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kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday February 12, 2008 12:54 by Des Dalton
In a statement the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton supports building workers in Athy, Co Kildare who say they were laid off because of their trade union membership. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Monday February 11, 2008 22:27 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Start: 19/02/2008 - 19:30 read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Monday February 11, 2008 22:20 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Start: 19/02/2008 - 20:00 read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 11, 2008 19:36 by Richard Walsh
RSF have welcomed the acquittal of a Fermanagh Republican on false charges. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday February 11, 2008 18:39 by Miriam
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The British, Dutch and other court's have awarded the voracious Exxon Mobil a first round victory in a court decision which may lead to a savaging of Venezuelan investment in social programmes the benefit the poorest and most needy in that country. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday February 11, 2008 16:11 by Mairtin MacMaolain
Upon leaving the Westlink and heading right towards the heartland of Belfast Republicanism at the bottom of the Grosvenor Road is written on a low wall one of the more thoughtful pieces of graffiti associated with this troubled town. "Nil mar a shíltear a bhítear" it reads, which translates as "that which is thought is not that which necessarily is". Accompanying this defiant meesage is another equally penetrating statement "I am not your stereotype". read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday February 11, 2008 14:29 by Nikita
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The CYM is organising a picket of the Shell station on the Finglas road for Saturday the 23rd of February at 1pm. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Monday February 11, 2008 11:34 by Sean Crudden
When St Patrick as a young man escaped to his homeland from Ireland he reported in his "Confessions" that he heard in a dream the voices of the people of Ireland pleading with him, "Come back, O holy youth, and walk once more among us." Of course St Patrick did come back and he lit a fire on the Hill of Slane - a fire which never went out. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 11, 2008 10:35 by ET
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Jose Ramos Horte was a frequent visitor to Ireland as an exiled activist. These days he is the President of East Timor. He was shot in the last 24 hours. Operated on by the Australian military in Dili, he has been flown to Darwin. See link..... read full story / add a comment
longford / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 10, 2008 03:12 by Over The Edge
Open-mic at National Writers Group Festival in the Literature Louge, Clarke's Bar, Dublin Street, Longford Town on Saturday, February 16th, from 10pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:30 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Friday 15, 7.30pm, Royal Dublin Hotel, O'Connell St., Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:25 by Pauline Hadaway
As part of the Belfast Salon’s series of discussions around race, identity and multiculturalism, sociologist Chris Gilligan explores the rise and rise of identity politics in contemporary Northern Ireland. Chris Gilligan is a sociologist based at Aston University, in Birmingham. He has been widely cited for his work on attitudes towards ethnic minorities http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update44.pdf in Northern Ireland and his work on conflict-related trauma http://www.epilogues.net/Perspectives.asp and the peace process Please RSVP to [email protected] read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 16:36 by R.
Robert Fisk "interviewed from his home in Ireland" gives a brief interview on the USA's NPR (national public radio) program "Weekend Edition" of Saturday 9th February 2008. A biography of Saddam Hussein purportedly written by Robert Fisk has been circulating in Eqypt. Fisk describes his tracking down of the author and the amusing denouement that follows. Not very important, lightly interesting. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 16:12 by regularreadernotprcompany:)
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings. 16th Feb 2008 at 11:00 (98 mins) at the - Savoy €10.00 http://dubliniff.ticketsolve.com/shows/2008/2/16 read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 13:13 by Fanny
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In his 28th Jan 2008, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger with withering outrage attacks the "ritual danse macabre" that is the US presidential election : Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan. Hillary Clinton, another bomber, is anti-feminist. John McCain’s one distinction is that he has personally bombed a country. They all believe the US is not subject to the rules of human behaviour ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday February 09, 2008 09:28 by Des Dalton
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Republican Sinn Fein Vice President describes the announcement by Bathcelor's that it is to close its Athy plant as " a dark day in the economic history of Athy". read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday February 08, 2008 19:14 by Irish Basque Committees
These are hard times for the Basque Country. We are calling on international solidarity to mobilise, to denounce the denial of political and social rights and to support the right of the Basque Country to self-determination. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 16:24 by Miriam
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Over a million dead Iraqis, several thousand US soldiers killed in action, several thousands more soldiers dead by suicide, an even great number of soldiers maimed and disabled. All those lives for non existent weapons of mass destruction and a false allegation of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda - yet George Bush thinks it is funny. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 15:15 by pat c
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Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran faced pro-war journalist Nick Cohen of The Observer in London’s Soho Theatre on January 29. There are links below to an artiocle about the debate and to an mp3 of the proceedings. Yassamine said the peoples of Iran have no wish to be a pariah on the international scene and have a deep antipathy to the theocracy, they also do not want their country to be “humiliated - either by sanctions or air strikes”. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Friday February 08, 2008 12:28 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing Competition: €1,000 in prizes plus major reading opportunity Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2008 sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Bank of Ireland, Kelly’s Office Supplies and Des & Mary Kavanagh read full story / add a comment |
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