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mayo / environment / news report Monday June 27, 2005 20:43 by Terry
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The two platforms have digger arms which are cutting a passageway for the Shell-Statoil pipeline in the bay just before the beach where it is to hit land. The two barges collect the removed material and dump it just off Erris head. A previous visit by the things to the Bay, last year, resulted in considerable pollution and fish kills. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 27, 2005 16:46 by James R
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It’s telling, like some mammoth statement of the power of capital it opened up on a random Thursday in March. It lay hidden in hoarding for years, and then just appeared to occupy the landscape, dislocate and redefine the geography of Dundrum. It announced itself everywhere in the media, crowds of shoppers pushed their faces against the glass, and finally its doors swung open while they trampled each other in a rush to stores they’d marked out days in advance. 75, 000 people in the first day - taking some time off work, with or without the boss’s permission. The place looks like the future used to look in films from the 1960’s, conveyor belts drag you back and forth from floor to floor, as regular as an assembly line, while capsules of consumers shoot up and down. Dundrum Town Centre does not bode well for how our lives are being ordered for us. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2005 01:51 by iosaf very late at night.
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It has long been observed, that on Sunday the mass does different things. Some go to church, some return from clubs and sleep, some read a book, some do the gardening, some catch up with their kids, some eat a lot, some practise yoga, some Vote. It has long been valued that on their non-banking days people are pretty much the same as when they work, graft, toil and sweat. Except they have less money making opportunities. This facilitates their increased participation in their society as citizens and nationals of the Civilised World. It has long been observed that the mass on their non banking days readily absorb shite. This is why coups are most successful on the weekend, and elections as well. It is on your non-banking days that you are presented with the most filagree woven tissues of spirit and lie, ghost and truth. It is through weekend that we have considerable space in your head. In today's edition :- "being counted" read full story / add a comment |
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