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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday April 23, 2006 11:12 by beeep
Great article from an old london pro-situ on drugs and the changing world of work and how your kids are being fed cocaine culture:

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 23, 2006 10:30 by dingo
The title would suggest that the writer is not attempting to ingratiate self with the readership; to remove any lingering doubts in that regard you can go fuck yourself or any other female/male member of your immediate family, OK! I’m happy to leave persuasive discourse to the theological, political and capital oriented propagandists. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 22, 2006 23:36 by Masters Voice   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 01:17)
"No one believes that a Fine Gael-Labour-Green Rainbow could win a majority and have more seats than Fianna Fail, the Progressive Democrats, the non-left independents and Sinn Fein "" read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:28 by Liam Mullen   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2008 23:52)
A revenue source has claimed that hundreds of taxi drivers are deserting their jobs, rather than submit to rigorous audit checks being carried out by the Department of Revenue. Rogue drivers have been amassing undeclared income, and under new tax clearance rules established by the regulator when the industry was deregulated, many are falling prey to the new tightening of regulations. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:20 by Liam Mullen   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 08, 2006 18:35)
A source within the hotel industry has revealed how top Dublin hotels like the Burlington and the Jury’s chain are offering voluntary severance packages to their staff in the hope of re-employing cheap migrant labour. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / environment / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 15:53 by Dargle Valley Residents   text 3 comments (last - friday june 30, 2006 21:27)
The Dargle Valley area of Bray is home to hundreds of high value homes, prices influenced by the spectacular backdrop of the famous Sugar Loaf mountains and views of the sparkling Dargle River. It is also home to the illegal dump on Love Lane. Of landfill proportions, this dump is being ignored by Wicklow CC officials in the grand tradition ignoring the start up of illegal landfill in the county at times when the local authority is not in a position to provide a service itself. Coolnamadra, Whitestown and Blessington all carry allegations that Wicklow CC in someway supported their existence in the early days of their lives because there was no other home for the waste, commercial waste having been banned at their own official landfills at that time. The same could be said today in Love Lane.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 14:31 by reginald
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 05:51 by Seán Ryan   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 23, 2006 02:28)
This is the first chapter of Book II.

A lot of ground covered here, there's a cast of billions. George Bush makes an appearance, so does Tony Blair and even Jesus himself has a part to play. There's psychology, sociology and an examination of fear. Phase space is looked at (in a non visual fashion) and a better plan to end Global Terrorism is suggested to GWB than the one he currently uses. Likens apathy to phase space. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 04:51 by Murdock Todd Cote (Doc)   text 2 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 02:17)
sligo / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 21, 2006 23:01 by Allen   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 10:42)
The use of Shannon Airport as a gateway for U.S. troops en route to the war in Iraq is an affront to the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people who have consistently opposed the war, said the former Mayor of Sligo, Alderman Declan Bree, when he spoke at the Connolly Forums annual Easter 1916 Commemoration Ceremony in Sligo on Easter Sunday read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 21, 2006 21:48 by DC
"Court orders Paranagua to end ban on GMOs
A federal court has ruled that Brazil’s main grain port of Paranagua must open all of its soya terminals to genetically modified soyabeans, thus ending its ban on genetically modified organisms." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 21, 2006 21:32 by Pachuco   text 9 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 08:27)
Join us in solidarity on May Day!

