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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 01:05 by Andrew Gilchrist
 17 comments (last - thursday april 14, 2011 - 11:02)  12 images 1 attached file
Richard Behal was a candidate for Sinn Fein in 1984 European Election in Munster. This was an international election. He was prevented from appearing on RTE, due to a Ministerial Order under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act. His policies were misrepresented by RTE on a special Munster constituency programme, which gave the other eight candidates extended airtime. At the end the programme purported to give the audience a very brief summary of Behal’s platform, but misrepresented it. He was never contacted by RTE. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 17, 2008 - 19:26 by TD
19 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 - 12:53) 10 images
Last Saturday's information stall in Shop Street was again focused on EU complicity with Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, particularly Gazans; it's almost a year ago now since Commissioner-General for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Karen Koning AbuZayd, warned: “Gaza is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution,” citing the EU and international community as accomplices in the barbaric siege of Gaza . Despite the fact that the Fourth Geneva Convention defines collective punishment as a war crime, the EU runs empathetically with the hare in condemning such a crime whilst, at the same time hunting, cheek by jowl, with the hounds who perpetrate such criminality. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media Monday November 17, 2008 - 18:30 by sheelaghnagig
1 comment (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 - 13:20) 2 images
Last Saturday, Baltimore-based artist, Sheelagh Broderick, teamed up with lighting designer, Chantelle Stewart, and a band of volunteer torchbearers, photographers and videographers to light an abandoned fishing boat at Church Strand. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Sunday November 16, 2008 - 20:08 by Andrew
12 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 20:11) 25 images  2 audio files
What was probably the 12th Grassroots Gathering took place in Cork this weekend with sessions covering everything from the crisis of capitalism and our response to Energy & food politics. through to Islam and feminism. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality Sunday November 16, 2008 - 19:08 by Paula Geraghty
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The Feminist Open Forum called yesterday's Public Rally to defend women's health services and demand that the goverment immediately abandon its decision to cancel the cervical vaccination programme for young girls. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday November 15, 2008 - 22:27 by Contaminated Crow
Incineration, pylons, telemasts, water extraction, waste, wind fatm, coalminers, marina and more waste ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-capitalism Saturday November 15, 2008 - 21:16 by Margaretta D'arcy
2 comments (last - sunday november 16, 2008 - 20:21) 5 images
It was great gas in Galway on Friday 14th Nov, exposing the Great Gas Giveaway of 1992, when Bertie Ahern and Ray Burke handed over not only the Corrib Gasfield to Shell Oil but the Erris Peninsula as well. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 15, 2008 - 19:59 by Edward Horgan
6 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 - 02:38) 6 images
Today at Shannon peace activists flew in from Dublin and Germany, drove from Cork and L:imerick to attend a peace vigil at Shannon in solidarity with a European day of action against European complicity with unlawful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the US torture rendition programme. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education Friday November 14, 2008 - 15:12 by k
3 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 - 19:33) 3 images
At a lively protest of parents and children from local schools and their supporters, Pat Carey, Fianna Fail TD and government whip was given a raosting last night ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Friday November 14, 2008 - 14:32 by -d-
4 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2008 - 16:32)
There were several Shell to Sea court cases heard in the Belmullet district court by judge Mary Devins this week, including the judgment on the charges against Martin O’Donnell and John Farell for a breach of Section 2 – criminal damage, relating to an incident involving a fence being torn down on Coillte land. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 14, 2008 - 10:27 by RobertaI
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The senders of the violence perpetrated on July 21, 2001 at the Diaz school in Genova during the G8summit were acquitted yesterday, after a long trial. No jail, no punishment at all for Giovanni Luperi, and for Francesco Gratteri, who ok-ed the massacre. Out of 29 defendants only 13 were sentenced. Shame on the system, shame on the government, shame on those who showed no courage. Our heart goes out to Carlo Giuliani's mother, to Mark Covell, who was at the trial yesterday, and visibly incredulous, to the victims of the beatings, the accusations, the humiliations. Let us not forget. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous Thursday November 13, 2008 - 22:48 by Ray
22 comments (last - sunday january 25, 2009 - 00:10)
DECISION making in local government in Sligo town is suspended indefinitely at the moment as the fallout from last week’s walkout by staff from a borough council meeting continues, prompting the question: IS ANYONE RUNNING THE TOWN RIGHT NOW? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 13, 2008 - 21:19 by a-films
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More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, many of them feel frustrated and hopeless, only sometimes seeing a glimmer of hope. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 11, 2008 - 18:28 by Edward Horgan
10 comments (last - tuesday november 25, 2008 - 03:03) 5 images
On Monday 10 November US a US Air force executive jet, reg no 40109, a learjet 35 or a C 21A in military terminology, was being refuelled at Shannon airport, while being protected by a special garda escort. We dont yet know who the passengers were, but such luxuary transports are not for one star privates, they are normally reserved for one star generals and upwards. Some of these generals have been guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is most likely that the Gardai did not search the aircraft to ascertain if any war criminals were on board. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous Tuesday November 11, 2008 - 13:07 by Elinor
3 comments (last - saturday november 15, 2008 - 16:23) 2 images
All the information you need to participate in the Gathering i.e. Timetable, map, and accomodation info is all under upcoming events on this site please pass it on to any technophobes you know and love ! ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 11, 2008 - 12:31 by Sean Crudden
Sunday afternoon's concert in The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, featured The Scharoun Ensemble Berlin. It was promoted by the Association of Music Lovers (AML) with the assistance of the Goethe-Institut and the co-operation of the Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 10, 2008 - 14:31 by solidarity from ghent
5 comments (last - thursday november 13, 2008 - 18:09)
this morning 40 activists blocked 3 different shell gas stations in the city of Ghent, Belgium. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 10, 2008 - 01:26 by John McCoy
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A group of disenchanted AECI members have forced the non performing Trade Association to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday November 09, 2008 - 18:26 by Contaminated Crow
Waste, incineration, a yelemast, an airport and more waste ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Sunday November 09, 2008 - 18:05 by éirígí PRO
7 comments (last - monday november 10, 2008 - 23:41)
With the recent release 'Hunger' interest in the 1981 Hunger Strike has increased. ... read full story / add a comment |
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