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national / politics / elections Thursday June 11, 2009 - 10:06 by rebels yell
 1 comment (last - friday june 12, 2009 - 06:58)
European Election OR Sectarian Head Count 2009? Sinn Féin's sitting MEP Bairbre de Brún created Northern Ireland electoral history by topping the poll with 126,184 votes. However, both the Dublin and Irish governments will tonight be pondering nervously about the future of their landmark Good Friday Agreement (Sunningdale Mark II). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 11, 2009 - 09:47 by Paddy Hackett
1 comment (last - saturday june 13, 2009 - 15:04)
In his article in the The Sunday Business Post David McWilliams dishonestly fails to reference a main source for his article called Moral of the Mayan Meltdown ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 11, 2009 - 09:07 by Marie O'Connor
The severing of women's pelvises in childbirth for doctrinal rather than medical reasons must rank as one of the biggest health scandals in the history of the State, second only to the contamination of the human blood supply. Only an independent inquiry into symphysiotomy can close this final, shameful chapter in the story of institutional abuse in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 09, 2009 - 23:25 by RasTinny
3 comments (last - sunday july 05, 2009 - 02:51)  2 images
The much appraised living standards of the west are not to be envied as they are created at the cost, murder and sufferring of millions of humans and the inevitable destruction of all natural live on earth. Thats why the promise of economic development is a lie, a myth. It is based on the philosophy that the wealth and living standards of Europeans and Americans are more important than the welbeing and survival of any other life form on earth. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 09, 2009 - 00:28 by Union Member
3 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2009 - 03:25)
Indymedia readers will be familiar with the work of Frank Connolly- He is the closest thing we have had to a good investigative journalist in this country for many years. The Corrib Gas report, Quarryvale and most recently his untangling of the corrupt mess that emerged from the incestuous nature of the Galway Tent, Dublin Docklands and the Anglo Irish Bank are just a few examples of why we need vocal independent and committed people like him to help us try to hold our political elites to account. It might seem surprising that someone with his track record would write an unreservedly supportive article about Siptu’s recent performance under the stewardship of Jack O Connor, under whose leadership the union has accepted the inevitability of attacks on workers as the first and maybe only solution to a crisis that could disenfranchise a generation. Remember the day of action that was called off? The Pensions levy? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday June 08, 2009 - 15:04 by Paddy Hackett
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The capitalist state forces revenue out of the workers in the form of taxation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday June 07, 2009 - 20:17 by Sean Matthews(personal capacity)
3 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 - 21:37)
The brutal sectarian murder of voluntary community worker Kevin McDaid in Coleraine has again exposed the ugly face of sectarianism in Northern Ireland and the fallacy of the so-called peace settlement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday June 06, 2009 - 13:42 by Election watcher
27 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2009 - 14:56) 1 image
Anyone able to get tally figures,etc ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Thursday June 04, 2009 - 16:24 by Joe Higgins
10 comments (last - friday june 12, 2009 - 14:32) 1 image
The Evening Herald today joined the political establishment in a desperate bid to dig FiannaFail out of an electoral hole in Dublin by publishing a pathetic 'Red Scare' smear against me as the Socialist Party Euro Candidate by Fianna Fail Minister of Defence, Willie O'Dea. Resorting to the most illiterate of political abuse, O'Dea pathetically tries to associate me with the ghost of the monster Stalin to scare Dublin voters, thereby insulting their intelligence. The Herald is guilty of sharp practice and contemptible and partisan pro Fianna Fail propaganda by publishing lies from both O'Dea and Eoin Ryan without, quite deliberately, having afforded me any opportunity to respond. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / animal rights Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 16:36 by John Fitzgerald
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The finding of three mutilated greyhound carcasses this week at a popular seaside resort (Kilteery Pier in County Limerick) shows just how expendable these animals are deemed by their owners once their performance days are over. The likelihood that they were greyhounds bred for hare coursing, judging from their build, should serve as yet another reminder that we are one of the few remaining countries that still permit this depraved and viciously cruel blood sport. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Monday June 01, 2009 - 23:05 by Joe Higgins
8 comments (last - tuesday june 02, 2009 - 15:53) 5 images
Just when Fianna Fail's Dublin Euro Candidate Eoin Ryan thought it couldn't get much worse, it did. Mary Harney publicly endorsed him! The hapless Eoin must have felt his political lifeblood chill as Harney's cold kiss of political support sealed his fate.Already spurned by many categories of workers from airport staff to teachers - all victims of Fianna Fail's slash and burn response to the Fianna Fail induced crash - now every nurse, doctor, hospital attendant and taxi driver whom Harney has alienated in her day will join the revolt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday May 29, 2009 - 11:30 by Ishmael Lemass
1 comment (last - tuesday june 02, 2009 - 17:51)
The latest opinion polls continue to reveal a decline in support for Fianna Fáil, traditionally Ireland’s most successful political party. Disapproval of the coalition FF/Green Government’s performance is at 84%, a staggering indicator of dissent. Yet FF – the Soldiers of Destiny - retain support from some 20% of the electorate. Apparently not all who are dissatisfied will vote against the party.
