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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 30, 2006 - 16:18 by Donnchadh
 31 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2012 - 20:46)
Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday September 29, 2006 - 15:20 by Miriam Cotton
13 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 09:25)
Vincent Browne's strange affliction with trying to find jusitifications for the likes of Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern seems now to have infected recently appointed columnist Chekov Feeney - also a member of the Indymedia.ie editorial collective. Feeney's Newspaper Watch column has, while throwing a welcome spotlight on many examples of media bias and seeming self-censorship -and is apparently unique in Ireland in its objective - sometimes failed to deliver truly well aimed punches at obviously deserving targets. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 29, 2006 - 13:34 by John McDermott
3 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 20:43)  2 images
The coalition is divided. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday September 29, 2006 - 11:31 by Michael Coulter
A family member of a sex-offender tells me that A U.S style evangelical Preacher is accessing sex-offenders and bringing them to the kingdom of God - Oh Yes. He has been banned from Limerick Prison and Cork, He is currently in the process of being banned from Arbour Hill. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 28, 2006 - 22:50 by Ingrid555
3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 21:15)
Ireland's revenge on England. The REAL Yorkshire Ripper has damaged the fabric of English society far more than the Provo bomb squads ever did in the 1970s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 23:41 by Michelle Clarke
16 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 18:17)
All I feel at this time is about the adage ' walking in the moccasins' of another. Do many of us really remember the 1980's? I do. I emigrated with my then husband to England (we hadn't the qualifications for the US. Both he and I worked in the building industry, for large companies - M.F.N. (liquiddation) but one of the big 9 in the 1970's. Then the Gallagher's Abbey. It was rough one day to see all staff lose their jobs as the construction marketed faltered further in the early 1980's. Land banks existed but planning permission for sites in places like Yellow Walls in Portmarnock were at log jam as Governments changed. I am forever grateful to people like Michael O'Leary and their foresight for Ryanair. It meant we had left Ireland but it was possible to come home and frequently. We brought new friends home. This would not have been possible in the Monopolised Aer Lingus challenged by O'Leary. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 22:35 by Michelle Clarke
20 comments (last - wednesday april 22, 2009 - 19:14)
Reuters: Leading world information source Did you know? 'More die from Suicide than Wars, Murders' Mental Health, Drug Addiction, Brain Injury Recovery, Addictions, eating disorders, anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, Fears, and so much more. Where is the integration in policy..........Who understands and who really cares? The areas include social, community, education, health, the thread runs through society......even to the mentality of people driving cars and flying planes.....Yes, the big one is Stress - Anxiety - and Depression it is said 25 % of people killed in RTA's are in fact Suicides. Let's get real. Integration, co-operation, rehabilitative disciplines and teams to work on say people with mental health and neurological provlsion complicated by Chronic Fatigue syndrome while at the same time ensure that people are sufficiently alert and aware to physical conditions like cancer... The statistics and comparisons in this area make interesting reading. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 16:50 by Peader De Bluit
8 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 08:43) 1 image
Peader De Bluit Tá an teanga Gaelach mar chuid lárnach de shaol na tíre seo. Is teanga fíor-stairiúl í an Gaeilge. Sí an céad teanga scríofa an Eoraip, agus ó shin i leith tá mórán athruithe feicithe aici, cosúil leis na hathruithe a tháinig ar an tír féin. Ní hí an teanga céanna a labhair Cú Chulainn, ná fiú an teanga céanna a labhraíodh nuair a bhí na Gaill ag iarraidh a lámh láidir a chur i bhfeidhm anseo. In ainneoin sin áfach sí ár dteanga fós í agus tá se de dhualgas againne í a labhairt agus a bheith bródúil aisti. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 11:46 by Kimmage Red
In another vainglorious attempt to misuse electronics to exclude, the newly-erected Tánaiste intends to make it an offence of the State to be a non-EU national without good reason to be in Ireland. Non-EU nationals, including one might assume North Americans, New Zealanders and those sexy Brazilian dancers - you know, good migrants? - will be asked to prove that they have good reason to be shopping in Carroll's O'Connell Bridge. In other words, the burden of proof that one is not a ‘foreign national’ lies on the individual. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday September 26, 2006 - 11:04 by Dermot
I wonder am I alone in thinking, when presented with a collective picture of career politicians smiling on the steps of the Dail, that the elected members of that house might have difficulty finding their arse with both hands. It is little wonder that the grinning gombeens are smiling like a cats after a bowl of cream. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Monday September 25, 2006 - 20:40 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
12 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 - 19:55) 2 images
