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Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. As part of its 'Seeing Things Queerly' tour showcasing "stories of queer communities", Lego bricks are said to reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".
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Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 22:40 by Cork Warship Watch   text 5 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 - 23:09)   image 1 image
A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 19:03 by TD   text 39 comments (last - wednesday august 27, 2008 - 14:38)   image 6 images
Stephen Lendman in a Znet article http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18348 succinctly puts the moral imperatives behind the Free Gaza Movement's brave sailings to the Israeli besieged Gaza Strip: "After Hamas' January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was falsely called a terrorist organization and isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, destruction of property and more in a pattern all too familiar to Palestinians for over six decades. Gazans are imprisoned in their own land and have been traumatized for months. In June 2007, things got worse after Israel placed the Territory under siege - described by some as medieval because of its extreme harshness". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 06:20 by Dave Donnellan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 14:49)   video 1 video file
A potpourrai of events on Grafton Street last Saturday including the fur protest! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Friday August 01, 2008 - 19:14 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 - 22:28)   image 22 images   video 1 video file
Last year Pride in Latvia took place hemmed in a closed off park surrounded by Riot Police and hundreds of homophobic protesters.
These images and report follows on the fight for sexual freedom and civil rights one year on in Latvia. ... read full story / add a comment
The St Petersburg String Quartet
louth / arts and media Friday August 01, 2008 - 11:03 by Sean Crudden   image 1 image
A very attractive program of Russian music was presented in the refurbished Marist Church, Dundalk, last night. Tickets were €15. The program and the performance was captivating and exemplary. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 31, 2008 - 17:45 by DAWC   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 05, 2008 - 19:26)   image 2 images
Members of the Derry Anti War Coalition marked the second anniversary of the massacre at Qana in Lebanon with a vigil at the Derry Raytheon plant on Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
Shell sells petrol in Ireland through its licensee Topaz energy
national / consumer issues Thursday July 31, 2008 - 15:33 by Gu.com reader   image 1 image
Shell announced second quarter profits of $8,000,000,000 today. The company is currently exploiting Irish Natural gas off the west coast for which it is liable for zero royalties. While tax may be charged at some point in the future on Shell Ireland's profits, the Anglo-Dutch company has shown itself to be skilled in avoiding tax when it can.

Irish gas bills for domestic users are set to raise by 20% in September, with another 20% rise expected in the new year.
The Irish state owns no stake in the Corrib field.
New licences on the same giveaway terms are currently being issued for Irish offshore blocks in the Rockall Basin. http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...d.htm ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 20:11 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 - 21:06)
Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 15:24 by Rudiger   text 26 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 - 20:54)   image 11 images   video 2 video files
The latest from Glengad beach, were Shell have occupied a section of the beach and fenced it off from the local community ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 28, 2008 - 21:22 by Edward Horgan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 21:48)   image 1 image   2 attached files
Shannon airport and Irish airspace are being used on a daily basis by US warplanes, with the permission of the Irish Government, in contravention of international laws on neutrality, in spite of the Irish Governments claims that Ireland is still a neutral state.
Lies, Lies and Damn Lies ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Monday July 28, 2008 - 10:22 by Dolphin Watcher   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2008 - 14:34)   image 5 images
A school of curious dolphins were attacked yesterday lunchtime by a vessel supporting Shell's offshore pipeline works in Broadhaven Bay at Glengad. The Niamh Aine - a pleasure boat hired to escort various work vessels around the area - drove across the path of two of the dolphins who were inspecting the Vlaanderen VII barge. ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday July 27, 2008 - 23:14 by Sean Matthews   image 5 images
“In 1907 there was only one Jim Larkin in Belfast; in 2008 there are thousands of Jim Larkin’s.”
(Gerry Trainer, SIPTU shop steward, Andersonstown News, 19/07/08)
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Representatives of the union of Students turned up to support the picket
dublin / gender and sexuality Saturday July 26, 2008 - 20:20 by Andrew   text 25 comments (last - tuesday august 05, 2008 - 11:04)   image 15 images   audio 3 audio files
Saturday lunchtime saw dozens of pro-choice activists take part in the final picket of the month of action against the rogue pregnancy counselling agency on Dorset street, ... read full story / add a comment
Britain Interns the Innocent
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 26, 2008 - 13:20 by éirígí   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 31, 2008 - 14:21)   image 3 images
37 years ago, the doors of working class nationalist homes across the Six Counties came crashing down as the British government's armed thugs went on the offensive in defence of the Stormont junta. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 26, 2008 - 13:00 by Jim Dowling   text 5 comments (last - monday june 01, 2009 - 00:20)
An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of
"disobeying a police direction", police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not
wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our
third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices.
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dublin / animal rights Friday July 25, 2008 - 23:59 by ARAN   text 2 comments (last - saturday july 26, 2008 - 15:21)   image 1 image
ARAN activists recently staged a protest on the steps of the Australian embassy in Dublin to call for an end to live cruel sheep exports from Australia. Our activists cordoned off the area as a crime scene with barrier tape reading 'crime scene do not enter' whilst the 'sheep' played dead and covered in fake 'blood' layed on the steps, whilst other members held placards calling for an end to the cruel live export of sheep. Press coverage was fantastic helping to direct the public's attention to cruelty to animals - all in all a very positive, upbeat event to draw attention to a very serious issue.
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dublin / housing Friday July 25, 2008 - 15:13 by Northside Anarchist   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 07, 2008 - 11:02)   image 2 images
A strong message has been sent to developers Quinn Property over the future of Seagrange Park, Baldoyle, following a public meeting held at Bayside community hall last week (Tuesday July 15th). ... read full story / add a comment
Security & Cops marching down together
mayo / environment Thursday July 24, 2008 - 15:34 by Rudiger   text 11 comments (last - sunday july 27, 2008 - 01:59)   image 16 images
This morning at approximately 8:00am over 40 gardaí, who are now stationed in the Shell compound, and 70 Shell specialist security forced the local community from a section of Glengad beach so that Shell could erect 10ft high fencing about 40ft down onto the beach. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 23, 2008 - 14:47 by sceal   text 50 comments (last - thursday december 02, 2010 - 14:41)   image 1 image
mer·ce·nar·y
adjective

1. Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
2. Hired for service in a foreign army.

A mercenary from Dublin was among the latest person injured in the continuing occupation of Afghanistan. Martin Delaney, from County Dublin, was fighting with the British Army in Helmand Province. Last week a nineteen year old man from Belfast had his leg amputated because of injuries he received while fighting with the same unit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 23:58 by A Klopstock   text 9 comments (last - saturday july 26, 2008 - 13:37)
Last weekend marked the 29th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. On the 19th July 1979 the hated dictator and US hireling Somoza was overthrown in Nicaragua. As part of this year’s festivities Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega honoured the leader of one of those few European countries to stand side by side with the Sandinista Revolution during the 1980s. The leader was the Late Erich Honecker, the country, the German Democratic Republic. ... read full story / add a comment
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