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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday April 29, 2006 - 17:55 by Jim
 46 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 - 20:44)  38 images
There was a small enough turnout as per usual at this years May Day demonstration. Though suprisingly there was a very visible contingent of communists. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 29, 2006 - 02:07 by Shell to Sea
7 comments (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 - 14:50) 15 images
Erris drinking water comes from Carrowmore Lake. The lake is becoming heavily contaminated with aluminium as a by-product of the removal of peat from the site of the giant gas refinery that Shell seek to construct at Beal an Átha Buí (known in English as Ballinaboy or Bellinaboy). As a part of Shell's scheme the company's contractors have had to transfer tons of peat from Beal an Átha Buí to a facility owned and operated by Bord na Móna at Srahmore. Underneath the top layer of peat is a substance called dobe, which has a very high aluminium content. Rain causes pools of aluminium contaminated water on the site to overflow and run into nearby Carrowmore Lake. Carrowmore Lake is the source of Mayo County Council's drinking water supply for the Erris area. Controversy has raged about the condition of the drinking water in Erris, since it was found that the water treatment machinery that Shell's contractors are using has never worked to its full capacity. Shell to Sea observers have recorded that the machinery meant to purify the water has rarely worked at all. The local authority has claimed that there is no problem with the water in Carrowmore Lake. The Council's own testing regime has detected high aluminium content in the drinking water, but instead of properly investigating, they have claimed that this is a consequence of human error in the laboratory. Campaigners from Shell to Sea set up a table on Friday at lunchtime at the pedestrian entrance to the the Customs House and offered glasses of water from the Erris drinking water supply to staff of the Department of the Environment and Local Government as they leave for lunch. An invitation to attend the water tasting event was sent to Environment Minister Dick Roche, but no reply was received, and of course he didn't appear. Unsurprisingly, no one accepted the offer of a glass of water, nor did anyone from the Department come out to speak to the protesters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday April 29, 2006 - 00:19 by Edward Horgan
3 comments (last - monday may 01, 2006 - 17:24) 2 images
In spite of efforts by Euro MEP Sean O'Neachtain and others to discredit the facts that the CIA has been using Shannon airport for its torture rendition programme, the truth is gradually leaking out. It may take several years for so-called "concrete evidence" such as lists of tortured prisoners who were "rendered" through Shannon, and details of Irish government ministers knowledge and approval of these crimes, to become public, but this will come too. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 28, 2006 - 23:26 by John Kelly
5 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 - 16:11)
The right of free speech has been limited. We will not be told to shut up and we're taking this message to the Mayor of Dublin next Thursday. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Friday April 28, 2006 - 22:44 by Noise Hacker
24 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 15:12) 31 images
Dublin's Critical Mass Bike Ride 28th April 2006 6.30pm-8.00pm Dublin City Graffiti images are from Dublin City (Images taken on a low end camera, hence the quality!) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 28, 2006 - 19:44 by Erin McGann
Foreigners in Angola left high and dry as passports are detained. The situation is the result of restructuring the passport office in Luanda. This all comes at a time of inceasing unease in Angola's political climate. There have been reports of passports having been detained for up to two months now and still no sign of them being returned. Hundreds of foreigners, wishing to return to Europe and other destinations have had to cancel flights as a result of the confusion. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 28, 2006 - 15:09 by Paula Geraghty
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www.kurdishinfo.com ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Friday April 28, 2006 - 12:59 by Miriam Cotton
6 comments (last - friday may 05, 2006 - 19:41)
An advertisement has appeared in national papers today inviting applications from voluntary disability organisations to apply for money for, er, well, it's difficult to say actually. But it's definitely got something to do with 'developing operational capacity'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday April 27, 2006 - 19:41 by Michael O'Callaghan
4 comments (last - saturday april 29, 2006 - 12:24)
In the global controversy over corporate control of agricultural seeds, crops and food, an emergency community meeting was held Tuesday night at the tiny village of Summerhill, Co. Meath. The village is next door to the site of a proposed five year experiment with 450,000 patented genetically modified (GMO) potatoes. The local community is worried that farmers who become contaminated by the patented potatoes may lose ownership of their crops . They are also worried about the scientific evidence of health and environmental risks, the impact on property values, and a threatened boycott of Irish potatoes if the experiment goes ahead. ... read full story / add a comment 
leitrim / history and heritage Thursday April 27, 2006 - 16:45 by Jim
