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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday January 10, 2008 21:38 by Without Borders
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European coverage of the arrest of the two Journalists in Niger on December the 17th indicate that the French are not best pleased with Sarkozy's manner in handling the Niger crisis. Thomas Dandois is a freelance working with a Franco-German publication called 'Arte', and Pierre Cresson is a cameraman, they were arrested for talking with Tuareg rebels and the sentence for so doing is punishable by death. Reporters Sans Frontiers. London Independent UK Liberation. Le Monde are calling for the Freedom of the Journalists. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 17:09 by Over The Edge
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The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ of 2008 takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, January 24th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Peter Guy, Jenny McCudden & Pat Boran. The reading is sponsored by Poetry Ireland. This is a very special occasion as it is now exactly five years since Over The Edge was born in Galway City Library in January 2003. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / other press Thursday January 10, 2008 12:18 by neighbourly
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Despite the cost of building them, the delay in bringing them online, the cost of cleaning up the old ones, the cost of disposing of all the waste so far, the need to invest in carbon capture or at least print up colourful brochures for the next generation on climate change, the general un-Scottishness of a post-nuclear "chernobyl style" disaster UK (most of Scottish people & many Welsh ones too would peel & die) the government of the UK has decided to approve new nuclear power plants. Because of the Scottish thing, their PM AlexSalmond has gone radge & insists not a single nuke will be build the Caledonian side of the border. Nobody remembers the name of the Welsh PM so all attention is on the Taoiseach to say something rousing. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 11:33 by Old Head
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Last year, in January 2007 a group of brave souls undertook to clim part of the Galtee Mountains to raise funds for a key court challenge with regard to the blocking of public access at the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork. This year, as the case approaches a hearing in the High Court, funds are badly needed and we need more hardy folks to take to the mountains again. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 10, 2008 10:26 by C Murray
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This is a short opinion and analysis based in an article written in December 2006 regarding the Press laws introduced by the then Minister for Justice, Michael Mc Dowell. He published a Bill entitled 'The Privacy and Defamation Bill 2006'. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78780 The Bill did not get legislated for in the form introduced and the 'Defamation 'section was 'shelved'. Last night at the Launch of the Press Council of Ireland, current Justice Minister , Brian Leninhan TD threatened the re-introduction of the defamation section , which had garnered international criticism. read full story / add a comment |
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