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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday April 08, 2006 13:06 by C Murray 2 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 17:46)
The creation of a Critical infrastructure body charged with fast-track planning applications was held up by Michael Mc Dowell TD and Minister for Justice for many months. The idea vaunted by Martin Cullen TD at Environment had the breaks put on due to the nimby Mc Dowell who definitely did not want Poolbeg in his back yard, interfering with his constituencey majority. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 08, 2006 07:45 by fish
The very American travelling circus that is tent religion matured and found expression in the mass ‘conversions’ (come on down and be saved style) of Billy Graham, demagogue and showman, the forerunner of today’s Evangelicals. Plastic religion for a plastic society, Graham invented ‘Kentucky fried religion’, a fast consumable product that was accessible to the masses, requiring nothing but gleefully running to the stage and in spectacular fashion being ‘saved’ by Billy or one of his many imitators. Modern Evangelicalism was born, long arduous hours of meditation and prayer in the pursuit of Deity was a thing of the medieval past. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday April 08, 2006 04:51 by Ploughshares 8 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 07:44)
Frank Cordaro addressed an anti-war meeting last Summer in Dublin. Frank is presently serving a 6 month sentence for trespass at Offcut Air Force Base, Omaha Nebraska, USA. Offcut is the HQ of the U.S. Air Force Base. Although a Federal prisoner of the U.S. federaL Government, he is thus far doing his time in county jails given the crowded nature of U.S. Prisons (2 1/2 MILLION INSIDE AT LAST COUNT). read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday April 07, 2006 21:05 by WSM IWU member 9 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 15:53)
The 3rd conference of the Indepenedent Workers Union takes place in Dublin this Saturday. The Workers Solidarity Movement extends our solidarity and ongoing support for the work of the IWU. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday April 07, 2006 18:31 by UCD Alliance For Choice 6 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 20:30)
UCD Alliance for Choice slams Welfare Officer Dan Hayden read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 07, 2006 17:33 by Garry Toner 16 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 20:27)
Garry Toner, an Equality Studies student here in UCD is trying to organise an awareness campaign at a national level in relation to the rights of people with disabilities after an incident that occurred last weekend. read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Friday April 07, 2006 15:44 by Int Brigade supporter
Latest in a series of fund raisers,and fun makers, for supporters of the memorial for the local workers who were killed in Spain during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. read full story / add a comment
monaghan / housing / event notice Friday April 07, 2006 12:32 by Jaime Bennett 3 comments (last - wednesday may 17, 2006 21:41)
The Conference of the Isles will take place 31 May – 1 June 2006 in the Hillgrove Hotel, County Monaghan, Ireland. The conference is organised in association with the University of Ulster and the main theme will be ‘The Regeneration Game – Creating Sustainable Communities through regeneration.’ Happening has been appointed as the event organisers for the conference. Between 150-200 delegates are expected to attend to listen to internationally renowned speakers and discuss various aspects of modern day housing in the British Isles. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 07, 2006 12:27 by pat c 37 comments (last - friday april 14, 2006 16:32)
Anthony McIntyre has stood up for Womens Rifghts and Democratict Rights against the Islamofascists. For doing this, the SWP and their lackeys have called him an Islamophobe. In the article below Anthony profiles Maryam Namazie, an Iranian Socialist Feminist. Maryam shows how backward and reactionary Islam is. How opposing Islam is literally a life or death question for Women in Islamic States. Maryam says: "Labelling women's rights activists as racists is a dim-witted ploy to justify and excuse women's status under Islam and political Islam, and deny women and people living in the Middle East and Iran universal rights and freedoms." Theres an excerpt from the article below. The full article is at the link. pat read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / press release Friday April 07, 2006 10:51 by IRSP 14 comments (last - sunday september 27, 2009 23:20)
''A criminal gang operating in the North West was last night dismantled by a unit from the North-West Brigade of the INLA and have been ordered to desist from all criminal activity or face a military response. " read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday April 06, 2006 23:49 by redjade
'The BCI is very pleased with today’s outcome. We have consistently held that the process for the award of the licence was fair, open and transparent and that the best applicant, Phantom FM, was awarded the licence. We now look forward to re-establishing contract negotiations with Phantom FM, with a view to providing Dublin listeners with an alternative rock music service....' read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday April 06, 2006 21:04 by gino kenny
Ballyfermot Public Library will be hosting INTERFACE, an exhibition by Gino Kenny, in the month of April. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Thursday April 06, 2006 20:33 by watcher 2 comments (last - friday april 07, 2006 11:10)
Humanity is entering a change of historic magnitude without precedence as oil begins to run out, peak oil expert Colin Campbell told a full round room in Dublin’s Mansion House last night. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday April 06, 2006 19:11 by k
Why are lungs and river basins tree-shaped? Why are larger animals faster and less active with their legs and wings? Professor Adrian Bejan explains. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Thursday April 06, 2006 18:58 by Terence
The Irish Gov agency Forfás has published it's report into the dependency of Ireland on oil and what it should do in response to the looming issue of Peak Oil in this regard. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday April 06, 2006 15:15 by people before profit 2 comments (last - saturday april 08, 2006 00:32)
Public forum: Your health: Whose business? Is there a solution to the crisis in the health service? The People Before Profit Alliance / Davitt League is hosting a forum on the crisis in the health service at 7.30 pm on Friday 7 April in the Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday April 06, 2006 14:01 by Fefe 1 comment (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 05:57)
by Yemie Adeoye, Vanguard (Lagos) April 4th, 2006 CorpWatch, a San Francisco based organisation that "investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world", recently published an article on their site that should be of interest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday April 06, 2006 13:32 by GW
A new group has been set up with the aims of supporting democracy in Venezuela, and ensuring regime change in Venezuela occurs only through democratic means. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 06, 2006 12:55 by pat c 1 comment (last - thursday april 06, 2006 14:33)
In another attack on Palestinian sovereignty the Israeli Military arrested a Palestinian Cabinet Minister this morning. This is part of the ongoing campaign by the Israelis to humiliate the Palestinian people and their elected representatives. pat read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday April 06, 2006 10:10 by mike r. 2 comments (last - friday april 07, 2006 16:53)
Meeting in Lille this weekend the national coordination reunited student activists and delegates from 114 higher education colleges and schools. In a up beat communiqué issued at the end of the assembly the national coordination are calling for moves towards an unlimited general strike as “the only issue for the national Days of Action, and the only way to push the government onto the defensive and repeal the “Equality of Chances” legislation.” read full story / add a comment |
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