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international / miscellaneous Sunday July 09, 2006 - 00:08 by Seán Ryan
 4 comments (last - monday july 10, 2006 - 16:29)
Chapter 9 of Book II. Been a while since I last published from Book II. This time I have a go at proving the existence of God, as was promised in an earlier chapter, in which the groundwork was laid. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday July 08, 2006 - 17:04 by Political Hostage
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Running parallel with the vicious media campaign of vilification against the McKevitt family was a campaign of intimidation and harassment conducted by members of the Garda Emergency Response Unit ERU. The overt campaign was directed at the entire McKevitt family including the three youngest children who were aged 8, 6 and 5. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 07, 2006 - 16:57 by Frank Lee
13 comments (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 - 01:23)
I was suprised to read in todays Belfast Telegraph Frank Bunting offering any opinion on the cash crisis at the SEELB. The conduct of the INTO in this matter has been disgraceful. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday July 06, 2006 - 21:40 by number 6
4 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 - 16:15)
Hidden additives. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday July 02, 2006 - 21:21 by Chris Murray
29 comments (last - tuesday march 13, 2007 - 11:55)
Archives dating from the period 1922-1939 are to be opened by Pope Benedict on the 18th of September 2006. "Giving new insight into what the Catholic Church knew and did as Europe saw the rise of Nazism in Germany and the Spainish Civil War" The files are known as the Secret Archives and files of its Secretariat of State for the Pontificate of Pius X1. Reuters/ Irish Times :- (1-07-06). www.ireland.com Googled the Holy See, (as one does) to see if more info can be had on Benedict's criteria for choosing this specific time-frame, such as- have the archives up until 1922 been opened before and this is part of a synthesis of release, or why the abrupt stop at 1939? Reading history in a linear fashion rather than as something which often involves mass-movement or community consciousness would tend to point to this era being crucial. The period preceeding 1922 would hold an unlimited fascination in terms of labour movement and the assasination of such figures as Rosa luxemburg (Jan 1919). The Spainish Civil war is mentioned also in the hopeful analysis of that specific time encapsulation, the assasination of Lorca comes to mind. The 17 year period of file and archive release necessarily reduces the reading of the archive within a specific narrow framework which does not account for the build-up to facism which would definitely preceed the watermark indicated. The archives would contain some fascinating documentation of that period in world history but are they part of an ongoing cycle of release or are they an isolated example of a criteria of choice with regard to the Shoah? informations on the secret archives are to be had on the Vatican website www.vatican.ca http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm http://asv.vaticanva/en/studi_stud,htm In terms of bureaucracy and official secrets, many governments wd have a specific period of time during which state papers are sealed and released. The opening of the secret archive in an Independent State such as Vatican city would probably have a different criteria for selecting and approving the dates for release of such documentations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 29, 2006 - 20:19 by Chris Murray
2 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 22:03)
Professor Peter Mitchell of the UCD school of physics , provided today a completetly risible excuse for the media -led campaign on nuclear energy in this country. The campaign has been trundling on at least since Feburary 16th of this year, though it gathered momentum on June 1st with the press release from the Oireachtas Committee on natural resources that the nuclear option is one that we should be examining. According to Mitchell nuclear power generation in Ireland could provide an answer to our offence at and opposition to war. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 17:59 by Chris Murray
10 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2007 - 10:53)
How apparent was it in in the Dail? A constitutional referendum on the recently debated (use the term advisedly) Criminal law (sexual offences) Bill 2006, has produced more controversy in Dail Eireann today. Mr Ahern has stated that there may (after an all-party committee) hearing on all aspects of the law , including the constitutional implications, which may lead to a referendum to drop the 'honest mistake' defence and a referendum would ensure that in effect we would be returned to the 1935 act. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 15:41 by B. F.
