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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 18:43 by NMI
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Between ten and twelve thousand people turned out in bright sunshine today to demonstrate against the Green Party/Fainna Fáil plan to impose fees for third level education. FF Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe called for consideration of re-imposition of fees earlier this year, and "registration fees" were massively increased in the recent budget. He has signalled that he intends to introduce legislation on third level fees in the new year. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 17:25 by Grupo Raíces
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Around 30 people met last Thursday 16th of October at the very heart of Dublin, the GPO, to stage a demo in solidarity with the Colombian popular and indigenous organisations in struggle for various demands, who have been met with full force by the repressive and dictatorial regime of Álvaro Uribe Vélez. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 23:55 by Ciaran
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Novartis are Swiss based with offices all over the world. This company is one of Huntingdon's biggest customers and have used them hundreds of times. Monday the 27th of October is being dedicated to this notorious HLS customer. Demo from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock at Regus House read full story / add a comment 
kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 21:11 by sean moraghan
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Charlie McGreevy having introduced Medical Cards as an automatic right for the over 70s in 2001 in an attempt by Fianna Fail to win support at the upcoming General Election, another Fianna Fail Minister for Finance, Brian Lenehan, then proposed taking away this automatic right and reintroducing a means test. Anyone with an income in access of e241.00 per week was to lose their Medical Card. That meant people over seventy who had worked and paid taxes all their lives and may have had a small occupational pension would have lost their medical cards. It was a disgrace. All this is in an effort to save e100 million! Yet the same Minister for finance had no problem providing a guarantee to the banks of almost e500 billion! Northern Ireland, which experienced nothing like the wealth that occurred in the Republic of Ireland during the years of the Celtic Tiger, is about to introduce free medical prescriptions for all, but then, they enjoy universal free health care. read full story / add a comment 
offaly / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 16:34 by Pat Muldowney
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The Aubane Historical Society Cordially invites you to the launch by Senator Pat Moylan of Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions By Paddy Heaney, Pat Muldowney, Philip O’Connor, Dr Brian P Murphy, and others On Thursday, 6th November, at 8pm, in Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 16:24 by Fred Johnston
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Does a pilot of a rescue helicopter have nine lives? Author of 'Nine Lives,' the recent book of his time in a Search and Rescue helicopter, David Courtney will read from his work for the Western Writers' Centre at The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, on Thursday, November 6th at 8pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment 
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday October 21, 2008 12:34 by Airport Worker
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SIPTU members at Galway Airport have voted decisively for industrial action because of the airport management’s decision to impose cuts to workers's hours rather than work through the normal industrial relations process. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 21, 2008 10:17 by Stuart Williams
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A World Poverty Commemorative Stone, crafted by Irish artist Stuart McGrath, was unveiled on Custom House Quay during this year’s commemoration to mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The work is a collaborative effort undertaken by The 17th October Group, (a coalition of over 25 anti-poverty community groups and NGOs) and Dublin City Council and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. This year events also took place in Arklow, Thurles, Shannon, Westport, Tipperary Town, Rosmuc, Letterkenny, Blanchardstown, and Belfast. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 20, 2008 18:50 by Paula Geraghty
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People before profit organised a picket of Michael Mulcahy's constituency clinic in the Liberties from which he was absent. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 15:59 by Shell to Sea
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Shell to Sea are holding a party for Maura Harrington and the fishermen - Pat, Johnathan & Kevin - who stood up to Shell. It will take place in McGraths, Pollathomais on Saturday 25th of October from around 10pm. Music will be by Tony Cawley and Chantelle Padden All welcome for a great night of craic agus ceol. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday October 20, 2008 12:25 by Vince
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On the afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by a sniper as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. That infamous weekend was the beginning of 24 hour saturation television news coverage, the moment when the post-war generation of baby boomers received their first initiation of the brutal underbelly beneath the American dream, it was the beginning of the political drama of the 1960’s that almost tore the US apart as the lid was lifted on America’s unease with its superpower status, the divide between rich and poor and the cancer of racial injustice. It is a drama that is unresolved and still poisons American society today. As a new young energetic African-American President appears to have the White House within his reach, it appears there is a chance that the festering wound opened in 1963 may finally be closed. Or maybe not. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 12:08 by [email protected]
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louth / environment / news report Monday October 20, 2008 10:49 by Sean Crudden
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Cooley Environmental and Health Group has for the last half dozen years or so adopted The Strand Hotel, Omeath, Co Louth, as a center for its varied program of activities. Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD has been secretary of the group over all that period. He now is also acting as PRO for the group. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 23:11 by Oisín Mac Gall
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Supporters of Iban Apaolaza Sancho on Friday 17th in Dublin's O'Connell Street, staged Spanish police torture enactment to protest Canadian deportation of the Basque refugee to Spanish police custody on an arrest warrant based on testimony given under torture. Their action was part of an international effort, with other interventions in the Basque Country, Montreál, Beirut and London. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 22:33 by Séamas
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An event organised by the North West Solidarity Network took place in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitirm has been hailed a major success and as the start of a series of activities and actions planned for the coming months and years. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 15:13 by Des Derwin
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The Dublin Council of Trade Unions and the Public Health Service Campaign offer their support for the read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 11:15 by John Jefferies
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For the second time in just over a month Cork Port has been visited by a warship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in breach of Irish neutrality. read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday October 18, 2008 18:40 by Goretti Horgan
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The point of the protests in Belfast, Derry and Lisburn was to symbolise the 40 women a week who leave the North to travel to Britain or Europe to seek abortions read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday October 18, 2008 16:38 by John Jefferies
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Several thousand people took part in a protest on St. Patrick's Bridge in Cork this afternoon to demonstrate against the Fianna Fáil / Green / PD parties budget decision to axe automatic entitlement to medical cards for over 70 year olds. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Saturday October 18, 2008 10:54 by Bernie Wright
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13 million for Greyhound Industry while the old suffer more hardship The IGB is and has been in receipt of Irish taxpayers funds through the Department of Finance's exchequer since 2001. Horse and Greyhound racing has been awarded these funds through the Horse & Greyhound fund which totalled 75million last year, of which the Greyhound sector received 13 million in this budget.( Of course BIFFO has been a regular visitor to the tracks) read full story / add a comment |
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