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national / history and heritage Tuesday May 22, 2007 - 15:34 by Andrew Flood
 4 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 - 15:19)  9 images
Almost 210 years ago on the 23rd of May 1798 the largest popular republican rising in Irish history began. Across the island tens of thousands fought under the banner of the United Irishmen. Hundreds of thousands had been sworn into the organization in the preceding four years. On four occasions revolutionary France sent thousands of troops to aid the rebellion, the United Irishmen had built contacts with revolutionary republicans across the globe, including the USA, France, Hamburg and England. The response of the British state to the rise of the United Irishmen was a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that stirred up sectarian conflict on the island. 1798 thus came to shape much of the political struggles that took place in the following centuries. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Sunday May 20, 2007 - 11:26 by C Murray
14 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 - 18:27)
To Precede this 'Opinon and Analysis' on the Constitutional crisis of May and June 2006 and right up to this election, I want to state that the statute which came about as a result of emergency legislation equally mitigates against the 12-17 year old pre-consent boy; but the sub-title of the piece is focussed on the creation of an under-class. The collapse of the 1935 legislation which came about as a direct result of the Laffoy Judgement on the 'A' case led to the introduction of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006, (amended 2007), this included the insertion of the unconstitutional section 5 into the statute, which still stands , without repeal and without re-visit. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 18, 2007 - 21:10 by R
Review of first volume of Roddy Doyle trilogy. Political Fiction dealing with Dublin in the early part of the Twentieth century and depicting in the Doyle style the events leading to the Easter Rising and the subsequent 'Tan' war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Thursday May 17, 2007 - 09:52 by C Murray
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This is just a short Opinon and analysis, because details are sketchy and the Irish Times has the story. COSC was set up rather rapidly by the Dept of Justice in the run-up to the General election. It involved a reply to the burgeoning problem of violence against women and was set up under the aegis of 'Equality'- there seems to be a problem with the issue , as last night a press release from combined Violence against women campaigns including Amnesty, The Rape Crisis Network, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and other concerned Non-Governmental Organisations asked for it's remit to be published and for it's work to be stopped. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday May 13, 2007 - 12:34 by C Murray
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"The Primary focus of a small piece like this would generally be accompanied
by the two images which I had considered putting up, but everyone who is regarding
the debasement of their culture in the face of Globalisation would have an
image in mind that fulfills the picture My focus in usually on Gender and Debasement" http://www.indymedia.org.uk/2007/05/370522.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 13, 2007 - 09:08 by Brian
13 comments (last - thursday april 28, 2011 - 08:21)
This is just an attempt to see if some of the large social changes taking place in Ireland right now are the result of deliberate government policies, aimed at controlling dissent, rather than just random acts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 12, 2007 - 00:55 by paul o toole
1 comment (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 - 20:36)
New Law's of the land ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Friday May 11, 2007 - 19:09 by Keith Mothersson
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Thomas McLaughlin assures us that “no one actually tried to steal last Thursday’s ballot” (Glasgow Herald, Letters, 7 May 2007). But how do any of us know? If a team of e-fraudsters had succeeded in shifting one vote in ten from Party X to Party Y would they have left a calling card out of sheer bravado? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday May 11, 2007 - 15:32 by Libertarian Infusion
2 comments (last - saturday may 19, 2007 - 19:47) 1 image
This is England is a masterful film: vibrant, uncompromising, complex, full of life, remarkably unsentimental and an unflinchingly honest account of how the rise of ring wing nationalism occurred in white working class communites under Thatcher ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 11, 2007 - 13:43 by lithium
2 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2007 - 13:09)
As the battle between the HSE and the nursing unions escalates, we can all do our bit to help them! ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 09, 2007 - 21:04 by Alcjo
8 comments (last - monday may 28, 2007 - 12:01)
Esperanto and the libertarian movement The purpose of this short article is, firstly, to inform readers of the benefits to be had learning the international language –Esperanto, secondly, to illustrate how the Esperanto movement, through the efforts of its world body SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmondo, or non-national world association of Esperanto) is strongly committed to the fight for workers’ rights worldwide, and against the rise of global capitalism, and finally to look ahead to the possibility of forming a Workers’ Esperantist Movement throughout Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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
national / politics / elections Sunday May 06, 2007 - 15:18 by Seán Ryan
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The government is in a shambles. McDowell is ducking and diving. Tis the most interesting election ever in the emerald isle. ... 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 
dublin / miscellaneous Saturday May 05, 2007 - 14:41 by James Doyle
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Protesters outside. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday May 05, 2007 - 14:01 by C Murray
35 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 - 13:33) 2 images
The mainstream radio stations are covering the announcement by an t'Uachtaran of the referral of the Criminal Laws 2007 to the Council Of State, if agreement is not reached then the matter gets referred to the Supreme Court. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82244 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82176 The last act of the Present Minister for Justice was to appoint a number of new Judges. The Irish Times, surprisingly are leading with an exclusive with photo of Minister Mc Dowell stating that the PD's have secured further revelations of Taoiseach Ahern's finances and were reflecting on their position with regard to coalition. ... 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 |
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