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kildare / education / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 06, 2009 20:35 by W.Carney- FEE NUI Maynooth   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 09:11)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Reflections on the appointment of Bertie Ahern by the NUI Maynooth School of Business and Law. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 06, 2009 18:14 by Sean Clinton   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 07, 2009 09:26)   image 1 image
On Sunday evening Gardai in Irishtown confirmed that they had the previous day removed an IFPAL referendum sign from a pole close to the Israeli Embassy on Pembroke Road Dublin. The sign read:

Israel killed 300 Palestinian children in January
Yet the EU will not impose sanctions
EU policy facilitates Israeli genocide.
Vote No to Lisbon
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you can save even more money by telling your daughters to eschew tampons & house them in a tent!
national / education / other press Tuesday October 06, 2009 17:36 by o as if   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 07, 2009 13:48)   image 1 image
The parents of girls who attend St John's Girls' national school, in Carrigaline, County Cork, have been instructed by the school's principal, Catherine O'Neill to provide toilet paper for their daughters. It's one those stories which appeals to an international audience and especially the lurking anti-Irish sentiment still present in AngloSaxon media or perhaps if not anti-Irish, a sour sense of resentment that other English speaking peoples never got to enjoy 2 Lisbon Referenda or a jaunt on the pig's back of the Celtic Tiger.

Whatever the true classification of the story doing international commerical & state rounds today, msot readers will admit it illustrates a wee home truth. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday October 06, 2009 15:30 by PAT WALSH   text 43 comments (last - thursday april 15, 2010 19:05)   image 2 images
This is the first history of Ireland’s War on Turkey and explains why Britain really made war on the Ottoman Empire. It explains the reasons for the establishment of Palestine and Iraq and why the US was repelled from the League of Nations by the behaviour of the British Empire. It describes the rise of Ataturk and the successful Turkish War of Independence. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / other press Tuesday October 06, 2009 11:25 by Socialist Party   image 1 image
The Socialist Party's analysis of the Lisbon referendum result, titled: "Lisbon victory not endorsement for hated government" is now online.

A significant 2/1 majority, on a higher turnout, passed the Lisbon Treaty overturning the decision of June 2008. It is clear that the economic crisis served to shift opinion across the board to a yes vote because people felt that passing the Treaty might boost Ireland’s prospects for economic recovery.

Last year Lisbon was rejected because people feared the consequences of the changes it brings to the EU and because of a distrust of the political establishment. For a majority this time around the actual Treaty and its contents were secondary to the economic crisis.

Read it all at link below. read full story / add a comment
Leas-Aire Trevor Sargent TD (CG)
national / arts and media / news report Tuesday October 06, 2009 00:31 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 06, 2009 01:01)   image 3 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
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tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 05, 2009 21:59 by Justice for John Bady   text 11 comments (last - friday october 09, 2009 21:15)   image 7 images
There was a large turn out in Derry today outside Stand Road PSNI/RUC station following the suspicious death of Strabane political prisoner, John Brady. A white-line vigil gathered together many shades of republicanism represented, many held black flags. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 05, 2009 19:46 by publo   text 10 comments (last - thursday october 08, 2009 19:37)   image 8 images   video 1 video file   3 attached files
At midday today, Monday 5th October, a demonstration to protest the Palestinian Authority’s action in scuttling the Goldstone Report of the UN Human Rights Council’s Fact Finding Mission to Gaza was held in Ramallah. It had been called over the weekend by a collective of Palestinian civil society including political parties, development organisations, human rights NGOs, and concerned individuals. The demonstration was to give a voice on the streets to the increasing frustration and despair with the unrepresentative and deeply unpopular policies and practices of the Palestinian Authority. (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=229802 )

I'm unable to compress the photos to size now but will have a set up tomorrow. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday October 05, 2009 17:30 by P   text 1 comment (last - friday october 09, 2009 15:30)   image 1 image
The BBC have offered the BNP a platform on Question Time. The far-right BNP won 2 seats in the recent European elections. This party is attempting to develop a respectable image, but their core is out-right fascism. Their founder called Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ his ‘Bible’ and Nick Griffin, the current leader, regularly denied the Holocaust. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday October 05, 2009 17:28 by T. R. Eason   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 08, 2009 11:52)   image 2 images
Bertie Ahern will be signing copies of his new autobiography "I Won It On A Horse", at Eason, O'Connell Street, Dublin on Saturday, 10th of October 2009 at 3:00 PM. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / event notice Monday October 05, 2009 17:23 by T R Eason   text 14 comments (last - thursday october 15, 2009 02:08)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Bertie Ahern will launch his autobiography "I got away with it" at Eason, Donegall Place, Belfast
on Wednesday, October 7th at 2009 at 1 PM. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday October 05, 2009 16:37 by Dermo   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 08, 2009 15:17)   image 1 image
A crowd of about 100 people gathered to march down towards the gate of Marine Terminals Ltd. In anticipation of the march by the strikers and their supporters, the company had closed the gates. The march happened on the same day that polls were open for the Lisbon treaty, and a number of speakers at the gate made the point that this was the type of Europe we were getting thanks to Lisbon. read full story / add a comment
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kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Sunday October 04, 2009 00:33 by Republican Network for Unity Kildare   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 24, 2009 14:14)   image 1 image
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 03, 2009 15:44 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 03, 2009 21:59)   image 4 images   1 attached file
Today Saturday 3rd October, activists from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Irish Anti War Movement engaged in a leaflet blitz outside the Jervis Centre in Dublin. The campaigners were highlighting the presence of an Israeli stall in the Centre that is selling ‘beauty products’ from illegal Dead Sea settlement-colonies in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / press release Saturday October 03, 2009 15:28 by PLF   text 4 comments (last - monday october 05, 2009 17:03)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Youth Against Racism has organised a protest against the BBC's invitation to the far-right, racist BNP to participate in Question Time. The protest will take place at 5.30pm on Thursday 15th October outside BBC Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Saturday October 03, 2009 14:16 by Blazes Boylan   text 25 comments (last - sunday january 23, 2011 05:56)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
An ignored outcome of the Lisbon II referendum; a new role for Tony Blair, our next über-President. Move over Mary Mac, and be glad that he is a convert. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday October 03, 2009 09:33 by Tony Adams   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 06, 2010 13:27)   image 1 image
I am writing this article to draw attention to the fact that vegetable growers can no longer be sure that farmyard manure, (including horse manure), is safe to use. There have been huge problems since last year where contaminated manure has led to stunted and grossly deformed vegetables in thousands of gardens, allotments and farms across the UK and the US, and now Irish gardeners are starting to be affected too. Potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, carrots and salad vegetables are all vulnerable, and there have been reports of damage to onions, leeks, raspberries and even a newly-planted tree; though, worryingly, some vegetables such as courgettes appear unaffected when grown on the same contaminated manure.

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national / arts and media / news report Friday October 02, 2009 17:51 by Darren J. Prior / Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 22:20)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice

www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice

www.near.ie/podcast

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Members of the public vent their anger at Minister O'Cuiv
galway / miscellaneous / news report Friday October 02, 2009 16:31 by Shane F   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 17:05)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Eamon O'Cuiv's plans to shake babies and kiss hands the day before the Lisbon poll came undone following spirited debate with members of the public and anti-Lisbon campaigners. read full story / add a comment
Staff, volunteer and child from Jobstown CDP on the march Sept 30th
national / miscellaneous / feature Friday October 02, 2009 16:25 by Allen Meagher   text 13 comments (last - saturday october 17, 2009 16:08)   image 37 images
12,000-15,000 people marched through Dublin yesterday (September 30th) to protest at big cuts this year to community resources and the threat of massive further cuts.
The marchers are people living and working on the ground and they see the harm done, with worse to come.
"People live in communities, not economies," read one of the thousands of placards.
If there was a general theme running through the march, it was that people saw the Government as helping out ‘fatcats’ and developer friends at the expense of poor communities.
The next big COMMUNITY march - bringing in people from all over Munster – is due to be held in Limerick on November 5th (fifth).

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