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dublin / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday June 14, 2006 16:44 by Rory Hearne
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Crisis in the health service: a legacy of Charlie Haughey Even Mary Harney admitted recently that the health service is in crisis. At the heart of it is, what the Health Strategy in 2001 stated, the bed capacity crisis and the urgent need to put back 3000 public hospital beds. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 14, 2006 16:35 by Peter Magee
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Before I begin I must say I hate Bush and I hate this whole nihilistic Iraq war. The Americans, I think we can all agree are in a quagmire in Iraq. The country is ravaged by daily car bombings which have killed thousands of innocent civilians since 2003 while Sunni, Shia and Kurdish areas are at each others throats. Every day dozens of tortured and mutilated bodies have arrived at Iraqi hospitals after being dumped in the streets. The country is on the brink of all out tribal and sectarian civil war. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 15:38 by Reid
Thank you for your article (link below) on Howard and particularly for highlighting his disregard for Australian youth. I am appalled by his attitude to young Australians. Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the developed world and little wonder; the short-term interests of corporate profit, crushing taxation laws and the introduction of ‘guest workers’ have stolen the future from the majority of our youth. Our youth now experience ever-increasing difficulty obtaining work skills needed for their survival. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 11:49 by Donnchadh
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Has anybody noticed that PSF supporters have written both the PSF and RSF pages on Wikipedia - and neither of them has much to do with the truth! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 23:31 by Emma-Residents Against Racism
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On June 19th Afghan Hunger strikers will be up in court on forcible entry charges. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday June 13, 2006 21:58 by Tobie*
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There was been a change in work visa policy effect a weekago today - of course no one on these visa's were informed of this immidiate change in policy "Policy on Exchange Visitor, Student or Working Holiday Visa Programmes The purpose of these Exchange Programmes is to allow persons into the state for Working Holiday, Visit or Educational purposes for a specified period at the end of which they must return home. The policy whereby persons on a Working Holiday Visa could transfer over to a work permit has now been discontinued with effect from Tuesday 6th June 2006." read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 17:45 by .
Visual Culture and Wars of Public Safety and Terror: A Dialogue with Nicholas Mirzoeff and Allen Feldman A public lecture organised by the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice in the Dublin Institute of Technology Faculty of Applied Arts Date: Thursday, 15th June Time: 8.00 - 10.00 pm Venue: Irish Film Institute read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday June 13, 2006 13:23 by Fintan Lane
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Just received word that Bertie Ahern may be holding a press conference at 12.30pm today. It appears that a rumour is doing the rounds that cleaning staff at Shannon airport have seen a man in shackles aboard a US aircraft. This is sketchy information and it's unclear what, if anything, might emerge. A case of watch this space, methinks. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 13, 2006 12:16 by chris murray
A civil Servant on behalf of the Department of Education and Science, yesterday attended the Ryan commission on Child Abuse ,(previously the Laffoy Commisssion on Child Abuse- 1999-2003) to apologise to the victims of Church/State disregard for the health and well-being of generations of industrial school children. Whilst applauding the attempt to recitfy the deep wrongs of the Era through apology , it has come three years too late. The State continues to deny its role in the obstruction of the work of the Laffoy Committee, not has it exposed the machinations of the dept of education and Science headed up by Michael Woods that signed the Church/ State indemnity deal which absolved the Church from paying full compensation to victims. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 11:26 by Gilbert
Matters to be discussed will include proposals for Ceannt Station & Great Southern Hotel Thursday 15th June 8.00pm Great Southern Hotel EYRE SQUARE SPEAKERS • Michael D. Higgins T.D • Stephen Murphy - CIE General Manager Southern & Western Rail • Brian Guckian - Light Rail Researcher • Colmán Ó Raghallaigh – West on Track read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 11:16 by Martha
Gathering and Public talk on thursday 16th of june. The gathering wil be at the spire at 6 pm to collect signatures for a petition. The public talk at 7:30 pm in LASC Latin America Solidarity Centre in 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday June 12, 2006 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday June 12, 2006 22:08 by David Manning
Peace hopes dim with Occupiers stance In an article that's headline reads "Peace hopes dim with al-Qaeda stance" Michael Georgy in the Irish Times reports that Al-Qaeda's promise to continue attacks means that although "Iraqi leaders and their closest ally US president George W Bush welcomed Zarqawi's death," "no one expects violence to ease." There are a few niggling problems with this sort of framing of the war. Firstly, I doubt Al-Qaeda's response to the killing of Zarqawi was ever going to be anything less than violent. In fact it would have been justified to predict attacks would increase significantly in the short term. Secondly, there is obviously something slightly 'suspicious' about Iraqi leaders having military occupiers as their closest allies. Thirdly, predicting violence will not subside suggests that Al-Qeada are the controlling factor of violence in Iraq. This is not the case, the majority of Iraq's resistance is home grown, and attacks are primarily directed against foreign troops and increasingly towards Iraqi police and military who are seen to be in collusion with the occupiers. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday June 12, 2006 21:13 by Liam Mullen
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Professor Noam Chomsky casts a cold eye on world affairs, the Danish cartoon issue, Iran and the war in Iraq, and the dangers of living in a nuclear age. The anti-war critic, Noam Chomsky, recently said the Danish cartoon issue wasn’t a matter of press freedom, nor indeed a conflict between the West and the Islamic world, but an attack, by and large, by the Danish government on the Muslim minority living in Denmark. He was giving an exclusive report to myself when I was working with Griffith College radio recently. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday June 12, 2006 20:31 by Liam Mullen
2 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 12:01)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough…you’re not close enough.”1a Death of a Loyalist Soldier, was an image captured by Robert Capa in 1936, and reveals the exact moment a Republican militiaman is killed by a bullet during the Spanish civil War. The picture shows just how close Capa got to his subjects. Capa went on to co-find the Magnum Photograph Agency.1 read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Monday June 12, 2006 19:52 by Ciarán
First of three Public Seminars on Ireland and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday June 12, 2006 19:31 by 741210
Tuesday night June 13 8pm at Cork Autonomous Zone (CAZ), 61 Barrack St. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday June 12, 2006 18:59 by Terence
And figures reveal up to 3,000 soldiers have deserted the British Army since March 2003 amid reports of growing numbers were “questioning the morality and legality of the occupation.” To counteract this, the British parliament -that bastion of democracy - have passed a Bill -Section 8 of the Armed Forces 2006 where those refusing to take part in the military occupation may now be sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the report: The bill directly contravenes principles outlined at the Nuremberg Trials in 1950, which enshrined in law the responsibility of individuals to refuse to obey illegal and immoral orders from any superiors. The Fourth Nuremberg Principle states, “The fact that a person acted pursuant to an order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him of responsibility under international law, providing a moral choice was in fact open to him.” read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Monday June 12, 2006 18:34 by RSF
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"To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means." -Theobald Wolfe Tone Republicans' from he 32 Counties and abroad gather to honour Tone. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday June 12, 2006 17:54 by finn
It’s not difficult to arrive at an accurate assessment of the present Oz leadership, the government of John Howard. Love Howard or not, he has the local population eating his lies like it was manna from heaven. Howard’s treasurer recently announced that the Oz government was out of debt, in view of a national foreign debt of $493 billion, the highest ever recorded by an astronomical ‘mile’, the announcement of no government debt becomes meaningless double-talk. But which figure does the public prefer to embrace? The lie of course, it’s far more comforting – the media’s emphasis on the treasurer’s remarks at the expense of the horrendous crippling debt is not unintentional. read full story / add a comment |
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