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national / animal rights Wednesday February 16, 2011 - 10:16 by Bernie Wright
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The Fine Gael party has pledged, in its 2011 election manifesto to reverse the ban on the horrific practice of carted stag hunting. This barbaric activity was banned by the outgoing government in June 2010 on both animal welfare and human safety grounds. This barbaric "sport" involved hounding a farmed or semi-tame deer for miles across Meath and North County Dublin until it was cornered by a pack of hounds and mounted hunters. Some stags got hit by traffic, got injured by colliding with fences or barbed wire or collapsed from exhaustion. Many of the stags that were chased died days after the hunt from captive myopathy caused by stress. NPWS reports reveal one Stag was drowned and another was choked. By the end of a days hunt, one, possibly two tame stags would be found with their tongues hanging out from exhaustion after a two to three hour chase. The hunted Stag is wrestled into a crate by about six men at the conclusion of the hunt or left out as an outlier to be hunted again. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday February 14, 2011 - 17:49 by RSC
Dear politician, Economically speaking we are being sold out by our elected representatives via the nationalisation of bank debt, while anything of value – such as our oil and gas resources - are given away via privatization. Socially we are losing a generation to emigration, most of whom will never return, nor will have any economic reason to do so without a reversal of how this nation is managed. Now in a state of desperation for employment, any environmental sacrifices dictated by private infrastructural projects will be justified by the offer of temporary construction jobs – crumbs off the plate while the corporations feast on our rich natural resources. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 13, 2011 - 15:25 by Paul Lynch
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A former chief of the Corrib Gas Project proclaimed that “Corrib will pay no tax” owing to the billions already spent on the decade late project. Brian O’ Cathain - who was managing Director of Enterprise Energy Ireland before the company was bought out by Shell in 2002 - made the startling claim just before last December’s budget. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday February 13, 2011 - 14:01 by ordinary citizen
6 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2011 - 22:18)
These times we live in require people with initiative in positions of power. People who can come at a problem from different angles and don’t necessarily play by the rules. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday February 12, 2011 - 20:18 by El Libertario, Venezuela
* On November 2010, in the Spanish city of Cordoba, during the celebrations of the Centennial of the historical anarcho-syndicalist union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Round Table discussion about Latin America’s social movements took place. A representative of El Libertario was present and delivered the following report. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday February 11, 2011 - 13:30 by Celtic Warrior
9 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2011 - 23:35)
The Peoples movement calls for its supperters to vote for and to help 4 independent councillors to be elected in Dublin, Sligo, Donygal and Galway. This is vital in order to ensure that a number of politicans are elected with principled policies on the EU and leaving the Euro currency and on taking the Icelandic approach to solving our banking debt. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / animal rights Thursday February 10, 2011 - 10:44 by Bernie Wright
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A new development in hunting circles has the obviously hard- up North Galway hunt touting for business on the website DONEDEAL. Punters are invited to hunt, terrify and dismember foxes in Galway for the day and to celebrate St. Valentines day at a hunt ball with the hunters on Saturday night for 250euro a person. They will have about 75 people out hunting that day. All monies will go to the North Galway hunt. Please boycott the Westwood Hotel in Galway. Also please send your thoughts on wildlife abuse to both the hunt and the Hotel. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday February 09, 2011 - 19:40 by john throne
6 comments (last - tuesday february 15, 2011 - 15:33)
Large numbers in polls show opposition to the IMF/EU bail out. Yet the ULA while doing well is not able to come close to this level of support . Why is this? We try and raise some questions in this regard here. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Sunday February 06, 2011 - 16:39 by troisc
7 comments (last - tuesday february 08, 2011 - 11:52) 2 images
This is some confusion around about Fis Nua and New Vision. ... read full story / add a comment
When I was young I remember my father and mother discussing someone in fairly heated terms. The epithet used to some up the discussion was that this person (I do not remember who it was) was a "dog in the manger." I was all ears and later I got my mother to explain to me what a "dog in the manger" meant. "The dog cannot eat the hay," my mother elaborated, "But he won't let the horse eat it." ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 04, 2011 - 01:01 by Ronoc
4 comments (last - thursday february 10, 2011 - 17:05)
I have watched the recent BBC3 documentary about Cannabis consumption in the UK. There's interviews with people who say they are addicted and then people who are not, and in the latest episode, it was about drug smuggling and illegal immigrants who work in the house where the weed is grown. The customs manage to stop alot of weed getting into the UK but its only a fraction, and the money involved is quite alot. Its shows all the negative sides of the illegal trade and trys to make smokers feel guilty. But I wonder if it was legal how much money could be made from this crop and how much crime would be cut... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday January 31, 2011 - 23:52 by Luke Eastwood
1 comment (last - sunday february 13, 2011 - 14:43)
Our society is changing for the worse and it is no accident... here's why ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2011 - 21:54 by Fathi Tobail
The continues and rapid developments in Egypt requires a through analysis and objective understanding of this situation away from hasty judgments and emotional feelings that an ordinary Arab man who is fed up with regimes that did not fulfill his aspirations for a better life. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday January 29, 2011 - 16:39 by ordinary citizen
5 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2011 - 13:54)
Our political system is shifting towards being more in line with the common decency of our humanity. The possible coalitions formed after the election ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 27, 2011 - 21:23 by jp
9 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2011 - 13:51)  1 audio file
A short song about what the IMF is all about. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday January 26, 2011 - 21:07 by former Green voter
15 comments (last - tuesday february 01, 2011 - 11:15)
Gerry Adams made a big contribution to politics with his statement on the EU and IMF and has shown the way out of the mess that the political establishment and their EU and IMF overlords have saddled the Irish People with for the next 20 to 50 years. As well as defaulting we need to free ourselves from the IMF shackles and to leave the EU as soon as we can. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 25, 2011 - 18:59 by Paddy Hackett
22 comments (last - sunday february 06, 2011 - 16:23)
Given that without modern symbolic logic, a product of analytical philosophy, there would have been no computer technology in existence today we see the significance of analytical philosophy. The same cannot be said for the non-analytical continental philosophy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 22, 2011 - 22:09 by Richard Irvine
Ex-British Prime Minister and peace envoy Tony Blair uses the Iraq War Inquiry to beat the drums for more war in the Middle East. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Friday January 21, 2011 - 11:13 by Bernie Wright
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The WARD UNION stag hunt is now banned. Mounted Fox hunting , hare hunting, beagling and the shooting of many of our native birds and wildlife continues to be legal. To enable us to monitor these activities we need more ordinary people living especially in County Meath and County Dublin to photograph hunters on public roads. This is perfectly legal and enables us to know the extent of hunting that is now taking place. We also require information on the whereabouts of any Red deer seen in the fields. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 19, 2011 - 15:50 by AIMS Ireland
One midwife, one woman, one birth Childbirth groups and midwives’ associations across the country are united in their opposition to Sections 24 and 40 of this Bill. Deputy Caoimhghin O Caolain's amendments to these Sections are our amendments: they must be supported. Other amendments that have been proposed are a distraction. ... read full story / add a comment |
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