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mayo / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 27, 2006 12:27 by Chris Murray
 1 comment (last - tuesday august 01, 2006 14:32)
One of the intimacies of war is death and lamentation. It was one of the intimacies of civilised society too, before the issue of death becme a taboo, something to be fought and dominated. Especially within the capitalist framework, wherein a few days entitlement to remove yourself from the rat-race is the nod to the process of grief. Wakes, in the houses of the head were a common practice in Irish society. They were structured rituals which involved every member of the family and extended family in their individual capacity as mourner, story-teller, Keener and waiter. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday July 27, 2006 12:22 by Akrasia
42 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 01:54)
Has the media has been lying to us all along to justify the horrific Israeli military action against Lebanon? We have all been told that Hezbollah breached Israeli borders and captured Israeli soldiers from behind the Israeli lines and this has been the justification for the annialation of lebanon and the killing of around 400 lebanese people and 4 U.N. observers. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 27, 2006 12:12 by Mahmoud
30 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 20:41)
I am a Palestinian Muslim living in Ireland and I must speak out against the war against Israel which is bringing war down on Muslim heads in return. Take another look the map of Israel. It is a tiny sliver of land been the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. If Israel was not militarily powerful holding back the enormous miltary forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia would be simply impossible. In a matter of hours Israel would be invaded if armies broke through the defences of the Golan Heights or crossed the Jordan River valley, encompassing the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, or swept through the Negev and surrounded Al Quds and Tel Aviv from three sides. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / event notice Thursday July 27, 2006 08:07 by Terry
There is a Shell to Sea Public Meeting in The Merry Monk, Killala Road, Ballina, at 8pm, Monday, 31st of July. This is part of the Long Walk from Rossport to Dublin. See: http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=774 All Welcome. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / press release Thursday July 27, 2006 02:45 by Bernie Wright
11 comments (last - wednesday july 02, 2008 21:57)
In two seperate incidents this evening, members of Circus SYDNEY(a Courtney Circus / previously Circus OZZ and Circus NEW YORK) assaulted different activists both inside and outside the circus. The first incident happened when some activists from The Alliance for Animal Rights were giving out flyers on the footpath outside the Circus now in Blackrock. A circus member attempted to get one by the neck and take their leaflets. The second incident happened when four people including two minors and a wild animal expert attended the actual show. A female was set upon by a circus member and had her digital camera snatched and batteries removed. She had to attend St Vincents Hospital for treatment for a possible joint fracture in her hand, she was also verbally threatened. Activists called for Gardai assistance. Gardai were notified on both occasions. further information tomorrow. Phione 085 7371810. AFAR. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 27, 2006 02:13 by io
1 comment (last - thursday july 27, 2006 10:22)
By now most western Europeans with fair to middling interest in current affairs know that the UN observers in southern Lebanon, observed in time that Israeli artillery shells were landing close to their position. Ireland which prides itself on leading the way in UNIFIL operations knows how many phone calls were made - 10. We also all pride ourselves on knowing the mandate finishes next Monday. Most of the UN observers stationed with UNIFIL at that observer post were Indian, though those killed weren't. The first reports to hit Indian newswatchers that their own soldiers were in the line of fire came from the BBC who had their own team "observing" in the same little zone. This is how things work :- FINUL, the UN, the BBC, the government & army of Lebanon, the government & army of Israel, and even Hezbollah exchange phone numbers. They tell each other where they are. So "little accidents" like "friendly fire" don't happen. Otherwise indeed the whole idea of "UN peace-keeping" which started 50 years ago with the thereafter Nobel peace laureate, former prime minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson, would fall apart at the seams. So I thought I'd give you a round-up of Indian media reaction since as we all realise the UNIFIL mandate expires next Monday :- (we did all realise that didn't we???????????) _____________________________________________________________________________ read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday July 27, 2006 00:26 by Tommy Donnellan
Protest with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Galway Alliance Against War against the ongoing horrific rape of Lebanon and the Gaza Strip by the IDF. Enough is enough !. No more, the criminal use of white phosphorus and cluster bombs against civilians. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday July 26, 2006 23:04 by Ciaran Long
