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national / environment Tuesday May 01, 2007 - 18:15 by Michael Canney
 56 comments (last - thursday october 25, 2007 - 04:21)  2 images
The Campaign to Save Tara is jubilant at today’s announcement that construction is to be stopped on the proposed route of the M3 through the Tara/Skreen Valley. Under the National Monuments Act the archaeologists contracted by the NRA were forced to declare a likely National Monument has been discovered. It had been the Save Tara Campaign that first alerted the National Museum to the potential significance of the Liamullen site, which is within 100mts of the Rath Lugh monument, and directly within the path of the proposed motorway. It is known that the Museum immediately contacted the NRA seeking information on the find. The Lismullen site had not been accurately identified during the initial archaeological survey of the route and the discovery of a henge almost 80mts in diameter and comprising of three concentric circles caused surprise to the archaeological contractor and near- apoplexy at the National Roads Authority. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 01, 2007 - 01:57 by Gan ainm
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British prisons minister Paul Goggins has announced that automatic 50% remission for prisoners in the north is to end, on the same day he also announced that screws would be issued with CS spray. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Tuesday May 01, 2007 - 01:03 by TaraWatch
29 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 - 16:06) 4 images
A massive henge has been discovered in recent weeks near the Hill of Tara. This is a unique site in Ireland and should be preserved intact, as henges are very rare in Ireland. It is, without doubt, a national monument. A number of images are available on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hilloftara/message/2764 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 30, 2007 - 22:46 by Choice Ireland
22 comments (last - thursday may 03, 2007 - 21:35)
A four-months-pregnant 17-year-old has gone to the High Court to challenge a decision by the Health Service Executive to stop her leaving the State for an abortion. The foetus has encephaly and cannot survive outside the womb. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday April 30, 2007 - 18:32 by Simon McGuinness
13 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 - 21:17) 7 images
Caleb McCarry, the US "Transitional Coordinator for Cuba's" low key address to the students of Politics at University College Dublin thisafternoon was greeted by a lively band of demonstrators who responded to an emergency call to action by Free the Miami Five and other long time friends of Cuba. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday April 30, 2007 - 17:40 by J.Carax
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Photo Essay from yesterdays march. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Monday April 30, 2007 - 16:50 by Mick Butler
101 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 - 15:15)
On Tuesday May 1 at the Carlton Hotel on the old airport road in Dublin, a conference that will be "open to the public" will set a part of the legal foundation for the introduction of water metering and charges on domestic dwellings. Minister Dick Roche will be in attendance. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 30, 2007 - 12:45 by Mags
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Hundreds of people turned out for this years May Day march with a diverse represenation from unions, campaigns, communities and left wing political groups. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday April 29, 2007 - 16:37 by y
12 comments (last - sunday november 25, 2007 - 15:41) 3 images
Tallinn looks like a city in war: shops, buildings are burning. Everywhere people are beaten by police. Yesterday night thousands of people rioted because the governemnt brought to fall "the sovjet soldier" - a monument in the middle of the city that honoured the anti-fascist soldiers of the sovjet army who freed Talinn from the nazis in WW II. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday April 29, 2007 - 12:08 by Brendan Young
6 comments (last - monday april 30, 2007 - 14:57)
Joan Collins is standing as an independent socialist in the coming general election. She was elected to Dublin City Council as an Anti-Bin-Tax Councillor. She is determined to present a real alternative to the people of South Central. She is part of and supported by the Community & Workers Action Group (CWAG), and by the Development Action Group (DAG). Also speaking at the launch meeting was Brid Smith of the People Before Profit Alliance, who is standing in the Ballyfermot area of the constituency. We are calling for a Number 1 vote for Joan Collins; and a Number 2 for Brid Smith. The CIL is asking people who want a genuine alternative to get involved in Joan's election campaign. We also call for all socialist and community activists to support and vote for anti-coalition leftwing candidates, including Joan Collins and Seamus Healy TD, the people Before Profit Alliance candidates, the Socialist Party candidates, the ISN candidate and Catherine Conolly in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 28, 2007 - 23:24 by Edward Horgan
18 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 - 22:24) 5 images
