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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 20, 2006 00:34 by Liam Mullen   text 7 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 20:23)
In delivering a resounding eulogy to his former mentor and “boss”, the late Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey, the current Taoiseach Bertie Ahern showed true compassion and tenacity in speaking warmly about CJ Haughey, but the question must be asked: Has Bertie Ahern and his top henchmen lost the plot? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday June 19, 2006 22:50 by Hugh H
Bertie Ahern will open a session of the Forum for Europe in Dublin Castle at 11.30 on Thursday morning, 22nd June. Join the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign at 11am at the Dame St entrance. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday June 19, 2006 21:59 by Cork Antiwar   text 30 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 15:45)
Report on "Don’t Attack Iran" Public Meeting in Metropole hotel Cork

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday June 19, 2006 20:41 by Séan Ó Murchú
On Monday 19th June Republican POW’s began a protest action in Maghaberry, this is the first in a series of protests planned by Republican POW’s in the gaol. POW’s are making clear that they will not accept the sub standard conditions on the segregated wing, they will not be criminalised nor will they be intimidated or coerced by the petty restrictions being imposed by prison screws to make the day to day life in the gaol for POW’s more difficult. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday June 19, 2006 17:39 by gan
Welcome to the twenty-first century, welcome to social retrogression and the new barbarism – primitive theological values and barbarism have temporarily stolen the post-modern age. Quite an irony in today’s highly advanced society but the reality of barbarism and retrogression are undeniable. The world’s most advanced technological nation is a perfect example. America has succumbed to theological ideology and all the bigoted, avaricious, violent values associated with primitive religion and barbarism. A crusader, a mental deficient who fancies himself a ‘holy’ knight of the Middle Ages battling the forces of ‘evil’, leads the USA; a literal mental retard and social regressive leads the world’s ‘leading’ nation. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 19, 2006 16:15 by Michelle Clarke   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 20:04)
I am asking the question because of the outright inadequacy of mental health services and integrationist services to cater for the needs of people with health problems particularly mental health problems.....

I recall an Irish Penal Reform Trust meeting.....a Forensic Psychiatrist and his wise words about mental health definititions. The categories of say bipolar equate the same in the outside world and within the hospital implying that a lot of what is termed Psychiatric are in fact social problems. I have written an 18 page essay dealing with this topic over two centuries.

Anxiety can take you by the throat if you suffer from what is named episodic........Listen to your patients and fight for the funding to provide an adequate medical service and perhaps have less people walking the streets and begging............I have heard that if you have mental health problems in the US, you are 4 times more likely to be shot by the police....

Where is the Barr Tribunal Report......What is holding it up? Why was John Carty show. Where were the social services and the doctors.......

The Morris Tribunal has reported. Let's clearn up the act and hear what Mr. Justice Barr has to say.....

Michelle
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 19, 2006 15:41 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 3 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 02:39)
It is time to replace unelected Managers with Directly Elected Mayors. read full story / add a comment
monaghan / miscellaneous / event notice Monday June 19, 2006 12:00 by Feirsteach
PAINTBALLING leis Na Gaeil Óga

Beidh sluaite as Na Gaeil Óga ag taisteal ó Bhaile Átha Cliath agus as Béal Feirste go Muineachán ar an 1ú Iúil chun Paintballing a dhéanamh.

Na Gaeil Óga and other Irish-language speakers will be going Paintballing on the 1 July in Monaghan. Groups from Belfast and Dublin will be pitted against each other! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 19, 2006 11:49 by WS   text 9 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 19:23)
The deaths of Terence Wheelock and John Moloney in Garda custody have again focused attention on the brutal nature of policing in this state. Brian Rossiter and John Carty are other names from a long list that have a public resonance. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday June 19, 2006 11:43 by Martha
Zapatista Meeting in LASC to continue with the discussionof "the other campaign" and to see the posibilities to re establish a zapatista solidarity group in Dublin.
This Tuesday 20th of June
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national / consumer issues / other press Monday June 19, 2006 10:53 by hack cough splutter   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 11:23)
According to a report in the Sunday Tribune, cheap fags peddled around Ireland have dangerous amounts of chemicals - six times as much lead as in regulated cigarettes and high levels of arsenic.

"Fake cigarettes seized by Customs in the North contained 160% more tar, 80% more nicotine, and 133% more carbon dioxide than genuine cigarettes." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 23:46 by RSF
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 14 Meitheamh / June 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 18, 2006 22:43 by Michelle Clarke   text 28 comments (last - monday april 20, 2009 20:52)
America, they refer to the Underclass.

Medical Services in Ireland are harnassed by the divide - you pay or you don't.......therein is the obscurity as to how to have hope and get the best treatment.....

I note Patient's Together are mobilising to challenge Professor Drumm and the HSE scandal of overcrowding in Accident and Emergency.

I am hearing too much about suicide. I am encountering a degree of medical arrogance that I can no longer accept. I wonder have people experienced similar problems.

We are not hearing about all the suicides.....i.e. those involving the Luas for example or the out of the ordinary number in Finglas at the moment.

What is the system saying......Are they confining us to no Hope and the undersclass category.
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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday June 18, 2006 22:28 by Joe Moore   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 18:59)
Former Venezuelan minister in the Chavez government and a leader of the Bolivarian Revolution to address public meeting in Cork read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 13:52 by Anti-War Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 10:14)

By Nicola Byrne
Sunday June 18, 2006
The Observer

Staff working at Shannon Airport are being pressed to report any evidence they see of trafficking of prisoners by the US military.

It follows the discovery by a cleaner last Sunday of a manacled soldier on board a US civilian aircraft at the airport. The incident has proved highly embarrassing for the Irish government, which had always accepted assurances that no such traffic passed through its airports.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has now signalled that gardai may carry out random checks of US planes using the airport, but in the absence of any concrete decision human rights groups have asked staff at Shannon to report anything out of the ordinary.

'Only for the vigilance of one worker, we still wouldn't know for certain what we have long suspected - that prisoners are been transported through Ireland by the American authorities,' said Fintan Lane of the Irish Anti-War Movement. 'We are now depending on staff at Shannon to report more incidents. It's the only way we can find out what is being carried on US military aircraft at this point.'
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 12:25 by Autonomous Action Individual   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 11:17)
The teachers of Oaxaca are resisiting the authoritarian state of Mexico, while elsewhere the repression from the governor Ulises Ruiz continues. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday June 17, 2006 17:25 by Chris Murray   text 15 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 13:10)
The Planning and development Bill yesterday passed with copious Government
amendments thru the Seanad.

http;//debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx/=sen20060516

On the day of the burial (with full military honours) of a certain ex Taoiseach. Mr Dick Roche
TD sought to bury the statutory undertaker and replace it with the undertaker in relation to
the judicial process by the objector.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 17:15 by paul o toole
The Contradictions ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 13:48 by Daithí   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 19:44)
Encouraging students to get involved in politics, representation, activism and campaigning is a funny business. In an ideal, perfect situation, you wouldn't have a division between encourager and encouragee; no-one should need to drum up interest among others or to have a position of 'managing' student involvement. But we don't live in that world, and it's perfectly usual to see students' unions, political 'youth wings', campaign groups and so on trying to encourage 'others' to get involved. read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Saturday June 17, 2006 13:21 by Pit Stop Ploughshares   text 2 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 10:55)
Pit Stop Ploughshare defendants & supporters will be conducting an anti-war vigil at the GPO from 12noon-2pm (monday to friday) until the July 5th. trial date. Drop by and touch base with the defendants!

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