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national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 05, 2007 15:51 by none   text 4 comments (last - friday may 20, 2016 03:31)
Monsanto Ireland CEO Patrick O’Reilly is furious at RTE 2 for broacasting “The Future of Food” last Sunday.

He has complained to RTE and to the chief scientists of the various agricultural research bodies. The Irish Farmers Journal printed the following article in its current issue: read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 05, 2007 13:23 by Con Carroll   text 3 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 17:57)
do-not forget Justice for Terence Wheelock read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday February 05, 2007 12:53 by Seán   text 16 comments (last - friday february 09, 2007 19:00)
A gathering of veteran civil rights campaigners took place in Belfast at the weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the fonding of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday February 05, 2007 12:17 by The National Secretary   text 14 comments (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 18:55)
FINGLAS COMMUNITY WORKER TO STAND FOR DUBLIN NORTH WEST IN GENERAL ELECTION

John O Neill, a local community worker, is standing as a socialist candidate for the Dublin North West constituency in this year’s general election. With a solid performance in the Finglas Ward on his first electoral outing in the 2004 local election (where he finishing on the fifth count with 1300 votes, ahead of the Green Party and Progressive Democrats), John is in position to make a breakthrough on a clear platform of independent working class politics.
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offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 05, 2007 02:47 by Nora G.
In today's UK Guardian, a letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Walden Bello, Michael Greger, Mike Davis, Caroline Lucas, Green MEP, Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action,
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Michael Albert, ZNet. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner and Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general warns that "Humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza"

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday February 04, 2007 23:01 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 4 comments (last - monday may 14, 2007 22:37)
In the last number of years we have heard about Gardai indiscipline and Gardai brutality in our country. The Morris Tribunal in Donegal states that is fact. But tonight let us focus on prison in-discipline and prison collusion of hatred within the system.

The 17 years I worked with Simon gives rise to meeting a variety of people. They were mostly homeless due to a compulsory overtime system. This system was overturned in the High Court in the 1980's but it was too late for hundreds of officers who suffered from depression and additcton to alcohol within the System. Tonight I give their story. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 03, 2007 17:24 by Liberates   text 12 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 00:17)
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in which a US navy plane was decommissioned with the aid of tools and symbols of peace.

This five-part article by Harry Browne charts the journey of the action from inception to acquittal, and in turn, paints a portrait of each of the five activists who sacrificed so much, that others might not suffer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 03, 2007 16:06 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 11:37)
Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins
are getting," she says.

Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript.

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Britain's child army

Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate
recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young
schoolchildren

On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 15:41 by jay   text 4 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 12:56)
We the undersigned note call on the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Department of Transport to invest in facilities to encourage the pursuit of cycling in Ireland.

It is now 20 years since Stephen Roche won the Tour de France and in that time car dependency has been encouraged at the expense of cycling. More teenagers drive to school than cycle.

To encourage cycling in Ireland, we call for more cycle lanes, cycle tracks to encourage cycling at all ages and a national velodrome with a cycling academy to find a new generation of world class cyclists in Ireland.
We need your support!
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national / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday February 03, 2007 13:41 by Julia Doherty   text 27 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2012 12:05)
Recent legislative proposals to have the age of consent lowered from 17 to 16 have been met by opposition from the Catholic bishops. A committee on child protection in the Dail put forward the suggestion, an effort to resolve the controversy caused by the laws on statutory rape that were introduced in the summer. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 01:19 by Con Connor   text 18 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 10:48)
How can we stop our corrupt governance from destroying our unique heritage that is the Gaelic Celtic Royal City of Tara? Nice letters to the corrupt media? Answering Pat Kenny's questions - do you live on Tara? By asking Meath Co Co to stop the NRA? By telling everyone that the forced double troll road will not fix the designed transport problem? Protests? Listening to unqualified sham lawyers? Signing petitions? I dont think so - the corrupt governance of this country is steered by the most devious of them all - bad bertie and he only listens to bad bad bush. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday February 02, 2007 19:35 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 03, 2007 22:16)
When Louis XIV made the statement "L’etat c’est moi" (I am the state) he diminished himself because whatever way you think about it the state is a smaller and less important thing than any one of its individual citizens. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday February 02, 2007 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / press release Friday February 02, 2007 17:15 by Limerick Socialist Youth
• Minister for Education finally promises to fund upgrade of Ardscoil Ris
• Keep up the pressure to make sure the promised Ardscoil Ris building is
financed
• Upgrade all Limerick schools to accommodate the growing need for places
• Provide new school places for the new housing developments read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 15:54 by Global Women's Strike
On Monday 5th February Lt. Ehren Watada the 1st commissioned officer of the US Army to refuse to go to Iraq faces military court martial. His mother, Carolyn Ho, has appealed for international support. We invite everyone who can make it to join us at our events or take action wherever you are. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday February 01, 2007 12:23 by Ireland plc
Mrs Thatcher once said 'there was no such thing as society or community', and she dedicated her years in power to destroying many working class communities, through privatisation and closure of industries, and the depletion of council public housing stock by promoting private property ownership.

In Thatchers tiny insulated world of isolated inward looking, nuclear family units, living in detached or semi detached private properties, whose only opportunity for socialising is through the workplace, and only allegiance is to their isolated families, and making money. Hence the abundance of programmes on tv promoting buying houses, selling us the capitalist dream. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:30 by Nom de guerre
The Dublin Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet in Sandyford on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:19 by Mary G.
The Limerick Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet on Childers Road in Limerick on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
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