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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 26, 2003 11:50 by O' as if
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for city and town councils. Some of these municipal entities wield considerable power over the lives of their inhabitants. The results were calculated on the basis of votes passed by those who exercised their right to be registered and to vote for the people they were allowed vote for. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 26, 2003 08:32 by James McKenna
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Vistiors to a concentration camp near Baghdad Airport where civilian and common law detainees are held along with some genuine POW's have described seeing prisoners gagged and tied up in scorcing sunlight. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 26, 2003 00:59 by Winston Smith
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sorry for posting the whole thing - but this needs to be read - will Shannon be used for this war too? why does one even have to ask the question? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 25, 2003 23:45 by clodagh
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RIR officer Richard Vance was convicted of sexual assault and attempted buggery of an RIR soldier in the same battalion as Paul Cochrane at Drumadd barracks Armagh. The event happened on the night of Paul's funeral, 3rd August 2001, Paul died on the 30th July 2001. The victim was asked to leave by Col Collins and sent home to Canterbury. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 25, 2003 12:47 by Campaign for Free Education
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At a press conference about an hour ago, Noel Dempsey announced that he would not be reintroducing fees and that he had secured an extra 42 million directly from the exhequer to improve the grants system. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 25, 2003 11:40 by Niall Farrell
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The Annual General Meeting of the Galway Alliance Against War will take place tomorrow Monday at 8 pm in the SIPTU offices on Bothar Breandan O hEithir, off Prospect Hill, Galway. There will be two guest speakers: Nuria Mustafa, an Iraqi citizen living in Galway, who will speak about the situation in Iraq and Edward Horgan, who took the neutrality case to the High Court. All are welcome read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 25, 2003 09:52 by Left of centre
One year ago 22 security workers at Belfast International Airport were unfairly and unjustly sack by ICTS, the workers in a last desperate attempt to win a living wage and decent working conditions legally withdrew their labour, they though they had the full support of their union, “ATGWU” but at their hour of need they were let down, not by the union but by bureaucrats and careerists who have collaborated with the bosses to under mind their struggle. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 24, 2003 19:26 by me @ my grrrrr.
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr- read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 24, 2003 19:12 by Hebe
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Nationalists in north Belfast have been warned to be extra vigilant after an increase in loyalist surveillance activities in the area. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 24, 2003 15:28 by i am self righteous and pissed off with them!
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goto the link what do you see? exactly preferred langauge Japanese. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 24, 2003 13:49 by Bela
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Ten minute interview with Dublin Wide Area Network. The ultra low-cost future of telecommunications. Please allow a minute to download. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 24, 2003 00:33 by Outsider
The law setting up the Legal Aid Board of Ireland was very cleverly worded. Essentially it provides legal aid to litigants who are not going to cause any embarrassment to government departments. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 19:43 by We want our entertainment back
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Did a little bit of research on the pirate radio shutdown today, calling Comreg, the Gardai etc. Here's what I found out: 11 locations were raided by Comreg and the Gardai on Tuesday and Wednesday (20th and 21st May) across Dublin. Equipment was seized in 9 of these locations. They (Comreg) wouldn’t give an estimate of the value of the equipment seized and didn’t know the number of Gardai involved. They also wouldn’t say if there was any ministerial involvement so I wasn’t able to find out if McDowell was involved in it at all. They said they worked in co-operation with the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation although a spokesman for the NBCI denied that they had any involvement in the raids or any investigation. The Garda press office also denied any knowledge of the operation. The spokesperson for ComReg said that prosecutions were pending although wouldn’t say whether these read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 16:07 by Joe Carolan
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40 people came together to form a Health Action Group for the North Inner City last Thursday in Phibsboro. With job losses, bed closures and cancellations of operations on the way in the Mater Hospital, local people are coming together with trade unionists in the health service to mobilise community support for the coming fightback, which the Irish Nurses Organisation is preparing for in June. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 13:23 by David Rynne
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Colm Jordan as reported on newstalk 106 has warned the governments that the USI can no longer hold students back from taking radical actions against the government read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 11:19 by Sylvia Pankhurst
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End of the academic year that is, obviously, and a wee report about the stuff we have been up to from September 02 to May 03: Including Shannon, Carrickmines, and making trouble in all corners of the island. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 11:08 by Tom Campbell
A full report of the 'Another World is Possible' conference on Global Protest Movements and Transnational Adocacy Networks, held in Kimmage Manor Development Studies Centre in March 2003 (over 160 people participated!) can now be found at www.dsckim.ie/conference.html - Includes a Summary report of main conclusions, full texts of of papers by Xochitel Leyva Solano (Chiapas), Ray Kiely (SOAS) and Lorna Gold (Trocaire)as well as workshop reports, ideas for further action, etc read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 10:01 by phil
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Animals angry at the abuse being dished out by humans are taking matters into their own hands: read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 23, 2003 02:13 by Tracy Walsh
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The American peace activist and environmentalist Mr John Reese, will address a public meeting on the subject of Palestine, in the Sligo United Trades Club in Castle Street, Sligo, this evening (Friday 23rd) at 8.30.p.m. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the recently established North-West branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday May 22, 2003 23:11 by exodus
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Omagh policing board incited a near riot yesterday, after refusing to answer questions from members of the public about collusion, RUC human rights abuses and continued brutality, and the RUC ignoring warnings of informant Kevin fulton about the Omagh bomb. read full story / add a comment |
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