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Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 01, 2007 09:34 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 11, 2007 18:59)
Increasingly the patient is no longer seen as a passive recipient of medical treatment. Attempts are being made, at least at an ideological level, to involve patients more in the design of medication and to lend some weight to what patients really think of medication and how it is affecting them. Naturally there are life saving chemicals like penicillin, insulin and cytamen (for vitamin B12) but there is a plethora of more optional drugs on the market not least a whole cabinet of neuroleptic drugs. From my own observations as a patient for over 30 years attending clinics and hospitals throughout that period it is unclear whether many of these drugs have an authentic role in (a) preserving life or (b) in improving the quality of life of the patient. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Saturday September 01, 2007 09:19 by Back to Court   text 4 comments (last - tuesday september 04, 2007 16:17)
The nine arrested campaigners are returning to Court on Wednesday
the Fifth of September, in the Navan District Courthouse.

Seven, who were arrested together have been on continuing bail.
2 Who were arrested separately did not have the same conditions imposed. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday September 01, 2007 08:43 by Joe Moore   text 8 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 21:04)
A public meeting to launch a Cork section of the Bring Back Great Campaign will be held on Thursday 27th September, at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street, Cork.
The meeting will be addressed by Councillor Cionnaith OSuilleabhain, Sinn Fein, Clonakilty Great Support Group and Roseanna Flynn, Residents Against Racism, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday August 31, 2007 18:21 by Fred Johnston, Manager
Rugadh Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa i mBéal Átha Fhinín i gCo. Chorcaí i 1947. Garda as Co. Fhear Manach ba ea a athair Peter Ferguson. D’fhreastail sé ar Choláiste Bhréanainn, Cill Airne, agus ina dhiaidh sin ar Choláiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach, mar ar cháiligh sé mar oide bunscoile. Bhain sé céim BA amach i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, i 1970 i nGaeilge, Stair agus Fealsúnacht. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 31, 2007 17:34 by MichaelY
George W. Bush’s speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being “fixed around the policy.” The Aug. 28 speech to the American Legion came five years after a very similar presentation by Vice President Dick Cheney. Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 26, 2002, Cheney set the meretricious terms of reference for war on Iraq.

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armagh / crime and justice / press release Thursday August 30, 2007 18:08 by Kevin Murphy   text 3 comments (last - friday august 31, 2007 18:42)
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement call on the people of South Armagh to boycott this Tuesdays policing meeting in Crossmaglen. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 17:21 by Western Writers' Centre, Galway
Writer and critic Fred Johnston starts his popular Creative Writing Workshops at NUI Galway as part of the Continuing Education Programme. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 16:57 by Elisa O'Donovan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2008 11:42)
Candlelight Vigil in Dublin,Galway,Donegal and wexford to mark World Suicide Prevention Day read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 14:23 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 4 comments (last - friday october 26, 2007 01:17)
Amnesty International ANNUAL LECTURE 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winnning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will give the Amnesty International Annual Lecture in October.
Seymour Hersh writes for The New Yorker magazine and has written extensively on US involvement with Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan, Israel, Vietnam and the former Soviet Union.

Date: 24 October 2007
Time: 7pm
Location: Trinity College Dublin

Admission to the lecture is free and there will be priority access to Amnesty International Irish Section members.

Tickets will be available to book on line from 24 September 2007. See the link provided.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 14:12 by Martin O'Sullivan
"WAR ON TERROR" PUBLIC LECTURE

We are honoured to welcome Conor Gearty to headline our "War on Terror" public lecture in September.

Date: 24 September 2007
Time: 7pm -9pm
Location: ATGWU Hall, 55/56 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 13:22 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 11, 2007 17:56)
Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux and the McGregor
in the new Seomra Spraoi,
4 Mary’s Abbey,
Saturday 8 September.
Show starts 9 pm. Doors 8.30 pm.

Non-alcoholic refreshments will be served in the break.

Suggested donation: EUR 2.
Proceeds to the Seomra Spraoi.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 30, 2007 13:07 by +   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 05, 2007 21:30)
Many Irish people will have missed the pomp & ceremony, smells and bells which launched Europe's latest lowcost airline on ¨Monday. Despite its obvious competition with two of our most cherished little earners & institutions. The Holy See is offering cheap flights from Rome to Lourdes which I need not tell you will surely undermine both Ryanair and Knock. The Vatican is promoting the service as an opportunity for the faithful to maintain a proper atmosphere conducive to such religious devotion and prevent their journey falling into some Chaucer like tale. Needless to say unlike Ryanair they won't be charging wheelchair users any extra money either. But already it has run into TERROR problems.

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international / environment / press release Wednesday August 29, 2007 21:41 by Brian Guckian & Tadhg Crowley   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 01, 2007 10:05)
A RADICAL breakthrough by promoters of sustainable development and archaeological and cultural heritage involved in the campaign to save the Tara-Skryne (Gabhra) Valley has been announced today, and represents a "win-win" solution for all sides, they say.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 29, 2007 16:30 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky   text 6 comments (last - monday september 03, 2007 17:58)
In our disposable society, what value do we place on our ancestors? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2007 15:15 by Western Writers' Centre
Poetry Ireland in conjunction with UK publisher, Cinnamon Press, will launch new collection of poems in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2007 11:49 by RCPI
As part of the RCPI’s annual programme of public meetings on health issues – Promoting a Healthy Nation – the Faculty of Occupational Medicine is organising a meeting on bullying and harassment in the context of employment and mental health.
Date: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: RCPI, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Tuesday August 28, 2007 17:45 by tarapiXie
Tara Protest
Thursday 30th August 2007
8am sharp

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national / health / disability issues / news report Tuesday August 28, 2007 14:13 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 28, 2007 14:21)
for those of the right and liberal. who tell us that exploitation is of the past. would be of no shock to many of us who experienced it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 28, 2007 09:19 by Gerald   text 6 comments (last - friday august 31, 2007 08:46)
Can the Olympics take place in a country with no respect for human life read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 28, 2007 09:12 by T. H. Ledwidge
The conviction of Michael McKevitt was far from the finest hour of our judicial system. The latest revelations leaves no doubt that he was unfairly tried and convicted through the pages of the print media long before he appeared in Court. Under such circumstances, the media and Mr Mooney in particular must have the moral courage to undo the damage done in this case. read full story / add a comment
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