Upcoming Events

no events match your query!

New Events

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
The post Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
The post US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Misinterpretations of the Evolution of the United States (2/2), by Thierry Meyss... Tue Feb 04, 2025 06:59 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?118 Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:57 | en

offsite link 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:16 | en

offsite link Misinterpretations of US trends (1/2), by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 28, 2025 06:59 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en

Voltaire Network >>

national / animal rights / press release Monday June 30, 2008 22:25 by Bernie Wright   text 9 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2008 15:05)
The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) supports Care for the Wilds campaign opposing Tescos turtle sales.
We urge our supporters to Boycott Tesco shops here in Ireland.
CWI investigators who visited 32 Chinese Tesco stores in April and May discovered that staff do not adhere to Tesco's new slaughter
policies. In 12 stores where CWI witnessed slaughter firsthand, staff continued to kill turtles by decapitation alone or by evisceration.
CWI also found large numbers of disembowelled turtles with intact heads for sale.

read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday June 30, 2008 21:16 by Richard Walsh
Claims made by Martin McGuinness are laughable, said a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Monday June 30, 2008 04:28 by Danielle Ni Dhighe
The North American section of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement issue a statement to commemorate the 39th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday June 29, 2008 15:37 by Ploughshares   text 1 comment (last - friday july 04, 2008 03:17)
On Thursday, June 26, 2008, two Ploughshares activists were arrested inside SAAB Microwave in Sweden. Using blacksmith hammers, Ulla Roder and Per Herngren started to disarm military radar at SAAB Microwave's test range at Mölndal and planted fig trees in the area around the factory.

read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Saturday June 28, 2008 09:42 by Bernadette Barrett.Co-ordinator   text 5 comments (last - saturday june 28, 2008 22:35)
The young sow struggled for hours in the snare until a local lady became aware of her plight. When she contacted Badgerwatch it was late Saturday afternoon. The snare had pulled so tight that it had become embedded in the animal’s lower abdomen and across the groin areas. Loose earth in the vicinity demonstrated her struggle for freedom.. To add to her misery, the snare had actually been set on a ditch. The local conservation ranger was notified but he did not attend.
read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / press release Thursday June 26, 2008 08:58 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 26, 2008 15:32)
On 21st May 2008 at 6 a.m., heavily armed police officers from an elite unit stormed 21 homes and the offices of a number of non-governmental organisations in Austria. Breaking their way in, the masked police surrounded frightened civilians in their beds at gun point. Ten people were arrested and have been held in custody without specific charge since that day. Despite the statement by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior that "The measures taken by the police (.) were in no way directed against animal welfare or animal welfare organisations", the removal of computers, documents and other assets has effectively crippled some of the organisations involved. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / press release Wednesday June 25, 2008 15:14 by Laura Broxson
PRESS RELEASE - HUMAN RIGHTS SCANDAL IN AUSTRIA

Non-governmental organisations express concern about what may be a case of state repression of social activism.

On 21st May 2008 at 6 a.m., heavily armed police officers from an elite unit stormed 21 homes and the offices of a number of non-governmental organisations in Austria. Breaking their way in, the masked police surrounded frightened civilians in their beds at gun point. Ten people were arrested and have been held in custody without specific charge since that day. Despite the statement by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior that "The measures taken by the police (.) were in no way directed against animal welfare or animal welfare organisations", the removal of computers, documents and other assets has effectively crippled some of the
organisations involved. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday June 25, 2008 11:22 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 29, 2008 08:40)
Statement by the National Executive Committee, Communist Party of
Ireland

21 June 2008

The Lisbon Treaty is dead read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 20:10 by sdlpyouth   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 26, 2008 18:48)
SDLP Youth has called on Irish language television channels and radio stations to broadcast on the digital free-to-view platform in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 18:35 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 24, 2008 18:49)
Cllr Keith Martin has lodged an objection to the proposed Eircom mast at Killadoon, Louisburgh. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 18:32 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 25, 2008 23:51)
Cllr Keith Martin has called for the provision of allotments under the new Town Plan. The Labour councillor has made a submission that Westport Town Council acquire agricultural land for the purpose of providing allotments to citizens of the town to allow them to grow vegetables, fruits and flowers read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 17:54 by Cllr Keith Martin
Cllr Keith Martin has asked Labour's Spokesperson on Natural Resources, Liz McManus TD, to investigate the delay in a decision concerning Gold Mining in the vicinity of Croagh Patrick read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 16:11 by Malachy Steenson   text 14 comments (last - thursday june 26, 2008 09:52)
In a statement the Workers Party have called on the AG to move to proctect the sovereign position of the Irish people read full story / add a comment
It doesn't cost nothin'..
galway / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday June 24, 2008 09:05 by Volunteer (Youth)   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 24, 2008 11:07)   image 1 image
On Friday (June 20th) broadcaster Ray D’Arcy and over 80 staff from Google’s European headquarters in Dublin joined forces with the Galway based charity, the SpunOut.ie National Youth Website, in what is thought to be Ireland’s biggest ever ‘free hugs’ event.

The ‘Hugs for Health’ event was designed to raise awareness of SpunOut.ie and its role in supporting and empowering young people via the internet. The event saw popular broadcaster Ray D’Arcy join teams of huggers roaming around Grafton St. and St. Stephen’s Green with ‘Free Hugs’ banners, offering hugs to those who might feel like a Friday morning cuddle. The event was featured live on the Ray D’Arcy show on Today FM.
read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday June 23, 2008 18:49 by Dave Butler   text 5 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 03:32)
An Injunction has been granted by the High Court to prevent the Labour Court from varying the Registered Employment Agreement that is in force in the Electrical Contracting Industry until such time as its validity is proven. NECI claims the agreement is not valid as employer parties to the agreement represent only an estimated 10% of the employers in the industry. The proposed increase will cost each employer employing an electrician for 39 hour week, €71,062.24 per year .This includes Pension, PAYE/PRSI,Holiday pay. This cost does not include safety training, safety equipment or safety clothing being provided. read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston bearing gifts . . . .
galway / arts and media / press release Monday June 23, 2008 15:43 by Western Writers' Centre   image 1 image
Amid a festive atmosphere of face-painting, musicians, loadsa tourists and even some warm sunshine, free poems . . . . read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Monday June 23, 2008 15:29 by Admin   text 1 comment (last - monday june 23, 2008 15:48)
Last weekend’s downpours failed to dampen the spirits of the hundreds of people who gathered for the inaugural Galway summer solstice festival ‘Saoire na Sraide’. The festival, organised by Galway Community Arts, was designed to celebrate the longest day of the year and featured a street carnival, live music and street theatre and a range of children’s activities. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday June 23, 2008 00:26 by Labour Youth   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 28, 2008 22:57)
Labour's youngest local election candidate, Dermot Looney has joined with Cllr Eric Byrne to call for the voting age to be lowered to 16 for Local and European elections.
read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday June 22, 2008 17:52 by Archbishop Michael D Hynes OMD   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 25, 2008 14:11)   image 5 images
The 2009 workshop on Bullying is being planned for January 24th in The Strand Hotel Omeath Co Louth read full story / add a comment
Poems from Guantánamo - The Detainees Speak
galway / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday June 22, 2008 13:30 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Over The Edge in association with Amnesty International
presents the Galway launch of
'Poems from Guantánamo–The Detainees Speak' read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Gaeilge

IMC network

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy