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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 15, 2006 - 22:03 by o0o   image 3 images
Our numbers swelled by the near end of the NUI Galway Xmas exams, Galway, Shell to Sea picketed the Statoil Service Station, Newcastle Rd for 90 minutes this evening.. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 14, 2006 - 23:01 by Saoirse   text 21 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 - 03:52)   image 5 images
Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster house today demanding the release of IRA prisoners. The protest was made up of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin activists.

Some of Sinn Féin's TD's where also present showing their support for the campaign.

8 years following the GFA and 1 year following the IRA's decision to call an end to its armed campaign, there is no reason why IRA prisoners should still be in jail.
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international / housing Thursday December 14, 2006 - 22:45 by Cablefish & Presz   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 17, 2006 - 23:30)
Coverage of Thursday’s events. The most recent news first. ... read full story / add a comment
Mike Allen Labour General Secretary and Liz Mc Manus deputy leader
national / gender and sexuality Thursday December 14, 2006 - 13:51 by Labour Youth   text 15 comments (last - monday december 31, 2007 - 17:59)   image 2 images
History is been made to day with a Labour Party Bill which is proposing full equality for same sex couples. Today the Bill which has been launched by the Labour Party will pass its first stage in the Dáil - this will be the first bill ever published in Ireland removing all discrimination from same sex couples. ... read full story / add a comment
Previous Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee Protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 22:48 by Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2007 - 18:41)   image 3 images
A Basque solidarity rally was hold in Dublin last Sunday.It lasted about 1.5 hours, near Stephen's Green end of Grafton St, Sunday 10th. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 12:37 by Vlad Putin   image 1 image
getting all that gas off Shell ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 12:33 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 18 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 21:25)   image 4 images
éirígí activists staged two successful pickets over the past number of days. The pickets were designed to show both solidarity with the community of Erris, Co Mayo as they battle against Shells plans to build an unsafe refinery and pipeline and also to focus public attention on those responsible for the entire Corrib gas debacle. The two éirígí protests were thus focused on the two main culprits; Shell and the head of the government responsible for the giveaway of Ireland's gas reserves, Bertie Ahern. ... read full story / add a comment
Residents acting against developer tree felling
limerick / environment Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 05:01 by Mark O'Connor   text 16 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 01:44)   image 27 images
Concerned Citizens of Highfield in Limerick turn out to defend their natural heritage. Locally known as Chicken tree 1 + 2, are the old Monterey Cypress trees, the Giant Redwood and Turkey oak tree face possibly being felled.

Felling of younger trees occurred Friday and Monday on site, an act which is understood to be directly in breach of condition 6 of this developments Bord Planala planning permission (see condition 6 in full below).

Following today's pressure from these local residents and subsequent mediation with the developer and the council, a commitment have been given by the developer that all felling will cease until documents are sent to council. The residents expect the developer to honour this commitment.

More updates to follow.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 16:55 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 - 17:53)   image 3 images
Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland posted an operating loss of nearly fifty million euro last week.

With costs associated with their scheme to install a polluting refinery and experimental pipeline in North West Mayo spiralling, the troubled company was shown to be completely dependent on the goodwill and patience of its shareholders.

Among the figures making up the loss, it was noticed that SEPIL paid their 45 staff the amazing seven million, two hundred thousand euro.

This means that the company -which regularly claims it employs seven hundred people- pays it workers an AVERAGE of €160,000 per year (or €3,076 per week). Of course the company doesn’t divide up it wage bill equally, and some of the front men probably don’t get paid much more than the average indymedia reporter, which means someone in Corrib House is doing very well indeed out of losing €49.1 million.

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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 19:31 by walter   text 13 comments (last - saturday february 10, 2007 - 09:55)   image 1 image
Coillte in breach of FSC certificate ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Monday December 11, 2006 - 14:20 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - friday march 23, 2007 - 14:34)
There is a strong possibility that the judgment will be handed down in the High Court on Wednesday, December 13, 2006.

