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laois / history and heritage / event notice Friday April 06, 2007 21:34 by BadSamaritan
Laois James Fintan Lalor Cumann will hold an annual Easter Commemoration on 8th April 2007 at 1:00pm sharp marching from Shaw's on Main Street Portlaoise to New Cemetary on the Stradbally Road. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 06, 2007 20:19 by El Greco
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The Royal Navy crew have been giving a press conference Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held in isolation during their 13 days in captivity, the crew have said. They were lined up while weapons were cocked, making them "fear the worst", one of the 15 freed sailors revealed. The crew were told that if they did not admit they were in Iranian waters when captured that they faced seven years in prison, a press conference heard. And after their capture the 15 marines and sailors were subjected to random interrogation and rough handling, and faced constant psychological pressure, they said. read full story / add a comment
sligo / arts and media / event notice Friday April 06, 2007 15:54 by Pauline Howard
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A weekend of learning, discovery, celebration and fun for women of all ages. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday April 06, 2007 14:19 by Dublin Shell to Sea
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Dublin Shell to Sea are organising a bus to Rossport, leaving Friday 13th April and returning on Sunday 15th for a solidarity weekend with Rossport. Peat Haulage has started, and there have been call outs for people to get to Rossport. read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday April 06, 2007 13:15 by Union member
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Sligo Borough Council voted down a motion condemning the governments policy which will tax aid speculators to build a private hospital on public land beside Sligo General Hospital. This is the first Council to endorse what amounts to the beginning of the privatisation of the Health Service. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday April 06, 2007 03:05 by Diet Simon
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Opponents of Germany’s main dump for highly radioactive nuclear waste are crying foul over a deal the environment minister is proposing. The deal would be to resume exploration of a salt deposit as a final repository if the minister’s opponents agree to a wider search for alternative sites. Local opponents to dumping near the northern village of Gorleben point out that since the early 80s there has been scientific proof that the salt dome there cannot prevent atomic waste from entering the biosphere because it lacks rock cover. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 06, 2007 02:43 by Tom
‘The Agony of Living So Close to Your Home Village: Internally Displaced Palestinians in the Galilee’ Talk & Film Screening - Dr Moslih Kanaaneh Dr Moslih Kanaanah is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in Bir Zeit University in Ramallah, Palestine. He is the co-producer the film being partly screened during the talk, a member of the Steering Committee of Centre for The Study of Palestinian Society and Heritage (Ramallah), and on the Editorial Committee of Society and Heritage Journal, an Arabic quarterly published in Ramallah. read full story / add a comment |
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