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limerick / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 22:22 by Jack
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Why is Hidden History hiding ? Last evening, Tuesday, 25th November, I flicked through the TV listings for something worthwhile to watch. I came across a docudrama on RTE one at 10.15 pm. It was entitled, ‘DEATH OR CANADA’. I switched on RTE one at 10.15 and discovered that the docudrama was actually another of those terrible Hidden History programmes. I was surprised to see that it was Hidden History and though it unusual that it was not advertised as so on the TV listings. I immediately checked last Saturday’s Irish Times TV guide. The programme was listed on RTE at 10.15pm under the title DEATH OR CANADA, no mention of Hidden History. On the top of the page under the heading, TV CHOICE by David O Dwyer I see a review of the docudrama, it reads as follows. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday November 26, 2008 20:33 by WSM
Worried about your job security ? Want to find out just where all our wealth went? Fancy learning more about practical resistance to this unjust system or market democracy? Want to meet up and maybe get involved with other people interested in reclaiming back our lives from the control of bosses and politicians? Then this is for you!!!! As part of the WSM Financial Education Campaign WSM hosts an open discussion. All welcome!! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday November 26, 2008 16:56 by brendan Butler
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WAR PROFITEERING GROUP TO BUY INTO BANK OF iRELAND read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday November 26, 2008 16:14 by k
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Teachers, parents, schoolkids and residents have ben moounting weekly protests at Fianna Fail government whip, Pat Carey's clinic in Finglas Village every Thursday at 6.30pm. Join us there read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 15:43 by Jim
After the death of Kennedy it seemed that everything was going wrong. Vietnam, Watergate, the race riots, the cultural chasm between young and old, rich and poor, the collapse of traditional family values and the explosion of drug culture and sexual license among an angry disillusioned generation of baby boomers who should have inherited the American Dream that the “greatest generation” including Kennedy had sacrificed so much for and the rise of nihilistic violence by Manson, the Weathermen, the slaughter at My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy himself who seemed to be the last of idealistic liberals left after the end of the war. All the problems seemed to have burst to the surface following the death of Kennedy when the hopes and dreams of millions of the young who had been brought up to believe in a safe rational world were shattered. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday November 26, 2008 14:06 by Paula Geraghty
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Over a hundred people gathered to register their opposition to the continuation of the Bin Tax by Dublin City Council read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / press release Wednesday November 26, 2008 13:50 by Fred Johnston
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The project was a major winner in the recent Bus Éireann and Foras na Gaeilge-sponsored Irish language project awards. The poets are Seosaimh Ó Guairim, Collette Nic Aodha and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 12:27 by Andy Storey
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This article looks at the EU intervention in Chad and argues that it is driven by the desire of the French government to shore up a dictator. The EU operation, which includes some 400 Irish troops, is essentially a fig leaf for the promotion of the foreign policy interests of the French state. The mainstream media ignores the geopolitical realities of this and other such interventions in Africa and thus ignores the potential negative consequences - for both Africans and Europeans. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:40 by Davy Carlin
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The Stormont administration is at a critical juncture, with the Executive not having met in several months. It seems an eternity since Paisley and McGuinness chuckled their way through meetings and joint events. Yet much of that public display of togetherness has little substance when it comes to real and beneficial change for working people or in dealing with the issues which have now re-surfaced and are the cause for the recent financial instability. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:25 by Workers Solidarity
“This Budget serves no vested interest. Rather, it provides an opportunity for us all to pull together and play our part according to our means so that we can secure the gains which have been the achievement of the men and women of this country. It is, a Cheann Comhairle, no less than a call to patriotic action.” With these words, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan concluded his Budget speech in the Dáil on Tuesday 21st October. Just a week later Lenihan and his colleagues were left in no doubt whatsoever what people thought of his ‘call to patriotic action’ read full story / add a comment |
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