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Solar farms are an ecological disaster. Birds frequently fly into them, mistaking them for water, while electrocution and incineration are common. But you won't hear about this in the mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 16:57 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Workers from Connolly Shoes are in their third week of a strike. Trade Union TV caught up with the strikers at a rally to support the strike organised by People Before Profit, saturday 24th 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 11:43 by Solidarity with the 14 Raytheon accused   text 1 comment (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 17:39)   image 1 image
The trial of 14 people in connection with a protest at the defence company Raytheon in Derry is to begin at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday May 4th. Solidarity pickets are being planned to coincide with the court hearings outside of the Laganside Court complex. ... read full story / add a comment
48-hour fast by Republican prisoners to begin next Friday 30 April 2010....
international / history and heritage Saturday April 24, 2010 - 23:19 by Sharon.   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 - 21:28)   image 2 images
A 48-hour fast will be held shortly by Republican POW's in Portlaoise Prison in support of their comrades in Maghaberry Prison. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 10:38 by Kev   text 22 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 - 16:28)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
I just got a call from an eirigi comrade, saying a group of them are currently occupying the Anglo-Irish building on St Stephen's Green. They are looking for supporters to get down there now. Please spread the word, and go down in solidarity if you can. ... read full story / add a comment
protesters at a march to Store Street Garda Station
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:43 by dD   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 11:30)   image 1 image

It's being reported by the he Garda Ombudsman that a man has been found dead in a garda cell in Dublin.

The man was arrested for a public order offence on Tuesday evening and held at Tallaght Garda Station where he was found dead at 9.30 last night.

... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:04 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 16:37)   video 1 video file
About 30 people came out to change the law on users of cannabis for medicinal purposes. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 20, 2010 - 23:39 by Ray   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 22, 2010 - 13:14)   image 1 image
Members of the Cork and Kinsale Shell to Sea groups held information stalls on their respective main streets to keep the imprisonment of Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell in the eye of the genneral public. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 19, 2010 - 21:41 by Kev   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2010 - 21:27)   image 5 images
(Sorry about the delayed nature of this report, been busy!)

On the evening of Monday 12th April 2010 around 40 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) staged a solidarity demonstration outside Dublin City Hall in support of the anti-Veoila motion that was tabled to be voted on by Dublin City Council (DCC). ... read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 19, 2010 - 12:55 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Trade Union TV presents the Restaurant Workers Action Group protest at Supermac's Eyre Square Galway to defend restaurant workers minimum wages (16/04/2010)

Start you week with a little bit of resistance! ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday April 19, 2010 - 08:03 by Solidaritywiththechief   text 10 comments (last - friday april 23, 2010 - 08:23)   image 1 image
Around 25 activists have set up 2 blockades around the Shell Gas terminal in Bacton, Norfolk, UK in solidarity with Pat O'Donnell & the community in Rossport, Mayo and against the destruction of environment and communities by Shell world-wide. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinian prisoners' solidarity demo outside the Israeli embassy (Dublin)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 18, 2010 - 20:53 by Fintan Lane   text 12 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 - 12:58)   image 5 images   video 3 video files
A large number of people turned out at 2pm on Saturday, 17 April, for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Dublin. The protest was organised conjointly by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and éirígí (the socialist republican party formed in 2006), and the focus was on a call for the release of ALL Palestinian political prisoners imprisoned by the Israeli State - those 'convicted' in Israeli Military courts and those interned without trial under the 'Administrative Detention' regime.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 17, 2010 - 22:08 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Three communities protested in unity at Dublin City Council to save local services under threat of closure. Crumlin, Sean McDermot Street and Coolock pools are facing closure by DCC. These communities held a protest at a council meeting where the council passed a motion to defend the pools. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 15, 2010 - 23:31 by Fintan Lane   image 3 images
Speaking at a public meeting held this evening in the Central Hotel in Dublin, a spokesperson for the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) commended the nine women - Roisin Barton, Roisin Bryce, Betty Doherty, Goretti Horgan, Diana King, Jackie McKenna, Sharon Meenan, Helen Reynolds and Julia Torrojo - who are currently facing charges in Belfast as a result of their anti-war action on 12 January 2009 at arms manufacturer Raytheon Systems in Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 20:14 by An tSionainn   text 16 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2010 - 06:56)
Despite being presented with documented “smoking gun” evidence from medical prescription records obtained after lengthy FOI appeals, the Mental Health Commission today refused to initiate an investigation into a cover-up of medical misconduct by a centre's registerd proprietor in which a former MHC CEO and Inspector were complicit.. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 12:53 by Freda H and Kev   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 23, 2010 - 01:21)   image 5 images
Yesterday evening pro-Palestine groups staged a protest against the presence of former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold and Israeli Embassy delegates at the Clinton Institute in University College Dublin. Gold, who also served as an advisor to Ariel Sharon during the years 2001 – 2003 (years which saw vicious repression of Palestinians during the second intifada, including Operation ‘Defensive Shield’ which killed over 500 people in three weeks), was engaged in an Israeli *hasbara* operation, giving a lecture on the ‘two state solution’ to a small select invite-only audience. One presumes – given that we were not allowed inside - arguing for a Palestinian Bantustan statelet and the primacy of Israeli ‘security concerns’ over the right to Palestinian self-determination. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 13, 2010 - 18:44 by James   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2010 - 14:42)   image 1 image
SIPTU public sector executive call for vote in favour of the "Croke Park" deal ... read full story / add a comment
Swimming Pool Protest at Dublin City Hall
dublin / environment Tuesday April 13, 2010 - 08:34 by Collete   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 17, 2010 - 16:40)   image 4 images
Over a hundred people attended a protest last night against the plan by Dublin City Council to close a number of community swimming pools.

These pools, in Crumlin, Coolock, and at Seán MacDermott Street in the north inner city, are some of the few places which provide activities for families and young people. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 12, 2010 - 09:53 by Fintan Lane   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 14, 2010 - 10:19)   image 1 image
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in Dublin will be staging a solidarity vigil this evening (Monday) as a motion on Veolia – the company that operates Dublin’s LUAS system – is voted on at Dublin City Council. The vigil will start at 6pm outside City Hall in Dame Street. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday April 08, 2010 - 21:16 by People Before Profit Alliance   text 9 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 - 19:08)   video 1 video file
For those who missed Eamonn's great analysis of why having a People Before Profit candidate in the Westminister elections on May 6th.

'Find a new direction beyond the Orange and the Green' ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Wednesday April 07, 2010 - 14:13 by Miriam Cotton   text 17 comments (last - tuesday april 13, 2010 - 20:27)
The TUI voted unanimously yesterday to reject the Croke Park pay deal. This morning Mary Coughlan gave a speech at the union's annual conference during which she made no reference to yesterday's vote nor did she take any questions from the floor. When she finished, a union member at the front bobbed up beside her wearing a Sean Fitzpatrick face-mask. Members treated her to total silence both before and after her speech. In contrast Ryan was greeted with constant rounds of applause and standing ovations throughout his speech. ... read full story / add a comment
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