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national / environment / feature Sunday December 06, 2009 01:57 by Kevin Doyle
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The Raybestos Manhattan Corporation moved to Ireland in the mid-70s. A campaign opposing their operations here began almost immediatly. It was a long and protracted struggle but eventually ended in victory. This article examines the campaign against the mulitnational and the lessons that can be learned from it today. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 17:22 by Fred Johnston
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A project top have three Irish-language poets give their impressions of Galway, sponsored by one of a series of awards from Bus Éireann and Foras Na Gaeilge is launched in Galway City Museum read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 09:46 by Social & Climate Justice Caravan
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In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland-Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action. Delegates from farming organisations, indigenous and fisher folk from the South denounced the greenwashing carried out by WWF in their respective countries. web: http://www.climatecaravan.org/ blog: http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/ climate caravan radio: http://radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4090 Social & Climate Justice Caravan -reader PDF: http://www.climatecaravan.org/images/Caravan_bulletin_0...9.pdf read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / news report Friday December 04, 2009 22:50 by Bernie Wright
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Dont buy items with feathers/duvets, jackets, hanging decorations, xmas decorations,....etc.. Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds’ skin, primarily on the chest area. These feathers are valued because they do not have any hard quills. Products labeled as “down” may contain a combination of these underfeathers and other feathers or fillers. While most down and feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese from breeders and ones bred for meat and those on foie gras farms may be live-plucked. , read full story / add a comment 
galway / environment / event notice Friday December 04, 2009 16:31 by Liamo
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Transition Galway meeting to organise local Transition events. All welcome. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday December 04, 2009 12:07 by The 'Old' De Dannan
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FORMER MEMBERS of the Irish trad supergroup De Dannan are joining forces once again for a charity concert in the Radisson Hotel on Thursday December 17 at 8pm. The concert will feature Alec Finn, Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, Eleanor Shanley, Jackie Daly, Andrew Murray, Derek Hickey, Mick Conneelly, John Carty, Brian McGrath, John Faulkner, Colm Murray, and Aidan Coffey. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday December 04, 2009 00:54 by eireanne
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Ireland is not alone in having its children abused psychologically, physically, emotionally and sexually by the catholic hierarchy. It is particularly unfortunate because Catholicism was so closely linked to politics north and south particularly after 1922 and the de Valera constitution in 1937. No matter how horrified everyone is at this litany of abuse, any criticism of the church leaves one open to Loyalist triumphalism and resentment from practising Catholics who are obviously smarting from the deception and hypocrisy. However some questions have to be asked. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora
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www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice www.nearpodcast.org www.near.ie read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday December 03, 2009 17:40 by Andrew
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The cancellation of today's strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 03, 2009 15:20 by Feudal castrato
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster . At the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins were released, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll - the official immediate death toll was 2,259, which rose greatly over time. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 15:08 by Fred Johnston
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The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:02 by Gerard Horgan
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After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone). read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:43 by Rudiger
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This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. read full story / add a comment 
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 10:58 by Andrew
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The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:40 by ARAN
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This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:36 by Over The Edge
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The December Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, December 17th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Gerry Galvin, Liam Duffy & Conor Mark Kavanagh. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 17:07 by C
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On Budget Day, 9th December members of Shell to Sea will hold a protest outside the Dáil to highlight the disgracefully giveaway of Irish oil & gas to foreign multinationals. The protest will start at 10 am and continue throughout the day. read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations / other press Tuesday December 01, 2009 16:48 by Iron age
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In these difficult times, many people have hoped for a sign from somewhere, showing that maybe, just maybe, everything will turn out okay. The news from Methuen, a samll town in Essex County, Massachusetts has come, but in the surprising form of a picture of the face of an historical figure on an item of closely associated with unpaid labour. The face of Karl Marx can certainly be made out, but what does it mean? read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 14:49 by Patrick
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From Channel 4’s The True Stories strand, which showcases the best of international feature length documentaries, continues with John Webster's funny film about climate change and how he and his family coped when they tried to give up using oil for a year. read full story / add a comment |
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