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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 08, 2005 - 14:57 by MNS
 5 comments (last - monday july 11, 2005 - 00:41)  2 images
The Quantified Risk Assessment published by Shell E&P Ireland outlines the extent to which they are willing to risk the lives of the people of Erris ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 08, 2005 - 01:25 by Statin the Obvious
6 comments (last - friday july 08, 2005 - 20:51)
As the spin on the mainstream media comes thick and fast following the facist bomb attack in London, the moderate Make Poverty History has been sidelined in the discourse. They are sidelined because they didn't have the integrity or courage to address the war. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 07, 2005 - 17:30 by paul o toole
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international / environment Thursday July 07, 2005 - 12:28 by PAUL
Nothing can be more exasperating then the realization that nefarious financial interests are wrecking the environment with the false excuse of saving it. This global tendency applies also to the lagoon city of Venice. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 06, 2005 - 23:31 by Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
IRSP - IRSCNA issued the following statement regarding the Group of Eight meeting in Scotland. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday July 04, 2005 - 10:00 by H. Highland
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Shell is a corrupting force throughout the world. It must be the same here. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 03, 2005 - 15:32 by iosaf .:. the ipisphi ·.·
10 comments (last - thursday july 07, 2005 - 13:36) 8 images
We are the mass. We make our regimes. the G8 do not lead the world. Yet their collective malpractise and tolerance to injustice compounds the poverty which their historical exploitation began. "Thank you Pop stars and Pop Prime Minister, you have recruited for us. We will guide these kids to political awareness" ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 03, 2005 - 01:00 by M.M. McCarron
6 comments (last - sunday july 03, 2005 - 14:16)
Rossport Gas Pipeline Issue ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / arts and media Saturday July 02, 2005 - 23:06 by It was crap 20 years ago and is still crap
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The real function of the mediocre LIVE 8 shite, apart from PR for Tony blair and boosting the flagging careers of crap capitalist rock stars, is to distract global media attention from the millions marching and protesting in Edinburgh against the G8. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Saturday July 02, 2005 - 20:47 by John McDermott
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Who are the robbers mentioned in Martin Cullen,s press release at the opening of the M 50.? ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 02, 2005 - 00:01 by City of Exclusion
8 comments (last - tuesday december 26, 2006 - 23:48)
The 18-hole course at Castlereagh hills has been dubbed one of the most spectacular council-owned courses in Northern Ireland, and is exactly what deprived, international jet set , rich buisness executives and professionals need to unwind and relax in luxury after they attend their private 'Fitness first' gyms. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday July 01, 2005 - 23:00 by City of Exclusion
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As hoity toity sophisticated professionals, and 'cultured' yuppies sat down to sip their champers and 'enjoy' a night at the opera in Botanic gardens, to whinny along to 'la bohema'. They're enjoyment was somewhat curtailed by 200 protestors picketing the presence of a Royal Marine band at the lavish Belfast City council's opera in Botanic Gardens. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Friday July 01, 2005 - 16:49 by Mago Merlin
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The free movement of workers is claimed within the EU but now with reduced, curtailed rights, workers moving from one country to another find themselves discriminated against. In effect they are being recast as second class EU citizens, only achieving first class status when it comes to pay taxes. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2005 - 20:14 by Michael Seighin via Roisin via eeekkk
12 comments (last - wednesday september 02, 2009 - 01:48)
[Ed. Note- This is the statement Micheál Ó Seighin prepared for the High Court yesterday as his rationale for refusing to abide by an injunction aimed stopping local people and landowners from getting in the way of Shell Oil's construction of a controversial 'offshore' pipeline on land at Rossport Co. Mayo. He extemporised and ad libbed from this prepared statement in the court] ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2005 - 18:05 by Mary Carroll
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The G8 summit & the issue of aid to Africa is explored in an interview with an Irish missionary working in Uganda ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 29, 2005 - 00:27 by Michael
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The below is a plea to the world to finally end poverty. Please read and pass it on by e-mail to all of your contacts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 29, 2005 - 00:07 by IRSP
10 comments (last - monday july 04, 2005 - 00:38)
The following speech was delivered by IRSP Ard-Comhairle member John Murtagh to a gathering of about 200 members of the Republican Socialist Movement at Bodenstown, the burial place of the Founding father of Irish Republicanism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Tuesday June 28, 2005 - 08:51 by John McDermott
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Well connected businessmen never need to follow the law of the land. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 27, 2005 - 01:51 by iosaf very late at night.
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It has long been observed, that on Sunday the mass does different things. Some go to church, some return from clubs and sleep, some read a book, some do the gardening, some catch up with their kids, some eat a lot, some practise yoga, some Vote. It has long been valued that on their non-banking days people are pretty much the same as when they work, graft, toil and sweat. Except they have less money making opportunities. This facilitates their increased participation in their society as citizens and nationals of the Civilised World. It has long been observed that the mass on their non banking days readily absorb shite. This is why coups are most successful on the weekend, and elections as well. It is on your non-banking days that you are presented with the most filagree woven tissues of spirit and lie, ghost and truth. It is through weekend that we have considerable space in your head. In today's edition :- "being counted" ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Monday June 27, 2005 - 00:50 by Miriam Cotton
You might be forgiven for thinking that the election of two women presidents had firmly established respect for the contribution that women can make to Irish public life. A review of the media coverage of Kathy Sinnott makes you realise, sadly, that we have some way to go. You’re left wondering exactly whose interests some newspapers exist to serve because it is unlikely to be the large – if silent – majority of offended readers who are actually very grateful for Kathy Sinnott’s efforts on their behalf. Thankfully, for the thousands of disabled people and their families, who have benefited from Sinnott’s determination, she is sanguine about this. ... read full story / add a comment |
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