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national / environment / other press Friday January 27, 2006 15:42 by freek   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 07, 2006 21:39)
The proposed five-year "field trial" experiment would take place from April 2006 to October 2010.

The plan is to grow potatoes which are resistant to blight and won't have to be sprayed with large quantities of pesticides.

The last time a company, Monsanto, carried out genetically modified (GM) sugar beet trials in Wexford and Cork it sparked a wave of protests and sabotage.

The EPA says it will consider any submissions made to it within the next 28 days about risks to human health and the environment by the release of the GM potatoes.

It appears that no environmental or health impact studies are planned. Following a public announcement in the Irish Independent on 26 January 2006, the deadline for related public submissions to the EPA is 5pm on 22 February 2006.





http://www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.net/papers/article.php?sid=8495 read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday January 27, 2006 14:42 by Seán Ryan   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 29, 2006 12:40)
An expose on our justice system, that examines, our court system, our laws, drug laws and points to a system that exercises authority only, not justice. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday January 27, 2006 10:50 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - friday march 24, 2006 16:52)
The members of the association of mothers of the disappeared "plaza Mayo" of Argentina held their last march of resistance yesterday.

In a statement to press their president Hebe de Bonafini, affirmed :-

"We no longer have an enemy in the houses of government"...."with the changes in South America [the elections of / governments of] Fidel, Chávez, Lula, Tabaré, Bachelet. If we do not see that we are blind, we must defend them"
She expressed the opinion that Kirchner's government has offered them the fullest redress possible for the crimes comitted during the Argentine dictatorship(1976-1983) and the near "cover up" in the folowing regime (1983-1989).
_______________________________________________ read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday January 27, 2006 04:43 by Richard Mellor
The world's rulers meet in Davos as favorite poster boy Bono offers them some cover. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday January 26, 2006 18:47 by Seán Ryan   text 4 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 13:10)
A look into the stupidity of our system, and those who run it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday January 26, 2006 17:45 by peptide   text 3 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 15:18)
Today’s right-wing political strategists have developed an effective technique to manage or direct the public’s attention. They have adopted Straussian methods of political deception. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday January 26, 2006 14:57 by Khalid   text 14 comments (last - monday january 30, 2006 01:47)
Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein Wednesday distributed copies of a lawsuit against President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair for destroying Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday January 26, 2006 05:35 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 26, 2006 13:08)
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 51)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 25 Eanáir / January 2006 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday January 26, 2006 02:37 by R. Isible   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 29, 2006 19:59)
"To tell you the truth, I’d never heard of Bertie Ahern , but I didn’t want to say that, to be impolite" -- Chomsky

In this interview Chomsky is questioned about his possible misrepresentation in the Irish press just before his speaking tour. Coilín OhAiseadha tracked down the story of Chomsky's misrepresentation by contacing both the journalist and Chomsky to clear up the matter:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=73602 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 22:10 by Barry Finnegan   text 1 comment (last - monday january 30, 2006 19:39)
"You are invited to a COMHLÁMH PUBLIC DEBATE:

“What happened at the WTO in Hong Kong?”

Decisions taken at the World Trade Organisation Ministerial meeting in December have far-reaching implications for the livelihoods of farmers worldwide.

VENUE: Trinity College, Dublin, Ui Chadhain Theatre (2021B), (ground floor of the Arts Block)

DATE: Thursday, February 2nd 2006, 8pm

Chairperson:
Pat Carey, Fianna Fáil TD, Dublin North West" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday January 25, 2006 20:33 by Leon   text 22 comments (last - thursday january 26, 2006 18:16)
Cut and pasted review under an assumed name of the movie "Munich". Some good peer-review of this pretty bad review is the reason the story is retained on indymedia.ie. Thanks to "Tracker" for pointing out the source of this story. Don't cut-and-paste articles on indymedia.ie -- Thanks 1 of IMC Editorial read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 17:47 by Tadhg   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 26, 2006 10:37)
We've just heard that a delegation of executives (including four directors) of Shell are going to meet with a select group of TD's in the Dáil on Thursday afternoon.