Saturday 28 April 2007 was a quiet day at Shannon. Relatively few civilian passengers going through (most civilian customers of Shannon have been attracted to Dublin airport over the past few years). The US military are once again increasing their use or abuse of Shannon airport, in a supposedly neutral state. Three US warplanes were present at Shannon, one North American US troop carrier, one US military executive jet, which could be carrying anyone from a US general guilty of war crimes in Iraq or Afghanistan or prisoners for torture to or from Guantanamo. Now is the time to make Ireland's complicity in crimes against humanity an election issue. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday April 27, 2007 - 13:30 by obit
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The death of Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich the world famed cellist hsa been reported. He was 80 years of age. With his passing the age of great cellists ends. It is odd that this week the world has turned to writing obituaries of Boris Yeltsin and recalling the foiled coup d'etat attempt which brought Yeltsin to prominence. But many will not know that Rostropovich known as Slava to his students, admirers and friends was one of the key figures within Moscow's government buildings who inspired Yeltsin to climb up on the tank. If Slava had climbed up on the tank - things would have been different. He was a master who knew that. May he rest in Peace. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 27, 2007 - 10:38 by News Junkie
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKDd1ZipqH0 The cops show that they will push anyone off the Shell highway. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday April 27, 2007 - 10:31 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
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An Taisce appeals Tara motorway order Irish Times Friday, April 27, 2007 An Taisce has brought an appeal to the Supreme Court against the High Court's refusal to permit it to challenge the legality of the development of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway near the Hill of Tara, Co Meath. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Friday April 27, 2007 - 09:49 by matt - Dublin Shell To Sea
14 comments (last - tuesday may 01, 2007 - 11:51)
75 protesters blockade Shell's HQ on Adelaide Road just off Lower Leeson Street. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Thursday April 26, 2007 - 23:55 by S.Cat
3 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 - 18:17) 2 images
It's always worth keeping an eye on what is happening in government departments during the dying days of an administration. Minister Noel Dempsey has promised a number of times to review the terms under which licences are awarded, but to date, nothing has been announced. But sharp-eyed visitors to the Department of Marine website will have noticed that there was a slight change today. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 26, 2007 - 23:00 by Josep Arnau
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A group of Catalan independentists, together with Ógra organised a demonstration at the GPO claiming the right for self-determination for the Catalan nation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Thursday April 26, 2007 - 12:46 by Miriam Cotton
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The full text of the High Court judgment in the O' Cuanachain case was due to be delivered tomorrow 27th April. But they chickened out. Would this by any chance be connected to the forthcoming election? You can bet on it. It would have been interesting to see what form of casuistry they had come up with to justify this callous and discriminatory judgment. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 25, 2007 - 16:02 by Catalan Solidarity
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Members of the Catalan Solidarity:Ireland Committee gathered at ‘Free Derry Corner’ in Derry’s Bogside as part of a day of international solidarity action in conjunction with widespread protests and demonstrations throughout the Catalan Countries. This year mark’s the 300th anniversary of the occupation of the Catalan Countries by the Spanish forces of occupation following the battle of Almansa in 1707. During today’s solidarity action the Catalan flag (Estelada) was raised on Free Derry Wall as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to the Catalan people as part the ‘300 years of occupation- 300 years of resistance’ campaign. As part of the event protesters wore white masks on which the Spanish Flag was placed over their mouths, symbolizing the continual denial of the rights such as self-determination and sovereignty of the Catalan people as a nation. Following the event at Free Derry Corner protesters distributed information leaflets in Derry's city centre. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday April 25, 2007 - 10:43 by C Murray
31 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 17:59) 2 images
This has been covered on the Newswire, but I will repeat it with a link
Last night Dail Eireann passed the Criminal Justice Bill, which erodes
accepted rights of Silence and which barristers objected to on the Basis
of civil rights abuses. FG and Labour abstained. Sf and Green Voted against. The vote passed 62/11. We do not live in a democracy. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81005 ... read full story / add a comment |
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