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national / consumer issues Monday April 27, 2009 - 11:38 by Plato
 1 comment (last - wednesday july 14, 2010 - 09:21)
Last year, Minister Ryan indicated that he would soon bring legislation forward so as to stop the rip-off by "subscription services" Alas.nothing has happened ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 25, 2009 - 16:20 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí activists yesterday marked the 93rd anniversary of the 1916 Rising with a series of banner drops and the erections of dozens of posters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday April 24, 2009 - 17:05 by Tara Tara Tara
6 comments (last - saturday april 25, 2009 - 10:49) 8 images  1 video file
Photo Essay April 09 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Friday April 24, 2009 - 15:40 by Andrew editing - Farah recording - Torab Saleh speaking
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Yesterday Torab Saleh who took part in the Iranian revolution of 1979 spoke in Dublin of his personal experiences of that time and the challenges it presented to him and others on the left. This is the audio recording of that meeting. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage Friday April 24, 2009 - 15:22 by Diarmuid Breatnach
8 comments (last - monday april 27, 2009 - 20:07) 2 images
Public hearing of appeal against property developers' plan for Moore Street has been going on all week. 500 people protested on Sunday in a symbolic Arms Around Moore Street event. Witness for the developers compares the deliberate destruction of the Reichstag as a fascist symbol with the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin after Bloody Sunday. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 24, 2009 - 14:28 by Paula Geraghty
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A multi-national group of people took part in a protest to show their horror at events in Sri Lanka against the Tamil people. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous Thursday April 23, 2009 - 10:23 by Belfast WSM
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Mayday is a time of reflecting and renewing the proud tradition of working-class resistance and commitment to social revolution. The spirit of class struggle continues to burn in our class from the Visteon workplace occupations to the school occupations in Glasgow and beyond. As we continue to bear the brunt of job cuts, house evictions and police brutality, the powerful message of direct action and solidarity against the bosses and the state is as relevant and necessary as ever before. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday April 23, 2009 - 08:59 by Dublin Shell to Sea
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Willie Corduff, one of the Rossport 5 and Goldman prize winner, was badly beaten by men in balaclavas and dark clothes at approximatly 4 o clock in the monrning last night. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday April 22, 2009 - 23:34 by A
6 comments (last - sunday april 26, 2009 - 23:25) 15 images
Todays fencing (and gates?) in Glengad is right now being removed by the community Shell returned in force to Glengad early this morning on Wednesday 22nd April 2009. Willie Corduff & 2 others lay under a Shell truck where Willie lies as we write, and is not for moving, despite the efforts of a number of Gardai to remove him. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 21, 2009 - 18:01 by TD
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Following the passing in February of a similar motion by Sligo County Council, yesterday evening, by a majority of 12 to 2, Galway City Council passed a joint motion by Billy Cameron and Collette Connolly of the Labour Party, that called on the City Manager, Joe MacGrath, not to renew the city's water management contract with French multinational, Veolia. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 20, 2009 - 21:47 by Sean Matthews-personal capacity
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Belfast City Centre was brought to a standstill last Friday lunchtime in a rally organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) against the latest job losses in the manufacturing and textile industry. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Sunday April 19, 2009 - 23:33 by Sean
96 comments (last - friday may 29, 2009 - 12:52) 26 images 3 video files
The security firm employed by Shell to stop protests by locals against the building of the gas pipeline had employed Tipperary man Mike Dwyer at the site in the past. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 19, 2009 - 20:54 by Allen
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The presence of plainclothes Gardai in an unmarked car in the vicinity of a 1916 Commemoration in Sligo where two former Labour Party Mayors, Cllr. Declan Bree (Sligo Borough Council) & Cllr. Catherine Connolly (Galway City Council), held a ceremony has been described as "sinister and disturbing." ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 19, 2009 - 19:30 by Mark P
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Last Thursday, 16th April 2009, Joe Higgins, the Socialist Party candidate in the forthcoming European Elections and Jim Power, economist with Friends First, debated the current economic crisis. The debate took place in Wynne's Hotel, in front of a large crowd. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday April 18, 2009 - 22:48 by Contaminated Crow
A telemast, a quarry, an electricity substation, a technological campus, water extraction, electricity interconnector and timber processing ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday April 16, 2009 - 11:23 by FEE
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Protest against the governments budget. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday April 14, 2009 - 20:23 by Contaminated Crow
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Two landfills, a sludge treatment plant, a LNG terminal and powerlines ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Tuesday April 14, 2009 - 14:39 by Blue Planet Advocate
10 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 - 22:21)
Kerry Council and An Bord Pleanala have agreed to the Unsustainable Development of The Great Blasket Islands. Works Have Begun. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage Monday April 13, 2009 - 18:58 by konia
7 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 - 10:07) 7 images 2 video files
In Dublin today, the North Inner City Folklore Project organised a commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising by honouring the men and women who fought for Irish Freedom. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 13, 2009 - 18:34 by Justin Morahan
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Israel's contemptible treatment of its famous whisleblower continues. His Good Friday harassment again raises the question: Is part of Israel's relentless punishment of Mordechai Vanunu because of his Christian faith? ... read full story / add a comment |
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