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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 22, 2007 - 00:50 by Jolly Red Giant   text 69 comments (last - saturday august 04, 2007 - 00:30)
Classroom assistants across Northern Ireland are preparing for industrial action to defend their pay.

Their employers, the Education and Library Boards acting under the direction of Education Minister Catriona Ruane, are proposing to cut their pay by as much as 79p an hour. The insulting move comes at the end of years of negotiation by the main trade unions representing Classroom Assistants, NIPSA and UNISON.
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international / sci-tech Thursday June 21, 2007 - 20:17 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - friday june 22, 2007 - 11:19)
ThePirateBay is best known for hosting trackers for distributed file-sharing and getting raided recently by the Swedish police at the behest of the US MPAA. They've been making noises about a couple of new ventures, and one of them has gone live: a completely uncensored image hosting service. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Wednesday June 20, 2007 - 19:03 by Jake E Lee   text 67 comments (last - thursday june 26, 2008 - 08:59)
Former Labour Cllr Declan Bree has continued with supporting the Labour/FF pact on Sligo Borough and County Council despite leaving the Labour party recently ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday June 19, 2007 - 23:06 by NIall Harnett   text 31 comments (last - friday july 06, 2007 - 09:27)   image 1 image
On Thur 3rd May 2007 at Westport District Court, I successfully applied for summonses and initiated prosecutions against 3 members of An Garda Síochána, Belmullet, Co Mayo, who were then summonsed to appear to answer charges of assault, criminal damage and theft at Belmullet District Court on 13th June.

On Wed 13th June 2007 at Belmullet District Court, I failed to bring the case to a full hearing, because of a number of avoidable mistakes that I made, one of which proved to my undoing, whereby the judge put a stop to me proceeding any further with these summonses.

This article is an account of my days in court, including the procedures I went through to initiate the prosecutions and the mistakes I made in failing, at this stage, to bring the proceedings to the proper conclusion of a trial. I hope others can learn from my experience, avoid the pitfalls, and be encouraged to bring their own prosecutions against criminal Gardaí, in order to stop their violence and the cowardly abuse of their power. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 19, 2007 - 21:25 by william considine   text 21 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 - 12:54)
A couple of months ago the story of Thomas Kennedy's unlawful imprisonment was carried on Indymedia. In the meantime he remains in prison being periodically brought back to Judge Olive Buttimers Court. He believes he is unjustly imprisoned and Judge Buttimer states she will keep him in prison until he changes his mind. Justice, the Kennedy family and the tax payer is the loser in Olive Buttimers merry-go-round. This is todays episode. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice Monday June 18, 2007 - 17:48 by IMC Athens   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 21:22)   image 1 image
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On the 24th of June 2006, at least four policemen tortured two migrants in the police station of Omonia in central Athens. They forced them to beat each other, beat them both and captured the torturing on a mobile phone camera. For nearly a year, that footage was circulated amongst policemen via mobile phones. On the early hours of the 16th of June 2007 the video was uploaded to a commercial video sharing service and from there, to Athens Indymedia. A few hours later it featured as breaking news in Greece's major media outlets, forcing prime minister Karamanlis to issue a statement condemning the incident. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 17, 2007 - 18:36 by TD   text 41 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 - 09:01)   image 6 images
Yesterday, Galway IPSC activists did their customary seven hour stint outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street gathering signatures for the Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and, generally, bearing witness to that torn country, ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Sunday June 17, 2007 - 14:31 by John McDermott
Various goings on, re the Soldiers of Destiny and their new Broccoli Brotherhood. ... read full story / add a comment
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limerick / miscellaneous Saturday June 16, 2007 - 18:22 by Limerick Socialist Party   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 21, 2007 - 22:33)   image 4 images   1 attached file
The new government is set to continue the old policies; underfunding healthcare and creating a US-style, for-profit health system. This will only worsen the crisis and must be resisted. The current scandal here in Limerick of people having to travel long distances for dialysis underlines this.

For years now the government and HSE have been aware that the dialysis machine in Limerick Regional Hospital is over worked and that one or more new macines are desperately needed. They refused to act, putting costs before service. Now people are forced to travel to Tullamore, Kilkenny or Tralee a few times a week to recieve vital dialysis.
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 13, 2007 - 13:05 by Red and Black   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 - 17:51)
Confidential letter shows 'belt tightening' ordered in Cork hospital. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday June 13, 2007 - 12:51 by Joeyjoejoe   text 11 comments (last - saturday june 16, 2007 - 09:26)
De réir an Irish Times ní bheidh aon athrú ar an bplean chun Teamhair na Rí a scríos leis an M3 tar éis do na Glasaigh agus Fianna Fáil margadh a dhéanamh le céile ... read full story / add a comment
Did this bacteria deceive Pope Urban IV?
international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 12, 2007 - 12:22 by Hurler on the ditch   text 23 comments (last - monday june 18, 2007 - 10:55)   image 4 images
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 12, 2007 - 11:58 by Caitlin Ni Chonaill   text 9 comments (last - monday june 18, 2007 - 17:55)
A report by the IPSC of the demonstration held in Dublin on Saturday 9 June - the Irish response to the worldwide call for an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / environment Monday June 11, 2007 - 21:31 by Oscar Beard   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 14, 2007 - 18:37)   image 15 images
On Friday samba bands and protestors shut down the Shell garage in Evershagen, Rostock and a little more. ... read full story / add a comment
IDP shelter in Kalma Camp temporary home to 19,000 people.
international / racism & migration related issues Monday June 11, 2007 - 14:17 by Eoin Ó Broin   text 2 comments (last - monday june 11, 2007 - 18:53)   image 1 image
One year on and 6 of the 8 Sudanese men who went on hunger strike in Sweden last summer (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76869 ), have been granted asylum. One of them got full asylum granted by the migration court. The other five each got one year temporary asylum in order to give them time to prove their identities to the migration board. If they do this they will be granted full asylum next year. The seventh man, who was initially turned down, will have his case heard again due to a procedural flaw in his original application process. The eighth man is still waiting for a decision from the migration board. A ninth Sudanese asylum seeker, who did not hunger strike, has had his application rejected in court. His support group are now applying to the supreme migration court to have the case re-examined. ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 11, 2007 - 10:43 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 9 comments (last - friday december 19, 2014 - 01:54)   image 27 images
It was a busy weekend for Irish language activists in Belfast as a number of actions took place around Saturday's march to demand and Irish Language Act for the Six Counties. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / crime and justice Sunday June 10, 2007 - 17:37 by J.Carax   text 12 comments (last - monday july 09, 2007 - 20:59)   image 25 images
Over 500 people came out to support the Justice for Terence Wheelock Campaign on Saturday, June the 9th. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 09, 2007 - 23:32 by richard whelan   text 62 comments (last - thursday june 21, 2007 - 11:36)   image 67 images
Free Palestine Protest march today ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Saturday June 09, 2007 - 03:13 by Gan ainm   text 12 comments (last - tuesday january 08, 2008 - 22:16)
A former republican socialist activist and volunteer is the latest in a long list of deaths which have occured in the 'special supervision unit' of maghaberry prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 06, 2007 - 18:27 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 7 comments (last - monday june 11, 2007 - 00:53)
In a statement published on his website on Friday 1 June, the Danish parliamentary ombudsman has criticised both prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and foreign minister Per Stig Møller for refusing to grant an interview to award-winning journalist Bo Elkjær regarding their reasons for invading Iraq.

Despite the ombudsman's criticism, the prime minister has again refused to grant Elkjær an interview. ... read full story / add a comment
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