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offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 10, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Lord Sumption: ?I?m Not Optimistic About the Future of Our Democracy? Sun Feb 09, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
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offsite link Tour Guides Told Not to Say ?Able-Bodied? As It ?Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes? Sun Feb 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Tourism quango VisitBritain is telling its staff to ditch the term 'able-bodied' because it's deemed "harmful" and use "non-disabled" instead.
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offsite link Charity Boss Cancelled for ?Islamophobia? Wins Legal Battle in Victory for Free Speech Sun Feb 09, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A Jewish charity boss who was cancelled for "Islamophobic" posts has just won a major court battle, getting his trustee ban overturned in a huge win for free speech and a major slap-down for the Charity Commission.
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offsite link Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Ha... Sun Feb 09, 2025 13:00 | Tony Edwards
One of the woke boondoggles USAID was funding was BBC Media Action, a pro-censorship lobby group. Now that Elon Musk has turned off the tap, will it go bust? asks ex-BBC science producer Tony Edwards.
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Edward Horgan outside Ennis Court after his case was dismissed
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday May 21, 2009 22:51 by John Lannon   text 7 comments (last - friday may 22, 2009 15:35)   image 1 image
A case brought by the state against human rights activist Edward Horgan as a result of his requests to have a suspected CIA rendition plane searched at Shannon was dismissed in Ennis yesterday (20th May). Judge Mangan, presiding over Shannon District Court, dismissed the case on the basis of legal arguments made by Mr Horgan’s defence council.
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dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 22:48 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dublin Euro Election Candidate, Joe Higgins has signed a pledge from the European Federation of Public Service Unions on defending public services and public sector workers. Joe stands fully in defence of workers rights and public services. Workers and our services should not be made pay for the crisis caused by neoliberal governments, big business and the rich. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 17:36 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Along with weekly Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 7.30 to 10pm.

See http://www.seomraspraoi.org for map directions.
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Marching Against the Education Cuts
national / education / feature Thursday May 21, 2009 15:17 by Mark C   text 3 comments (last - friday may 22, 2009 16:16)   image 1 image

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”

•  Principal, boys' secondary school, Leinster

The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into the effects that the cuts to education, announced in Budget 2008 (and reaffirmed with the April Budget of this year), will have. Most of these cuts will not become noticeable until the new school year, when it may be too late to have them reversed.

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Mark Hamilton
dublin / arts and media / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 14:36 by Lee Welch   text 1 comment (last - friday may 22, 2009 12:33)   image 2 images
FOUR Presents: Ghosts of Mars by Mark Hamilton

Curated by Leif Magne Tangen

Opening: Thursday 21 May 2009 6-9 pm
Exhibition continues from 22 May–18 July 2009 read full story / add a comment
Over The Edge in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 01:02 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Evening of Creative Non-fiction with American and Irish Writers at Galway City Library read full story / add a comment
June Gathering Poster
mayo / environment / news report Thursday May 21, 2009 00:35 by C & E & S   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 22:43)   image 4 images
The summer in Mayo is under way and it's set to be a busy one. Come and be part of the resistance. So long as the work continues we will continue to resist it. We need as much help as we can get from anyone willing to offer it, therefore we will do our best to keep people up to date on the ongoing events. Below is a report on the ongoing illegal works in Broadhaven Bay and on Glengad beach, the Annual Solidarity Camp June Bank holiday Gathering, May 29th to June 1st, the courts, Maura Harrington's jailing and the oral hearing.
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"little white dresses"
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 20, 2009 20:12 by ipsiphi   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 26, 2009 15:44)   image 3 images
This story comes without a summary. It is indeed such a lengthy story that it could deserve the soundtrack of the popular movie "never ending story".

& So are you invited to read the main text or simply skip an opinion with what might pass for analysis and simply peruse at the Irish commission into inquire into Child Abuse Executive Summary of May 2009 the gist of which is being read more than U2 lyrics throughout the catholic speaking world.
http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2009/childabusecommissi...x.pdf
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday May 20, 2009 18:38 by pat c   image 1 image
A Chester Beatty Library Lunchtime Lecture:Thursday 21 May 2009 at 1:10pm

Dr. Debra Diamond,Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday May 20, 2009 08:09 by Madam K   text 28 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 22:03)   image 7 images   video 1 video file
Two years after their arrests fourteen anti M3 activists finally had their cases heard .With charges ranging from public order, trespass, housing and miscellaneous, to assault ,Trim district court was booked exclusively to hear cases from May 11 through to 15 May .

