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sligo / miscellaneous / news report Friday November 28, 2008 22:23 by Ray
 8 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 20:33)
In a new twist in the ongoing dispute between members and officials of Sligo Borough Council, that has resulted in no borough council meeting having been held for four weeks. It has emerged that more than ten staff have lodged formal complaints with management alleging bullying and harassment by a member of the council. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday November 28, 2008 18:01 by Peter
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I find it really fascinating that an individual that not so long ago embraced the cause for spanish patriotism has become a simbol of basque resistance and receives support from Sinn Fein. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday November 28, 2008 15:51 by Contaminated Crow
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Mainly waste this week read full story / add a comment
national / housing / news report Friday November 28, 2008 14:40 by Paul Bowman
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The official story is that the origins of the current crisis lie in the collapse of the US subprime mortgage market - i.e. poor people not paying their mortgages. Although this may have been the trigger event, it is not the real cause. The real cause lies in pyramids not houses. Specifically the enormous debt pyramid built up by the Western countries, particularly those following the Anglo-saxon economic model - which, unfortunately for us, includes Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 28, 2008 14:30 by Alan MacSimoin
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Big Business doesn’t like what’s happening in South America. The election of reforming governments in Peru and Ecuador might have been a bearable irritant but that Chavez guy in Venezuela has really got up their noses. In Bolivia sections of the local ruling class got so riled up that they tried to overthrow President Morales in September. The US ruling class, in collusion with local bosses, is trying to destabilise political and economic reforms. As they see it, too much is going to workers and peasants, and not enough into their own coffers. read full story / add a comment 
clare / politics / elections / news report Friday November 28, 2008 12:04 by Fine Girl
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Pat Breen, Fine Gael TD from Bunratty, showed that he's been listening to the lies about natural resources, and he believes them, when he spoke about Corrib in the Dáil. The sad thing is that his acceptance of the nonsense peddled by Shell and the Green Party means that instead of an opposition testing and challenging the government we have a docile and pointless group of placemen waiting for a chance to get into government simply to get a few things for their constituents and jobs for their friends. read full story / add a comment
kilkenny / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday November 28, 2008 11:28 by Bernie Wright
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The AOHS have contacted (Laura Keys) at the Kilkenny People newspaper who have confirmed that online opinion polls are open to mass voting by lobby groups. We alerted our supporters to the vote online but realise that as this poll is running for a week till Tuesday it means nothing in terms of real analysis. The votes in favour of ‘foxhunting being discontinued’ have fluctuated from over 80% in favour to just below 50% at other times. Its like a game show, excuse the pun, and the site itself easily allows repeat voting, it is readily open to abuse which makes it all irrelevant. The newspaper have now confirmed they are well aware of the mass-voting aspect. “For this reason I think it's pointless to participate in these "polls". They are totally unscientific, are easily rigged, and only really exist to drive traffic to the sites to boost their advertising revenue. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday November 28, 2008 00:37 by Richard Walsh
Support for measures contained within the so-called “Counter-Terrorism Bill” in Stormont by members of the Provisional party marks a new low for their morally bankrupt party, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said today. read full story / add a comment
cavan / miscellaneous / press release Thursday November 27, 2008 19:06 by Richard Walsh
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Claims by 26-County President Mary McAleese during a visit to an Orange Hall in County Cavan that it is possible to be both Irish and British are nonsensical, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin has said. read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Thursday November 27, 2008 18:44 by Clandestina
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Since 11 November 15 migrants in Chania, Crete, Greece, active members of the Crete Forum of Migrants, have been on hunger strike, demanding the legal status they are eligible for, fighting for dignity and equal rights, for them and their families, for all migrants within Fortress Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday November 27, 2008 17:39 by Richard Walsh
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The findings of the sub-committee charged with reviewing the future of the 26-County State within the EU is clearly designed to pave the way for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin said. read full story / add a comment
Why are "opposition" parties silent on corporation tax increases, instead of cutting public services
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday November 27, 2008 11:06 by party animal
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It was well known in political and media circles that drastic cuts in corporation would not be sustainable when the economy went into decline, however the 'spin' put out at the time was that these cuts in taxes paid by business would create greater profits and that this would mean almost full employment. Now that we know both the spin and the theory are nonsense what are the opposition parties saying? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 27, 2008 10:05 by Workers Solidarity
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The financial markets have taken a hammering. Speculators (that’s a rich person’s word for ‘gambler’) lost incredible sums of borrowed cash in bets on everything from mortgage values to the possible price of wheat in 2011. Banks who lent out far more money than they actually had needed governments to step in with billions to bail them out. In some countries the state took them over. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Thursday November 27, 2008 09:55 by J.Carax
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On October 22nd, in the biggest show of student strength in many years, over 15,000 third level students marched through the streets of Dublin. They were united in their opposition to the Budget’s 67% College Registration Fee increase and Minister for Education, Batt O’Keefe’s threat to bring back full college fees by September 2009. Last month, he announced that the return of fees would raise €530 million in revenue at a family income threshold of €120,000. To his embarrassment, he later had to admit that these figures were wrong and that in fact the maximum revenue would be only €130 million. read full story / add a comment
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 |
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