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Picketing Apartheid
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 25, 2006 - 17:24 by Zoe Lawlor   text 46 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 20:03)   image 2 images
Atlantic Homecare in Limerick today took all its Israeli stock off their shelves and put Out of Stock stickers on produce too big to move in response to a picket outside their store by the Limerick branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
A British Agent behind Stormont Spectacle
national / crime and justice Saturday November 25, 2006 - 13:52 by Yusuf   text 5 comments (last - monday november 27, 2006 - 13:50)   image 1 image
Loyalist Paramilitary Michael Stone carried out an attack on the parliament building at Stormont yesterday but was he in fact tryin to kill anyone or just playing the leading role in yet another MI5 plot to direct the course of Irish politics? ... read full story / add a comment
Take Bach the Tech
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 25, 2006 - 11:49 by C Murray   image 1 image
Take Back the night was a campaign instigated by two women to do just that.
Reclaim women's Spaces and safety in cities and university campuses.
Take Back the Tech believes that violence Against Women occurs on the
internet because of unequal power relationships between women and men.

It's anti-patriarchial. Contributions are welcome from men who have also
suffered in Patriarchical systems- and there are many.

Today is the first day of the campaign. http://takebackthetech.net/blogathon.htm ... read full story / add a comment
Big Jim's spirit is mightier than ever !
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 25, 2006 - 05:12 by TJ   text 8 comments (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 - 03:01)   image 6 images
because, yesterday, despirited on account of the .... don't mention the cancellation ... ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Saturday November 25, 2006 - 03:03 by Steve Peacock   image 1 image
Over 17 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) are slated for transfer into the hands of private contractors, whom under the auspices of the U.S. Dept. of Energy program will "down-blend" the weapons-grade material into nuclear reactor-friendly low-enriched uranium (LEU) -- which would then be shipped to foreign nations. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / health / disability issues Friday November 24, 2006 - 22:30 by ASBO the holyland students   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 18, 2010 - 21:59)
Surprise, surprise recent research by 'Save the children' and 'Childline', found bullying of children with learning difficulties, mental and physical disabilities by both other children and teachers was widespread within mainstream schools. ... read full story / add a comment
Some of those at the demonstration!
dublin / environment Friday November 24, 2006 - 21:33 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 13:41)   image 6 images
Activists in the Combined Residents Against Incineration today demonstrated in Ringsend as Bertie Ahern went on a pitstop tour of the area. Luminaries such as Michael McDowell visited the local community centre earlier in the week but evaded local campaigners.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 24, 2006 - 17:24 by Sean Crudden
Soon, perhaps, the educational and developmental benefit of research will become a reality for all medical staff in Ireland. Current efforts may guarantee a better level of involvement for everybody and a greater sense of participation and ownership at all levels of health research (including environmental health) in Ireland. The aim of the report is to achieve a "step" change in health research in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday November 24, 2006 - 13:55 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - monday november 27, 2006 - 17:59)
Yesterday on the final day of the two-day "Festival of Home" organised by Focus Ireland in The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, an all-day conference took place entitled "Building Houses or Creating Homes?" ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday November 24, 2006 - 00:19 by tom foley   text 22 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 23:32)   image 2 images
The dublin city coroners court heard at the inquest in to terence wheelocks death. That there was thirty five photos taken on the day after terence wheelock (20) detention at store st garda station.
They were taken at the mater hospital on the 3/6/05 and showed extensive bruising, cuts and larceratons on the young mans body consistent with time of arrest.
It also heard from the the states science forensic expert that blood had been found on mr wheelocks clothes ie tracksuit top ,bottoms and and shorts on the deceased.
There was a witness Mr simon doherty of summerhill stated that he witnessed terence wheelock being assaulted by gardai on arrest ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 23, 2006 - 23:27 by xtic   text 21 comments (last - saturday november 25, 2006 - 04:25)   image 13 images
Shell to Sea mounted two demonstrations this lunchtime, one at Corrib House (as advertised) and the second just down the road at the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources.

... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 23, 2006 - 00:41 by Paula G   text 7 comments (last - monday september 29, 2008 - 02:29)   image 4 images
Families of the Victims of the Stardust say they will protest outside the Dail until there is a proper and full Inquiry into the horrible fire which took the lives of 48 people on Valentines night 1981. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 19:11 by Starstruck   text 5 comments (last - friday november 24, 2006 - 00:59)   image 5 images
Over 20 activists initiated the daylight blockade of the central Birmingham Shell station. Three protestors 'locked on' in the entrance to prevent access to the station whilst others strung banners across the exits and a ledge looking over the forecourt (pictures to come). There were no serious encounters with motorists and passers by were generally supportive of the demo, the aims of which were to disrupt Shell's operations and to raise awareness of the struggle of the community of County Mayo, Ireland against Shell's construction of a dangerous and experimental pipeline which poses not only a danger to the environment of this idyllic part of Ireland but also the people of County Mayo. Protestors also tried to obtain a statement from the company but were unsuccessful.
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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 19:08 by marc   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 23, 2006 - 18:02)
About 10.000 french firefighters protested for better working conditions. The protest ended in massive clashes with the police. barricades were set on fire, the firefighters defended themselves against the attacking police with stones, bottles and so on...

www.lemonde.fr//web/video/0,47-0@2-3226,54-837132@51-837095,0.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 17:09 by Seán Ó Murchú   text 11 comments (last - sunday november 26, 2006 - 23:09)
THE 26 County Government has been condemned for its refusal to raise the income levels for social welfare fuel allowances, despite almost 210,000 pensioners being left out in the cold.

Just 16,000 of the Free State’s 225,458 contributory pensioners, or 7%, are eligible for the fuel allowance.
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meath / environment Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 09:57 by Meath on Track   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 22, 2006 - 10:04)   image 2 images
One of the main reasons given for not reinstating the Navan Clonsilla line in the past was the lack of capacity on the Dublin train network. That issue will be resolved from March 2007 - from that date on capacity for trains from Meath will no longer be an issue. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 23:50 by Paul Kinsella   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 22, 2006 - 22:21)
It looks like the sleeping giant of the CPSU has finally awoken! In addition to the CPSU Executive Committee voting to pursue our own pay claims separately of ICTU and 'Towards 2016', the CPSU Executive Committee at its meeting held on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 voted to pass the following Motion: "In the context of persistent high inflation and to ensure real wage increases for those on lower/average incomes, CPSU calls on the Dublin Council of Trade Unions to campaign vigorously for government action to reduce inflation particularly in the services sector of the Irish Economy and in particular to impose a freeze on all public service charges in health, local authority, energy and transport and other areas within direct Government control." ... read full story / add a comment
This man is Irish. He climbed up there to demand a ticket home. He's now in a psichiatric unit.
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 21:13 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - sunday december 24, 2006 - 16:07)   image 3 images
Unfortuanately the details of this story or rather the details of its protagonist are scant. I can tell you with confidence that he is an Irish citizen, that he has taken medication for a psichiatric condition provided by the Catalan health service free of charge for almost a year. I can tell you the Irish diplomatic mission to Barcelona refused to assist him passage home. "Oh but they say that to everyone." If you check the fine print of Irish passport, which is the most expensive passport of any EU state but an obligatory document for any one in the Shengen area to go to / come to / return - you will see the ominious reminder don't ask your Irish embassy for help getting home. we don't have enough funds. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 15:04 by Mags   text 19 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 12:53)   image 1 image
Recent developments in County Westmeath show the impact of 'Celtic Tiger' greed on the local authorities of the county, who have decided to sell off publicly owned land and evict small landless farmers from their traditional grazing.
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Student on his way to college - Palestine
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 10:49 by David L   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 05, 2006 - 15:39)   image 2 images
Irish academics were thanked this week in an open letter, signed by over 100 academics and 1,000 students of Birzeit University near Ramallah, Palestine. The thanks were addressed to the 61 Irish academics who wrote a public letter in September calling for a moratorium on EU aid to Israeli universities, until Israel abides by international law and basic human rights norms.
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