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Donald Trump told Volodymyr Zelensky to "come back when he is ready for peace" after a White House meeting between the two leaders descended into a shouting match.
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Anneliese Dodds has quit as International Development Minister over?Keir Starmer's decision slash the foreign aid budget by 40%?to pay for higher defence spending, saying it looks like following in Trump's footsteps.
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The EPA has asked the US Government to declassify CO2 as a dangerous pollutant. Net Zero is dead, says Chris Morrison ? but the diehards live on, helped by vast amounts of Chinese coal.
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dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 20:54 by c murray
The Judgement on the Carrickmines case relating to the constitutional
argument has been deferred, no date given for the judgement as yet. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 20:44 by c murray
Tomorrow sees the introduction of the Critical infrastructure bill
which will fast track planning in the State. Minister Dick Roche will
hold a press conference at the Dept of the Environment at 2.30pm.
The bill seeks to set up a new branch of An Bord Pleanala to fast-track
planning matters in the State.This will necessarily affect the present
system, wherein there is a structured mode of objection.
Can anyone get a photographer down there? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 20:02 by Sean
It´s having an Impact!

Organise! will be picketing the Dunnes stores city
centre branch near Corn Market in Belfast from 1.00pm
to 2.00pm this Friday (17th February) in support of
Joanne Delaney, a shop steward sacked for wearing her
union badge. We are calling on comrades and groups
join us in Belfast in raising awareness of Joanne's
case and her victimisation by Dunnes management.

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dublin / arts and media / press release Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:47 by Lee Welch
Four is pleased to present Mine Are of Trouble an exhibition of a new video work by Declan Clarke. The work in question has been in production for the past two years, and follows on from a strain that Clarke has been developing in recent video works. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:41 by redjade
European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy at Dublin Castle read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:23 by Liam Mullen   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 26, 2009 16:59)
INTRODUCTION.

Journalism, in my opinion, is driven by big business needs. Nowhere is this more evident than in the power of advertising. Editors need to strike a balance between what hard news they can report, and soft news can often be used in conjunction with advertising.
In times of crisis an insatiable demand for hard news from the public may drive the demand for hard news, and journalists and editors need to meet this demand. Sales of newspapers can often increase in times of war, for example. The public demand is for immediate, uncensored news. This was very apparent during the Falklands War, post 9/11, and the Iraqi invasions. Demand for hard news can also increase during certain times when something momentous is happening – examples including the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, the death of Princess Diana, the tsunami in Asia, and the recent flooding of New Orleans.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday February 15, 2006 17:48 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 9 comments (last - wednesday february 22, 2006 14:53)
Labour Youth are to protest outside Dunnes Stores, North Earl Street,
Dublin 1, at 6pm this evening, Wednesday February 15, against the sacking
of company employee Joanne Delaney for wearing her union pin on her
uniform. A growing number of protests are now taking place in support of
Joanne Delaney across Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 17:43 by Socialist Party   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 11:27)
The February issue of The Socialist is now online read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 16:34 by Jim   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 19, 2006 18:15)
Eoin Collins of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is speaking on the issue of Same Sex Marriage on Saturday at 4.30 pm in the Teachers Club, 36, Parnell Square. (Probably in Room 6 but this is subject to change) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:34 by anon
Justice Minister Michael McDowell is to be called before a special European Parliament committee to answer questions about whether CIA "torture flights" are passing through Irish airports. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:33 by Sean   text 4 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 21:49)
The Belfast and District Trades Union Council along with postal workers on a two-week wildcat strike marched and rallied yesterday demanding Dignity and Fair Treatment at work.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:13 by Dáil Observer   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 18:39)
Today (Wednesday) in the Dáil Joe Higgins T.D. challenged the Taoiseach on the fact that 70,000 to 120,000 construction workers are being criminally denied their legal and mandatory pension rights by construction bosses. He asked "Can the Taoiseach name one construction boss, builder or developer who has spent one hour in jail for this criminal denial of workers' rights? He cannot, because it has not happened. However, three bricklayers who put a picket on a Dún Laoghaire County Council building site protesting anti trade union practices found themselves in the High Court and within days in Mountjoy jail where they now languish. The learned judges eyes are wide open to breaches of their injunctions in favour of construction employers, but their wigs apparently fall over their eyes when it comes to routine criminality from those same construction bosses towards workers". read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:11 by anarchaeologist   text 7 comments (last - friday february 17, 2006 15:03)
Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a demo with a difference outside the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources on Adelaide Road this Friday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 13:59 by Shannon   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 03:42)
The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 13:14 by Irish Basque Committees   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 17:43)
18th February, saturday, 2006
Worldwide day of protest against the 18/98
political show trial in Madrid

