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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 03, 2009 11:48 by James O'Brien
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It’s the time of year where we plebs get a chance to rectify our impertinence in rejecting the Lisbon Treaty. In itself, rerunning the referendum is hardly an affront to democracy. After all, people are simply being asked to confirm the decision made read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 02, 2009 18:32 by Henry Silke
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Introduction Is the spectre of mass unemployment a permanent feature in post-boom Ireland? Ireland’s economic boom was predicated on a policy of low tax entry to the European free market as well as an unsustainable housing boom. The Irish state’s response to the global crisis seems to be deflationary policies in a ‘race to the bottom’ between peripheral and semi-peripheral economies. The weakness of indigenous Irish capitalism and the living costs in debt ridden Ireland do not leave much room for growth in private sector employment. The private sector has never been able to provide sustainable full employment in the history of the state. This article explores this thesis and maintains that workers should not depend on the private sector and its political servants to provide decent employment for all. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin
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Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:24 by Workers Solidarity
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The WSM is calling for a No vote in the 2nd Lisbon referendum on the grounds that people in Ireland can do a lot better than a choice between the clowns in the Dáil or those in Brussels. We oppose the EU's policies of privatisation, militarisation and attacks on workers' conditions but don’t insult people’s intelligence by saying that our current society in Ireland with its severe recession, diabolical public services and corruption is anything better. The major lack of democracy in our lives is not between us and the EU but between the Irish government and us. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:41 by Gregor Kerr
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Invitation to meeting Saturday 3rd Oct read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:38 by fotdmike
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Climate Campers protest at Shell in solidarity with the Rossport campaigners read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 11:36 by Reel Thing
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Coca-Cola likes to sponsor sport events to promote its brands. But with threatening to destroy 130 workplaces in distribution in Ireland, Coca-Cola Hellenic clearly has scored an own goal. SIPTU members visited the Irish Football Semi Finals Saturday August 30 to inform fans about the companies plan, threatening the livelihoods of the workers and their families amidst a deep recession. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / other press Monday August 31, 2009 15:53 by Carmel Diviney
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Ireland's second Feis Teamhra took place at the Hill of Tara yesterday. It is hoped that this event, a celebration of music and poetry will become an annual event. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / event notice Monday August 31, 2009 08:19 by left wing individual
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This is a call-out to all anti-Lisbon groups and individuals to come to Dublin on September 12 to rally outside the GPO and to distribute information about the dreaded European Constitution or Lisbon treaty. read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations / news report Monday August 31, 2009 04:17 by iosaf
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Medical authorities in Colombia have confirmed that president Uribe is currently infected with AH1N1 (or the dreaded swine flu). Colombian state press officer César Mauricio Velásquez told press that on return from the emergency summit called in Argentina to discuss new US bases to Colombia, Uribe suffered an exceptionally high fever and all the usual symptoms at which point they did the tests (& one presumes brewed up some chicken broth and ordered in some tamiflu). The Colombian state medical officer Juan Gonzalo López confirmed to press that the president is receiving clinical care at the presidential palace rather than in hospital. On a trivial point this of course makes him the second head of state in the world to contract Swine Flu. The first was the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias who caught the virus during his attempts to broker a settlement between the legitimate and usurpist regimes of Honduras earlier this summer. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday August 31, 2009 02:09 by Over The Edge
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Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, September 11th, 8pm. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Town House, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec & Maureen Ryan. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / event notice Sunday August 30, 2009 15:19 by Sharon.
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On Saturday , September 19 , 2009 , Republicans will hold a Rally in Dublin in support of republican prisoners . read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education / press release Sunday August 30, 2009 14:24 by Educate to be Free
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Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin's Saturday stall became the centre of a protest today against the latest attack by the Fianna Fail/Green Government against education. Over thirty activists gathered at the GPO to distribute leaflets explaining the cuts. According to Dublin spokesperson, Marcas Ó Mhaoldomhnaigh, many parents have been hit with bills costing hundreds of euro for books and school uniforms. "Many schools are set to lose special needs assistants and other vital resources. This government did not invest properly in the education system during the boom years and now we are seeing school children and their parents paying for their mistakes, it is completely unacceptable. Free primary education will truly be a thing of the past if we allow our schools to be further stripped of resources." read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday August 30, 2009 13:20 by Conor
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Meet at the gates of Stephans Green park/top of Grafton street, Friday 25 September at 6pm. read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / news report Sunday August 30, 2009 11:18 by Raymond Deane
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On Saturday 29th August, the indefatigable activist Tommy Donnellan of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) was arrested on the street in Galway while engaged in legitimate advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and against the Lisbon Treaty that will set in formaldehyde the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy that is so detrimental to that cause read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday August 30, 2009 03:49 by iosaf
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An excellent piece of investigative journalism from the German "Spiegel" magazine Martina Keller and Markus Grill has just been translated into English. It examines a US owned company which through its German subsidiary harvests human body parts (termed tissue) from dead Ukrainians. The illegal global trade in organ and tissue harvesting for so long associated in the public mind with the Chinese penal system and to a lesser extent the theft of organs from Indian peasants has not ended. Rather it has moved out of the gulags and slums into Wall Street trading on the cutting edge of medical treatment providers. The other side of Obama's health care, if you like. Inspired by the article (linked to in this text) I'd like to raise awareness about how the rich cheat the dead (if not death) & perhaps provoke thought amongst the agnostics, humanists, atheists amongst us about the moral value we place (if any) on dead bodies. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Saturday August 29, 2009 18:02 by Bernie Wright
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PANIC over Dog Breeding Regulations by those involved in Hunting and other blood sports. Apparently the blood sports fraternity encompassing shooters, fox hunters, hare coursers and Greyhound breeders are terrified of having their establishments checked by officials of the Dept of the Environment when the dog Breeding regulations are incorporated into legislation shortly.~The Hunting Association of Ireland can be heard saying the Minister is going to ‘hang hunting’. The AOHS would like to know what have these people got to hide. What have blood sports enthusiasts got hidden in their kennels? Why has panic been whipped up as a response to a simple bill that will make regulations to control Commercial Dog Breeding Establishments which are simply defined as any where that keeps five or more breeding female dogs. This will obviously include Hunt Kennels and others who breed dogs. Its simple! read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Saturday August 29, 2009 13:14 by Joe Higgins MEP
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The pro-Lisbon political parties do not need to raise funds for the 'Yes' to Lisbon campaign. Big business is directly funding their side of the debate. The announcement that Intel and Ryanair will spend hundreds of thousands of euro to try to achieve a Yes vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty represents an unconcealed attempt by big business to shape politics in its favour. Ryanair alone says it plans on spending over half a million Euro advertising for a pro-Lisbon vote, together with Intel that means up to a million Euro for a 'Yes' by only two private corporations. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday August 29, 2009 12:46 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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A series of five large oil paintings examining the daily existence of people making a living in the worst working conditions in the global economy. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / news report Saturday August 29, 2009 12:23 by TaraWatch
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The Irish Times reported on Friday, August 28 2009 that a 9,000 year old fishing trap was found in the Hill of Tara landscape at Clowanstown, near Dunsany, during excavations by the National Roads Authority (NRA), along the path of the M3 motorway. Settlement remains of agricultural, industrial and ritual nature were discovered amongst five man-made mounds, beside an ancient lake. Stone axes, jewellery and even a tiny wooden canoe were unearthed. The finds show once again that the Tara landscape masks an underground world of Irish pre-history, which should have been either left alone, or excavated as part of a proper research study, rather than as part of an archaeological salvage operation. read full story / add a comment |
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