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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 23:31 by Paula Geraghty
 8 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 - 02:17)  29 images
Over 15,000 took part in today's historic march of predominantly pensioners outside the Dail to keep the universal Medical Card for the over 70's. Because of their action, solidarity, resiliance, anger and refusal to give in everything will be much different in Ireland. Photoessay from this protest below. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 18:43 by NMI
5 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 - 17:04) 5 images  1 video file
Between ten and twelve thousand people turned out in bright sunshine today to demonstrate against the Green Party/Fainna Fáil plan to impose fees for third level education. FF Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe called for consideration of re-imposition of fees earlier this year, and "registration fees" were massively increased in the recent budget. He has signalled that he intends to introduce legislation on third level fees in the new year. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 17:25 by Grupo Raíces
1 comment (last - thursday october 23, 2008 - 10:23) 3 images 1 attached file
Around 30 people met last Thursday 16th of October at the very heart of Dublin, the GPO, to stage a demo in solidarity with the Colombian popular and indigenous organisations in struggle for various demands, who have been met with full force by the repressive and dictatorial regime of Álvaro Uribe Vélez. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 14:09 by -d-
5 comments (last - thursday october 23, 2008 - 10:15)
Wednesday, 15 October, 2008, Martin McDonnell of Glenamoy appeared in front of Judge Clein in the Ballina Courthouse. Garda Egan and Sergeant Gill, the prosecuting Gardai, asked the judge to activate McDonnell’s suspended jail sentences stemming from two counts of trespassing on Shell property. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 13:36 by jmullee
A protest by mainly the elderly at the budgeted means-testing for medical card for the over-70s. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 12:34 by Airport Worker
7 comments (last - sunday july 18, 2010 - 13:12) 1 image
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
5 comments (last - saturday october 25, 2008 - 16:44)
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
3 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 - 17:24) 3 images
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
3 comments (last - monday october 20, 2008 - 18:17) 8 images
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
3 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 - 16:31) 3 images
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
7 comments (last - sunday october 26, 2008 - 10:22) 2 images
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
9 comments (last - monday october 20, 2008 - 11:48) 1 image
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
6 comments (last - tuesday october 21, 2008 - 12:38) 13 images
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
4 comments (last - thursday october 23, 2008 - 17:34) 5 images
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 |
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