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international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday November 07, 2004 04:43 by The Patrick Crusade
A view from inside: people are dying like flies in here...patrick swiney (americanized sweeney) was a cop who did his job a little too well during the drug war, busting a couple of influential politicos who said they would get him when they got out...they did...he was framed for murder and has been in jail for near 20 years...all evidence to contrary of states case denied at trial, no appeal...justice my hiney....the USSA folks. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday November 06, 2004 22:37 by DIET SIMON   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 10, 2004 14:54)
The train taking 12 Castor caskets of nuclear waste to Gorleben in north Germany left Valognes, northern France, at 9.05 pm. Saturday.
It consists of two diesel locomotives (green), two passenger carriages, 12 Castor waggons, another passenger carriage, another diesel locomotive (green). read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 06, 2004 19:55 by Fuse   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 16:41)
Has there ever been anything to vote for ? read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday November 06, 2004 19:41 by NUIG   text 1 comment (last - monday november 08, 2004 17:38)
There will be an Anti-War meeting at 6pm on Thu 11th in the Larmor Theatre on the concourse.
The speakers will be Richard Boyd Barrett (Irish Anti-War Movement & SWP), Cllr. Daniel Callanan
(Sinn Féin), Cllr. Catherine Connolly (Labour) and Brendan Flynn (Soc & Pol Lecturer).
There will be information about the Anti-War protest in Shannon Airport on Sat 13th Nov. available
and seats can be booked for the bus from NUIG which is travelling.

The Irish Anti War Movement is re-launching the "Troops Out of Shannon" campaign and this meeting
is to support that campaign and mobilise people from Galway to get involved in the Anti-War movement. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday November 06, 2004 18:10 by dp   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 20:49)
A new issue of the Feasta Review will be launched this month. "The aim of the Review is to present in a permanent form some of the thinking that has been going on in the Feasta network since the previous one appeared" says John Jopling, who edited it with Richard Douthwaite. "It is three years since the last issue and there's a lot to report." read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday November 06, 2004 17:47 by dp
On Monday 25th October, Ireland’s first contemporary cob house was destroyed in a fire. The house was being built by Rob and Emma at The Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability. Arson is suspected, and Gardaí at Ballineen are conducting an investigation. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday November 06, 2004 15:45 by Michael
A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday November 05, 2004 23:43 by Not Surprised   text 19 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 05:12)
The Labour Party and the Green Party have expressed regret and disappointment at the re-election of President Bush.

However Sinn Féin MEP Ms Bairbre de Brún declined to specifically support the unhappiness expressed by the other parties at Mr Bush's re-election. She said that both Republicans and Democrats in the US had worked strongly in furthering the Irish peace process and that Sinn Féin was critical of US foreign policy not its leader. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday November 05, 2004 23:42 by Various
Take a gander at the bUSH FAMILY VALUES page hereinreality.com...a MUST see... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 05, 2004 23:39 by IRSP   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 07, 2004 06:56)
Three years ago, on 5 November 2001 the Turkish state murdered four people who had acted in solidarity with prisoners on a death fast to bring an end to isolation of political prisoners within the gaols there. At that time, the struggle had already been ongoing for a year, today, as the protest enters its fifth year, 117 lives have been lost in the fight to oppose isolation in the prisons. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday November 05, 2004 21:57 by Martin O'Sullivan
Amnesty International comedy festival to be held in Vicar Street in Dublin from November 28th to 30th. Top Irish comedy and musical acts performing in support of human rights read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 16:45 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - friday november 05, 2004 17:21)
Platform 10 is the title of a new exhibition by Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday November 05, 2004 14:13 by Mary Kelly Support Group   text 11 comments (last - friday november 05, 2004 18:06)
The sentencing hearing for anti-war activist Mary Kelly has been adjourned to give her time to consult with her legal team. Sentencing by Judge Moran is due to take place in Limerick on December 1st. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / event notice Friday November 05, 2004 12:21 by Al
Members of the Armagh and Down local of Organise! will be leafletting outside Tescos in Portadown between 2 and 3pm, this Saturday. All help welcome. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 05, 2004 11:20 by Women of Wealth
Womens Wealth Roadshow

Nationwide Series of Seminars starting in Dublin with Anna Ross & Bernie Purcell read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 11:05 by madge   text 51 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2005 20:05)
Senior Management in the NICS attempt to bully staff to prevent them exercising their democratic rights to protest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Thursday November 04, 2004 22:24 by David McCarthy   text 50 comments (last - thursday october 09, 2008 13:31)
In a bizarre incident, a double Traveller wedding reception was interrupted by Gardaí in the up market Gresham Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street on Saturday night October 30th. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday November 04, 2004 19:44 by Spartacist League/Workers Vanguard and Varlet
The Spartacist League, revolutionary Trotskyist party, and its fraternal political prisoner defense organization, the Partisan Defense Committee have protested the assaults on IndyMedia through their newspaper, Workers Vanguard. "...We stand in fullest solidarity with those courageous journalists who struggle to tell the truth against the repression and lies of the American imperialists." Here is the article.

---- Varlet read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday November 04, 2004 16:15 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday november 05, 2004 12:11)
On This Day:

4 November. William of Orange, later king of Great Britain and Ireland, was born in 1650. An equestrian statue of him, blown up in 1929 by Republicans, remained on a scrapheap until World War II, by which time the Dublin waterpipes were in such a state that more water was escaping than getting through to people's taps. It was noticed that the genitalia of King William's horse were solid lead and weighed a stone and a half. The horse's member proved perfect for sealing pipes. read full story / add a comment
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