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 21, 2006 17:54 by Irish Basque Committees
KORRONTZI Basque traditional folk band on tour in Ireland from the 26th to the 29th of April invited by the Irish Basque Committees. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday April 21, 2006 14:52 by Edward Horgan   text 24 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 19:16)
I went to the European Parliament in Brussels to tell the Parliament what I knew of Ireland’s involvement in the unlawful rendition for torture process at Shannon airport. I insisted on linking the extraordinary rendition process with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the combined serial abuses of international law that these wars and the torture processe involved. To a large extent I was telling the EU parliamentary special committee what they did not want to hear – “don’t mention the wars” – I told them anyway, in the brief summary of my submission that the 15 minute time slot allowed me. My main submission was thirty-seven pages long, with 45 separate attachments and it became clear very quickly that very few had even read the executive summary of my submission, and some of those who did, read it only with the intention of trying to discredit it, and discredit me. The Irish Times report on Friday captured the tone of the parliamentarians response “the witness failed to present t read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday April 21, 2006 14:47 by T   text 11 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 17:29)
Concern that the Garda Reserve Force is now almost certain to be established were expressed today.
Senior gardaí yesterday backed plans for a reserve force.
Publicly announcing support for the Minister for Justice’s proposals for the first time, the Association of Garda Superintendents said the move would put more visible presence on the streets.
President of the AGS, Superintendent Noel McLoughlin, said the scheme, which is widely opposed by rank-and-file members of the force, would enhance their capacity to respond to emergency calls.

However veteran homeless campaigner Fr Peter McVerry has said the plans are "madness" see today's Daily Ireland. http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1
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cork / environment / event notice Friday April 21, 2006 13:26 by Pat
Residents of the Cork northside suburb of Mayfield will tomorrow place a picket on the main O2 mobile telephone shop at No.10 Patrick Street at 1.30pm (opposite Eason's) in protest against the placement of a series of mobile phone masts in a residential area and just 200 metres from a major community school..
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 21, 2006 12:30 by Kingfisher   text 1 comment (last - friday april 21, 2006 19:12)
The latest offering from the Bush administration is a nuclear attack on Iran; after only a few years in power this insane administration is ready to wage nuclear warfare! If this is not cause for alarm then resign yourselves to your fate (lemmings). read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Friday April 21, 2006 10:21 by Socialist Democracy reader   text 11 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 19:22)
The meeting around the question: “Can Coalition With Parties of the Right Bring Real Change?” defines the CIL as an opportunist, electoralist front, attempting to reinvent labourism at a time when the Labour party may finally be committing suicide. In their attempts at pragmatism and realism they are adopting a fantasy scenario, a thousand times more unrealistic than any principled attempt to win Irish workers to revolution.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 21, 2006 02:20 by irony   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 02:57)
Hugo Chavez is really quite something, the man clocked up the largest abstention outside of Berlusconi's Italy at 75%, has a weekly TV show, & really knows how to the put the wind up them.

Them being everyone from the Pentagon, to Energy Future analysts, to those amongst his own people who are anarchists, to well ---- everyone.

News for Chavez watchers and no doubt "fans" in Ireland as to what mr Presidente! has got upto last.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday April 21, 2006 01:44 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 1 comment (last - friday april 21, 2006 15:13)
Speaking to MEP's in Brussels on Thursday, former Irish army commandant and UN peacekeeper Edward Horgan said that the Parliament's TDIP Committee investigating the CIA's activities in Europe must call at least four Irish Government ministers to face questions about torture-related abuses at Irish airports: the Ministers for Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Transport.

The Department of Transport's figures for the first quarter of 2006 show that over 1,300 armed US troops are passing through Shannon Airport on their way to or from Iraq each day. At the same time, as documented in Horgan’s presentation, flight logs of aircraft owned or operated by the CIA show that Shannon has served as one of the most important nodes in a network of airports used by the agency to conduct its programme of "extraordinary renditions" for torture.

It is a matter of particular urgency for Horgan that hundreds of undocumented prisoners are in imminent danger of suffering summary execution in order to conceal crimes of torture committed under the extraordinary renditions programme, and he thinks it is most likely that some have already been murdered.

In a perversion of justice, members of government have demanded that concerned citizens present conclusive evidence of crimes of torture committed at Shannon Airport, while directing airport security staff and members of the Garda Síochána to harass, detain and arrest these same activists – including Horgan – in their attempts to gather such evidence. read full story / add a comment
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