4 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 19:36)
We need a 'Highly Respectable' Dublin Law Firm which offers Pro Bono facilities to help discover the truth regarding a £1,00000 Donnybrook estate. The matter is still on-going... however we need serious answers from the Bank of Ireland and the Post Office. Please help. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 01:05 by Liam Mullen (Liam Ó Maoláin)
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The British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in a speech given to the House of Commons has stated that “the global scientific landscape is now shifting”, and she has referred to the rise of India and China as highly significant. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 14:54 by Seán Ryan
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Three new Mayors 'elected' last night. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday June 25, 2006 - 15:16 by meself
4 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 - 00:14)
The controversy surrounding martin mcguinness. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday June 24, 2006 - 17:36 by David Manning
Death Without Context In an article search of the Irish Times archive for the period June 2005 to June 2006, the search term "Iraq lancet" gave 3 results, the last of which was printed in December 2005. A search, for the period May 2006 to June 2006, using the term "Iraq US troop" found that the number of US military casualties was reported 8 times in less than two months, only one of these reports compared these figures with Iraqi fatalities. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday June 23, 2006 - 21:49 by Liam Mullen
3 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 - 10:26)
The recent letter from a reader of the Irish Times crying foul on a political cartoon that appeared in the wake of the late Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey’s death is interesting, because it epitomises the raw emotions that surface in the face of this form of political expression. I must add that I am in no way connected to the cartoonist in question, but that I have had the benefit of media training, and I can understand the nuances that this type of visual journalism can manifest within the reader. Often a cartoonist who has done previous work with a political figure may be signing off on the figure at the time of their death. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 23, 2006 - 21:31 by Liam Ó Maoláin
1 comment (last - thursday july 27, 2006 - 16:32)
Caitheann an tOllamh Chomsky Neamh-súil fuar ar rudaí ar fud an Domhain – Na Cartúnna Danmhairg, An Iaráin agus an Cogadh Iaráic, an d’aois Núicléach, agus Cursaí Reatha eile. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday June 23, 2006 - 19:15 by Miriam Cotton
5 comments (last - wednesday december 28, 2011 - 09:10)
For three weeks running, Vincent Browne has written at length about Charles Haughey in Village, Browne's weekly current affairs magazine. Defenders of Haughey are not hard to find of course but it’s doubtful that there can be anyone who is so clearly conflicted and contradictory as Browne has been about 'The Boss'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 23, 2006 - 17:32 by Gregor Kerr
4 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 - 17:21)
This is the text of a leaflet which has been drawn up by members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation who are opposed to the new pay deal as presented to us for ratification. A version of this leaflet was distributed to approx 500 INTO delegates from all over the country who attended a 'Consultative Conference' on Whole School Evaluation last weekend. Thanks to the generosity of a number of union members a copy of it has also been posted out to most schools in the Dublin area and some around the country. Unfortunately we don't have the €1500 it would cost to send the leaflet to all 3,000 or so primary schools in Ireland. This is not a problem that will face those who favour the deal - the union leadership. They have no problem spending members' money to give the 'pro' side of the argument. If you are a member of the INTO please print off this leaflet and distribute it to your work colleagues. If you would like to contribute financially to sending out the leaflet contact me at the Email address shown. If you're not in the INTO, the information in the leaflet might be of benefit to you in your own union. Please feel free to use it as you will. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday June 22, 2006 - 11:55 by John Flood
2 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 20:48)
During March and early April a wave of protests and occupations gripped France. On March the 7th over one million people protested against the French government’s attempt to introduce the C.P.E., a new law that reduced the rights of young workers. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday June 22, 2006 - 11:34 by Sister Conception Cramp.
4 comments (last - thursday september 21, 2006 - 14:29)
Yesterday Minister for (Justice) Michael Mc Dowell TD asked Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD to "step aside" as party leader, before the next general election. The possibilities are endless in terms of cliche. One that springs directly to mind is an old Irish favourite: "The Shit before The Shovel". ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 21:43 by anon
So I read in the Times this column inch about Bertie Ahern meeting a delegation from Iraq in Dublin organised by the IRI, that is all there no other mention of it I can find, ok so diplomatic meetings rarely get much sattention but this is more then that this is 8 MPs from Iraq's newly elected government. Ireland and the UN have brought democracy to Iraq and with all that bads news and 'unwarranted flak' the government has been getting over the Shannon and Bertie doesn' t want to use this opportumity to shout from the rooftops? with those men DEMOCRACY!! not even a photocall, or a told you so! you nitwit. Oh I wish I was one of those journalists you hear about. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 19:40 by Mustafa Tubevis
10 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 - 02:32)
The Scottish Socialist Party United Left (or SSP United Left for short) is a new grouping in the Scottish Socialist Party. An appeal to launch this grouping took place on 13 June 2006. ... read full story / add a comment |
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