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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 27, 2009 - 18:41 by Shell to Sea
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A letter was handed in to the Norwegian Ambassador to Ireland at the Norwegian Embassy on Molesorth Street in Dublin yesterday. Norway has a large stake in the disputed and controversial Corrib gas scheme, despite the state company StatoilHydro, having a supposed commitment to ethcial behaviour. The letter was written by Maura's husband, Naoise, and he was accompanied by their daughter and supporters from various political backgrounds and a number of well wishers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 27, 2009 - 14:59 by Cailan O'Connell
Twenty-Eight senior cycle students from around the country have come together to make a difference on child labour. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 26, 2009 - 16:22 by Tara Burke
A proposal by Southside Travellers Action Group (STAG),to drop the site from the 5 halting sites and 6 group housing schemes planned in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Traveller Accommodation Programme was defeated in a vote – of 20 to seven by county councillors last week. The accommodation plan adopted by the councillors will run from 2009 to 2013. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 11:16 by pat c
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The Dublin City Post Primary branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland has called for the resignation of David Begg and has passed a motion of no confidence in the ICTU Executive Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 10:14 by Walter Goren
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Last Saturday a man added his own original artwork to the walls of the National Gallery's portrait collection. He placed his 'Portait of Brian Cowen' on the wall next to a work depicting Maeve Binchy. It hung for forty minutes, before being removed. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 18:12 by Final Nail Party
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Exclusive pictures and footage from the head office of Irish Nationwide Building Society this morning, where Chief Executive, Michael Fingleton, was deciding how to spend the 1,000,000 euro bonus paid to him AFTER the hastily agreed government bank guarantee scheme was put in place last year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 14:52 by Bazooka Joe
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Chinese Communist Police on patrol in Tibetan community following attacks on police and other Communist Government agents by Buddhist monks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 13:52 by Ciaron
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As we marked the 6th. anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, we remembered the 1 million Iraqi dead. 2 million exiled, 3 million internally displaced, the multitude of wounded, the 5,000 coalition troops killed and 30,000+ permanently wounded - used as cannon fodder in the plunder and pillage. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 15:19 by 1 of imc
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Indymedia Ireland and DCTV are collaborating on facilitating popular coverage from around the country on the events of M30 (should there indeed be any). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 15:11 by 1 of imc
Indymedia Ireland and DCTV are collaborating on facilitating popular coverage from around the country on the events of M30 (should there indeed be any). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 12:35 by Tomas Ashe
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“There was absolutely no change in the government’s position.” An unpublished interview with Sir John Blelloch, a member of MI5 who had been seconded to the NIO as a Deputy Secretary at the time of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes, has come into the possession of the Bobby Sands Trust. The interview was conducted at the British Ministry of Defence in late September 1986 [where Blelloch was Permanent Under Secretary] by the author of ‘Biting At The Grave’, Padraig O’Malley, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. What is important about the interview is that it represents an insight into the psyche of the British at crucial periods in the hunger strikes, particularly at the time of mediation attempts by others, including the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace [ICJP]. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 22, 2009 - 17:30 by Shannonwatch
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A Peace Forum was held at the Park Inn hotel at Shannon airport on saturday 21 March in solidarity the victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the 6 aniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Contributers included peace activists from Leipsiz in Germany, whose local airport is also being used to refuel US military planes and chartered troop carriers. We also had peace collegues from Derry, Galway, Cork, Westmeath, Kildare and even some from Dublin. Meanwhile there were at least three OMNI air chartered troop carriers at the airport transporting hundreds of armed US troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday March 21, 2009 - 20:16 by Contaminated Crow
A quiet week: a cremarorium, a mast, a windfarm and a sand-pit ... read full story / add a comment |
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