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national / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 26, 2010 - 22:03 by Paula Geraghty
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Today, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) will held a protest (Friday 26th Feb) at 5pm outside the Dail to demand the government impose sanctions on Israel in response to the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 26, 2010 - 02:49 by Paula Geraghty
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A small group of people picketed the US embassy in Ballsbridge in solidarity with Haitians and to call for troops out and end the military occupation of Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday February 25, 2010 - 19:38 by Contaminated Crow
Reports from down the country from August 2008 to December 2009 show consistent opposition to proposed waste facilities from local residents, including opposition to attempted expansion of existing facilities and co-location of facilities with existing waste facilities. While opposition to landfilling and incineration has continued, it has been joined by opposition to other activities of the waste disposal industry, including waste storage, transfer and recycling facilities and biological waste treatment facilities, including objections to sludge disposal, whether by land spreading, drying or sea disposal. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Thursday February 25, 2010 - 16:25 by DCTV
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On the 6th March 2010 DCTV is launching its latest TV series - The Pedal Project, consisting of 3 hours of material filmed in Dublin, London and Amsterdam. A fast paced, visually and musically polished piece looking at cycling culture and how to create cycling friendly cities the series will be simultaneously broadcast on television and released on the internet. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday February 25, 2010 - 09:32 by Dave Donnellan
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A recent interview with Eoin O'Leidhin who was jailed yesterday for non-payment of a fine incurred during a protest in Rossport, Co. Mayo. Eoin is one of a number of local residents who have been targeted by the authorities for expressing their concern over safety aspects of the controversial Shell gas pipeline in Mayo. The decision to lay the high pressure production gas pipeline by Shell close to human dwellings was made without any consultation with local residents and has no planning permission. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 19:07 by Niall Harnett
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Eoin O'Leidhin has joined fisherman Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell at Castlerea prison today. Eoin was convicted of Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 for 'failure to comply with the directions of Garda' at a protest outside the Shell site Glengad on 30th August 2008. Garda Sean Cunnane, who likes to ham it up as he whinges to the courts, convinced Judge David Anderson that Eoin's behaviour was a crime. The short video below shows the true flavour of the occasion. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 19:42 by John of the Ayres Family
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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin met with survivors of abuse to respond to their letter addressed to the Pope. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 19:09 by Contaminated Crow
Three windfarms, two telemasts, a sewage plant and turfcutting ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 13:45 by john throne
California students and workers taking strike and other action in up to 100 locations state wide. Support coming from across the US and world wide. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 12:31 by Andrew N Flood
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The week before last Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell was jailed for seven months for his part in the communities ongoing resistance to Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on them. Across the country local Shell to Sea groups have been holding solidarity protests and other events for Pat. In Dublin this has included two protests and a public meeting in UCD. Meanwhile Shell have been forced to admit a temporary defeat in the face of local opposition and call off the construction they have planned for Glengad this year. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 05:33 by TD
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On 3rd March 2002, 22-year-old Palestinian blocklayer and tiler Thaer Hamad from the Ramallah-area village of Silwad, armed with an old WW2 M1 rifle shot 24 Israeli Occupation Forces and their reinforcements at a checkpoint sited in an old British police post on the road between Nablus and Ramallah killing 11 of them in the space of 24 minutes before his weapon blew up on the 25th shot. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / housing Monday February 22, 2010 - 00:28 by Kruk
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The auction of the grounds where Poznan's Rozbrat squat is situated will take place on 26th March at 10 a.m. Since January 2008, when the bailiff came to the squat for the first time, we have managed to keep the squat, through different legal actions and protests. If nobody buys the ground on 26th March, the next auction will take place within the next 2-3 years. That is why this is a critical moment for us. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / gender and sexuality Sunday February 21, 2010 - 21:33 by Eleanor
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This is the latest action taken by the Derry Womens Collective. The women decided to take another angle on the usual St. Valentines Day stuff by creating a mural for the back of Free Derry Corner. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday February 21, 2010 - 17:42 by Fred Johnston
We must thank the folks at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway, for their efforts for the Colette Wittorski reading there on February 18th, and the Clare Three-Leggéd Stool Poets for their terrific work in organising her reading from ‘Northern Lights’ at Glór, Ennis, on February 20th. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Sunday February 21, 2010 - 01:04 by Paula Geraghty
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To mark the showing of Michaels Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story the People Before Profit Alliance today 20th February 2010 held a street theatre performance of Capitalism: An Irish Love Story outside the Savoy Cinema in O Connell Street which is being shown as part of the Jameson Film Festival. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 20, 2010 - 22:34 by Peadar Mac
Republican's from Donegal and Fermanagh erected a memorial to IRA Volunteers who lay in an unmarked grave in Donegal Town since being killed in action during the Battle of Pettigo in June 1922. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2010 - 18:18 by Madam K
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Local Erris fisherman Pat O`Donnell was jailed for seven months on 10 /02/2010 for convictions of breach of the peace and of "obstructing a Garda . Mary speaks about her husband, a local hero, the devestating effect Shell has had on the local community and the events which see him serving seven months in jail. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2010 - 13:45 by Iyad Burnat
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February 19th 2010-Today Bil'in commemorated the fifth anniversary of popular demonstrations against the settlements and the Apartheid Wall. Israel's occupation has confiscated over 50% of Bil'in's land. Only last week the construction work to reroute the Wall began, nearly two and a half years after the High Court of Justice ordered the Wall to be moved. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday February 19, 2010 - 22:06 by Klaus Schenck
Incredibly, the European Commission intends to declare oil palm plantations as forests. The obvious trick aims at wiping aside the worldwide opposition to the destruction of rain forests to use the land for oil plantations – according to the motto: no forest is being lost. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday February 19, 2010 - 12:24 by Citizen X
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Will someone - anyone - ask the Irish government to get it's story straight on the Passports used by Mossad to kill a Hamas leader in Dubai? And how much did they know, and when, and are they just "going through the motions" with reactions "more smoke than fire" with the Israeli Ambassador? On Wed. February 17 the Irish government says they were fakes, and there were no record of such passports. Then the next day, they said they were fakes - but because the passports were in the hands of Irish citizens. Bear in mind: it is possible to secure a genuine passport through nefarious means - so were they genuine, or actual forgeries? The Dubai police and international experts say they are real - the only thing the Irish side has been consistent on is saying "fake". ... read full story / add a comment |
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