Many eyes at the moment are on the UK's "new Labour" party leadership. Tony Blair the man who became the youngest ever leader of the "labour party" & then renamed the party which once had been a movement. He went on to become the longest running prime minister in British history apart from the historic & ghastly Thatcher, Disraeli & Gladstone. His regime saw quite a few key incidental & tragic deaths, constitional reform in Scotland, Wales, London and the northern Ireland statelet, & a commitment to war coached in his namesake's Eric Blair (George Orwell's) "big Brother's peace". We know he lied many times to parliament, people, party & even we presume his Queen. What made many of us choke on the splinters was his assertion (july 2004) that "he couldn't lie". In many ways his style put "sociopathy" into social democracy whilst all the time pushing a vague concept of "meritocracy"......" if you can lie through your teeth you may be one of us someday!" ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday September 25, 2006 - 16:08 by ronan
11 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 - 02:09)
"The first sequence with Caine is what started me hating the whole thing, summing up the political depth of the implied critique by the soundtrack of Radiohead and the Beatles; might as well have namechecked George Monbiot while they were at it. " ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Monday September 25, 2006 - 13:09 by nothing leftist
24 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 15:28) 1 image
Monday morning rant. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 24, 2006 - 19:18 by Kevtin T. Walsh
17 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 14:09) 1 image
And the other side........Development, Racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Celtic Tiger that is sometimes called the 'Pussycat' Rolf Harris 1960's 'Two little boys......; moral being, one assist the other to get back up on the horse. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 22, 2006 - 17:58 by Sean Crudden
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In an atmosphere of hustle, hassle, harass, hurry it is difficult to think straight. Even those who can think under pressure would surely think more clearly if there were peace. We need to settle down and get our heads together because we are approaching a decisive political cross-roads in Ireland. There may be tiredness and frustration on one hand and powerful, discordant and divisive voices on the other. Now is not the time to allow ourselves to be manipulated any further. Every individual must assert his and her rights and think clearly for themselves. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday September 22, 2006 - 16:30 by John McDermott
9 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 - 00:58) 1 image
"Me Ma said that uncle Phil died,when he was 75 in a place where only rich people went for medical treatment when they got ill.There was no waitin lists or queus there as long as you had plenty of money.It was in a posh part of the city too out past Ballsbridge. I was grown up then and runnin the country of course. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 22, 2006 - 15:48 by Dec McCarthy
1 comment (last - saturday september 23, 2006 - 23:40) 1 image
Rice’s new’ Middle East is depressingly and wearyingly familiar to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the history of imperialist interventions in the region. Just like those British and French colonialists who sat over maps a century ago redrawing boundaries across the Middle East, the US, the UK and the Israelis imagine they can shape a subcontinent regardless of the needs or desires of the majority of the people who live there. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 22, 2006 - 12:03 by Mark Malone
2 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 - 19:34) 1 image
The Irish government’s explicit support for Shell’s proposed development in Rossport, against the demands and wishes of a large proportion of the locally affected community, exemplifies not only the highly organised and funded public relation strategy that Shell and its partners have used. It also highlights the massive democratic deficit in this country. In a broader sense corporate Public Relations, and it’s close links to government, is perhaps one of the most potent factors in curtailing meaningful democracy. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 22, 2006 - 10:18 by John O'Shea
2 comments (last - monday september 25, 2006 - 17:50)
The need for an international standing army to prevent horrendous massacres is no more clearly demonstrated than in the case of Sudan's cursed Darfur zone, which is in free fall. The risk to civilians there is greater now than at any time since the conflict first erupted. The African Union peacekeepers' mandate expires at the end of this month, and Sudan has rejected entry of a UN peacekeeping force. Aid agencies - the lifeline for 2.5 million people - are threatening to pull out as a result of the direct targeting of humanitarians, leaving the already devastated civilian population further exposed and at risk. Sudan plans instead to send in a large number of its own troops. Given the government's record, it seems quite likely that - with international observers out of the way - Khartoum can get on with the business of completing the genocide that it already under way. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 22, 2006 - 03:16 by Pinhead
1 comment (last - sunday july 15, 2007 - 13:11) 2 images
Lightswitch is a Dublin based production company promising to bring theatre goers the 'ridiculously serious and the seriously ridiculous.' If its chaotic humour and a theatre of the absurd they aspire to then through a healthy mangling of a Greek classic with Antigone Interactive, they hit the nail partially on the head but falter at the point of audience interaction and political depth. The Antigone lead comes across oozing sassy stylistic rebellion like a photo shot prepped baile funk star MIA - all gun belt for show and Che Guevara t-shirt as poseurish portend to an inevitable martyrdom for ritually burying her brother against her father's edicts. ... read full story / add a comment |
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