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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 06, 2007 14:29 by Simon Bolger
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Yesterday I was horrified to see that politic campaigns are getting started and soon we will have to endure giant billboards of Michael McDowell face scaring us at every turn. Something you would not want to run into in a dark alley. But this got me thinking about a serious question, should political parties have anything to do with Students’ Unions? read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 11:23 by CAPS
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The UK-based Captive Animals' Protection Society and Dublin-based Alliance for Animal Rights have launched a website as part of their campaign to end the use of animals in circuses. The website includes reports, videos, information on animal circuses and encourages the public to get actively involved in the campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday February 06, 2007 09:48 by RogerC
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Exhibition and Seminar commemorating the fight against fascism. Spain 1936-1939. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 00:31 by Sean
An emergency appeal from human rights groups in Canada for individuals and groups internationally to show solidarity with three detainees in Canada's Guantanamo who are approaching their 75th day on hungerstrike on Wednesday 7th February. Please take a minute to email, phone or fax your protest to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin and copy to the campaign at the address given below. 65 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 353 (1) 417-4100 Fax: 353 (1) 417-4101 email: [email protected] Please copy emails to: [email protected] and [email protected] read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday February 06, 2007 00:22 by poetry news
Thursday, 15th February at 9pm in BK's Winebar. Just when you thought it was safe! You thought he had gone away. He's back! read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday February 05, 2007 16:05 by Seán Ó Murchú
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At a special meeting of the Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive) body of Republican Sinn Fein a decision was taken to field candidates on an abstentionist basis. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 05, 2007 15:51 by none
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Monsanto Ireland CEO Patrick O’Reilly is furious at RTE 2 for broacasting “The Future of Food” last Sunday. He has complained to RTE and to the chief scientists of the various agricultural research bodies. The Irish Farmers Journal printed the following article in its current issue: read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 05, 2007 13:23 by Con Carroll
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do-not forget Justice for Terence Wheelock read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday February 05, 2007 12:53 by Seán
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A gathering of veteran civil rights campaigners took place in Belfast at the weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the fonding of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday February 05, 2007 12:17 by The National Secretary
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FINGLAS COMMUNITY WORKER TO STAND FOR DUBLIN NORTH WEST IN GENERAL ELECTION John O Neill, a local community worker, is standing as a socialist candidate for the Dublin North West constituency in this year’s general election. With a solid performance in the Finglas Ward on his first electoral outing in the 2004 local election (where he finishing on the fifth count with 1300 votes, ahead of the Green Party and Progressive Democrats), John is in position to make a breakthrough on a clear platform of independent working class politics. read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 05, 2007 02:47 by Nora G.
In today's UK Guardian, a letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Walden Bello, Michael Greger, Mike Davis, Caroline Lucas, Green MEP, Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action, Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Michael Albert, ZNet. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner and Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general warns that "Humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday February 04, 2007 23:01 by Kevin T. Walsh
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In the last number of years we have heard about Gardai indiscipline and Gardai brutality in our country. The Morris Tribunal in Donegal states that is fact. But tonight let us focus on prison in-discipline and prison collusion of hatred within the system. The 17 years I worked with Simon gives rise to meeting a variety of people. They were mostly homeless due to a compulsory overtime system. This system was overturned in the High Court in the 1980's but it was too late for hundreds of officers who suffered from depression and additcton to alcohol within the System. Tonight I give their story. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 03, 2007 17:24 by Liberates
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Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in which a US navy plane was decommissioned with the aid of tools and symbols of peace. This five-part article by Harry Browne charts the journey of the action from inception to acquittal, and in turn, paints a portrait of each of the five activists who sacrificed so much, that others might not suffer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 03, 2007 16:06 by pat c
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Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins are getting," she says. Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript. pat c Britain's child army Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 15:41 by jay
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We the undersigned note call on the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Department of Transport to invest in facilities to encourage the pursuit of cycling in Ireland. It is now 20 years since Stephen Roche won the Tour de France and in that time car dependency has been encouraged at the expense of cycling. More teenagers drive to school than cycle. To encourage cycling in Ireland, we call for more cycle lanes, cycle tracks to encourage cycling at all ages and a national velodrome with a cycling academy to find a new generation of world class cyclists in Ireland. We need your support! read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday February 03, 2007 13:41 by Julia Doherty
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Recent legislative proposals to have the age of consent lowered from 17 to 16 have been met by opposition from the Catholic bishops. A committee on child protection in the Dail put forward the suggestion, an effort to resolve the controversy caused by the laws on statutory rape that were introduced in the summer. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 01:19 by Con Connor
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How can we stop our corrupt governance from destroying our unique heritage that is the Gaelic Celtic Royal City of Tara? Nice letters to the corrupt media? Answering Pat Kenny's questions - do you live on Tara? By asking Meath Co Co to stop the NRA? By telling everyone that the forced double troll road will not fix the designed transport problem? Protests? Listening to unqualified sham lawyers? Signing petitions? I dont think so - the corrupt governance of this country is steered by the most devious of them all - bad bertie and he only listens to bad bad bush. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday February 02, 2007 19:35 by Sean Crudden
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When Louis XIV made the statement "L’etat c’est moi" (I am the state) he diminished himself because whatever way you think about it the state is a smaller and less important thing than any one of its individual citizens. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday February 02, 2007 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / press release Friday February 02, 2007 17:15 by Limerick Socialist Youth
• Minister for Education finally promises to fund upgrade of Ardscoil Ris • Keep up the pressure to make sure the promised Ardscoil Ris building is financed • Upgrade all Limerick schools to accommodate the growing need for places • Provide new school places for the new housing developments read full story / add a comment |
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