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national / housing Sunday November 19, 2006 - 04:10 by Hank
 140 comments (last - monday june 23, 2014 - 15:00)
Refusing rent allowance is discrimination. Media carrying the statement "rent allowance not accepted" are enabling discrimination. How to respond? ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage Saturday November 18, 2006 - 21:21 by Solas Eile
13 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 - 15:54)
In response to Mr. Muldowney's : The Pearsons and their Prosecutors ?? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 21:08 by Kevin T. Walsh
8 comments (last - saturday april 25, 2009 - 18:41)
IRISH PRISONS AND HUMANITY Open Letter to: Governor John Lonergan. Mr. Lonergan, You became Governor of Mountjoy Prison in the 1983. You replaced Paddy McFadden from Belmullet in Co. Mayo. McFadden according to sources in the Department of Justice was given 6 hours notice that he was going to be replaced by a handpicked person – yourself John. It is alleged you come from Banshee, Co. Tipperary. You are a former bus conductor. You have a passion for hurling and your known to have the odd flutter on ‘Shergar’. In the last number of years you have become the most high profile Governor – thanks to media and TV appearances. I................................... ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 14:36 by Sean
2 comments (last - saturday november 18, 2006 - 11:42)
Here are presented 10 REASONS WHY WE NEED A HOLISTIC AND CRITICAL APPROACH TO ‘MENTAL HEALTH’ PRACTICE ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Friday November 17, 2006 - 00:13 by turoe
In a press release on 19th August 2006, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, announced the latest round of exploration licences for the Donegal, Slyne and Erris Basins. The future of Ireland's oil and gas resources is now being decided by the Irish Government in a process patently lacking in democratic legitmacy and accountability. These issues were debated at the “Exploring Atlantic Ireland 2006” conference sponsored by the Department and other interested parties. The conference discussed the so-called Irish Atlantic Margin Petroleum Province, the industry term for the Porcupine, Rockall, Slyne, Erris, and Donegal basins. The conference press statement stated that what it termed the “waters west of Ireland” contain several large sedimentary basins, broadly similar geologically to the basins of the Atlantic margins of Norway, the UK (the North Sea fields), and Canada (the Newfoundland fields). ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday November 16, 2006 - 18:15 by john throne
47 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 - 00:09)
Lynn Walsh of the CWI reviews Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glynn. John Throne comments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 17:17 by C Murray
14 comments (last - tuesday november 21, 2006 - 11:53)
A five judge panel yesterday returned a two year old child to her natural parents after an appeal which saw the child's removal from the couple whom had adopted her from the age of three months. The Media stated the Judge's decision was based on the primacy of the family within the Irish Constitution. The Natural parents are now married and therefore are considered in Irish law to be the traditional or natural family. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 09:51 by Jim O'Sullivan
43 comments (last - saturday november 25, 2006 - 13:03)
Water is in the process of being privatised by stealth. Citizens must inform themselves regarding the ongoing process to hand our water over to a private multi-national company to make profit and learn from the experiences in other jurisdicitons where privatisation has brought hardship to communities and particulatly to the most vulnerable members. Voters should seek to have this placed on the issues list for the upcoming general election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 10, 2006 - 17:24 by A Constituent
2 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 17:56)
Dear Tanaiste and Minister for Justice, It is manifestly clear to me as a constituent in the Rathmines area that your failure to grasp the issues of community opposition to the high pressure gas pipeline in Rossport, coupled with your failure to 'Watchdog this Corrupt Fianna Fail Administration' even as you climbed a lampost in Ranelagh, to underscore your desire to end corrupt practice is a sham performance. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday November 10, 2006 - 15:57 by Danny Conway
1 comment (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 20:02)
To whom it concerns, I must start off by saying that I approve of the Corrib gas coming ashore. I attended a meeting in Belmullet 30 months ago and I voted for this project to go ahead. There were over 800 people there and all but 5 voted in favour. I later worked on the project at Ballinaboy but no longer do so. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday November 06, 2006 - 14:55 by jim travers
6 comments (last - monday october 26, 2015 - 13:57)
Since 1997 I have endeavoured to highlight the need to establish an environmenal end of life vehicle disposal network that would comply with an EU Directive on End of Life Vehicles and help clean up the environment for all of our people to enjoy. My plan was to make Ireland the pride of Europe and a leader in the proper environment recycling and disposal of motor vehicles. Despite knocking on many doors, I experienced an old Irish problem of notyet,not yet, not yet. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Monday November 06, 2006 - 14:02 by Hanshiro
