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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 23:01 by Saoirse
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Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster house today demanding the release of IRA prisoners. The protest was made up of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin activists. Some of Sinn Féin's TD's where also present showing their support for the campaign. 8 years following the GFA and 1 year following the IRA's decision to call an end to its armed campaign, there is no reason why IRA prisoners should still be in jail. read full story / add a comment
international / housing / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 22:45 by Cablefish & Presz
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Coverage of Thursday’s events. The most recent news first. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 14, 2006 21:47 by Australians for David Hicks to come Home
On 9 December 2006, David Hicks marked 5 years in the American Concentration Camp at Guantanamo Bay without a trial. Abandoned by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and left to rot. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 14, 2006 14:36 by Libertarian Socialist
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Anthony Campbell, a 20-year-old apprentice plumber who lived in block F of the flats, at St Michan's House flats complex, near the Four Courts in Dublin was gunned down as he went about his work in a house at Scribblestown Park, Finglas, north Dublin yesterday morning. As he left for work yesterday, he would have had no idea that he was about to become the latest victim of a violent feud in the criminal underworld he would only have read about in newspapers. Such was the swift, indiscriminate and chilling nature of the attack that he probably never realised why he was being killed. The cruel twist of circumstance that led to his death saw him shot in the house of a relative of a major crime boss because he would have been a witness to the killing of that criminal. Gardaí said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 13:51 by Labour Youth
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History is been made to day with a Labour Party Bill which is proposing full equality for same sex couples. Today the Bill which has been launched by the Labour Party will pass its first stage in the Dáil - this will be the first bill ever published in Ireland removing all discrimination from same sex couples. read full story / add a comment |
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