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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday January 28, 2009 02:36 by A New Age in Voting
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On Tuesday 27th January, Ógra Shinn Féin joined the NYCI (National Youth Council of Ireland) outside Leinster house to demand that the voting age be lowered to 16. Sinn Féin TD Aengus O’Snodaigh was also in attendance to demonstrate his personal and party support for the initiative. The ‘New Age to Vote’ campaign launch hopes to spark a debate on this issue among 16 and 17 year olds, with the aim of opening up discussion forums and campaign groups across Ireland that demand the voting age to be lowered, ensuring young people have a voice. read full story / add a comment 
armagh / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday January 27, 2009 21:34 by Free Palestine
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Upper Bann Sinn Féin organised a white line vigil last weekend on the Garvaghy Road, to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Amongst those in attendance were Sinn Féin's Craigavon Council Group and the local Ógra Shinn Féin cumann. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday January 27, 2009 14:47 by Shane OCURRY
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Before Christmas we were told of yet another delay to the publication of the findings of the Saville Inquiry. It is now unlikely to report until late autumn 09, more than 37 years after the events it inquires into. Certainly for family members of the murdered, many who have since died, and those of the wounded who are no longer with us justice delayed has been justice denied. However this delay in justice resonates beyond the case itself which is why Martin Luther King could say 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'. 37 year's ago Lord Widgery's Inquiry took the side of injustice. His report retrospectively legitimised the military repression of the civil rights movement. To him justice wasn't a human ideal he had a duty to strive towards but merely a political consideration of the vested interests he represented. So the ideal was hollowed out to become another tool of oppression. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday January 27, 2009 06:27 by Solidarity
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Postcards and letters of solidarity can be sent to the prisoners at the following address. Mail will be redirected to the relevant prison....c/- School of the Americas Watch PO Box 4566 Washington, DC 20017 U.S.A. *More background info on the campaign to close the .S.O.A. see www.soaw.org read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday January 27, 2009 00:09 by ciaran
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SHAC IRELAND DEMO FRIDAY NIGHT 30TH JAN at 6pm At the FOUR SEASONS HOTEL,BALLSBRIDGE Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Demo at a Bayer Schering Pharma Dinner /Meeting event on Friday 30th January at 6.00 pm.( Bayer are having their meeting at 7pm followed by a meal at 8pm.) We have received information of this event anonymously as it was not advertised. Please try attend as it is SHAC Bayer week. This demo is in support of the UK SHAC 7.EMAIL IF YOU CAN ATTEND PLEASE. PLEASE MAKE THIS IMPORTANT DEMO. read full story / add a comment 
national / education / press release Monday January 26, 2009 10:30 by Emma Beckett
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It is now crystal clear that the government will attempt to bring in some form of student fees (quite possibly from Sept 09). Batt O'Keeffe has indicated that he will bring such a proposal to the cabinet towards the start of April. Therefore, the building of a movement of students, linking up with college workers and school students, is essential if we want to defeat this plan and maintain a right to free fees. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Sunday January 25, 2009 15:38 by Bernie Wright
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ISPCA Fundraising is a very bizzare choice for a group that say they help animals.! The Alliance for Animal Rights is horrified to learn that the ISPCA are promoting and using DOG SLED TREKING IN NORWAY as a fundraiser in 2010. They describe the event as follows on their website without a word of concern for the Huskie dogs involved. The fact that these dogs who will have to work 8 hours daily in brutal icy conditions and travel 60 Kilometers is apparently of no concern to this animal charity. How could they even consider taking part in this, it is unbelieveable. Their website describes how gruelling it will be for the human participants but not for the ill-fated dogs. This fundraising idea is promoting the very thing they are raising the money to alleviate -animal suffering. read full story / add a comment
kildare / politics / elections / press release Saturday January 24, 2009 23:34 by Saorise
Statement by Athy Town Council Candidate and Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday January 24, 2009 21:36 by Garrett Mullan
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We are delighted to announce that the Show Racism the Red Card DVD education pack is now online for a limited time period for assessment. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Saturday January 24, 2009 18:09 by NAELFPO
CALLS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT “OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday January 21, 2009 23:26 by Ethiopian Women Human Rights Alliance
Prominent political leader's imprisonment attracts international condemnation read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 21, 2009 13:17 by Richard Walsh
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Three men have been detained in a cross-border operation targeting Republicans in Counties Monaghan and Fermanagh. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday January 20, 2009 20:16 by Eugene Mc Cartan
BAILING OUT THE RICH The National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland, at its first meeting of the new year on the 17th January , called on the labour movement to resist any and all attempts to place the burden of the growing economic crisis on the backs of workers, small businesses, family farmers, pensioners, the sick, and the youth. read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Tuesday January 20, 2009 09:33 by Mark C
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Every area of business is getting in on the act: targetting students, that captive audience of impressionables. In this latest attempt, AIB asks students to build a bank in their school, and of course AIB will give the students all the help they need. (Campaign for Comercial-Free Education (CCFE) does not think the banks are in the best position to be giving financial advice at the moment.) read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Saturday January 17, 2009 20:48 by RSF
Republican Sinn Fein call to 'Nationalise all banks' to be accountable to the Irish People. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday January 16, 2009 17:08 by Malachy Steenson
The Workers’ Party have demanded that the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan call in the Garda Fraud Squad to investigate the internal dealings of Anglo Irish Bank.The revelations of further loans to Directors totalling more than €179 million, which forced a reluctant minister to bring Anglo Irish Bank into state control, adds urgency to this demand read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Friday January 16, 2009 14:30 by Over The Edge
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Poems in response to the inauguration of Barack Obama by twenty different poets are now posted on the Over The Edge website at http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2008/11/p....html read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Thursday January 15, 2009 18:21 by Brian Guckian
A RADICAL, alternative development plan for the Old Dundrum Shopping Centre that would provide Dundrum with a much-needed new amenity and "green lung" is to move forward with a Public Workshop on the proposal to be held at Taney Parish Centre (Minor Hall), Dundrum, on Tuesday, January 27th at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday January 13, 2009 23:14 by Des Dalton
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The decision of the Tyrone Co Board to accept an invitation to bring the ‘Sam Maguire’ All-Ireland senior football trophy along with the minor All-Ireland football trophy the ‘Tommy Markham’cup to Stormont on February 6 was described by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton as “hijacking two symbols of the essential unity of the Irish nation”. Des Dalton is himself a member of the GAA. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday January 13, 2009 11:29 by Hadi Ghaemi
Government's Intolerance of Civil Society Voices Reveals Double Standards—and its exploitation of the Gaza tragedy. Plain clothes security agents attacked and disrupted a gathering organized by the Iranian nongovernmental group Mothers for Peace to protest ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip in front of the Palestinian embassy in Tehran on 11 January, the *International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran* reported today. Regular police forces present at the scene did not interfere and appear to have worked in tandem with the attackers. read full story / add a comment |
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