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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 25, 2007 22:22 by Joe King
 12 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 11:28)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 25, 2007 16:02 by Catalan Solidarity
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Members of the Catalan Solidarity:Ireland Committee gathered at ‘Free Derry Corner’ in Derry’s Bogside as part of a day of international solidarity action in conjunction with widespread protests and demonstrations throughout the Catalan Countries. This year mark’s the 300th anniversary of the occupation of the Catalan Countries by the Spanish forces of occupation following the battle of Almansa in 1707. During today’s solidarity action the Catalan flag (Estelada) was raised on Free Derry Wall as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to the Catalan people as part the ‘300 years of occupation- 300 years of resistance’ campaign. As part of the event protesters wore white masks on which the Spanish Flag was placed over their mouths, symbolizing the continual denial of the rights such as self-determination and sovereignty of the Catalan people as a nation. Following the event at Free Derry Corner protesters distributed information leaflets in Derry's city centre. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / news report Wednesday April 25, 2007 10:43 by C Murray
31 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 17:59) 2 images
This has been covered on the Newswire, but I will repeat it with a link
Last night Dail Eireann passed the Criminal Justice Bill, which erodes
accepted rights of Silence and which barristers objected to on the Basis
of civil rights abuses. FG and Labour abstained. Sf and Green Voted against. The vote passed 62/11. We do not live in a democracy. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81005 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 25, 2007 10:28 by LM
11 comments (last - saturday august 06, 2011 19:40)
Thomas Kennedy, an elderly Tipperary farmer is still in jail after over 40 days. He was put in jail for contempt of court by Justice Olive Buttimer when he insisted on reading his own sworn affidavit from the witness box. He has written records of the purchase of the farm from his late brother yet the court refuses to allow his evidence to be heard and sent him to jail. He refuses to be removed from his farm and therefore cannot purge the contempt. He needs the light of publicity to protect him. This is the role of Indymedia. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday April 25, 2007 02:49 by Eve
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A report on the first week of the EPA's oral hearing on the granting of the IPPC (integrated pollution prevention and control) licence for the Corrib gas refinery at Bellanaboy. read full story / add a comment |
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