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dublin / politics / elections / other press Sunday July 02, 2006 22:24 by Dublin Shell To Sea
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From the beginning, Shell to Sea has depended on support from the Socialist Workers Party, Sinn Féin, the Workers Solidarity Movement, the Greens, and other smaller groups, working together in a way that has been effective and efficient, all around the country. Links between various parties and groups have shown that the Left can work together cohesively. Shell to Sea has identified vulnerable TD's who will need transfers from other parties to get elected. Many politicians have fudged whether they support the scheme, implying that Shell's plans have no direct import for their constituents. News that voters in Dublin are to receive clear, concise and up to date information on the issue, bringing home the truth that the millions of euro profits from Ireland's natural gas reserves will go to big business rather than pay for improvements in services in health, education, and justice, will wake them up to the fact that they have to make public whether or not they think the "great gas giveaway" is such a good idea after all. The fact that the community in Erris are just as opposed to the plan for a giant refinery at Bellinaboy as they are to the pipeline itself, give the lie to the notion that simply re-routing the pipeline will be enough to placate protesters. The Shell to Sea Campaign says the whole scheme needs to be scrapped and the deal re-negotiated. Politicians who support this position should have no trouble making this clear. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 21:12 by Shell to Sea
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Politicians from several political ideologies gathered at the gates of Leinster House on Tuesday 27th June to meet campaigners from Dublin and Mayo who wished to draw attention to a new leaflet on the issue of the Corrib Gas scheme. Joe Higgins from the Socialist Party, Mary Lou McDonald and Arthur Morgan from Sinn Féin, and Dan Boyle, Eamonn Ryan and John Gormley from the Green Party, were joined by Independent TD Jerry Cowley as they met some of wives of men who were imprisoned last year for protesting against the government-backed scheme to install a dangerous, experimental pipeline scheme through a residential area in north west Mayo. Mary Corduff, Maureen McGrath and Caitlín Úi Sheighin travelled to Dublin from Rossport to give interviews and pose for pictures to raise the profile of the campaign's new leaflet, aimed at informing voters in next year's election of the facts surrounding the contentious Corrib scheme. Although Joe Costello of the Labour Party was also present, it's not clear whether Labour would allow work on Shell's project to continue in the event of a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday July 02, 2006 17:33 by James R
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Just after returning from watching Ken Loach's Palm D'or reaping drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley and like most feel slightly compelled to add one or two words to the flurry of type and hype that has accompanied the movies release on these shores. The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a typical Loach movie betraying many of the core techniques of his previous outtings. Again he relies on plunging a shallowly crafted personal relationship, this time between two brothers, into a set of tragic circumstances. These circumstances provide an emotional cover for his overly didactic political approach to popularising alternative historical mythologies that challenge the authors of a victors' history. This time the contested historicity is the rabid nationalism of the Irish text book, that sweeps aside socialist and labour based movements in the process of consolidation of the free state. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / housing / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 15:30 by richard whelan
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Residents say goodbye to life as they knew it in Fatima Mansions read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 15:27 by .
