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national / miscellaneous Thursday October 05, 2006 - 14:20 by Aidan Kennedy   text 6 comments (last - friday june 14, 2013 - 01:08)
Ryanair to buy Aer Lingus ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday October 05, 2006 - 12:12 by Paul McAndrew
After a 25 strong meeting of Cork Shell to Sea last night there was a very successful,if small protest at the Shell garage in Blackpool, Cork, between 8 & 9am today.
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Protesters Assemble
mayo / environment Thursday October 05, 2006 - 12:04 by Terry   text 58 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 23:07)   image 10 images
Fifty people blockaded a Shell petrol station in Donnybrook yesterday evening in response to this week’s events in Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
Corrib House October 4th 2006
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 05, 2006 - 01:28 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 05, 2006 - 01:54)   image 9 images
In Mayo, hundreds of police are being used to force Shell contractors through the picket of local people at the site of the disputed giant gas refinery at Ballinaboy every morning.

Today at 1PM, supporters of the Shell to Sea Campaign gathered at the Shell Headquarters of Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland,(52 Lwr Leeson Street) in Dublin, to express solidarity with the besieged people of Erris.

Activists from political groups such as Workers Solidarity Movement, Grassroots, Sinn Féin, The Socialist Workers Party, the Green Party, and others, as well as many people who belong to no group except Shell to Sea, blockaded the entrances to Shell's Corporate Base on Leeson Street at lunchtime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 23:11 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 17:57)   image 1 image
Ireland - the Island of Ireland.

Why, who, when determines to sell off our 'Jewel'. Who really benefits? Special deals reduced the price of rights in the recession torn 1980's......Who is thinking? Where is the Corporate and Ethical Responsibility?

Gardai pithed against locals.......too easy......men went to gaol. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 21:49 by Health Activist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 - 23:32)
An American hospital corporation, Triad Inc., has emerged as a contender for six of the ten public hospital sites on offer from the government. Eight years ago, its parent company was indicted for multi-billion dollar fraud in the US involving insurance scamming and physician bribery. Dublin’s Beacon Hospital is Triad’s first venture in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 14:12 by TD   text 49 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 - 18:22)   image 10 images
Resistance and protest started this morning with a 20 strong picket outside the Quad at 11AM where it is expected the Israeli ambassador, Evrony, will be having polite conversation and morning coffee with the president of the college at 12noon. Throughout the day the flying picket will be tracking him and entourage in their wanderings, if that's the right word, around the campus to further vent our outrage at his country's murderous onslaught against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and its ongoing egregious human rights abuses.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 12:36 by mac consaidin   text 10 comments (last - monday february 18, 2013 - 19:01)   image 2 images
Tomorrow at 10.30 in High Court a very important case will commence. At issue is the right of citizens to speak out without fear, when they have been abused and damaged by the Irish legal system, its courts, judges, officers (solicitors) or officials. At issue is the VLPS movements campaign for a legal ombudsman, for an end to self-regulation by legal professions, for reform of the practise of law in this country and for the "outing" of lawyers who abuse the privileges of their professional positions to amass fortunes through insider knowledge etc in property development. At issue also, and most importantly, is the freedom of the internet. Whether all this is decided tomorrow and how it is decided, may depend on how much support is seen at the Four Courts tomorrow. Be there! ... read full story / add a comment
Cork Shell to Sea protest at Anglesea Street Garda HQ this morning
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 12:29 by John Jefferies   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 - 17:32)   image 10 images
Up to 25 members of the Cork Shell to Sea support campaign this morning picketted the city's main garda station at Anglesea Street which is also the Munster HQ of an Garda Siochana in protest at the heavy-handed treatment of peaceful Shell to Sea protesters at Bellinaboy, Co. Mayo yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
Margaretta displays one the raisons d'etre of the protest
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 00:34 by TD   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 - 19:49)   image 6 images
Following the Gardai streamrolling of protest in Rossport this morning, ably assisted by young dudes from the Labour Youth, Sinn Fein and the Socialist Party and the noted writers Fred Johnson and Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway Shell to Sea picketed and protested outside Mill Street in Galway this evening for an hour and a half in solidarity with our beleaguered sisters and brothers in Rossport.

