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leitrim / housing Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 21:11 by Ray
 15 comments (last - monday may 14, 2007 - 19:05)
A LOCAL authority has come under fire after revelations it sold a prime development site in a thriving town centre for just €100. Leitrim County Council last week defended its decision to sell the town centre car park, which is estimated at being worth tens of thousands of euros. The land on Church Lane just off the Main Street in Manorhamilton was sold to the Manorhamilton Enterprise Forum Ltd, a voluntary group comprising of local businessmen. They have since sold it on to developers for an undisclosed "slight" profit who are in the process of building a major residential and commercial development on the site. The development was unsuccessfully appealed by a number of local residents to An Bord Pleanala in April and involved a petitions signed by Hundreds of local people. It has further emerged this week that the County Council have agreed to purchase back some of the development for €900,000. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 19:24 by Niall Harnett
32 comments (last - friday june 12, 2009 - 21:47)  2 images
'Our justice system may be equipped to administer the law but they are not equipped to deliver justice'. This quote, from a man who spent three months in jail last summer for protecting his community in N.W. Mayo, makes an important distinction in terms of what to expect from the justice system in this country. My own experience of Galway District Court yesterday leads me to disagree and say this. They are not even equipped to administer the law, let alone justice.
Assaults by Garda Sgt No:RG33 Mick Clesham on Owen Rice's legal assistants and friends in the court lobby, denials to Owen Rice of private legal consultation, threats of contempt against friends and Indymedia writers taking notes in court, objections to and intimidation of a privately employed stenographer and the denial of Owen Rice's right to cross-examine prosecution witness Detective Sergeant Mick Coppinger are all considered 'normal' procedure at Galway District Court according to Judge Mary Fahy and Galway Court Service Officer Ray Burke. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 00:24 by ali la pointe
17 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 20:15) 1 image
While sticky-handling the little chislers on the champagne trail, Fianna Fail spindoctor Parishpump McClient TD today refused to rule out or rule in coalition with other parties until after the general election. "We like to keep our options open, just like our pockets" he said "while believeing in neither left nor right we are at the same time the only real socialist party in Ireland and the only party that makes sense for our beloved business community. We stand for Irish neutrality and sovereignty. At the same time we suck up to the yanks and want to beef up Fortress Europe. We are the Karma Chameleons of Neoliberal Populism." ... read full story / add a comment 
kilkenny / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 04, 2006 - 17:25 by Labour Youth
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The Tom Johnson summer school - the annual summer school of the Labour Party took place during the weekend in Kilkenny. This year the Jim Kemmy award was given to the community in Rossport and Erris and was accepted by Vincent McGrath of the Rossport Five. The Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte T.D. presented the award. Past recipients of the award have included Rosanna Flynn of Residents against Racism and pro choice anti racist and community activist Cathleen O Neil. The award in memory of Jim Kemmy is given to people who courageously campaign and stand up for left wing political values. Vincent Mc Grath and the Rossport community were presented with an original and rare edition of Michael Davitts prison notes to symbolise the connection between Davitt and the current struggle of the people of Erris - both have fought for the rights of Irish people to own their land. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 04, 2006 - 16:12 by publo
Haaretz report that "Europe nixes landing rights for El Al planes with IDF cargo" ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday September 04, 2006 - 15:19 by cool j
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The tragic news of Steve Irwin's death while filming on the Barrier reef off NE Autralia broke earlier today - His passing is a great loss to the world-wide conservation movement!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 04, 2006 - 09:38 by Solidarity
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On the eve of the 2003 B52 led "Shock and Awe" bombing campaig over Iraq, margaret (monica) Jones and Paul Milling disabled a couple of dozen vehicles at Fairford U.S. Air Force Base (England) specifically designed to reload B52 Bombers for their daily runs over Iraq. the trial of Jones and Milling starts Monday Sept 4th. They face a max sentence of 10 years imprisonemtn if convicted. Two further trials of activists who were arrested on their way to disarm B52's will follow. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday September 03, 2006 - 20:42 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí
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“Reclaim the Republic / Athshealbhaígí an Phoblacht” campaign continues. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 02, 2006 - 23:28 by TD
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Aoibheann McNamara, proprietor of the Ard Bia restaurant in Quay Street and Seamus Sheridan, head honcho of Sheridan's Cheesemongers in Church Yard Street organised a collection today at the farmers’ market in Church Yard St in order to assist the beleaguered Lebanese who run the slow food market in Beirut - the moneys raised will be divided among the various families struggling to survive in their city and country viciously wasted by the Israelis. Judging from the evidence of my eyes the collection was handsome. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday September 02, 2006 - 21:42 by Terry
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Report on this years' Earth First! Summer Gathering, an annual radical ecology get-together in Britain. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 01, 2006 - 18:01 by Haymarket martyr
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The INO has called for a shorter working week and they should be supported in this by the other unions and all progressive forces. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday September 01, 2006 - 13:58 by Mark
For mass blockades of the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday September 01, 2006 - 03:14 by Brian
6 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 - 09:45)
This is just a short account, and attempted analysis, of some news stories that have arisen in the last year or so in the general area of justice and intelligence agency activity in Ireland. I have tried particularly to tie some of the stories together in order to attempt to trace some of the major trends in this otherwise miscellaneous data. Unfortunately it isn't a pretty picture! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 31, 2006 - 18:04 by Ruarari B
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Evidence of ongoing violations of International Law by Israeli Forces ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Thursday August 31, 2006 - 14:23 by ronan
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Since the announcement of the verdict on Monday, the normally quite Copenhagen scene has seen a whirlwind of activity. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 31, 2006 - 13:16 by N McDevitt
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Sligo Labour Councillor Declan Bree, has claimed Pat Rabbitte is not fit to be his party's leader, and has stated thathe would not be meeting or welcoming him when he visits Sligo tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday August 31, 2006 - 03:55 by Kevin Myers (with explanatory notes)
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[Explanatory comments on Kevin's news from the bunker are in italics below. Please note, the headline and article by Kevin Myers is not a spoof. He wrote this.] Irish Independent August 29, 2006 Kevin Myers ON Friday, June 23, in a village in Surrey, an old man breathed his last, and with him went a connection to one of the bloodiest episodes of the Troubles of 1919-21, and to another, and one of the strangest. Brigadier Mortimer Kelleher MC, aged 98, was the son of Jeremiah Kelleher, a general practitioner in Macroom, and the brother of Captain Philip Kelleher, DI, RIC. Like Mortimer, he was a holder of the Military Cross. [Good start, Kevin Myers carries his own cross for the British military.] ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday August 31, 2006 - 01:56 by Alf supporters group
Over sixty Circus advertising signs were destroyed belonging to Circus > Sydney, at their stay in Balbriggan in County Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Thursday August 31, 2006 - 00:32 by seedot
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A report on the Geary Lecture 2006, organised by the ESRI, presented by Professor Joseph Stiglitz in the Burlington hotel on the afternoon of 30th August ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 30, 2006 - 14:41 by Farah Mokhtareizadeh
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Traveling through Qana and Dahiyeh.... ... read full story / add a comment |
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