By Wednesday May 13 all charges had been dismissed ,dismissed with merit in the assault case or withdrawn .

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday May 19, 2009 23:44 by hatboy   text 20 comments (last - thursday may 28, 2009 15:31)   image 31 images   5 attached files
On Saturday Afternoon, Galwegians and their friends from around the country and world, came together on newly renamed (by us), Anti-Shop Street, to take back our space from the capitalist, consumerist culture which has taken it over, with its bizarre ideas of a life dedicated to shopping, spending, buying and profit, so that we could share an experience of another world, where everything is free, people share and give food, fun, stuff and life, simply because they can and it just feels good! read full story / add a comment
Van blocked entering Mountjoy
dublin / environment / feature Tuesday May 19, 2009 19:24 by Andrew   text 37 comments (last - sunday may 24, 2009 01:28)   image 20 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
The long running struggle in Erris (Rossport) against Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on the local community has erupted in recent days with repeated local direct actions against the compound Shell are trying to construct. Meanwhile the state, at the behest of Shell, continues to press vindictive prosecutions against local activists. Back in March retired school teacher Maura Harrington for jailed for 30 days, today the state returned for another pound of flesh and she was sentenced to another 7-10 days in Mountjoy prison. At very short notice over 20 activists from Dublin Shell to Sea gathered at the prison gates and showed their outrage by blocking the entrance of the prison van containing Maura in to Mountjoy for about twenty minutes. read full story / add a comment
Poet Micheal O'Siadhail
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday May 19, 2009 17:04 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - friday july 24, 2009 14:03)   image 1 image
The Western Writers' Centre, Galway – Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlín Maude – in collaboration with Poetry Ireland, presents a reading by Micheal O'Siadhail commencing at 7 o’clock in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway on Thursday, July 23rd - read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday May 19, 2009 15:17 by Teresa hallow   image 1 image
Protest at Our lady's Children;s Hospital Crumlin Sat the 23rd of May
In responce to the HSE forcing hospital to make cut backs in front line services read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 18, 2009 10:15 by John Jefferies   image 1 image
A French Naval corvette is due in Cork Port next Friday lunchtime on a so-called courtesy visit. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / other press Monday May 18, 2009 00:56 by IT reader   text 13 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 21:22)   image 1 image
Does Peter Murtagh have a relationship with the PR department of Shell? Do Conor Lally's "security cources" wear blue uniforms? Why has no one been charged with the break in on the Shell compound where someone supposedly started a digger and tore down a fence? Did anyone take a picture of this attack? Why did the security guards run away? How is that the security guard with the injured arm has never been named nor photographed? read full story / add a comment
Vincennes' center detention in fire
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Sunday May 17, 2009 13:56 by comité de soutien aux inculpés de Vincennes   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 17, 2009 23:24)   image 1 image
Since the end of 2007, the detainees of Vincennes’ center detention of migrants (France), have ceaselessly struggle for their freedom. The 21th 2008, a Tunisian called Salem Essouli died because of a lack of medical care. Then a revolt blew up, and the bigger center in France was destroyed by fire. Eight persons are accused of this destruction, we still don't know when the trial will be. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday May 16, 2009 19:56 by TD   image 1 image
Irish woman Caoimhe Butterly, who spent this year in Gaza working with the Ambulance service is touring Ireland to give a first hand account of events there and to gather support for the 'HOPE FLEET' a flotilla of cargo boats returning to Gaza in June.

Caoimhe is the Free Gaza coordinator in Gaza and has close links with a number of developing grassroots projects in Gaza and who have ideas about links, partnerships that people/groups here can support and be involved with. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 16, 2009 19:31 by pat c   text 31 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2012 11:52)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
While the Taliban are certainly inficting misery on the people of Pakistan its important to remember that Obamas Drones are raining missiles on Northern Pakistan. Just like the missiles in Afghanistan these ones have a habit of hitting civilian targets. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday May 16, 2009 13:18 by Workers Solidarity Movement   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 16, 2009 13:35)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
On Saturday 9th May, the Belfast branch of the WSM held a public meeting at An Culturlann in West Belfast on ‘Can Direct Action achieve success’.

Contributions from former Visteon workers, Dessie McEnroe and Mark O’Hara on their participation in the occupation, building links with fellow workers and lessons learnt.

Here is a short report and audio recording from the discussions.
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