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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 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 Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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limerick / miscellaneous / press release Friday February 02, 2007 17:15 by Limerick Socialist Youth
• Minister for Education finally promises to fund upgrade of Ardscoil Ris
• Keep up the pressure to make sure the promised Ardscoil Ris building is
financed
• Upgrade all Limerick schools to accommodate the growing need for places
• Provide new school places for the new housing developments read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 15:54 by Global Women's Strike
On Monday 5th February Lt. Ehren Watada the 1st commissioned officer of the US Army to refuse to go to Iraq faces military court martial. His mother, Carolyn Ho, has appealed for international support. We invite everyone who can make it to join us at our events or take action wherever you are. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday February 01, 2007 12:23 by Ireland plc
Mrs Thatcher once said 'there was no such thing as society or community', and she dedicated her years in power to destroying many working class communities, through privatisation and closure of industries, and the depletion of council public housing stock by promoting private property ownership.

In Thatchers tiny insulated world of isolated inward looking, nuclear family units, living in detached or semi detached private properties, whose only opportunity for socialising is through the workplace, and only allegiance is to their isolated families, and making money. Hence the abundance of programmes on tv promoting buying houses, selling us the capitalist dream. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:30 by Nom de guerre
The Dublin Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet in Sandyford on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:19 by Mary G.
The Limerick Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet on Childers Road in Limerick on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Wednesday January 31, 2007 20:53 by m.c.   text 2 comments (last - friday february 02, 2007 09:43)
This is the next stop of the Book Tour around Ireland.

Special guest Michael D. Higgins will launch OUR STORY THE ROSSPORT FIVE. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 31, 2007 19:00 by Ciarán
A special function featuring a video presentation and music from the world famous protest singer
David Rovics (all the way from the US)

with Ireland's own
Terry 'Cruncher' O'Neill
&
Barry Kerr read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:51 by pat c
What other uses will be found for "Anti-Terrorist" surveilance equipment? A thought-provoking article here. Full text at the url at the end of the page.

pat c read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:03 by Rimbaud
A lawyer for a gay Muslim from Lebanon says a new German law should be used to grant the man asylum in Germany. The case prompts debate about how homosexuality is treated in Muslim nations and in Europe.

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national / animal rights / press release Wednesday January 31, 2007 01:25 by Bernie Wright   text 11 comments (last - saturday february 23, 2008 13:42)
Animal rights group call on Environment minister to discontinue Stag- hunt licensing,

Demonstration Wednesday 31st January, Time 12.45-2pm.

Department of Environment Custom House Dublin.1.

The AOHS are issuing a renewed call for the Ward Union’s hunting license to be revoked by the Minister Dick Roche.

‘ In the aftermath of this weeks serious safety risk to children, the terror and ultimate death of a hunted stag , the property damage and disruption of a small village due to stag hunting, we want stag hunting ended permanently now.’

Minister Roche is responsible for issuing the permit to the Ward Union to hunt stag, which really is an exemption to the Wildlife Act, granted to Ireland’s one and only Carted Stag Hunt Club read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 22:14 by Socialist Youth
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations

Anti-war activists dubbed this a "peace surge" against Bush's escalation of the war. The largest of the demonstrations was in Washington, D.C., where "a raucous and colorful multitude of protesters…danced, sang, chanted and shouted their opposition" in front of the Capitol (‘Washington Post’, 1/28/07). While most estimates put the crowd in D.C. at 100-150,000, organizers for United for Peace and Justice claimed up to 500,000 attended. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 30, 2007 21:38 by LM   text 5 comments (last - monday february 26, 2007 20:04)
Following two more successful meetings last week in Killarney and Manor Hamilton, two further meetings are planned. The First takes place in the Bridge Hotel, Tullamore on Wednesday 7th February at 8.00pm. The second meeting is organised for Letterkenny, Co Donegal on Mon 25th February at the Mount Errigal hotel at 8.00pm. The VLPS meetings allow people who have, or have had, problems with lawyers to meet up and share experiences and hear from others who are taking charge of their affairs themselves and taking the system on as lay litigants. People attending will get information on how to stand up to solicitors and will draw courage from John Gill who is shaking the "powers that be" out of their complacency or worse. All interested parties are welcome at VLPS meetings. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / press release Tuesday January 30, 2007 20:32 by Seán Ó Murchú   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 31, 2007 17:04)
ARISING from a motion passed at the Ard Chomhairle of Republican Sinn Fein. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 18:48 by Terence   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 20:26)
According to Yahoo News, the first Irish Viking Ship has been found in the Boyne river. This is surely a very important and exciting find.

However given the track record of this government at destroying our heritage, in places like Carrick Mines, Tara, and many others, it would be entirely inconsistent of them to preserve this. Surely it should be sold off to the highest bidder at a minimum or broken up and incorporated somehow into chic-furnishings on a set of apartments overlooking the site. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 17:36 by Terry
Transco, parent company of Advantica, which carried out the government’s last safety review into the Rossport pipeline, have been hit with protests in Wales over a gas pipeline project.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 30, 2007 17:36 by Ray
Banner Display at Patrick’s Bridge, Cork, 5pm-7pm, Thursday 1st February 2007

The Cork branch of Shell to Sea will be doing a banner display at Patrick’s Bridge on the evening of Thursday 1st February. This should be a colourful display of many campaign banners and should provide considerable visual impact.

On this day, Shell will be both announcing its annual financial results and celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. For the communities of Erris in Co. Mayo this will be no cause for celebration as they continue to resist the unsafe and unwanted Corrib Gas project, as they have done for the last seven years. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 16:43 by Earthling
At lunchtime today a man climbed out and over a balcony at the Irish Embassy in London. This was in protest at Irish government collusion with Shell in relation to the Rossport dispute.

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