The delegation will include the delightfully named Dutch former politician Wim Kok.

This meeting is completely outside the mediation process agreed with the government in September.

We will be at the entrance on Kildare Street from 12.15PM -Please join us.

for more details call Tadhg on 0876181620 read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 16:51 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 26, 2006 12:53)
Cork's monthly, free, public Pagan Moot /informal get together

open to all Pagans, an informal get together

Cork's monthly, free, public Pagan Moot /informal get together,
Sunday,11th February 2006
3pm in the Cornerhouse pub, Coburg Street

Pagans of all Traditions and of none, welcome
(including, for example followers of Asatru, Celtic Reconstructionism,
Druidry, the Ecclesia Antonoi, Goddess Reverence, Shamanism,Thelema, Wicca,
Witchcraft)

Its free.You probably want to bring enough money for coffee or a pint,

and you might want to bring your birthchart, your Tarot or other
divination tools, so people can do readings for each other

Cork Pagan Moot is at the same time and venue every 2nd Sunday -the Cornerhouse, 3pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 16:25 by AY   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 28, 2006 19:54)
Anarchist Youth will be making banners and stencils in seomra spraoi on abbey street from 2pm-6pm on saturday 28th.

The space is open to anyone who wants to drop in for a cup of tea/coffee between 2pm-6pm and check out one of the 900 zines or read a radical book from the library.

If the whim takes us we can watch some films or have a discussion as well.

Seomra Spraoi is opposite Arnotts on Middle Abbey st.
(it's the crazy looking building).

We have lots of materials but if you want to bring

- Banner/Flag material (red, black or whatever)
- Stencils or card/acetate
- Designs for stencils
- Scapel/stanley knife
- Paint (all kinds)
- Films

Contact Anarchist Youth - 087 918 4604
[email protected] read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:57 by c murray
The verdict on the Carrickmines castle complex willbe delivered today.
The judgement will have direct repercussions for other heritage issues,including the Tara case,(verdict March
1st 2006).
I'd encourage people with concerns re fast
track infrastructural planning and the mooted
infrastructure bill to follow these cases.
Will post meetings.Chris. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:53 by belladonna   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 20:02)
Dignitas was set up in 1998 by Swiss lawyer, Ludwig Minelli, who runs it as a non-profit organisation to assist people whose paliative care is felt to be too ardous and who rather favour euthnasia as an option.

["Dr Michael Irwin said he had provided "advice and encouragement" to five Britons about visiting the Dignitas clinic in Zurich during the past two years. The 74-year-old, who was struck off the medical register last year for obtaining drugs to help a friend die on the Isle of Man, also insisted he was willing to face jail over the issue.
Dr Irwin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In the past two years I have given advice and counsel and encouragement to five terminally ill people to go from England over to Dignitas."] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:25 by Dilin O Deamhas   text 13 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 23:08)
The wriggling continues as the screw turns on Fianna Fail & PD complicity, civil service silence and Gardai 'followin orders to do nuthin' in breaches of The Nurnberg Principles and international laws against torture. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 25, 2006 13:54 by Justin Morahan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 18:48)
A reflection, as the Dáil returns, on the impossibility of protesting so many things that have gone wrong in today's Ireland read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 11:14 by Gumshoe   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 17:48)
A week after an Irish Times report revealed that he reversed national waste policy after private meetings with a wannabe incineration operator, Environment Minister hands a second success to industry lobbyists. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 01:40 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
At a peace conference in Kuala Lumpur last month, the Kuala Lumpur Global Peace Forum of concerned peoples from all five continents, "outraged over the frequent resort to war", made a declaration to criminalise war.

"Killings in war are as criminal as the killings within societies in times of peace," the signatories, including two former Assistant Secretaries General of the United Nations, declare.

"Public servants and professionals, in particular in the medical, legal, educational and scientific fields, must promote peace and campaign actively against war," they declare, and this doctor wholeheartedly agrees.

Finally, the Forum resolved to establish a permanent Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur to implement the initiativeand to seek the cooperation of NGO's worldwide to achieve its goals. read full story / add a comment
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