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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 04, 2008 - 12:22 by ASKAPENA
 2 comments (last - wednesday february 06, 2008 - 15:17)  1 image
These are hard times for the Basque Country. We know that we will resist as we owe this to our children. We are ready. 50 years of modern struggle. We resisted Franco as well as all Spanish governments from left to right. They all got bog down with the Basque Country and it will continue until the French and Spanish authorities recognise the reality and the rights of our country. We are calling on international solidarity to mobilise (International Solidarity Week with the Basque Country, February 18-24), to denounce the denial of political and social rights, so that our country can build democratically a sovereign, proud and socialist society. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media Monday February 04, 2008 - 11:33 by Sean Crudden
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The audience in Holy Trinity Heritage Centre, Carlingford, yesterday contributed to immensely to a finely wrought performance by Ensemble Avalon. There was no attention deficit and no disconcerting applause at the end of individual movements. Applause was reserved for the end of each of the four sonatas performed. In a very symmetrical program each of the sonatas had three movements. There was no rocking in the aisles but the applause was appreciative and there was a general air of satisfaction around the Heritge Centre as the performance progressed. The cost of a ticket for this concert was €15. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 04, 2008 - 00:34 by Gluaiseacht
9 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 - 22:35) 1 image
Gluaiseacht are calling on all those opposed to the gas giveaway to join us on a bus trip to London. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / consumer issues Sunday February 03, 2008 - 22:09 by Houyhnhnm
31 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 - 23:33) 6 images
The Irish language name for Smithfield Square in Dublin is Margadh na Feirme, which reflects the fact that the area has been a market for a very long time. Cattle were once driven in from Meath and sold on the square, as well as poultry and other livestock. Horses have always been traded here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 03, 2008 - 20:15 by CW
6 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 - 22:12) 2 images
How special is the Special Branch? Not so much... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 03, 2008 - 17:30 by Sean Mac Maitiu
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Belfast Anarchist Black Cross held a small picket outside Maghaberry prison on Saturday the 2th February to raise awareness of the ongoing prison abuses and neglect of prisoners as well as leafleting families outside the gates to build solidarity and support. We were also paid a nice visit by the local pigs, no doubt at the behest of the screws that were wary of our presence. Belfast ABC will continue to picket Maghaberry and other prisons in the future and provide a forum for prisoners and their families to raise their grievances. You are not alone! ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 02, 2008 - 16:13 by Ciaran Ó Brolcháin
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A candle-lit vigil was held by Shell to Sea activists outside Belfast City Hall yesterday (Friday) to remember those who have suffered internationally because of the money-grabbing policies of Shell Oil. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday February 02, 2008 - 09:09 by Rudiger
6 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 - 00:38) 10 images
Short summary of yesterdays Day of Solidarity in Erris. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 31, 2008 - 22:05 by Courtmacsherryite
4 comments (last - monday march 24, 2008 - 07:21)
The scenic village of Courtmacsherry has escaped the excesses of the celtic tiger. Now a group of private developers are seeking to impose a vastly overscaled marina on the only piece of open water in the village without community consent. A group of local people is resisiting however. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 31, 2008 - 16:37 by Jolly Red Giant
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Approximately 200 people packed into Wynns Hotel, Dublin, on 29 January, to attend a meeting hosted by the Socialist Party on the issue of the health crisis in Ireland. The meeting was organised to discuss the health crisis and to raise the demand for “a public health service for all”. The meeting was addressed by two hospital consultants, Professor John Crown and Dr. Orla Hardiman, a nurse, Triona Murphy, and by former Socialist Party TD [member of Irish parliament] Joe Higgins. Professor Crown has won a very high profile in the media over the last year for making significant public criticisms about the neo–liberal agenda of the government for the health service. All the platform speakers graphically outlined the real crisis facing patients and workers in the health service. Many other health workers and representatives of campaigns spoke form the floor. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 31, 2008 - 12:22 by NIPSA 517
8 comments (last - wednesday march 12, 2008 - 13:46)
3% of evaluated staff across the Boards are on pay protection. 70% will be the number of Classroom Assistants who will be on pay protection as stated by Management Representatives for the 5 Boards in the Labour Relations Agency discussions during the period of NIPSA's strike suspension. The Boards have stated that no-one will lose any money-Fact or Fiction? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 31, 2008 - 10:44 by Damien Moran
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dublin / animal rights Wednesday January 30, 2008 - 20:47 by ARAN
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Supporters coming from Limerick, Clare, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Kildare, Meath, Wexford and Waterford gathered outside the department with a huge banner reading ‘Ban Fur Farming in Ireland Now!’ others held placards with a picture of a fox’s face with the tagline ‘Your Fur Had A Face’. The supporters were also joined by another ARAN member holding a body screen TV showing live footage of a recent investigation into fur farming in China where no animal welfare laws exist, the footage was heartbreaking but made people who seeing the footage more eager to double their efforts to stop this animal suffering. Six Animal Rights Action Network volunteers also posed for photographers wearing blindfolds whilst holding signs reading ‘Minister Mary Coughlan: Ban Fur Farming in Ireland’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday January 29, 2008 - 11:56 by Des Dalton
30 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 - 17:09)
On Monday January 28 Ruairi O Bradaigh, President of Republican Sinn Fein took part in a debate in University College Cork. The debate was organised by UCC Philosophical Society, he opposed the motion “That This House Believes That Irish Republicanism Has No Future', proposing the motion was Eoghan Harris, writer and commentator and member of the 26-County Senate. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 29, 2008 - 10:51 by Ciaron O'Reilly
8 comments (last - thursday january 31, 2008 - 22:17)
This past Saturday, a van load of pilgrims en route to the Festival of St Brigid in Kildare were stopped by the Irish Special Branch. We were questioned under Section 31 of the Offences Against the State Act and a detective accused me of being a terrorist. The paradigm shifts evident in this event are of concern and worth consideration. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 28, 2008 - 22:35 by Paula Geraghty
6 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2008 - 07:09) 5 images
Malaysia has seen a clamp down on Human Rights. Some of those who dared to challenge have been arrested and face serious charges. A solidarity Picket took place today at the Malaysian Embassy at Shelbourne House today ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 28, 2008 - 17:38 by Rob Henderson
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Feel free to copy and circulate this appeal, stick it to notice boards, windows, newspapers, post it on Internet sites ask a personal friend or family member to give you the time it takes to read it. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Monday January 28, 2008 - 16:14 by No consent
5 comments (last - tuesday january 29, 2008 - 17:01)
Blockade of Shell site, thurs morning, 24/1/8, approx 100 cars blocked for 45 mins ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 28, 2008 - 11:55 by saoirse
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Republican Sinn Fein oppose plans by GAAW to draped orange jumpsuit on Liam Mellowes statue. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / environment Saturday January 26, 2008 - 20:57 by Dunlo
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Deeply concerned and outraged at the continued use of Guantanamo as a US torture site, the ongoing Israeli collective punishment of Gaza and the facilitation of US troops and CIA torture flights through Shannnon Warport, members of the public, activists from Galway Food Not Bombs and the IPSC joined the Galway Alliance Against War protest at the Liam Mellows statue in Eyre Square this afternoon. Unfortunately, Rhuhel Ahmed, the British citizen who spent two years in the torture camp after being kidnapped with two of his friends whilst attending a wedding in Pakistan, could'nt attend. Fortunately, some 140 people attended including Michael D. Higgins, Galway City Councillors; Niall O' Brolchain, sisters, Catherine and Collette Connolly Billy Cameron and writers, Fred Johnson, Margaretta D'Arcy and Rita Anne Higgins. ... read full story / add a comment |
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