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national / environment Monday July 31, 2006 - 05:51 by cool j
 11 comments (last - thursday august 03, 2006 - 22:38)
The following is based on accounts I recieved from many local people in the Erris region of how thanx to inference from Noel Dempsey and others, the mediation process became hi-jacked by a small but noisy group of Shell apologist's who are well known locally for their contempt for local peoples legitimate concerns about the current projects affect on there health, safety and the local terrestrial and Marine environment. It goes some way to explain certain bizarre findings in the Cassels report , such as the lie that the project has the backing of the majority of local people etc. when the the truth one finds from visting the area is obviously quiet the opposite ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday July 30, 2006 - 21:46 by Dolours
The train's rolling stock and interior :dated. The exterior: over the carriage couplings, new paint-work, inside each one had a leak, which wet all luggage of passengers. The Bathrooms: smelly and small. No trolley, food car or facilities to heat bottles, change diapers, breast feed. No facilities for disposing hygenically of sanitary equipment. Exacberated by a 25 minute delay outside Heuston. Intending greeting parties waited and left, as the board lit up 'on time' and then the Castlebar train vanished off the board. This is travelling, Celtic Tiger style. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 16:57 by A
15 comments (last - tuesday august 01, 2006 - 19:01)
The Pitstop Ploughshares have never had an easy ride with the mainstream media. From the lies broadcast about the nonexistant assault on the Garda in the hangar. To the oft reported fabrication that the Irish taxpayer was picking up the "US2.5 million for repairs to the warplane. The powerful defense testimony was largely censored form the Irish media. Now the battle of the myths rages post-trial Alos a frightening repsonse form the White House to the jury's acquittal in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 00:40 by Seán Ryan
1 comment (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 01:17)
Bush apologises to Tony for shipping Bunker Busters through Britain without permission last week. This week he ships more munitions through Britain having received permission. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday July 29, 2006 - 20:48 by john throne
I am very sad to hear about Ted Grant. I met him first in the late 1960's and from him I came to understand the basics of marxism. He defended the method of marxism throughout the entire difficult period of the post war period. In particular he defended the orientation to the mass organizations of the working class and the struggle for the revolutionary program within the working class. This laid the basis for maintaining a working class orientation and analysis and program in Ireland where I lived over many of these difficult years. I have great memories of Ted explaining his ideas at meetings and conferences and in discussions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 27, 2006 - 15:03 by jim travers
2 comments (last - thursday july 27, 2006 - 21:04)
The Gardai are being placed in a position where the whole responsibility of road safety is being placed on their shoulders and supported by the Road Safety Authority. According to Bertie, we re all to blame for the carnage so stand back and be prepared to be wipped and later fined for such blatent abuse of our road traffic regulations. Dont blame the government, they try and do their best but people insist in driving cars and causing damage. Read on ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:27 by Chris Murray
1 comment (last - tuesday august 01, 2006 - 14:32)
One of the intimacies of war is death and lamentation. It was one of the intimacies of civilised society too, before the issue of death becme a taboo, something to be fought and dominated. Especially within the capitalist framework, wherein a few days entitlement to remove yourself from the rat-race is the nod to the process of grief. Wakes, in the houses of the head were a common practice in Irish society. They were structured rituals which involved every member of the family and extended family in their individual capacity as mourner, story-teller, Keener and waiter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:12 by Mahmoud
30 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 - 20:41)
I am a Palestinian Muslim living in Ireland and I must speak out against the war against Israel which is bringing war down on Muslim heads in return. Take another look the map of Israel. It is a tiny sliver of land been the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. If Israel was not militarily powerful holding back the enormous miltary forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia would be simply impossible. In a matter of hours Israel would be invaded if armies broke through the defences of the Golan Heights or crossed the Jordan River valley, encompassing the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, or swept through the Negev and surrounded Al Quds and Tel Aviv from three sides. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Monday July 24, 2006 - 23:24 by Roger C
2 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 - 03:06)
Can anyone explain what all the penny pinching and panicing has been about? This year the Department of Education has UNDER SPENT by £68 million!!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
