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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday June 23, 2006 19:15 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 28, 2011 09:10)
For three weeks running, Vincent Browne has written at length about Charles Haughey in Village, Browne's weekly current affairs magazine. Defenders of Haughey are not hard to find of course but it’s doubtful that there can be anyone who is so clearly conflicted and contradictory as Browne has been about 'The Boss'.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday June 23, 2006 17:32 by Gregor Kerr   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 17:21)
This is the text of a leaflet which has been drawn up by members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation who are opposed to the new pay deal as presented to us for ratification.
A version of this leaflet was distributed to approx 500 INTO delegates from all over the country who attended a 'Consultative Conference' on Whole School Evaluation last weekend.
Thanks to the generosity of a number of union members a copy of it has also been posted out to most schools in the Dublin area and some around the country.
Unfortunately we don't have the €1500 it would cost to send the leaflet to all 3,000 or so primary schools in Ireland. This is not a problem that will face those who favour the deal - the union leadership. They have no problem spending members' money to give the 'pro' side of the argument.
If you are a member of the INTO please print off this leaflet and distribute it to your work colleagues. If you would like to contribute financially to sending out the leaflet contact me at the Email address shown.
If you're not in the INTO, the information in the leaflet might be of benefit to you in your own union. Please feel free to use it as you will. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 23, 2006 17:09 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - saturday july 29, 2006 17:50)
The Dublin LGBT Pride Parade 2006

Saturday 24 June

Assemble Garden of Rembrance, 1.45 pm

Parade kick off at 2.15 pm read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 23, 2006 16:31 by sun
Leaders are our example and we should emulate and follow that example at all times, in this way we guarantee a future of complete destructive ‘anarchy’ for the world – ‘blessed are the liars and murderers for they have inherited the earth’! Whatever the discourse and regardless of any other consideration we will incorporate it to achieve our aims. The law and other ‘constraints’ are for the weak; we create and alter laws according to our needs. ‘Sedition’ automatically implies our ‘right’ and your ‘wrong’ – we are the trustees of 'reality', we weave the social fictions YOU live by. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Friday June 23, 2006 15:39 by Stephen Potter   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 10:52)
The mysterious transformation of Janez Drnovsek, Slovenia's President: from technocrat to "guru".
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday June 23, 2006 00:46 by PRO   text 12 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 09:45)
The Galway Alliance Against War has claimed that attempts are being made by the authorities in Galway to stop an alternative air show being organised for Nimmo’s Pier, Claddagh at 1.30pm this Sunday. The local peace group plans to release 99 red balloons as a symbol of their opposition to what they term the “Salthill War Show”. This evening a member of the Gardaí went to the home of Niall Farrell, a member of GAAW, to inform him that the Superintendent wished to discuss “safety aspects” of the peace invent. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 23, 2006 00:45 by Harry Rea   text 20 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 17:44)
“If we can not know whether the courts are applying the law as passed by our legislators without editing or interference from another source our sovereignty is violated and every Act is now questionable as to its veracity. It also raises the huge question as to what subversive group has edited the legislation before it was published by the government stationery office”.

In this instance where it applies to the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1964 it means that Constitutional protections given to parents very likely have been violated by the courts for the past forty years through implementation of incorrect text.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions how we can get an actual copy of the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1964 as actually passed by the Oireachtas and signed by the President from the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as the enrolled text which are by Constitutional mandate held there are the only “conclusive evidence of the provisions of such law” then please tell us. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 17:42 by Craic Soc   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 16:13)
Next Tuesday 27th June in the year of our Lord 2006, UCD’s esteemed Craic Society will be hosting a fundraiser to help pay the (substantial) fines of our battle-weary believers, victims of a witch-hunt by Der College Authorities in September of last year.

After organising a fun-filled outdoor piss-up on campus, these Soldiers of Craic were victimised and fined by the college authorities, who seem hell-bent on forcing us to drink overpriced warm pints of Fosters for the rest of our lives instead of being at one with nature and Buckfast. Please come and support the struggle against the neo-liberal profit-driven upper echelons of UCD . read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 16:20 by Tony Lowes
The Advocate General to the European Court today rejected the challenge to the Irish €20 fee for commenting on planning applications under the European Impact Assessment Directive. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 14:40 by Socialist   text 9 comments (last - wednesday june 24, 2009 12:09)
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern described Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins as a " failed person" and told him to "he will soon go away" during heated exchanges on the cost of housing. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 14:01 by Seán Ryan and Elaine
Court, Two Scandals and Lunch. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 13:49 by Rob
A prison guard and an FBI agent died Wednesday in a gunfight that began when agents tried to arrest six corrections officers inside a federal prison complex.
The six guards at the Tallahassee Federal Detention Center were facing charges of having sex with female inmates in return for money and banned items. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 22, 2006 11:55 by John Flood   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 20:48)
During March and early April a wave of protests and occupations gripped France. On March the 7th over one million people protested against the French government’s attempt to introduce the C.P.E., a new law that reduced the rights of young workers. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 22, 2006 11:34 by Sister Conception Cramp.   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 21, 2006 14:29)

Yesterday Minister for (Justice) Michael Mc Dowell TD
asked Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD to "step
aside" as party leader, before the next general election.
The possibilities are endless in terms of cliche.

One that springs directly to mind is an old Irish
favourite: "The Shit before The Shovel". read full story / add a comment
down / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 09:40 by .................   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 12:00)
Education Minister Maria Eagle found herself on the receiving end of a protest against education cuts when she visited Good Shepherd PS in Poleglass on 20 June. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 22, 2006 08:08 by Bob
Bob’s barrister nudged him in the ribs as a signal to stand. The jury had returned with its verdict. Bob anticipated their decision as one would an echo – guilty as charged! The Judge shifted into automatic and delivered the sentence – three years with not less than twelve months to be served for his third offence, possession of marijuana. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Thursday June 22, 2006 00:33 by David Manning
Sarcasm and RTE

Tonight's RTE Nine O'clock news reported that President Bush wants to close the Guantanamo detention centre. According to an RTE report Bush 'understands' European concerns over the imprisonment of terror suspects in Guantanamo.

Anne Doyle commented that the President had "gone out of his way" to assure EU leaders about treatment in Guantanamo.

RTE correspondent, Sean Whelan, stated that President Bush "would like to close" the facility, to which the correspondent followed with the question, "when would he like to close" the facility?

There seems to be one seemingly obvious question RTE failed to ask. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 21, 2006 21:43 by anon
So I read in the Times this column inch about Bertie Ahern meeting a delegation from Iraq in Dublin organised by the IRI, that is all there no other mention of it I can find, ok so diplomatic meetings rarely get much sattention but this is more then that this is 8 MPs from Iraq's newly elected government. Ireland and the UN have brought democracy to Iraq and with all that bads news and 'unwarranted flak' the government has been getting over the Shannon and Bertie doesn' t want to use this opportumity to shout from the rooftops? with those men DEMOCRACY!! not even a photocall, or a told you so! you nitwit.

Oh I wish I was one of those journalists you hear about. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday June 21, 2006 20:33 by Sharon   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 23, 2006 13:49)
Fund-raising function in Clondalkin for the Republican Movement . read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 21, 2006 19:40 by Mustafa Tubevis   text 10 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 02:32)
The Scottish Socialist Party United Left (or SSP United Left for short) is a new grouping in the Scottish Socialist Party. An appeal to launch this grouping took place on 13 June 2006. read full story / add a comment
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