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galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday December 17, 2007 21:58 by JohnC
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It has been announced that the Salthill Air Show for 2008 has been cancelled. Organisers attribute the cancellation to difficulties in raising commercial sponsorship, something they blame on the campaigning of the Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW). Potential business sponsors, evidently, do not wish to be associated with something as controversial as this air show. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 17, 2007 18:06 by Barry McColgan
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Ógra Shinn Féin held a demonstration outside the GPO in Dublin Saturday last in solidarity with the people of the Basque country, especially the leaders of Batasuna and SEGI, who have been recently arrested and sentenced to irrational jail terms, by the Spanish authorities. In response to this Ógra Shinn Féin working with the Dublin Basque committee mobilised onto the streets of Dublin to bring the issue to the public. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday December 17, 2007 16:35 by Over The Edge
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*World Poetry Slam Champion at Town Hall Theatre *North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam *Lunchtime with Billy Ramsell at Galway City Museum read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday December 17, 2007 12:30 by Socialist Youth
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Catastrophe faces our planet because of climate change. A whole number of studies, reports and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth have highlighted this fact. In February of this year, a report written by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that temperatures could rise as much as 6.4OC by the end of this century. Already climate change has resulted in the doubling of category four and five storms in the last 30 years, while arctic ice has thinned by 40% in the last 40 years. While climate change effects our planet as a whole, it is the world’s workers and poor who will bear the brunt. If major action is not taken to halt climate change then 600 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will go hungry from collapsing agriculture, 400 million more will be exposed to malaria and 200 million people will be forced to migrate due to rising sea levels, according to the United Nations Development Programme...... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 17, 2007 00:12 by Gregor Kerr
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Over 200 people packed into the Royal Dublin Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in early December for a public meeting on the topic ‘Democracy and Policing: How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people?’ read full story / add a comment |
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