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national / arts and media / news report Sunday September 19, 2010 22:21 by Trade Union TV   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 23, 2010 15:05)   video 1 video file
Artists performed at Kildare Street to highlight low pay and the inability to organise because of the unjust Competition Act lunchtime 16th September 2010. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Saturday September 18, 2010 13:27 by Assembly for Solidarity
Responding to the Call for International Solidarity by the persecuted and rebellious comrades in Chile, we call on people around the world to express their solidarity and in Athens we invite a

Gathering of Solidarity
on Friday, September 24th at 5pm,
outside of the Chilean Embassy (Bas. Sofias 25)
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mayo / arts and media / news report Saturday September 18, 2010 10:41 by JM   text 1 comment (last - monday september 20, 2010 20:17)   image 1 image
The Mayo-based Connaught Telegraph weekly newspaper ran an on-line poll this week on the Corrib gas pipeline project, with unsurprising results. read full story / add a comment
Comh. Críona Ní Dhálaigh
dublin / arts and media / news report Friday September 17, 2010 19:52 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 2 images
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"What do you mean they're on OUR bus!?"
mayo / environment / news report Friday September 17, 2010 15:15 by jen debender and da ram   text 8 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 12:28)   image 7 images   video 1 video file
Representatives from Shell and their panel of expert witnesses were prevented from leaving the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing Thursday night by peaceful protesters. read full story / add a comment
An tAire Coimirce Sóisialaí Éamon Ó Cuív TD
international / arts and media / news report Wednesday September 15, 2010 23:23 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 4 images
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Getting the raw Cowen
national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday September 15, 2010 19:42 by Seán Ryan and Madam K   text 32 comments (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 11:44)   image 15 images   video 3 video files
A man of the people. Flawed yes. But a man of the people all the same. Some alcohol, some nudity and some public urination, we take to the streets with Brian Cowen to say sorry. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 14, 2010 22:44 by Lulu   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 15, 2010 00:25)   video 1 video file
The Bord Pleannala oral hearing saga continued today in Bellmullet at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, looking at the Compulsory Acquisition Orders of the present project application of the Shell Corrib Gas proposed estuary pipeline route, as well as various other aspects of the project. The various concerns raised by local objectors and the Rossport Solidarity Camp were not appeased by Shell's experts, and the question of whether the project was in 'the public interest' was once again raised by Mr Leo Mulrooney, Barrister for local land owners. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday September 14, 2010 06:46 by Ciaron O'Reilly/Plowshares   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2011 07:58)
When I left Australia in May 2010, the OZ military fatalities in Afghanistan stood at 11 over the previous 9 years. They have now doubled in the last few months including the death of an Irish born man from Carlow serving with the Australian SAS. Australian fatlities.....
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 13, 2010 19:06 by jen debender   text 4 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2010 14:26)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Local residents gathered at the Shell office in Belmullet early Monday morning to serve a Compulsory Acquisition Order (CAO) on Shell’s property and to prevent Shell workers from entering the building. read full story / add a comment
Trade union support
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday September 11, 2010 15:42 by Paul Hardy   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 12, 2010 20:20)   image 2 images
Trade union SIPTU, whose Health Division represents nurses, care assistants and support staff at Merlin Park Hospital In Galway, applauds the 500 people who marched from Merlin Park Hospital to Eyre Square today (September 11) read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Friday September 10, 2010 21:13 by RSC   text 4 comments (last - sunday september 12, 2010 20:16)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Last Wednesday protesters disrupted Shell's work as they moved one of their hideous drilling rigs into a shallow part of the SAC estuary, close to the Rossport solidarity camp. Protesters used kayaks to get to the rig which was flanked by fourteen boats of I-RMS security and Gardai. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Friday September 10, 2010 20:36 by Shell to Hell   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 16, 2010 12:08)   image 3 images
Whilst the Oral Hearing on Shell's pipeline route continues, the last few weeks have seen yet more successful actions against the borehole drilling in the Special Area of Conservation Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment
Comh. Andrew Montague
dublin / arts and media / news report Thursday September 09, 2010 19:50 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 5 images
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 09, 2010 10:36 by banbora   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 21, 2010 23:10)
Trade unions representing Irish construction workers called for a 7.5 % cut in their members’ wages after meeting in Dublin yesterday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 08, 2010 15:04 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 10 comments (last - thursday january 06, 2011 21:36)   image 3 images
A few months ago the Catholic Worker network in England decided to embark on a series of "Faith and Resistance Retreats" as a basis of nonviolently confronting the war & the war machine and deepening our broader sense of community beyond our specific projects & living/working situations. The first was timed to mark the 30th. anniversary of the original Plowshares 8 action and to nonviolently confront Britain's ongoing production and refinement of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston. read full story / add a comment
Basque Memory News
international / history and heritage / news report Wednesday September 08, 2010 15:00 by Ahaztuak   image 1 image   1 attached file
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday September 07, 2010 16:20 by Antonette   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 07, 2010 17:04)
Northern Irelands Consumer Council has been marched in to organise a series of ‘consultation’ meetings to mobilise the views of the ‘public’ about what cuts should to be made in public services.

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international / crime and justice / news report Tuesday September 07, 2010 05:23 by Paula Cummings
Mark Fabbro has been seeking justice from the Catholic Church for 14 years. He is travelling to London to find it. He was sadistically raped by a priest Fr Byrne at the age of 11 on school ground during school hours at a Jesuit School in Melbourne, Australia in 1971. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 07, 2010 04:12 by antifamonitor   image 1 image
In Naples, Italy, the first of May the police allows a group of fascists to approach the yearly “labour day’s demonstration”. The fascists starts right away provoking and threatening.
The comrades react and push them away. One fascist takes refuge in a shop, a fight bursts and he gets out of the shop bloody and wounded. read full story / add a comment
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