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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 12:51 by Martin O'Sullivan
The families an survivers of the stardust fire are protesting against the opening of the silver swan. They are going to hold a protest Every night starting at 18:00 until saturday when that Bastard Eamon Butterly plans to open his pub on the site of the Stardust Fire which happened 25 years ago on the 14th February. The families want anyone who can to come along. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 02:40 by Seán Mac Suibhne
Connolly Books,
Bloom Lane, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1
Sunday, 19th February 2006 2.00 pm
Is ceiliúradh é an taispeántas ar na mórshiúlta agóide an daonra ar an 15ú Feabhra 2003 in aghaidh bagairt cogaidh ar an Iaráic.
This screening celebrates the mass mobilization of people around the World on Saturday 15th February 2003, united against the threat of War against Iraq.

Beidh failte roimh chách / All welcome. Saor in aisce / Admission free
[Fair Trade refreshments available after screening and discussion]

Silken Thomas,
The Square, Kildare town.
Thursday 16th March 2006 8.00 pm.
Is comóradh an taispeántas seo ar easpa daonlathais an SAM agus a ‘chairde’ – ag leanúint leis an gcogadh, is cuma cén costas. This is a commemoration of the lack of democracy exhibited by the US and its ‘comrades’ to go to war, regardless of the cost.

Beidh fáilte roimh chách / All welcome Saor in aisce / admission free
[Fair Trade (Java Republic) is available in The Silken Thomas]

Comh-imeacht idir Ionad Buail Isteach na Gaeilge (www.ionad.org) agus Comhaontas na Síochana is na Neodrachta (PANA).
A co-operation between The Irish Language Drop-in Centre (www.ionad.org) and Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA).

Bean an tí / M.C : Máire Ní Bheaglaoich, PANA / Ionad Buail Isteach na Gaeilge. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:39 by Liam Mullen
According to a report published by the London School of Economics and written by Joan O’Mahony, the Pope in his position as Cardinal and head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith knew of the existence of married priests in the Czech church in 1990.
The problem arose because Czechoslovakia was under strict Communist rule for 40 years, and launched a crackdown on Catholic clergy. Under the Communist regime, a “secret clergy” or “underground” church developed when Czech bishops took over the clandestine ordination of men whom the state refused to approve for ordination. This was a requirement of the Czech State at the time.
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national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:31 by Liam Mullen   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 02, 2008 16:32)
Noam Chomsky’s recent visit to Ireland highlighted yet again the dilemma the Irish government faces in whether to accept American assurances that no rendition flights passed through Shannon Airport. As a close economic partner of the US, the Irish government faces embarrassment if it decides to call Condoleezza Rice’s bluff, and insist on checking American flights landing in Shannon. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:22 by Liam Mullen
Last year when I ran with a story and interviewed Leslie Laskow, a Dutch expert on the Darfur region of Sudan and human right’s activist for Human Rights Watch, Leslie spoke about the problem of “child soldiers” in Sudan, and she stressed that children as young as twelve years of age were being recruited for military purposes.
A year later, and the problems of child soldiers have resurfaced in yet another African country – the Côte d’Ivoire. According to a recent report put by the Human Rights watchdog security forces in the Côte d’Ivoire are robbing and extorting money from citizens at checkpoints, and that they have even progressed to extrajudicial executions.
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