3 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 - 15:56)
The Skelligs Rocks, 8 miles off the coast of Co. Kerry, constitute one of only two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ireland. However, the Office of Public Works (OPW) is currently engaged in reconstruction work there. On the South Peak of Skellig Michael, an altar, dating probably to the ninth century, has been destroyed by unsupervised workmen. In addition, there has been extensive rebuilding carried out on the main complex, which has led to considerable damage to the original structures. The work has proceeded without an Environmental Impact Assessment; while the Department of the Environment and OPW have argued that, because the Skelligs are a national monument (thus covered by the National Monuments Act 2004) and because the current work is part of an ongoing programme of conservation dating back to the 1980’s, neither an EIA nor planning permission is necessary. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday November 06, 2006 - 00:05 by David Alvey
14 comments (last - friday july 31, 2009 - 19:44)
The recent Bertie Ahern controversy showed that the Irish Times believes it has a right to depose Taoisigh it disapproves of. They already have the scalps of Haughey and Reynolds and now they want Bertie's. The paper holds such a powerful position in Irish public life that its faults cannot be openly discussed. A debate between Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, and Ryle Dwyer of the Irish Examiner illustrates the problem. Dempsey failed to mention that the paper broke the law. Neither did he dare to challenge the paper about its over the top anti-Fianna Fail bias. And nobody dares to mention the connection between the paper and the British Foreign Office initiated by Major Thomas McDowell in 1969. So confident are the media professionals who defend the paper, that they simply toss off rhetorical put downs, as in Ryle Dwyers's reply to the Minister. It is past time that the bastion of Irish investigative journalism should itself be investigated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 03, 2006 - 10:55 by Adri Nieuwhof
Early May 2005 Stop the Wall Campaign published an article on its website entitled ‘Challenging Tramways of Apartheid – Swiss activists block Connex shuttle run’. The article evoked the memories of campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday November 02, 2006 - 21:33 by Kevin T. Walsh
18 comments (last - monday june 04, 2007 - 20:40)
Sometime ago, retired Justice Kinlan wrote a damning report on our prisons. McDowell, Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform, went into a 'huff'. He accused Justice Kinlan of being out to get him. The question remains:- A young man was brutally murdered in a cell while five prisoners looked on. Six people sharing one cell.....this had to end in disaster at some stage. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 02, 2006 - 15:45 by Jim Keys
The Scariest thing in Derry this Halloween “Last night I watched our city stagger out of the bars and clubs. Broken bottles and cut eyes. Girls in bright clothes taunting boys with gold rings. I stood there for hours listening as it turned blunt and angrily cast around for the wrong look or a flicker of fear to attack. It lingered to jeer at a girl boking against the wall of a bank and moved on. The whole street seemed to be lurching and scowling in sullen expectation....” ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 22:27 by cropbeye
5 comments (last - sunday november 12, 2006 - 15:36)
A publication called Centre Focus is a regular newspaper funded by FAS. It uses as an office the Centre for The unemployed North Main st. The building is owned by Cork Council of Trade unions. In a series of tabloid style articles it has raised concerns about sterotyping and attackiing those that are involved in progressive activist work and in particular the greater understanding between different ethnic and religous groups. Many complaints have been made about its editorial style but why is it not being discussed on a wider format.? ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 15:16 by S. Fabian
7 comments (last - saturday february 10, 2007 - 20:20)
Authoritative feminist analysis of issues around statutory rape. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 30, 2006 - 14:48 by The New World Order Resistance
1 comment (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 - 14:13)
www.ipsc.ie 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' (Martin Luther King) The IPSC was set up in late 2001 by a group of established Irish human rights and community activists, academics and journalists who were deeply concerned with the current situation in the Occupied Territories. In partnership with Palestinians now living in Ireland the IPSC was formed to provide a voice for Palestine in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 30, 2006 - 13:34 by Joseba Agudo, lawyer from the Basque Country
Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana’s hunger strike has been in the media in recent weeks. After 63 days on hunger strike demanding justice and attending the numerous requests he received and the mobilisation of Basque society, De Juana ended his protest. He began his hunger strike due to the attempt by the Spanish State Prosecution to get him sentenced to 96 years in jail for writing two press articles. ... read full story / add a comment |
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