3 comments (last - friday august 11, 2006 22:44)
Every hunting season it's a regular occurrence for Saboteurs to be beaten up, some murdered, hospitalised, have their transport damaged and their personal belongings stolen by hunters and supporters. It's very seldom that anyone is charged. And if they are it's usually just a slap on the wrist. But when the table is turned, it's a totally different story. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 23:01 by Terry
3 comments (last - saturday july 29, 2006 01:07)
Brief update on current Shell to Sea activism in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 18:02 by Conor Cregan
16 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 21:34)
As the Lebanon burns by blitzkrieg the lucky ones escape through the west of Ireland and those of us reading through lines wait for “Laser Guided Munitions” or “Smart Bombs” to travel through Shannon International Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 26, 2006 09:52 by tora
Today 26, July 2006 everything has an unreasonable hue a certain irrational shimmer. I can taste the air and it is bitter with unreason and cruelty. I am able to detect the world passing all the horror, lies and weeping. I must be dreaming or I could be mad! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 09:35 by court reporter
3 comments (last - wednesday july 26, 2006 17:30)
In the Pitstop Ploughshares case at the Four Courts, the Judge's charging of the jury on Friday was difficult to hear. Three members of the public asked that the sound be turned up, - but without success. On Monday the Judge went through the evidence of the defendants and the defence witnesses at break-neck speed and sent the jury out at ten past three to consider if they could reach a unanimous verdict. This is a report on what followed in court on Monday and Tuesday. Apologies for all errors and omissions. Apparent quotes do not mean to convey exact words. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 26, 2006 01:39 by poetry news
A celebration of poetry and song with established and emerging poets at literary Dublin's spiritual home read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 20:19 by iosaf
3 comments (last - friday december 14, 2007 01:08)
Today those elected to the Peruvian government earlier this year to serve till 2011 must each swear an oath of allegiance. Its part of a series of constitutional rituals which will lead up to the presidential inauguration this coming Friday which is also Peru's national day. The formula for the oath is very simple - (they often are) - each deputy takes his place in turn & recorded by stenographers and pictured on live TV recites the formula of loyalty. But already some deputies oaths have been rejected :- read full story / add a comment
clare / sci-tech / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 16:55 by Stefan Zalewski (a.k.a mufti_el_ping)
3 comments (last - thursday december 18, 2008 16:09)
Volunteers have built and operate a highspeed wireless data network at the west coast. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday July 25, 2006 16:49 by anon
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. "I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64. "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered. "I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life." read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 14:25 by Dominic Carroll
Anti-War Ireland welcomes the acquittal in Dublin of the Pitstop Ploughshares defendants, who had been on trial for unlawful damage to a US military plane at Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 13:16 by ploughshares support
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 13:04 by Chris Murray
3 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 16:00)
Most Irish newspapers carried an advertisement yesterday which included details of the issues which will be studied in relation to the 'CC' case and the 'A' case. These are published as perameters for the fifteen member committee which contains three women, one TD(fine Gael) and two senators. The'CC' case prompted an expected constitutional crisis, wherein the 1935 legislation pertaining to the 'honest mistake' mechanism was allowed in the case of someone accused of statutory rape but of an age with the victim. Justice Mary Laffoy had no option within the perameters of that legislation but to release 'CC'. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 12:27 by Barry Finnegan
5 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 11:53)
[BF, personal opinion: Check this out - USI, supposedly a "Union" to protect and advance student's rights as well as being an official affiliate of SIPTU charged with advancing trade union rights, when it's bosses weren't able to harass and bully this employee to their satisfaction, they suspended him without pay. If all the details of this case go public next month after the Rights Commissioner, it is going to have a devastating impact on those who still believe that the USI is a progressive social force in Ireland. To date The Examiner and Irish Indo have carried the story.] read full story / add a comment |
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