket of Michael Mulcahy's constituency clinic in the Liberties from which he was absent. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / environment Monday October 20, 2008 - 10:49 by Sean Crudden
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Cooley Environmental and Health Group has for the last half dozen years or so adopted The Strand Hotel, Omeath, Co Louth, as a center for its varied program of activities. Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD has been secretary of the group over all that period. He now is also acting as PRO for the group. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 19, 2008 - 23:11 by Oisín Mac Gall
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Supporters of Iban Apaolaza Sancho on Friday 17th in Dublin's O'Connell Street, staged Spanish police torture enactment to protest Canadian deportation of the Basque refugee to Spanish police custody on an arrest warrant based on testimony given under torture. Their action was part of an international effort, with other interventions in the Basque Country, Montreál, Beirut and London. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday October 19, 2008 - 22:33 by Séamas
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An event organised by the North West Solidarity Network took place in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitirm has been hailed a major success and as the start of a series of activities and actions planned for the coming months and years. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 19, 2008 - 11:15 by John Jefferies
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For the second time in just over a month Cork Port has been visited by a warship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in breach of Irish neutrality. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday October 18, 2008 - 23:26 by Contaminated Crow
A power station in Mayo, pylons in Meath and Kildare, incinerator in Meath, gas terminal in Kerry and a race track in Co Tipperary ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Saturday October 18, 2008 - 18:40 by Goretti Horgan
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The point of the protests in Belfast, Derry and Lisburn was to symbolise the 40 women a week who leave the North to travel to Britain or Europe to seek abortions ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism Saturday October 18, 2008 - 16:38 by John Jefferies
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Several thousand people took part in a protest on St. Patrick's Bridge in Cork this afternoon to demonstrate against the Fianna Fáil / Green / PD parties budget decision to axe automatic entitlement to medical cards for over 70 year olds. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday October 17, 2008 - 14:51 by A
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The word is – Shell are pulling out of Glengad and suspending work till early Spring. Shell ‘consultants’ are informing local residents that the beach is being ‘reinstated’ and the work will take a number of weeks. The Solitaire has moved on and is ‘off hire’ to Shell. No press release has issued from Shell and they are behind in their weekly ‘progress’ reports to the PAD (Petroleum Affairs Divison) of Minister Eamon Ryan’s Department of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, which can normally be read here: http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...D.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 16, 2008 - 17:28 by Swedish network Ofog
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Weapons used in the American led war on Iraq were successfully disarmed by a group of activists. Early this morning members of the Swedish peace network, Ofog, broke into Europe's leading weapon manufacturer BAE Systems and disarmed 20 grenade launchers of the type used in Iraq. Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback used hammers and bolt cutters to begin this disarmament. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 15, 2008 - 18:07 by Paula Geraghty
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A press conference held this morning by a panel of leading trade unionists outlined the reasons behind their opposition to the proposed national pay deal. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 14, 2008 - 16:24 by Paula Geraghty
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Catering staff, all Siptu members are returning to work tomorrow after voting to accept the LRC deal at noon today. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 14, 2008 - 15:06 by Words-Kev - IPSC (pers cap); images- Paula Geraghty
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On Friday 10th October, around 130 people packed into Liberty Hall basement to hear three powerful speakers talk on the subject of the destruction of the Palestinian people and the future for Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday October 13, 2008 - 22:07 by Contaminated Crow
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Incineration, waste, pylons, water extraction and wind turbines ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 13, 2008 - 21:21 by Carl
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St Marys Orthopaedic Hospital cutbacks ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 13, 2008 - 02:16 by Paula Geraghty
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The message was made loud and clear to Harney and Drumm 'Fund our health- Not your pockets' and to provide a health service that we can trust. ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 12, 2008 - 20:41 by John Lannon
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A relaxed yet determined crowd gathered at the monthly vigil in Shannon this Sunday evening to protest against the ongoing use of the airport by the US military and CIA. Not surprisingly there was an unidentified aircraft sitting on the airport tarmac at the time. And also not surprisingly, the Gardai were determined to stop any of the concerned vigil attendees from identifying it. ... read full story / add a comment |
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