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mayo / environment Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 22:18 by John Kelly   text 19 comments (last - sunday october 08, 2006 - 06:02)
RTE radio interviewed men who were "glad" to be starting work today at the controversial Shell site in North Mayo. No alternative views were sought by the state broadcaster. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 20:22 by Taramarch
Today, Vincent Salafia, long term campaigner against the motorway at Tara and Carrickmines, settled his case on Tara. The costs of the previous case have been waived in return. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 19:18 by Chris Murray   text 12 comments (last - tuesday october 10, 2006 - 17:23)
The debate did not begin at precisely 16.15 pm, because Michael Mc Dowell
was still taking questions on Thornton Hall. The Taoiseach very quietly slipped
in and as if by magic stood up for his less than robust defence of the monies.
(received/gifted/loaned-etc)

The order of busines was simple enough:- Bertie got 15 minutes,
everyone else got 5 minutes. The Ceanncomhairle would not answer
reply, confirm or deny the use of a 'script' and it really went downhill from there. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 19:04 by Eve, Bob and Niall.   text 29 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 - 02:09)   image 47 images
The myth of Shell’s newfound commitment to achieving “local consent” before proceeding with the Corrib gas project was utterly debunked this morning, as an army of around 200 police forcibly removed Shell to Sea protesters from their picket at the proposed Bellanaboy Corrib Gas refinery site. This underlines Shell’s disregard for the concerns of the majority of people in Mayo and reinforces the Shell to Sea prediction that the only way this project can go ahead is by the use of force. Clearly the state is more than willing to lend its strength to Shell to be used against the people it supposedly serves. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / animal rights Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 18:09 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 21:37)   image 2 images
It's winter-time for those fur-clad cavepeople to come lumbering back onto the streets-a scene that makes as many people shiver from disgust as from the cold. It's also time for people who care about animals to shift the anti-fur movement into high gear and take any fur hag to task.
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tyrone / history and heritage Monday October 02, 2006 - 23:05 by The Lark   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 - 21:05)   image 5 images
West Tyrone Ógra Shinn Féin organised a tour of Long Kesh Concentration Camp, last Friday 29th September. The tour was very emotive as the delegation visited the hospital wing where 10 Irish Republican Prisoners bravely give their life on Hungerstrike 25 years ago.

The Cages, and H4 were also visited.

All together 16 Young Republican activists attended the tour and witnessed at first hand Long Kesh, the site of so much tragedy and torture, yet also massive resilience and struggle.

We salute the Prisoners, the Blanketmen and the Hungerstrikers! ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday October 02, 2006 - 19:21 by Qasim Rajpar
Cities could not prosper unless villages are properly developed, said speakers at a seminar here on Saturday. The seminar on “Environmental problems and our responsibilities” was organized by the Department of Sociology, University of Karachi.

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national / arts and media Monday October 02, 2006 - 19:10 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - monday may 07, 2007 - 18:18)
Andras Schiff brought a world-class singer to Dublin last night. Not the first time he has done this - I remember fondly a recital he gave in The National Concert hall with Peter Schrier a number of years ago when they presented "Die Schone Mullerin" in a never-to-be-repeated and excellent recital. It is a matter of regret, perhaps, that there were few enough people in the audience (a lot of empty seats) to hear last night the truly remarkable voice of Robert Holl - a mature singer whose technique is non-pariel. ... read full story / add a comment
President Gerard Wrixon
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 02, 2006 - 13:23 by Miriam Cotton   text 27 comments (last - wednesday june 20, 2007 - 20:47)   image 4 images
Professor Gerry Wrixon is entering his last term at University College Cork, having inexplicably tendered his resignation after winning a bitterly divisive contest to extend his tenure. He has presided over one of the most acrimonious and difficult periods of UCC’s history. Persistent allegations of financial and other impropriety at the university have dogged him, not least of which are those referred to in an article in the Irish Examiner last week and echoed by the former President Michael Mortell this week. They claim:

* Appointments were made corruptly
* Breaches of the law, of university statutes and regulations
* Intimidation and bullying of staff
* A general failure of governance
* Concerns about the use of public monies
* Unsustainable levels of debt were being accumulated under Prof Wrixon’s tenure

But the Examiner reports are only the half of it.

More:http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78472 - Original article ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 02, 2006 - 10:30 by Seán Ryan   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 08, 2006 - 16:25)
Another Plane carrying munitions lands in Dublin Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
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