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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 16:14 by Fintan Lane
 40 comments (last - monday november 15, 2010 - 12:31)  7 images
Pat Allen, known to many as "Pat the Picket" (because of his tireless social justice campaigning), is today sitting in Cork Prison following a protest against homelessness in the city. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 12:59 by Garry
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Over 20 IPSC activists spent their lunchbreak protesting at the EU offices on Thursday 13th December, protesting against the ongoing siege of Gaza. The EU closed their offices in response. After an hour of maintaining the protest, an EU official met with the IPSC secretary who handed over a letter of protest. 500 leaflets were handed out to members of the general public who passed by the offices. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 17, 2007 - 21:58 by JohnC
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It has been announced that the Salthill Air Show for 2008 has been cancelled. Organisers attribute the cancellation to difficulties in raising commercial sponsorship, something they blame on the campaigning of the Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW). Potential business sponsors, evidently, do not wish to be associated with something as controversial as this air show. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 17, 2007 - 18:06 by Barry McColgan
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Ógra Shinn Féin held a demonstration outside the GPO in Dublin Saturday last in solidarity with the people of the Basque country, especially the leaders of Batasuna and SEGI, who have been recently arrested and sentenced to irrational jail terms, by the Spanish authorities. In response to this Ógra Shinn Féin working with the Dublin Basque committee mobilised onto the streets of Dublin to bring the issue to the public. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 17, 2007 - 00:12 by Gregor Kerr
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Over 200 people packed into the Royal Dublin Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in early December for a public meeting on the topic ‘Democracy and Policing: How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people?’ ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday December 16, 2007 - 23:53 by JM & VMcG
20 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 - 15:29) 11 images
A special prayer and carol service was held today at Bellanaboy, County Mayo, marking the end of another year of community struggle against Shell's proposed raw gas pipeline and inland refinery. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Sunday December 16, 2007 - 23:38 by Rudiger
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A summary of the Shell to Sea related cases from Belmullet District court last Wednesday the 12th of December. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 15, 2007 - 19:35 by Limerick IPSC
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Mingling in the crisp chill air with the feint strains of a carol group down the street, chanting human rights volunteers in Limerick city centre alerted Christmas shoppers to the continuing clandestine trade in Israeli diamonds. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:45 by Stephan Wymore
3 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 08:47) 6 images
Today a joint ‘Rabbit’ from the Animal Rights Action Network turned up outside of Brown Thomas’s flagship store on Grafton Street to celebrate the long awaited campaign victory of the up market department store going fur free from February 2008. Joined by other ARAN members the giant ‘rabbit’ uncorked a bottle of champagne to crowds of onlookers whilst cheering ‘Brown Thomas Now Fur Free’ another member also held a sign saying the same! Luckily the campaign event on Dublin’s busiest shopping street was being covered by Ireland’s top media outlets. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:00 by Cllr Keith Martin
Westport Town Councillors call on Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD to protect area of great national and international significance as an environmentally sensitive, culturally and religiously important area with a massive intrinsic tourism value. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday December 14, 2007 - 13:44 by Madam K
8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 22:59) 11 images
The NRA communications officer threatened the individual/s responsible for entering site to gather images with criminal damage and trespass while at the same time refusing media access .The soutterains were bulldozed that very afternoon. Now Rath Lugh under threat. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Friday December 14, 2007 - 08:11 by éirígí
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éirígí say NO to Lisbon Treaty While European Union heads of state were gathering in Lisbon today, to sign away the sovereignty of their respective states, the removal vans were arriving in Dublin to cart off the last vestiges of the Twenty Six County state’s independence. In a bold visual display éirigí launched its ‘NO TO LISBON’ campaign outside Leinster House today. The centrepiece of the launch was a mock-up ‘EU NO_TO_LISBON Removals’ van sporting the slogan ‘Experts in the Removal of Independence, Democracy & Neutrality’. The vehicle pulled up outside Leinster House to highlight the fact that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will mean the end of the already limited form of national democracy within all EU states. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 14, 2007 - 01:28 by Uhuru Radio
UhuruRadio.com to broadcast Omali Yeshitela's keynote address on December 16 from "Africa and the West" conference in Huelva, Spain ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 13, 2007 - 18:41 by Joe
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The Israeli Amry Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi called for international pressure on Iran. He said the Israeli Army "recognized the need to prepare in the event that global efforts fail", in other words, they are prepared to start a war all on their own, if nobody else is. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 13, 2007 - 16:13 by sister licentia
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last week saw three members of controversial order, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, making a very public show of support for the shell 2 sea campaign ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 22:08 by VeChDi
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Sinn Féin held a major event in Dublin last Sunday to sketch out the beginning of a new way forward for the party, particularly in the 26 counties. The day-long conference, entitled 'Engaging Modern Ireland', was designed to re-start SinnFéin's electoral activities after the disappointing general election result last May. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 16:44 by pat c
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Kazem Darabi who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court was released on Monday 10 December after serving 15 years in jail. He had been convicted of involvement in the murder of three leaders of Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkord in Berlin. They were dining in the Mykonos restaurant and were in Berlin for a convention of the Socialist International. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 22:09 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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Irish, Basque and Catalan protesters picketed outside the GPO on 8th December to protest repression by Spanish authorities of Basque left-separatists. On the 7th, three traditional Basque musicians performing at the Long Note debut in Dublin were applauded when they stated that theirs was the oldest living language in Europe and their culture one of the oldest and that their people would continue to fight for their political and civil rights. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 13:47 by TaraWatch
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An Oral Parliamentary Question, regarding Garda 'Operation Bedrock' - which now appears to be an ongoing investigation into Tara campaigners, has been submitted to the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan. If the Minister chooses to answer, it will take place on Thursday afternoon. If not, a written answer will come early next week. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 10, 2007 - 20:06 by Ciarán Ó B
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A British Army recruitment stall in Belfast city centre was closed down today by anti-war activists who held a picket at the booth. ... read full story / add a comment |
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