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international / sci-tech Wednesday May 09, 2007 - 14:42 by Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien
 4 comments (last - wednesday may 30, 2007 - 01:07)
The Inter-Faith Roundtable is a loose affiliation of people of different beliefs (from Christians, to Muslims, Hindus to Sikh etc) who seek to promote peace, tolerance, respect and understanding between the creeds and those of none. We believe that integration is an essential part of that process, as the lessons of Europe so starkly indicate. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage Wednesday May 09, 2007 - 00:15 by Joe King
100 years ago Belfast saw the first big battle between the working and employing classes in Ireland. The dockers' and carters' strike was the spark which lit a fire of working class militancy. Workers were flexing their muscle, Catholic and Protestant were uniting, 'Larkinism' was giving the bosses nightmares. Even the police got caught up in the new mood and mutinied. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 08, 2007 - 23:50 by Gregor Kerr
The nurses’ work-to-rule and their threat to escalate the action has been met with an outraged onslaught by Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. The sight of a group of workers standing up and demanding their rights has become so unusual that it seems as if the government cannot believe the temerity of the nurses in doing just that. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday May 06, 2007 - 17:59 by Well, Well
12 comments (last - sunday may 13, 2007 - 16:00)
Gerry Adams on RTE Radio 1 today - ditched practically the entire list of Sinn Fein tax proposals. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday May 06, 2007 - 08:01 by Shell to Sea Supporter
1 comment (last - sunday may 06, 2007 - 20:49)
The May and June AGM period of Shell Annual meetings in London and Amsterdam should be the specific annual period where the focus should be on giving the Irsh public factual and visual information on the record of Shell worldwide as it struggles to find its feet in Irish waters.This should be the goal in every activity during this period so that people come to know once again why there is opposition to Shell in Mayo, and Ireland is in union with other Shell- suffering comminities who will be making their voices heard at this time. At the very least lots of placard information and messages. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 04, 2007 - 12:03 by Kevin T. Walsh
1 comment (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 - 00:10)
We need TV naturally to embrace news and what is happening around us. We also need radio but Liveline this week was a complete sham. Joe with the ego (Bottler)and Williams (the great man of fiction on Irish Gangland). We all know what happened when a prisoner phoned from a cell in Portlaoise. I personally believe RTE have broken the law on this occasion. How can we have a prisoner in Portlaoise taking the airways and making threats. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 30, 2007 - 20:21 by Kevin T. Walsh
3 comments (last - sunday december 23, 2007 - 21:28)
I always had an interest in Irish History and many summers ago I spent time travelling around Ireland viewing old graveyards. I recall being below in West Cork and old farmer brought me to view three unmarked graves on his land. They were three old IRA men shot by the Tans in 1921. The farmer had written their names on three pieces of wood. I walked through Letterfrack and I wondered if the rumours were true of the unmarked graves of little children. These children most likely died violently at the hands of Church and State. Some old men in small towns told me that if the secrets were unfolded, that Ireland was awash with babies left in bogs, and lakes. He said they not only drowned pups at that time, they drowned little children too. That men spoke to me in West Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday April 25, 2007 - 22:22 by Joe King
12 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 11:28)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 24, 2007 - 06:40 by Perplexed
4 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 22:20)
Public servants were leaned on, to not attend a protest in Galway City yesterday, 23rd April, about the water situation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:21 by the great excluded
12 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2011 - 16:01)
Fianna Fail plan to renage on the promise to sell local Authority flats to long term residents at a reasonable price ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:18 by Lily
Appeal to other communities who have been subjected to the infamous Rural Planning Services form of 'consultation'. Shell have recently appointed RPS to consult our community about where we would like the high pressure raw gas pipeline to go...hum i can think of a few places!! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:07 by Martin Clancy
5 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 - 18:21)
This article consists of notes for a guest lecture in NUI Maynooth on the anti-war movement in Ireland at its highpoint between September 2002 and March 2003. The focus is on the use of direct action in opposition to the use of Shannon airport for re-fuelling by the American military, and the different arguments within the anti-war movement in favour of, or against, the direct action tactic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday April 20, 2007 - 10:19 by C Murray
16 comments (last - monday september 17, 2007 - 18:48)
At the time of the murder of Rachel Kiely, Ian horgan was sixteen year old boy. He was originally convicted of rape and murder but eventually got imprisoned for manslaughter. A murder conviction would have carried a mandatory life sentence. Horgan was due to be released this year but the DPP applied to have the case appealed by the higher courts. The new sentence is a twelve year sentence for rape and man-slaughter (to run concurrently) which taking into account the four years already served means he should be out in a three-five year period. He's very young at twenty three is he not to be doing such heavy time? Is Ireland trying children as adults? ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday April 19, 2007 - 22:05 by Dónal Griffin
1 comment (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 - 19:07)
A look at the plasticity of the Irish political scene in the run up to the general election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday April 16, 2007 - 20:35 by Kevin Walsh
11 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 21:52)
Some years ago, we had a tragic murder at Grange Gorman hospital of two innocent women. It was one of the most horrific murders in the history of the State. Another horrific point about it is the investigation of the Garda Siochana. Dean Lyon was a young drug addict. Depressive, suicidal and now in hindsight Dean had a walter mitty state of mind as a result of drugs. Yet Gardai had him incarcerated for 9 months in Mountjoy prison. Within a few weeks, they knew their mistake but a junior member within their ranks pushed the issue. Some time later, Dean Lyons, took his own life in London. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday April 15, 2007 - 12:15 by Alan MacSimoin
8 comments (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 - 16:10)
The Workers Solidarity Movement, along with anarchist organisations throughout the world, refuses to take part in parliamentary elections. Is it not downright weird, or even hypocritical, when anarchists claim to want more democracy than anyone else? Is this a rejection of democracy? Alan MacSimoin tries to answer some of the questions that arise again and again ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:26 by Galway water crisis
10 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 - 16:52)
Galway Spring Water get looked after by Galway City Hall. The people of Galway, having already lost their choice to drink tap water, now told they must drink Galway Spring water if they want to avail of the "buy one, get one free" offer. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Saturday April 07, 2007 - 16:21 by useless eater
12 comments (last - sunday september 16, 2007 - 21:06)
Frank Fahy has launched a webpage called www.isupportthebypass.com Ye can add yer votes and comments. I do NOT support the bypass for the following reasons: ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Friday April 06, 2007 - 13:15 by Union member
6 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:13)
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
national / consumer issues Thursday April 05, 2007 - 17:44 by Sean Crudden
Advocacy is an "in" term these days. When we advocate are we really pursuing the best interests of those on whose behalf we are advocating? Or are we only trying to placate and tell people what they want to hear? Then, too, there are often a lot of stock cribs which advocates may parrot easily off in the hope of gaining kudos or easy respect from the judges - the administrators and the public. ... read full story / add a comment |
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