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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 24, 2008 21:17 by Paula Geraghty
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After 15,000 pensioners protest the budget cutbacks similar numbers of students demonstrate from Parnell Square to the Dáil. Gardaí blocked off Kildare Street in fear of student radicalism and occupation after the previous events in UCD, with horses and wagons. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday October 24, 2008 20:59 by Jason Brannigan
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The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK. Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series of protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI. Organise! are currently carrying out pickets of the four main political parties in the north. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday October 24, 2008 11:50 by a-films
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New short film on current developments in the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Camp. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday October 24, 2008 10:55 by Lauren Foley
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Lauren Foley, Justice for Justin Foley Campaign Managers' comment on the DPP's Reasons Project. Underscoring the perspective of the bereaved in the wake of fatalities in the workplace. Also, Justice for Justin Foley Campaign update. Justice for Justin Foley petition to the European Commission has been deemed admissible and is waiting to be tabled thanks to Kathy Sinnott MEP. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 23:25 by ggcork2008
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The next Grass Roots Gathering will take place in Cork on the weekend of the 14th, 15th and 16th of November. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 23, 2008 20:42 by Richard Whelan
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Medical Card Protest in Dublin A protest by mainly the elderly at the budgeted means-testing for medical card for the over-70s. Images copyright read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 14:20 by eif
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The RAG Collective are launching issue III of our fantastic magazine 'the Rag'. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 23, 2008 11:32 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí spokesperson Seán Mac Brádaigh has said that unionist scaremongering around next week’s demonstration against the British military parade in Belfast city centre undermines the right to peaceful protest. read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media / news report Thursday October 23, 2008 10:24 by Sean Crudden
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The venue in Ravensdale, Co Louth, is a little difficult to find on a dark Autumn evening. However the effort was very worthwhile. The small concert hall is fashioned on the first floor from an old stable. The lighting was dim and warm with the added touch of two candelabra on either side of the platform and I think there were flowers as well. There was seating for about 70 people and the room was almost full by the time the concert started at 8.00 p.m. last night. A glass of wine could be had at the interval. I opted for a cup of coffee in a different room and made the acquaintance of Patrick Barrow and his grandson William from Monasterboice. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 23:42 by D.Farrell
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Residents living close to a new apartment complex on Basin Lane in the south west inner city area of Dublin came together tonight(22 Oct 2008) to attend a public meeting organised by People Before Profit to discuss the health implications to the public posed by the installation of mobile phone masts in areas of dense population. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 23:31 by Paula Geraghty
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Over 15,000 took part in today's historic march of predominantly pensioners outside the Dail to keep the universal Medical Card for the over 70's. Because of their action, solidarity, resiliance, anger and refusal to give in everything will be much different in Ireland. Photoessay from this protest below. read full story / add a comment 
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 |
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