Green Party Councillor, Brian Wilson, on the Education Board for County Down has voted for the removal of concessionary bus passes for children. read full story / add a comment

famous Galway poetry slams continue read full story / add a comment

Archives dating from the period 1922-1939 are to be opened by Pope Benedict on the
18th of September 2006.

"Giving new insight into what the Catholic Church knew and
did as Europe saw the rise of Nazism in Germany and the
Spainish Civil War"

The files are known as the Secret Archives and files of its
Secretariat of State for the Pontificate of Pius X1.

Reuters/ Irish Times :- (1-07-06).

www.ireland.com

Googled the Holy See, (as one does) to see if more info can be had on
Benedict's criteria for choosing this specific time-frame, such as-
have the archives up until 1922 been opened before and this is part of a synthesis
of release, or why the abrupt stop at 1939?

Reading history in a linear fashion rather than as something which often
involves mass-movement or community consciousness would tend to
point to this era being crucial.

The period preceeding 1922 would hold an unlimited fascination in terms of
labour movement and the assasination of such figures as Rosa luxemburg
(Jan 1919). The Spainish Civil war is mentioned also in the hopeful
analysis of that specific time encapsulation, the assasination of Lorca
comes to mind. The 17 year period of file and archive release necessarily reduces
the reading of the archive within a specific narrow framework which does
not account for the build-up to facism which would definitely preceed the
watermark indicated. The archives would contain some fascinating
documentation of that period in world history but are they part of an ongoing
cycle of release or are they an isolated example of a criteria of choice with regard to
the Shoah?

informations on the secret archives are to be had on the Vatican website
www.vatican.ca
http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm
http://asv.vaticanva/en/studi_stud,htm

In terms of bureaucracy and official secrets, many governments
wd have a specific period of time during which state papers are sealed
and released. The opening of the secret archive in an Independent
State such as Vatican city would probably have a different criteria
for selecting and approving the dates for release of such documentations.

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We just wanted to let you know that we saw the article "Irish Indymedia And Jew hatred"
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=1629
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Six Iranian men have been on hunger strike in front of the Danish Parliament building since 19 June.

The men have demanded of the Danish Government and refugee authorities that no more Iranians be deported back to their homeland. They also want a review of the cases of asylum-seekers who have been refused refugee status.

Four Iranian women are also endorsing the protest. The women cannot go on hunger strike or otherwise protest in front of the parliament building, as they have to stay in the notorious Sandholm refugee camp to take care of their children, who are said to suffer greatly under deplorable conditions, in close confinement with adults.

Please read the press release, issued on behalf of the hunger strikers by Danish supporters, below. read full story / add a comment

Peter wanted an excerpt from a letter about Palestine , published with
this article, it contains a quote by Terence Mac Swiney:

"It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the
most who will conquer"

The heading and date of the letter, which was published in an Irish newspaper
recently was torn off, he retains some of the body of it, because of its pertinence
to his case. Someone brought it to him during the course of the week.

Day 41: He is experiencing little in the way of symptoms. He has sciatica in his back
and headaches, for which he is taking solpadeine. His movement is good and he
is walking alright. he is looking thinner and needs to sit a lot.
The anger is there he wants people to know that the people involved
in the cases around his daughter are murdering him and asserts again
his desire not to be removed from the Dail, by ambulance.
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Republican prisoners today called on elements of the print and broadcast media to end their self-censorship of the Republican prison protest at Maghaberry jail. Despite widespread distribution of the details of the protest only one of Irelands main daily papers carried any details of the protest.

SUPPORT THE POWs!
Political Status For Political Prisoners! read full story / add a comment

Many parents of Irish born children are currently facing the threat of deportation.
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I had several long, worried nights with one of my babies. She was having difficulty breathing. No temperature, runny nose, cranky upset crying…nothing I could take her to the A&E with. There was just a subtle change in her that gave me an instinctive and terrifying sense that she was forgetting to breathe.
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On the bank holiday of the 4th to 7th of August you are invited to a weekend of planning, construction and fun at the Rossport Solidarity Camp in Erris, Co. Mayo. read full story / add a comment

A horse of a very different colour emerges from a report by Australian journalist J Cook today. Funny this story has not made mainstream press anywhere, despite the murderous events now unfolding in Gaza read full story / add a comment

Blueshirt T.D. John Perry, has announced in this week’s edition of the ' Sligo Champion' that George Bush’s pal, the billionaire Republican Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, is to unveil a monument to Brigadier General Michael Corcoran of the U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment, in Ballymote, County Sligo, at 2.00.p.m.on Friday 28th of July. read full story / add a comment

There will be anti-war soap box speaking at the usual corner in Temple Bar Square. Ciaron O'Reilly (who goes to trial this Wednesday with Damien Moran, Deirdre Clancy, Karen Fallon & Nuin Dunlop,)will kick things off at 2.30 pm Sunday! read full story / add a comment

The US Supreme Court ruled today that Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre was illegal (by implication) and the kangaroo military commission established to try the detainees is in breach of the Geneva Convention, well duh! Expert international lawyers stated the plain facts – illegality – of the matter from the start. Who could accuse the ‘slow to see daylight’ US court system of bias? Surely the principal pillars of American ‘justice’ could not be influenced by Bush or his neo-cons? read full story / add a comment

Provisional Sinn Fein Press Release re: Conditions in Maghaberry Gaol read full story / add a comment

PANA is holding a demonstration outside the Dail on the 4th of July from 1-2pm against the Defence Act being passed to facilitate the integration of the Irish Army into the EU/US military structures via the EU Battle Groups read full story / add a comment

Demonstration on Sat 1st of July to remember those who have been killed, and to celebrate the departure of one of the Troop Carriers from our country. read full story / add a comment

The Carnival Parade Raffle Draw will be held tomorrow (Friday) June 30, on the Jimmy Norman Lunchtime show on Galway Bay FM between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

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Bush's military tribunals violate US law read full story / add a comment

Catherine Connolly leaves the Labour Party read full story / add a comment