10 comments (last - sunday april 30, 2006 - 03:48) 4 images
The Annual Jim Gralton Commemorative Weekend and School took place in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, on the weekend of the 22nd/23rd April. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 27, 2006 - 15:16 by Fintan Lane
18 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 - 23:40)
I1m not sure if anybody was actually tasked with producing a public report of the 22 April anti-war gathering in Dublin, so I hope there are no objections if I give my own personal reflections on the event. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 19:45 by Dole
St. Michael's primary school is to close this coming June. Apart from the obvious educational concerns, What of it's historical significance? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 14:03 by MichaelY
8 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 17:03) 2 images
Huge anti-US demonstrations in Athens ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 12:59 by non-payer
11 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 - 13:56)
Northern Ireland Committee Irish Congress Trade Unions Biennal Conference backs mass non-payment of water charges ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 03:30 by iosaf
18 comments (last - wednesday january 03, 2007 - 20:45) 5 images
The Pope does product placing. At least that was the message from the Wall Street Journal today, and reported globally in translation. It was perhap a sly puritan reference to the rumoured movement on permissive Vatican condom rule relaxation between married really sick people. Or perhaps it was just more bollox, like the pope's election, or all of Dan Brown, or 1916, or the Moon Landings, or 911, or blood sacrifices in general, and more particularly - "everything you watch on TV". But that much said.., The Pope, Benedict XVI; (the man (((i))) reminded everyone wore a NAZI uniform as a politically indoctrinated minor); the German Shepherd; Papa Ratzi; the Black Pope; yer man :- has worn these multi-national-corporate logos and products... ... read full story / add a comment 
kerry / environment Tuesday April 25, 2006 - 03:35 by an fear siul
2 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 11:34) 1 image
“The Power Of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” is brand new documentary about what our future could look like. First show publicly in Ireland in conjunction with LASC at the Convergence Festival Dublin on April 22nd, it got it’s second showing in Ireland just a few hours ago in McCarthy’s Bar Dingle, County Kerry, as part of events there for Latin America Week 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday April 25, 2006 - 02:19 by poetry news
2 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 - 11:58)
Salmon Poetry has announced that Galway poet Kevin Higgins’ debut collection, The Boy With No Face, which was launched in February last year, was their best-selling book of 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 24, 2006 - 22:50 by Justin Morahan
4 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 16:53)
(Vanunu's 20th year and counting. . . 11 in solitary, 7 more allowed contact only with unsympathetic Jewish prisoners, 2 more unfree to leave a hostile Israel - this is the process of attempting to break an indomitable will.) ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage Monday April 24, 2006 - 11:24 by watcher
19 comments (last - monday july 16, 2007 - 09:16) 8 images
Yesterday, April 23, '06, the Sunday Times ran a story about corruption in a multinational engineering company called JE Jacobs that was recently awarded the N6 roads contract in Galway. Two company members were convicted in Chicago last year of illegal bidding and trading of insider information on construction contracts. In the article the Times referred to "Jacobs’ Irish arm", (presumably for legal reasons) which is Jacobs Engineering Ireland. TaraWatch has learned the new head of the NRA Fred Barry was a director with Jacobs when he was hired last year. Everybody knows the construction industry is corrupt, the archaeological profession is corrupt and of course the property development/rezoning industry is rank. Everybody knows there is more to the story as to why the M3 goes where it goes, and will not be moved unless it is forced. It is time Irish citizens put their heads together and figured this one out, before it is too late. There are already many strong indications as to who and what is involved. Lat year we all saw Tommy 'Pots 'n Pans' Reilly, the Fianna Fail by-election candidate in Meath, get pulled from the race because he had bought land with Frank Dunlop in the Tara Skryne Valley. Then there was the Ireland on Sunday investigation into the owner of land at the Blundelstown interchange, Cathal McCarthy, and other 'friends of Fianna Fail', printed below. Let's start putting the pieces together. TaraWatch is beginning a 'Land Registry Fund' to do a complete serach of land ownership in the Tara Skryne Valley. But that is only the beginning. Let's do some communal research and see what we can excavate from the muck of Meath. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 24, 2006 - 05:09 by Seán Ryan
29 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 16:03)
Saturday 22/4/06 - The Teacher’s Club. At this meeting whose purpose is to form and reform associations and to invigorate the anti-war effort, there arose a topic that at first glance might look to be irrelevant. However it is a topic that eventually dominated the meeting and strengthened our association. ... read full story / add a comment |
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