longford / health / disability issues Sunday July 23, 2006 - 15:34 by Sean Crudden
22 comments (last - tuesday march 31, 2009 - 12:36)
Why was John Carthy so isolated? Why was he one against many? What is the rationale for the Abbeylara siege? Why did John Carthy have to die? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday July 23, 2006 - 03:31 by cool j
10 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 03:10)
Anyone read last weeks editorial in the Sunday times in which they put the boot into the Rossport 5 and subsequently unleash an angry rant against environmentalists,lefties etc. and anyone else who dares question the right of large multi-nationals to tramble over Irish citizens rights and our enviroment.? ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday July 22, 2006 - 02:58 by The Arbiter
6 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 22:13)
THE CSA IS SET TO CLOSE DUE TO A HATCHET JOB BY SIR DAVID HENSHAW ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday July 20, 2006 - 10:23 by Chris Murray
2 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 - 13:40)
George Dubya Bush has used his presidential veto to block the vote on Stem Cell Research The census , in Ireland has given us a constitutional challenge regarding the Dublin West constituency. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 15, 2006 - 22:15 by Sean Crudden
How far are the rights of the dead to be respected, upheld and vindicted by our judges and our courts? Has anyone the right to act in the name of a dead person? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday July 15, 2006 - 10:22 by Ed Lee
6 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 - 17:02)
The Israeli-Lebanese+Gaza conflict and wildifires in California. I can't help but think both situations are alike. Both cause destruction and can easily spread. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 14, 2006 - 22:56 by Brian Mac Grath
This article provides some background to the terrible events at Daechuri, and the neighbouring village of Doduri, where the South Korean state is using powers equivalent to the Irish Compulsory Purchase Order to clear the local farmers off their ancestral lands for a proposed expansion of the existing Camp Humphreys military facility, previously a Japanese military base. The farmers have been moved off their lands with extreme brutality, and the village is now surrounded by thousands of troops and police, villagers have been served with eviction notices and the area is enclosed by barbed wire. Protest by letter and e-mail to the South Korean Embassy: 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. City: Dublin Phone: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109 Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716. Updates on the situation can be found on: http://antigizi.or.kr/english/ http://www.saveptfarmers.org/Daechuri_background http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/ Brian Mac Grath. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Friday July 14, 2006 - 20:58 by Spinning Quickly
20 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 22:44)
Imfamous club closes after five months ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 13, 2006 - 14:16 by Jim O'Sullivan
4 comments (last - thursday november 16, 2006 - 19:06)
The government policy of privatisation is being undertaken by stealth, Community Alliance are taking any opportunity available to alert the public and promote discussion on the issue to be open it for discussion ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday July 13, 2006 - 01:36 by Nick Folley
15 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2012 - 13:59)
(Originally written in response to this article - ed) I am one of the legion of the amused who watched as (mainly British) critics lashed "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" before they'd even seen it - a fact which in itself speaks volumes for their motives. I have seen it, and in terms of historical accuracy it seems pretty close to what I've read in IRA veterans accounts and heard from their mouths. True, in real life there were some decent individuals - there always are. There was a Black and Tan who allowed an IRA captive to nip in and see his dying brother when the Tan's officer's back was turned. Yet there were also ones like those who slit Kathleen Clarke's sister's hand from fingers to wrist with a razor. I think critics of Loach would do well for their own sakes not to make too much noise about the depiction of the Tans. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 03:15 by Michelle Clarke
29 comments (last - thursday july 02, 2009 - 16:43)
As a person with many disabilities I have spent over three years writing via net for broadband........all I end up is paying for broadband since 2004, then the 1892 account t that ran tadjacent and my own account.......was running up a bill, on the basis that I had no broadbank. I write emails because I am phone phobic and limited to certain tasks a day otherwise it is confusion and I advised Disability section broadband all about these criteria. Now I am cancelled with aq bill. I lose out on the rent change paid by government....... All I asked was that a service man put in the equipment as my intellectual abilities make it difficult!!!! But no........Service is Irish style, lots of advertising and no action or no thought. Has anyone else fallent into trap............ ... read full story / add a comment |
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