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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 27, 2009 - 22:06 by Vasilis
In August 2008, two wooden Greek ships laden with 44 activists from 17 different countries managed something no other vessel had in 41 years and broke the marine blockade that Israel has unilaterally imposed in Gaza, in contravention of international law. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 18:27 by Peter Fitzsimons
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Today, August the 27th members of the Niall Fagan/Thomas Allen Cumann Contae na Mhí, held a picket in Navan town centre, for two hours, to highlight the rising problem of unemployment in the area ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 17:13 by Gregor Kerr
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Striking MTL dockers have taken to the water in Dublin port in 17foot boats in an attempt to block port traffic. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday August 27, 2009 - 12:54 by DCTV
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Woop! It's that time of the month again, and we've got a new schedule for September which you can read about below. We've got some treats in store this month, our Independent Media block has been given over to the work of Joanne Richardson and we've a new mould breaking drama called The House. Richardson films look at the lives of Romanian women, globalisation and the difficulties facing political activists in a post-communist Eastern Europe. We've also significantly revised the content in our Gimme the Camera block, packing it with the work of more up and coming film makers. If there's anything we're most proud of this month, it's bringing the drama series The House to the air. There's a download of the schedule and an online version available. Online >>> http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=833 Download >>> http://www.dctv.ie/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/sept...e.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 21:38 by Opinion Jay
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Domestic consumers not the only ones shopping across the border. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 12:26 by Brian
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Article on RTE.ie University College Dublin will this year introduce fees for its student health service. Students were informed of the new charges by email on Monday. From the start of the academic year, charges will include a €10 fee for a nurse visit and a €25 fee to see a doctor. Charges will not apply to students on medical cards, while counselling services will also remain free of charge. UCD student union president Garry Redmond says the new system will not affect vulnerable students. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 10:00 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí launched the first wave of the party’s No to Lisbon 2 campaign yesterday (Monday) outside the gates of Leinster House and the EU offices in Dublin city centre. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:45 by Gregor Kerr
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Several hundred protestors chanting ‘Scabs out. Dockers In’ engaged in a mass trespass on the premises of Marine Terminals Ltd. in Dublin’s docklands yesterday morning (24th August). ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:04 by Fred Johnston
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Development of a new Arts Strategy for Galway City has not included consultation with the City or County's artists, but has has been closely guarded at City hall ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 15:22 by TD
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Last Thursday, 20th August to an eager audience in an overbrimming room of the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, with contributions from Jenny Graham, Susan Johnson and Derek Graham, husband of Jenny gave harrowing eyewitness accounts of the Israeli/US/EU created hell on earth that is called Gaza, in the case of Derek Graham, he told his story about being kidnapped at gunpoint in Mediterranean international waters along with 20 other Free Gaza Movement human rights activists, on board the Spirit of Humanity on a voyage of mercy,, forced into the Israeli port of Ashdod and then in tune with the Kafkaesque perversion and inversion of morality and reality that is the hallmark of Zionism, bizarrely questioned for violating Israeli territorial waters. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 24, 2009 - 12:58 by Andrew
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The dispute at MTL is escalating with hundreds of people taking part in demonstrations organised by the Port Workers Support Group. SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. Below are updates coming in from this mornings actions, sent via Twitter by WSM members who are present. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / miscellaneous Sunday August 23, 2009 - 22:57 by Kildare Sinn Féin
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The newly established Bob Doyle/Dinny Barry cumann was officially launched in Johnsons Bar on Saturday, August, 22nd ... read full story / add a comment 
On Saturday August 22nd members of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) and Free Palestine Campaign spent 10 hours on the streets of Galway city providing information on why IFPAL is calling for a No vote in the Lisbon referendum as a protest against the EU's support for Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. Almost 1000 leaflets were distributed to passersby, who were mostly supportive. The demonstration was joined in solidarity by a stalwart of the Shell to Sea Campaign, Naoise Ó Mongáin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday August 21, 2009 - 16:31 by Contaminated Crow
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Four masts, a windfarm, a climate camp, an airport, a piggery, powerlines, a helipad, turfcutting and prospecting for oil off Kerry ... read full story / add a comment |
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