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mayo / environment Tuesday April 17, 2007 - 13:30 by Shell to Sea
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People around the country and abroad have expressed concern at the news that Statoil are considering using the Bellanaboy gas refinery to process gas found in blocks they've licensed off the west coast of Ireland. Campaigners against the Irish government-backed pipeline and refinery scheme have always said that the huge amount of Coilte land that Shell got hold of indicated that the refinery site would grow. If the initial scheme is allowed to be forced through, then planning for a "brownfield" site would be easy to get , so expansion of the refinery, and addition of more dangerous pipelines, is inevitable. The article in the Mayo news below, finds that the no-one in the government, Shell or Statoil is refuting this anymore. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 17, 2007 - 13:06 by Mark
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From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia – will take place in Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Germany’s Baltic Sea. The Summit location is the Kempinski Grand Hotel. As there seems to have been a remarkable absense of discusion, debate and practical organising surrounding this years G8 blockade mobilisations in germany this june, ive attempted to collate some info that may be useful for readers. It is by no means comprehensive and apols of not having mastered HTML but hope it is of some assistance One thing is certain. This year is going to be big. Even though the traditional date have been moved forward a month to try to disrupt our 'disruptions', the unprecedented call, planning and actions will have an impact far greater than recent G8 manifestation. This will be part of making capitalism history. Check out the links below for more info. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Tuesday April 17, 2007 - 10:06 by J Aubrey
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This is the update:- *INO and Psychiatric nurses will continue to highlight inequity in the health system. They will use their votes in the General election. *Impact are planning a clerical workers strike which the health unions will support. *The consultants are refusing to re-negogtiate salaries and this is being buried by the gutterpress behind the nurses strike. *The junior doctors of Ireland are the only ones in the EU who have to a 60-70 hour week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday April 16, 2007 - 20:11 by Zachary Litwiller
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This morning in Blacksburg, Va. tragedy struck Virginia Tech College Campus when shooter entered the campus and shot first in a dormitory and then in a classroom building. This is the worst campus shooting to have ever occurred in U.S. history. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 16, 2007 - 13:39 by Anti-Fascist
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Ógra Shinn Féin organised a number of actions at the weekend to highlight the fascist decision by the Spanish Government to outlaw Basque Youth Movement SEGI and to subsequently jail their entire National Leadership for prison sentances up to 6 years. There was a protest in Omagh and Dublin where a leaflet drop and petition signing also happened. There was also leaflet drops in Strabane and Castlederg. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 16, 2007 - 00:46 by Harry Wells
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Sunday Independent journalist Jim Cusack’s one-man campaign to deny British involvement in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is criticised in today’s Sunday Independent (April 15 2007) by Justice for the Forgotten, which speaks for the families of those who died. No doubt collusion in 1974 bombings http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...15510 Justice for the Forgotten secretary, Margaret Unwin, points out that ”This journalist has refused consistently over the years to accept any version of the event other than that relayed to him many years ago by the Ulster Volunteer Force.” Cusack ignored the main findings of the limited terms of reference of the McEntee Enquiry, concerning the inadequacy of the Garda investigation, in order to proclaim, irrelevantly and incorrectly, British innocence of collusion. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / politics / elections Sunday April 15, 2007 - 16:50 by TD
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"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36). Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday April 15, 2007 - 14:09 by german communist
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The black forest city of Freiburg, in Germany's southwest, yesterday held a burial with full state honors for the former Nazi navy judge Hans Filbinger. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 15, 2007 - 10:23 by Edward Horgan
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Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early. Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 14, 2007 - 20:17 by IFC POW Dept.
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Three Irish Republican POWs are on punishment blocks, and more are likely to follow in the coming week, for their refusal to remove their Easter lilies and for their refusal to co-operate with the punishment system at Maghaberry jail. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 14, 2007 - 17:28 by Eve
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Work at Shell's proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy was interupted for the second day running today with 30 protesters engaging in a trespass of the site. Fifteen campaigners managed to get into the inner compound stopping work for some time. Six people were arrested. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 14, 2007 - 15:48 by Eve
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Fourteen women from Erris, Cork, Dublin and the Solidarity Camp gained access to Shell proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy yesterday morning, Friday the 13th April. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 23:30 by Shell to Sea
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Today in Mayo activists from Shell to Sea disrupted the peat haulage process which has been going on since the beginning of April. In what was seen as a reconnaissance, a small group of protesters arranged to have a close look at the situation, and see if they could lock themselves on to the Iggy Madden haulage trucks as they passed. Heavy-handed Garda tactics meant that none of the attempts were successful, although some were close enough to make those involved confident that the process of stripping the peat can be stopped by peaceful direct action protest methods. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 13, 2007 - 21:43 by IFC POW Dept
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As a result of their refusal to remove Easter Lilies on Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; fifteen Irish Republican Political Prisoners at Maghaberry Gaol met with aggression and sectarian abuse from prison staff this week. Adjudication for three of the POWs in the incident commenced on Wednesday last, with all three POWs refusing to co-operate with the adjudication process and being immediately placed on punishment blocks. Eight other POWs face adjudication in the coming week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Friday April 13, 2007 - 21:42 by Kevin t. Walsh
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The other day I received through my door a booklet on Fine Gael's Lucinda Creighton. The name rang a bell for one main reason. A lady of 29 years facing eviction last October and three emails I sent to Lucinda Creighton. Eventually with my partner Michelle and the assistance of Ruari Quinn we got an extension for this woman of several months. I ask where is this woman's humanity towards the vulnerable people, she is supposed to represent in Dublin 4. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 16:13 by Mick
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Hundreds of students gathered outside the Dáil ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:49 by Chris O Ralaigh
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Bellenaboy refinery shutdown ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 12, 2007 - 14:48 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen cannot be prosecuted for the war in Iraq, the High Court of Denmark ruled on Wednesday 11 April.
The court found that the plaintiffs were not entitled to prosecute, as they did not have "legal interest" in the matter. They will now appeal to the Supreme Court. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 12, 2007 - 11:16 by Internationale
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Ógra Shinn Féin activist Ian Breslin has just returned home from a tour of the Basque Country (5 - 10 April). Ian was there to show our support for Segi, after they were deemed a ‘terrorist organisation’ by the Spanish courts. Whilst in the Basque country Ian addressed various gatherings and demonstrations. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / arts and media Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 19:17 by Anthony Wisener
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Ballymena born writer Gerard McKeown has won The New Belfast PerformancePoetry Cup, after competing in an intensive slam contest, which featured competitors from all over Ulster. ... read full story / add a comment |
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