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dublin / politics / elections Saturday January 30, 2010 - 21:32 by Marcopolo
 25 comments (last - monday march 01, 2010 - 21:52)
People Before Profit Alliance Councillor Brid Smith has announced her candidacy for the new directly elected post of Mayor of Dublin. The new post will represent all of Dublin City and County. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 30, 2010 - 12:04 by Oliver Zwartong
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Auschwitz survivor, Hajo Meyer, used a speech to encourage support for the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Approximately 100 people attended the meeting in The Grosvenor Hall, Belfast on Friday 29 January 2009. During his speech, Meyer condemned the misuse of the holocaust for political purposes and compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians today to Nazi treatment of Jews before and during the second world war. The meeting, to be repeated in Dublin on Saturday 30 January, concludes a month-long series of events organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to mark the first anniversary of Israel's invasion of Gaza in December 2008. Prior to arriving in Ireland, Meyer had spent the previous week on a speaking tour in Scotland and England organised by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. In February, Meyer is to continue his speaking tour in France, Austria and Germany. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday January 29, 2010 - 23:50 by Dunk
1 comment (last - wednesday february 03, 2010 - 11:33) 4 images 5 video files  3 audio files
Just over a month ago in Copenhagen’s free town of Cristiania there were firey words spoken, followed by baracades of fire, conflict with riot police and mass arrests of cliamte justice activists. The talk, with Noami Klein and others, led to the later arrest of Tadzio Muller for “instigating a riot” under the new Danish “anti terrorist laws“. The talk was our “party night”, December 14th 2009, 2 days before the RECLAIM POWER demo… PUSHING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Below is the video compilation of that important talk, what happened after and what that has led to. Reclaim Power was not an end in itself, it was only that hugely difficult and important first step… ... read full story / add a comment
monaghan / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 28, 2010 - 17:05 by Jonah
The Israeli Ambassador is to visit Carrickmacross Town Council offices tomorrow morning. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 28, 2010 - 14:08 by Paula Geraghty
6 comments (last - saturday january 30, 2010 - 18:13) 1 video file
Hundreds of teenagers and youth workers protested at the Dail. It was LOUD and mental as it should be. Charlie O'Connor seemed to row with people wherever he went, insisting he was a Dubliner and that seemed to be his reason for attending the protest against his own government's devastating cuts. He wasn't too pleased when one of the future voters informed him he couldn't do his own job. Turn your audio down- it's loud! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 28, 2010 - 13:24 by Shane OCurry
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Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi will be a key speaker at “Losing Their Memory, State killings in Derry, Belfast and Paris”, in Seomra 2 at the Culturlann, Great James’ Street, an event, including the premiere of “Octobre a Paris”, which runs from 10 am until 2pm. Jean-Luc Einaudi is an expert on the 17 October 1961 massacre of several hundred Algerian peaceful demonstrators at the hands of French police in Paris. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday January 27, 2010 - 23:52 by Thomas Janak
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All he needs is about USD 91 000 to give old elephants a loving home ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday January 27, 2010 - 15:40 by Contaminated Crow
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Two telemasts, two quarries, an airport, a seaplane jetty, a nursing home and a gas-fired power plant ... read full story / add a comment 
donegal / history and heritage Wednesday January 27, 2010 - 11:44 by Paula Geraghty
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In an old schoolhouse in north Donegal people gather to grant St Brigid permission to cross the threshold. She carries an armful of freshly cut rushes with a white cloth tied around them. They are laid on a long set of tables, and slowly men, women and children go up gather some rushes up to make the traditional St Brigid's crosses. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 25, 2010 - 17:26 by Mary Pearson
The Troops Out Movement, which campaigns for British withdrawal from Ireland, held its annual Bloody Sunday Remembered meetings in the Midlands last week. The 1992 BBC film by Peter Taylor was shown and the main speaker was Cahil McElhinny whose brother Kevin was shot dead by British Soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 30th January 1972. The families have suffered 38 years of loss with no government acknowledgement of the truth of that day ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 25, 2010 - 13:39 by Shane OCurry
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Saturday 30th January will see the Irish premiere – indeed the first screening in the English-speaking world – of the 1962 film Octobre a Paris [October in Paris] by Jacques Panijel. The film got its first and only screening in Paris in May 1962, immediately after which the film club where it was being shown was raided by Police and the film seized. Other 16 mm copies being screened around France were seized in the following days. Later in that summer Panijel did manage to get Octobre a Paris shown at the Venice Film Festival, but soon after the film would disappear, not to re-surface for over forty years. The film is a first-hand account, using eye-witness testimonies and original footage, of the 17 October 1961 massacre in Paris and the events leading up to it. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 25, 2010 - 12:05 by Paula Geraghty
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Helping build for Wednesday's protest at the Dail 4-6pm 27th January ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Monday January 25, 2010 - 10:31 by John Ayres
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The Clerical Abuse Protest continues ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday January 24, 2010 - 23:11 by Paul Treacy
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Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 24, 2010 - 21:20 by Shannonwatch
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A total of 1276 civilian flights were granted permits to carry weapons and munitions of war through Ireland in 2009. The vast majority of these were from American civil airlines, chartered by the US military, and involved flights to or from the United States. Almost all landed at Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / miscellaneous Sunday January 24, 2010 - 20:08 by B
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Shell to Sea activists were out in force distributing the group’s new information leaflet on Saturday in Newbridg ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Sunday January 24, 2010 - 14:11 by Save Newgrange
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A campaign to save Brú na Bóinne from the Slane Bypass has been launched online over the weekend. It is being initiated by members of the National Monuments Forum, which includes Professor George Eogan, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at University College Dublin. The National Roads Authority has chosen the most damaging route for archaeology and heritage, and Meath County Council has gone ahead and issued CPO orders for the route, without even waiting for the An Bord Pleanala oral hearing. A petition will be launched shortly, calling on Minister Gormley to deliver on his promise of a new National Monuments Act, and calling on UNESCO to place Brú na Bóinne on their List of World Heritage in Danger. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Saturday January 23, 2010 - 09:44 by John Ayres
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Protestors joins the EGM of Bishops at the National Seminary of Ireland, Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Friday January 22, 2010 - 01:13 by M 50
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After he allegations that he had been having an extra marital affair with Waterford PR executive Monica Leech, Martin Cullen said some of his colleagues did not want to be associated with him. The former Progressive Democrat and current Fianna Fáil TD claimed that that his children had been subject to bullying and He said he had felt like running down Kildare Street shouting: 'I am innocent. I am innocent'. He described the experience as being like 'waking up every day and being raped'. Monica Leech received a payment of 1.9 million euro from a newspaper in libel damages after remarks made on RTE about her relationship with Cullen were repeated in print. RTE settled with her for a payment of €250,000. The Minister lodged proceedings separately but has not yet acted on them. By contrast, the average payment from the redress board (which was to compensate people for, in some cases, literally being raped every day) was €60,000. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 20, 2010 - 16:37 by Kev
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On Saturday, January 16th, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and supporters held boycott actions across the country, asking shoppers not to buy Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Gaza who are still being starved by the Israeli government. Along with the IPSC, the following groups supported the Boycott Day of Action: Anti-War Ireland, éirígí, Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), ICTU Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Irish Anti-War Movement, Palestinian Rights Initiative, Sinn Fein and UNITE Trade Union. ... read full story / add a comment |
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