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national / eu Thursday February 26, 2009 - 15:39 by Kieran O'Sullivan
The Campaign Against the EU Constitution has conducted research to show that RTE's coverage of the Lisbon treaty was unbalenced in favour of the Yes Side. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 26, 2009 - 15:36 by mickburke   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 01, 2009 - 19:29)   image 3 images
Indymedia contributors should start to think now about how this site will report the strike called for March 30th. There is no certainty that the strike will go ahead, some deal may yet be done to avert it, but if the stoppage does go ahead we need to report it in a way that befits the occasion. A national strike would have profound significance both nationally and internationally. Up to a million people will be involved one way or the other, the world will be watching Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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armagh / miscellaneous Thursday February 26, 2009 - 11:13 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
THE recent publishing of the report by the Consultative Group on the Past demonstrates the simmering sectarian tensions and hostility beneath the surface.The 190 page report by the group, chaired by ex-Church of Ireland primate Lord Eames and former Policing Board vice chairman Dennis Bradley marked 18 months of consultation with victim groups and others that have been bereaved through the conflict. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 26, 2009 - 03:09 by Aquiles Magana   text 2 comments (last - monday april 27, 2009 - 20:54)
Update on the current situation in the Salvadoran presidential election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 25, 2009 - 12:57 by TruthWillOut   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 23:59)   video 2 video files
Amnesty's report on weapons used by both sides in Gaza finds much to condemn.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/012/2009/....html

The group is particularly hard on the U.S., having found numerous remains of American munitions -- including white phosphorus shells from Pine Bluff Arsenal, and a Hellfire missile made in Orlando.

Another weapon which bothers Amnesty is a mysterious munition, filled with cubic particles.

This type of ultra-precise strike capability is supposed to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.

So we turn once again to Garlasco's comment, from an earlier conflict:

"It is unfortunate that these weapons are being developed specifically for use in densely populated areas which may negate the intended effect." ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 11:58 by Etain   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 - 10:25)   image 1 image
“People who got mortgages they can’t afford to pay back were greedy and foolish and should suffer the consequences…They signed a free contract, they’re adults and they have to take responsibility for their actions”. This is the kind of thing that gets thrown around a lot in recessions. It conveniently ignores a few things. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday February 22, 2009 - 22:08 by Dermot O'Byrne   text 20 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 - 20:24)
Is the Labour Party led by Eamon Gilmore on the side of the working class? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 22, 2009 - 15:22 by Gregor Kerr   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2009 - 11:33)
From late morning yesterday (Sat. 21st February) it was clear that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ National Demonstration was going to be huge. It was also clear that those marching were from all over the country and from all types of employment – both public and private sector. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 20, 2009 - 16:32 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 21, 2009 - 14:12)   1 attached file
All are strongly urged to turn out with their unions on the ICTU March to-morrow. March begins at 2 pm from Parnell Sq.

Leaflets can be collected at Royal Dublin Hotel, O Connell St, from 1pm on Saturday for distribution in your section of ICTU March. Text of leaflet (not laid out) is set out below.

Next General Meeting of Public Service Alliance, Thursday Feb 26, 8.15PM, Teachers Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin.

All are welcome. Keep up the "grassroots" pressure
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national / arts and media Monday February 16, 2009 - 13:06 by Paul O' Sullivan
What Senators say on Sundays ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 12, 2009 - 17:50 by [email protected]
Sixty-five thousand people in the cold, lots of vilis but only one Robbie Keane. But it's important to say it like it is, in football and politics. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 23:29 by Paul O' Sullivan   video 2 video files
Oh, Pat. We really can't stand you now. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 19:07 by Paul O' Sullivan
Takes four seasons to find one's voice ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:44 by jim travers   text 13 comments (last - wednesday march 18, 2009 - 16:12)
The man is in a corner, his party in a hole, the opposition lining up to take on the government’s toxic debts
and Ireland once again is in an economic shithole that was brought about by political representatives who neither knew how to spend wisely nor how to manage properly, in case of a rainy day, the state’s finances. Joe Higgins was a total gobeen for telling us that we were on a slide to disaster, while David McWilliams was criticised by everybody and anybody who proudly professed their expertise in the financial affairs of the state. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 08, 2009 - 19:33 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 - 12:42)
Last week, Martin Mansergh unwittingly gave an insight into the Fianna Fail's attitude toward the opinions of the electorate. His appearance on TV3 was a reminder of his less antagonising sibling. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 01:13 by Conor.M   text 62 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 - 14:17)
Third level fees should be re-introduced. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 06, 2009 - 10:00 by Gavin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 06:08)
Dublin Bus is slated to see huge cuts in both staff and services. As many as 290 workers and 100 buses will be cut. This means fewer routes and less frequent service. If the Dublin Bus workers go on strike, it will mean an inconvenience for a few days. However, if they take action and force the company to back down, it will in the long run save us all time and money and will help the environment. It will also serve as a message to the politicians. If they want cuts, they can start by tightening the belts at the top, not the bottom. The politicians are giving bailouts to bankers while they hand out cuts to workers and commuters. It's clear where the money to support public services should come from. It should come from the people who created the crisis!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 18:39 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 13:15)
class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 17:04 by Gerry Downing   text 7 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 21:37)
The strike is now coming to a conclusion. The British labour movement will emerge from it a great deal worse that when it began. The negotiations are centred around which nationality gets which jobs, with even more reactionary demands emerging from the SP that jobs should be 'local'. The strike began about BJ4BW, some gave whole hearted support and pretended the posters, union jacks and pickets comments were just 'media lies' (Galloway et al), others came to the schizophrenic conclusion that the strike might be on reactionary demands, but ‘really’, dialectically, in a contradictory way it was about a fight to advance the rights of all workers and since it might become that it was ok – a sort of ‘if your aunt had balls’ argument.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday February 05, 2009 - 14:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
A look at who's really to blame from a self-confessed Celtic Tiger cub ... read full story / add a comment
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