This case is of huge significance to all people with a disability, their family and friends and the professionals who serve them. Such is the importance of this case that our government spared no expense to fight Sean O'Cuanachain who has autism and his parents. The State employed two full legal teams, one for the Minister of Education, Mary Hanafin and the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney and one for the HSE to win the right to deny Sean the education that was clearly benefiting him. The case was heard for an unprecedented 68 days from January to July 2006 at the expense of many million euros. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage Monday December 11, 2006 - 13:05 by Secretary   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 18:59)   image 2 images
Another very positive meeting of the Save Tara campaign was held on Sunday. Facilitating was an experienced community worker and facilitator from Galway, who has worked closely with the Zapatistas in Mexico and in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
Prof. Yakov
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 03:33 by JD   text 16 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 - 14:36)   image 6 images
Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, lecturer in contemporary Jewish history, Soviet history and the history of science at the University of Montreal since 1973 and practising Orthodox Jew, tonight laid bare the provenance of Zionism in Russia and voiced his opposition to it, full blown, in Israel

When Zionism, we were told, began to take root at the turn of the 20th century, most rabbinic authorities saw it as a dangerous tool to tear the Jews away from Torah and its commandments. ... read full story / add a comment
Lynda Sheridan
dublin / gender and sexuality Sunday December 10, 2006 - 02:37 by DaveD   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 25, 2007 - 15:28)   image 1 image
"You see I was born back in the so-called free days of the sixties, in the front bedroom of a working class house back in Dublin. My mother's water's broke, a girl was born but a boy was celebrated. A two second glance. A decision made condemning me to a life rejection, loneliness, misunderstanding, bias, loss and rape. I don't mean rape in the sexual sense but in the sense of being forced to live a lie. That is a rape of my soul, the real me." - Talk given this evenng by Lynda Sheridan at LGBT Carol Service in the Unitarian Church ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 09, 2006 - 16:31 by Make Trident History (Ireland)   text 21 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 01:41)   image 13 images
Five people, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Mark Chapman, Philip Mangold, Ann Patterson and Miriam Turley were arrested by Strathclyde police outside the UK trident nuclear submarine base at Faslane , Scotland on Saturday 9 December at 12 noon. Mairead Maguire is a Nobel Peace Laureate and honorary President of the Peace People . The five were part of a larger group called that had come from Ireland as part of the Faslane 365 campaign to protest against nuclear weapons of mass destruction at the Base. The blockade lasted about 40 minutes while the traffic was slowed down to a single lane. The other members of the group sang songs and shouted words of encouragement while the five were being arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
Richard, Kieran and Danny
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 08, 2006 - 20:39 by TJ   text 2 comments (last - friday december 22, 2006 - 03:41)   image 2 images
Galway, Shell to Sea picketed the Westside Shell Service Station this evening, our numbers depleted due to serious harassment from above in the form of heavy duty rain ... and exam time in NUI Galway and GMIT didn't contribute to matters either. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday December 07, 2006 - 21:01 by Defend Ungdomshuset
An anonymous movie maker have created a little propaganda piece ind defence of the eviction-threatened autonomous center in Denmark Ungdomshuset.

The movie is Four minutes long and kan be considered an emotional defence of the place. Its translated into english and German. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / gender and sexuality Thursday December 07, 2006 - 16:05 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 23, 2006 - 21:58)   image 10 images
Violence Against Women....
16 years campaigning ... read full story / add a comment
Bags were inside depot before activists got there.
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday December 07, 2006 - 12:15 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 15:48)   image 7 images
Activists in the Anti- Bin tax campaign gathered last Saturday for the weekly protest. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 14:49 by Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink   text 32 comments (last - friday december 15, 2006 - 02:32)   image 2 images
Bar workers in a well-known Dublin pub have gone on strike after accusing the bar's management of trying to introduce cheap labour. ... read full story / add a comment
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