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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday January 09, 2011 15:37 by Eric   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 13:14)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Documentary-maker John Pilger has returned to a subject that can't be revived often enough: the grotesque untruth of "weapons of mass destruction": a cloudy concept, eagerly amplified and lent credibility by credulous and submissive journalists who, after 9/11, lost their nerve en masse.
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Gardai Condemned
international / crime and justice / news report Saturday January 08, 2011 20:19 by Rebels YELL   text 3 comments (last - monday january 10, 2011 12:52)   image 1 image
For several years now under the arrangements of the peace agreement in Ireland, the British intelligence service MI5, with its 500 strong agents in both its €35 million Hollywood headquarters in British Occupied Ireland and its subordinates in Dublin Castle, have run an army of spies, the PSNI and the Gardai in the South to police all of Ireland. Despite organizing several no warning car bombs, during the course of the troubles from Dublin to Belfast, that have murdered hundreds of people. They do so with the blessing of almost all of Ireland's politicians, from the three major parties in the south. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 08, 2011 18:29 by A.K. GENT   text 6 comments (last - monday january 17, 2011 04:17)   image 2 images
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 07, 2011 17:58 by The Outsider   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 08, 2011 16:53)   image 1 image   video 1 video file

Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.

Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus - Author of the Outsider

Ireland is presently in many ways at a crossroads. Its youth now generally face economic slavery, to the international corporations and bankers or emigration. They are also at a crossroads of either embracing a peace process or another attempt at revolution. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / education / event notice Thursday January 06, 2011 22:04 by Róisín   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The newly established Northern Ireland Student Assembly (NISA) has called for a second protest at Belfast City for people to unite in the fight against tuition fee rises and cuts in EMA in the North. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday January 06, 2011 21:07 by Rebels YELL   text 13 comments (last - tuesday october 11, 2011 08:56)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
According to a recent Guardian article, gombeen Irish politicians from Fiannna Fail, Fine Gael & Labour have secretly agreed a common marine border, in which the Irish island of Rockall, has been ceeded to the British by these corrupt Irish politicians. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 06, 2011 20:40 by The Oh-Aissieux   image 1 image
One of the most innovative professional storytellers in Ireland invites you to learn the secrets of un-writing the traditional tale in preparation for live peformance.
Dublin Shambhala Centre, 19 Herbert Street, Dublin 2.
Saturday 8 January from 11am to 4pm. Donations welcome. read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 05, 2011 20:42 by anarkitty   image 1 image
at 8pm on Tuesday 18th January in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Cork. read full story / add a comment
One of Tara's Ancestors wrenched from the Sacred Burial Grounds at Tara. NRA photo
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 05, 2011 16:36 by Carmel Diviney   text 9 comments (last - monday january 10, 2011 15:56)   image 1 image
Especially for the cynics... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday January 05, 2011 13:29 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 00:32)   image 17 images
Despite the snow, the Cabhair annual swim took place on December 25th at the third lock on the Grand Canal. read full story / add a comment
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international / politics / elections / news report Wednesday January 05, 2011 06:11 by Rebels YELL   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The bulk of the banksters money went to Fianna Fail for several election but the bulk of the corporate muck money, now flows from party to party, which includes Fine Gael and Labour. Either way the same targets are achieved, bigger profits for corporations. The sums of money thrown at these Irish politicians, particularly Fine Gael for the next election are mind boggling even by gombeen Fianna Fail standards.  read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 04, 2011 17:25 by Kev   image 1 image
Would you like to come along to the next Dublin branch meeting of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign?

The next meeting is at Thursday 06/01/2011 at 7.30pm.

Held upstairs in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St. Dublin 2.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday January 03, 2011 18:32 by Rebels YELL   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 04, 2011 07:51)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Over a million Irish people will experience cuts from today to social welfare and child benefit payments, as the Government bails out fraudulent bank's offshore bondholders, with billions in Budget 2011 cutbacks. More than a million jobseekers, disability, lone parents, carers, disability recipients, the ill, parents and maternity or adoptive benefits will be cut as of today in their weekly payments. read full story / add a comment
Corporate Fascism
international / politics / elections / news report Saturday January 01, 2011 18:46 by Rebels YELL   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 01, 2011 19:12)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Fine Gael the main opposition party in the Irish state, is already flush with corporate and bankster muck money, well over €2 million, already, with just some of it coming in from its own gambling sources.Their long time partners with the dubious and misleading title of 'Labour' have already, more than a million, with big contributions also rolling in, via., the fat cat corrupt front of fake trade union leadership, along with the corporations and banks. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday January 01, 2011 16:38 by ANZUS Plowshares   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 02, 2011 23:26)   image 2 images

1) ANZUS PLOWSHARES introduction, action/description
2) ANZUS PLOWSHARES/B52 Disarmament, Statement of Faith
3) Sue & Bill Frankel- Streit Reflections New Year’s Day 2011
4) Ciaron O’Reilly and Moana Cole Reflections New Year’s Day 2011
5) ANZUS Plowshare community member’s links
6) Youtube (15 mins) honouring the Plowshares communities of the last 30 years

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Jawaher Abu Rahmah before succumbing to severe tear gas poisoning at last Friday's protest in Bil'in
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 01, 2011 13:38 by TD   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 09, 2011 12:01)   image 6 images   video 6 video files
All last night, doctors at a Ramallah hospital fought for the life of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, but, sadly, they fought in vain as they were unable to save her from the toxic effects of tear gas poisoning inhaled at last Friday's peaceful protest against that crime against humanity on the outskirts of Bil'in; the Apartheid-Annexation Wall. read full story / add a comment
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wicklow / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday January 01, 2011 13:20 by Kruk   image 1 image
The film depicts the historic protest in 1999, as thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999. The World Trade Organization is considered by protesters to contribute to widening the socioeconomic gap between the rich and the poor while it claims to be fixing it and increasing world hunger, disease and death. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 31, 2010 19:04 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY sends New Year greetings to Irish Political prisoners and their families.

Mr. McBrearty expressed; “Solidarity with all Republican Parties and groups who share our common commitment to a re-united Ireland and our common analysis that the Stormont administration is not a transition to our objective but a British imperialist trap to prevent us from achieving it.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 31, 2010 16:37 by Media Team   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 18:46)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
On New Year's Eve the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held their annual event in remembrance of the victim's of Israel's 2008/09 massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza. People gathered for an hour on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin and decked the area with colourful flags and banners, and handed out leaflets to curious passersby. read full story / add a comment
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international / education / opinion/analysis Friday December 31, 2010 11:56 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - monday january 03, 2011 16:10)   image 1 image
We all learn a lot of rules and regualtions and make an effort to abide by the rules. We know that rules are necessary to understand in order to play the game. But often we suspect that the rules are somone else's rules and not really to our advantage. Some people do the honourable thing and just break the rules; others circumvent, subvert, bend, bend, twist, exploit the rules read full story / add a comment
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