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An estimated 40,000 people attended! read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday July 01, 2006 20:40 by Zeal
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An agreement with a man who calls himself a lawyer accused of sexually abusing his daughter and being criminally negligent in providing the neccessities of life recieves over 11,000 hits on website and confirms the allegations by tacit consent. This simple achievable method provides all abused women and children with a new tool to expose and get confessions from abusive mates, corrupted police , court officers, social services officials and associates. As an irrefutable method of gaining confessions from mperpetrators it is highly recommended and is totally lawful as no one can interfere with your ability to privately contract and tell the truth. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 01, 2006 19:05 by Eif (text), Eif, P, and Aron (photos)
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Thursday was a busy day for many in the north-west of Mayo. The shock generated by last year’s jailing of five men for attempting to safeguard their families and assert their democracy has since mutated into a steadfast determination to oppose Shell’s undemocratic profit-generating, PR master-plan of a pipeline. But such hard work on the ground deserves a bit of a hoo-ha now and then, and Thursday’s activities provided both. read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday July 01, 2006 16:05 by Sean Crudden
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Is the curriculum at second level largely dated and irrelevant? Does the Leaving Certificate Exam serve any worthy educational purpose any longer? Has it, even, any practical benefit worth the considerable cost? read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 01, 2006 15:39 by John Lannon
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June 30th should have marked the end of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s transition government, and seen the start of a hopeful, democratic future. But instead it is a country where millions of people are still suffering at the hands of corrupt leadership and interference by foreign governments. Hundreds of Congolese and Irish people took to the streets of Dublin yesterday to highlight this, and to draw attention to the appalling human rights abuses in the country. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday July 01, 2006 14:32 by Noise Hacker
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday July 01, 2006 12:41 by jac
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Alternative Peace Rally as opposed to Weapons Of Mass Destruction Display, Nimmo's Pier, Galway June 25th 2006! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday June 30, 2006 18:10 by Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 30, 2006 17:30 by Revolt Video
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“Shell, Statoil and Marathon, supported by the Irish State, is proposing to build a dangerous, experimental raw gas pipeline and gas refinery in northwest Ireland. But they are being resisted………” read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / feature Friday June 30, 2006 16:46 by pat c
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An Irish based Maoist and member of World Peoples Resistance Movement recently visited Nepal as part of an International Brigade to construct roads in the Rebel Maoist held areas of Nepal. As well as observing the protests in the cities and villages as he made his way to the Red areas he also worked alongside rebel soldiers, farmers and workers on the Martyrs Road. My interview with him is below, here are some excerpts. Photos to follow pat c read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday June 30, 2006 13:08 by Joe
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Just over 150 people marched down to HMS Ocean to protest the presence of this British warship which was involved in the invasion of Iraq in Dublin port. Although some will be disappointed with this turnout in reality it was a significant number for a wet mid week demonstration. Also on the positive side there was a real effort to overcome some of the divisions that have characterised the anti-war movement. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / other press Friday June 30, 2006 10:33 by Niall Meehan
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"Practically all commanders and intelligence officers considered that 90 per cent of the people were Sinn Féiners or sympathisers with Sinn Féin, and that all Sinn Féiners were murderers or sympathisers with murder. Judged by English standards, the Irish are a difficult and unsatisfactory people. Their civilisation is different and in many ways lower than that of the English. They are entirely lacking in the Englishman's respect for truth . . . Many were of a degenerate type and their methods of waging war were in the most case barbarous, influenced by hatred and devoid of courage." British intelligence assessment of the Irish People from The Record of the Rebellion Steven King's review of 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' contains many contentious allegations. Perhaps the most extreme is that "many a Cork Protestant was murdered in pure sectarian reprisals" during the War of Independence. King attempts to portray in Cork a mirror opposite of the sectarian cauldron created by Unionism in the North of Ireland. This depiction could not be further from the truth. Evidence suggests that Protestants lived more in fear of Crown Forces reprisal than of IRA action. This was true of Protestant unionists as well as Protestant nationalists. In July 1920 Mr J.W. Biggs, a wealthy Unionist, wrote: "I feel it my duty to protest very strongly against this unfounded slander (of intolerance on the part) of our Catholic neighbours ... I have been resident in Bantry for 43 years, during 33 of which I have been engaged in business, and I have received the greatest kindness, courtesy, and support from all classes and creeds in the country". Some days after publication of these remarks Mr Biggs' business premises, valued at £20,000, were burnt down by the RIC. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday June 30, 2006 00:53 by Mubarak
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HMS Ocean Protest read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / news report Thursday June 29, 2006 18:35 by [email protected]
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Irish musicians, writers and artists are working with TaraWatch to release an album, entitled 'Tara of the Kings'. The title is taken from the poem by Irish poet Paul Mulddon, which appeared in the Irish Times on Saturday Sat Jun 24, 2006. For other artists who wish to join in on the album auditions take place at Dice Bar every Tuesday night. It is located at the corner of Queen & Benburb Streets, in Smithfiled, Dublin. Contact [email protected] 087-132-3365 read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday June 29, 2006 17:59 by [email protected]
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TaraWatch is calling on all concerned parties to join them in protest over the failure of the Government to protect the Hill of Tara from the M3 motorway and subsequent development. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Thursday June 29, 2006 17:42 by [email protected]
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The setting of a hearing date in the Hill of Tara / M3 motorway case was postponed today by the Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. Justice John Murray. He said he will set a hearing date after written submissions were received by Respondents, The Attorney General, The Minister for the Environment, Meath County Council, and the National Roads Authority, due on 24th July. read full story / add a comment |
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