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national / miscellaneous Monday April 14, 2003 - 09:35 by Kerry
 9 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 - 15:52)
Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday April 14, 2003 - 09:24 by James Mckenna
8 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 - 20:22)
Lieutenant-General Amer Hammoudi al-Saadi, who handed himself over to US forces yesterday, continued to proclaim that Iraq no longer holds any chemical or biological weapons. The US has already told us there are 14,000 sites and that they have "secret information" showing exactly where the sites are. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday April 14, 2003 - 06:28 by rocket vids
4 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 09:54)  5 images
Approximately 800-1000 people braved the long journeys, temperamental Irish weather and persistent global propaganda to join together and call once again for the immediate withdrawal of us military aircraft and personal using Shannon wirport for stopover and refuelling and of course an end to the barbaric war in Iraq. The good-natured crowd marched and sang their way from the car park in the town centre, to outside the heavily barricaded warport where a number of speeches were made. They later broke up and made their war peacefully home ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday April 14, 2003 - 05:00 by demoEU
4 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 23:39) 1 image
Is it valid? EU lawyers began to analyze the validity of the hungarian EU referendum validity. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 23:56 by John
15 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 - 01:06)
Good demo in Shannon on Saturday ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 21:15 by Cllr Eoin O'Broin
4 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 15:22)
The following is the text of a BBC web site report on tonights dramatic IRA statement ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 19:23 by Dmitri Vitaliev
4 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 08:33) 1 image
With over ten artists, spokespeople, musicians and over 600 people attending the two gigs, we have raised over 1000 euros for humanitarian aid in Iraq. Below are details of the continuations of the night, with a new venue to satisfy the huge support of the night ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 18:22 by some chick in DC
2 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 12:48)
just so you know what's going on on the other side of the lake. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 14:40 by i psi phi
Yesterday 200,000 people took to the streets to protest against War and call for the immediate resignation of Aznar they assembled at Placa Espana in Barcelona. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 14:18 by Vinnie
35 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 - 20:43) 5 images
A huge garda presence was in Shannon on Saturday, their number almost dwarfing that of the protestors amid cries of "This is what overtime looks like!" and "Bertie's Boot Boys". ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 13:56 by Vinnie
21 comments (last - saturday july 31, 2004 - 21:12) 6 images
Yesterday on the way to a peaceful protest at shannon the Galway bus was stopped by Gardai and pulled to the side of the road. Gardai boarded the bus and proceeded to inform us that they were searching us and our belongings under the public order act, as they had reasonable suspicion we might be carrying items which could be used as weapons. They searched all our bags and coats and the boot of the bus. They were quite thorough and searched everyone even a blind woman who was travelling with us. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 11:00 by James Mckenna
11 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 23:50)
Members of Cork Peace Alliance have been given very heavy suspended sentences and fines for paltry offences. Both parties tried unsucessfully to have their cases adjourned and were forced to go ahead with inadequate legal help. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 10:46 by Cllr Eoin O'Broin
6 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 - 01:42)
Sinn Féin calls on Minister for Justice to defy the EU and withrdaw the proposed Immigration Bull. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 07:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly
What follows is a recent report from Kathy Kelly, a founder of the sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" movement. Kathy has been in Baghdad since mid-January. In mid-January, on the way through from Chicago, she stopped and spoke at the Afri St. Brgid's conference in Kildare. She has a long history working with the homeless in the Catholic Worker movement & nonviolent resistance/consequent jail time in the U.S. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday April 13, 2003 - 06:44 by Firas Al-Atraqchi
1 comment (last - sunday april 13, 2003 - 13:06)
After four days of looting and plunder Iraqis are beginning to question where the freedom they were promised has disappeared to. Arab analysts who have taken to the airwaves claim that the Iraqis have awakened from the dizzying euphoria of an Iraq without Saddam and are now faced with an Iraq without order. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2003 - 23:39 by KIJFAN
17 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2003 - 13:41) 3 images
Dont believe capitalist media lies! ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2003 - 23:20 by liberation from Saddam, time for liberation from US/UK too
Violence broke out in Basra after a sheikh, asked by Brit commanders to become new leader of the province was revealed to be a former brigadier general in Saddams army and one time member of the Ba'athist party. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2003 - 22:49 by Cllr Eoin O'Broin
Following last months banning by the Spanish courts of the Basque Left Nationalist party Batasuna (Unity) a new electoral platform has been launched to contest next months local government elections. The following is a statement from the new platform ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2003 - 22:16 by Ailin
3 comments (last - monday april 14, 2003 - 09:36)
It has emerged tonight that a British agent at the centre of alleged security force collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in the North, has died of natural causes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2003 - 22:06 by Hoon
3 comments (last - sunday april 13, 2003 - 01:53)
CLASSIC QUOTE: > A quote from Sky News "Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK > defence minister Geoff Hoon said in The Commons yesterday. "He's either > never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British > Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no > prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Swansea." > ... read full story / add a comment |
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