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national / consumer issues Thursday May 28, 2009 - 05:15 by Is Linn an Tír Seo
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Could Ireland, in its own way, become a beggar sitting in a bank of gold? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 17:28 by Gregor Kerr
1 comment (last - tuesday june 02, 2009 - 21:18)
Since the publication of the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse last week, we have heard a litany of so-called apologies and calls for the religious orders responsible for the running of what should rightly be described as child labour camps to ‘face up to their responsibilities’. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Monday May 25, 2009 - 10:48 by Bernie Wright
26 comments (last - tuesday june 09, 2009 - 10:13) 1 image
The animal liberation movement has the mammoth task of exploding the myths behind so-called "humanely produced" animal products, such as cage-free and free-range eggs or meat that is "certified humane." We try to expose the truth behind the marketing of food products that supposedly cause less harm to the animals used to produce them--foods that are meant to assuage the guilt of people who are concerned about animals (sort of) but who stop short of not eating them. Of course this eases their consciences about causing suffering to animals. It is a half measure. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Sunday May 24, 2009 - 12:39 by Joe Higgins
8 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 - 11:03) 1 image
There is fear and loathing in the vegetable patch. The greens are nervous and restive. Inclement environmental conditions have sapped their once bright emerald hue leaving them looking pale and sickly. But worse is to come. Rumours abound of an army of ravenous caterpillars waiting to crawl all over them and expected to do so on June 5th. The greens know the consequences. Their once succulent leaves shredded, what beckons is a humiliating journey to the compost heap. Greens, however, have strong survival instincts and so they are desperately trying to stave off the evil day. ‘I’m off to Tralee,’ Twittered Senator Dan Boyle, ‘ to say something controversial.’ That something was a call for the renegotiation of their Programme for Government with Fianna Fail. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 23:35 by A Freeman
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No prosecutions of clerical child abusers? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 20:12 by ipsiphi
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This story comes without a summary. It is indeed such a lengthy story that it could deserve the soundtrack of the popular movie "never ending story". & So are you invited to read the main text or simply skip an opinion with what might pass for analysis and simply peruse at the Irish commission into inquire into Child Abuse Executive Summary of May 2009 the gist of which is being read more than U2 lyrics throughout the catholic speaking world. http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2009/childabusecommissi...x.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 14:34 by Roger Yates
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Gary Francione, US law professor, animal rights philosopher and founder of Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explains why human and nonhuman rights are perfect together. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 18, 2009 - 14:48 by Diarmuid Breatnach, personal capacity
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Despite revolutionary socialist idealogues stating the right of nations to self-determination and the duty of socialists to offer solidarity, most of the non-Republican Irish Left have ignored the Basques. With political, social and cultural organisations banned and their activists arrested and often tortured and then jailed for long prison terms (765 convicted political prisoners), the pro-independence Basque Left movement is entitled to socialist and anti-imperialist solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment |
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