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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 03, 2007 - 11:11 by Davy Carlin
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A few thoughts on Policing ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday September 03, 2007 - 10:11 by Brian
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This is a theory which attempts to shed light on the obscure origins of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Sunday September 02, 2007 - 17:12 by Dee
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How Tara has come to this I do not understand and do not accept. Stop the destruction now. Begin the World Heritage Park now. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Saturday September 01, 2007 - 13:47 by C Murray
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Last week, Joan Burton, a highly talented finance spokesperson and stalwart of the Labour Party withdrew her candidacy from the running for leadership of the Labour Party (a centrist concern with a pre-election pact with a right wing party). She cited lack of internal party support for her decision and nominated herself for deputy leader. This is a problem, for the preceeding forty eight hours The Irish independent Newspaper had been running the Gilmore story on both front page and editorial columns as The main bet for leadership, There is no other candidate declared. Deputy leader Liz Mc Manus is delaying nomination until later in the week. The profiling of women in irish politics, especially in mainstream parties relegates women to secondary positions, indeed a cursory glance at the papers indicates that politics is indeed a 'Job for the Boys', Tony O Reilly says so and he makes a lot of profit out of it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday September 01, 2007 - 09:34 by Sean Crudden
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Increasingly the patient is no longer seen as a passive recipient of medical treatment. Attempts are being made, at least at an ideological level, to involve patients more in the design of medication and to lend some weight to what patients really think of medication and how it is affecting them. Naturally there are life saving chemicals like penicillin, insulin and cytamen (for vitamin B12) but there is a plethora of more optional drugs on the market not least a whole cabinet of neuroleptic drugs. From my own observations as a patient for over 30 years attending clinics and hospitals throughout that period it is unclear whether many of these drugs have an authentic role in (a) preserving life or (b) in improving the quality of life of the patient. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 29, 2007 - 16:30 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky
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In our disposable society, what value do we place on our ancestors? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 28, 2007 - 09:19 by Gerald
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Can the Olympics take place in a country with no respect for human life ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 28, 2007 - 09:12 by T. H. Ledwidge
The conviction of Michael McKevitt was far from the finest hour of our judicial system. The latest revelations leaves no doubt that he was unfairly tried and convicted through the pages of the print media long before he appeared in Court. Under such circumstances, the media and Mr Mooney in particular must have the moral courage to undo the damage done in this case. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Thursday August 23, 2007 - 10:05 by Elizabeth
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Heritage Week begins August the 25th 2007. The web-address is included here:- http://www.heritageweek.ie/en/register-event-introducti....aspx This is the week , when well meaning groups such as the Heritage Council provide the Irish people with a brief reminder of the importance of heritage to us as a community and a nation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday August 22, 2007 - 10:03 by Bernie Wright
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I have just heard that the American Humane Association has awarded a "Humane award" to a 900-cow factory farm because they slaughter cows with compassion. Despite the fact that each birthed calf is separated from her mother, they rationalize by calling themselves humane. Despite the fact that each and every one of their cows ends up hanging upside down with her throat cut in a slaughterhouse, they now call themselves humane. Some people might argue that there is such a thing as humane slaughter.I disagree completely. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 21, 2007 - 10:13 by Angela
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Yet again the Government has shown itself limited by the market push of the EU and the FDA with regard to choice in health care and diet. The FDA and EU had worked on an operating system, which cost millons where the net result is the coloured bar on the end of your ceral box which tells you the RDA of your food. Its the 'buy it bulk and sell it back at profit' school of thought which brought the ban on St John's Wort and the envisaged ban on Tea Tree Oil. In translation it just means that in exchange for the profit of the Multi's we get treated like kids with regard to Choice! The letters are to be directed to: Commissioner Markos Kyrianou DG Sanco, The European Commission B-1049 Brussels. Belgium. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday August 20, 2007 - 15:39 by Anti-Racist
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Last week we all watched as the titular head of the Irish justice Department actively deported a six year old autistic boy, along with his twin sister and his mother. They were put on a commercial flight to Lagos, late at night and given enough cash for an hotel. In the last day a Mexican woman who had sought refuge for 12 months in a church and had become the voice of economic migrants and illegals in the US was picked up and deported to Tijuana, leaving behind her, her eight year old boy Saul. Elvira Arellano has vowed to continue her fight from the other side of the border. If we look at the newswire the overwhelming amount of these cases have involved women and children. No surprises there, they are slower and easier to catch. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Monday August 20, 2007 - 11:52 by KP Kev the Poet aka Knowledge is Power the Hip-Hop Bard
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The Irish Government is building a four-lane motorway only 1 km from the main site of The Hill of Tara however the whole land around the main hill is of archeological interest, historical interest and spiritual interest. In July 2007 bulldozers came in the middle of the night (possibly to avoid the protestors, speculation but I can't see any excuse for using bulldozers in the middle of the night) destroying an ancient burial ground at Baronstown in the Tara-Skryne valley. Independent archaeologists claimed this site was of national monument status! The site was entirely devastated. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 20, 2007 - 10:38 by Davy Carlin
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The Murph - Turf, and beyond ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday August 17, 2007 - 20:33 by Jolly Red Giant
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Aer Lingus and government betrayal - Unions must act now! There was palpable anger at a meeting of Aer Lingus workers at a meeting in Shannon Airport where Aer Lingus Chief Executive, Dermot Mannion, officially announced the move from Shannon to Belfast. Workers jeered, heckled and booed Mannion during his speech and many workers walked out of the meeting when Mannion indicated that he would not answer questions from the workers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Wednesday August 15, 2007 - 18:37 by Kevin T. Walsh
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The densest plume of Green Smoke has clouded the whole issue of the Lismullin site and the manner in which the Greens sacrificed the Henge site along the M3 motorway in order to get into Armani suits alongside members of Fianna Fail. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday August 13, 2007 - 21:28 by iosaf
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Casual holiday-season surfers of international news/diplomatic temperature indicators will of course have noticed the Arctic & its potential exploitation are on the agenda. Naturally it's not presented in a cool, sexy, ice-cream way, nor for the moment in horrible cub-clubbing whale slaughtering dirtiness - but the nugget cold war seems for the moment to have left Dharfur, Dead Spies, Tehran's nukes & the mostly French Clearstream scandal's trillion dollar graft behind. It is almost as if we are all wishing on the falling stars & meteorite showers the Perseids which annually offer us a bit of make-believe. There is of course an Irish as well as Southern European dimension to what is being presently spun varyingly as the "Arctic cold war" or "Rush to claim Arctic hydrocarbons". Because to be quite honest all this "divying up the Arctic" has been on the cards (or runestones) for a long time now, I thought to bring you through it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday August 12, 2007 - 13:18 by Strategic
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A short synopsis of ten Years of FF. Reaction Welcome. http://www.savetara.com ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 11, 2007 - 15:42 by Sean Crudden
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Brendan O'Donnell died in the central mental hospital a young man (~ 23) about 10 years ago. Whatever happened him the event set alarm bells ringing in my mind. Is it too late now (or too soon?) to seek a transparent public account of his death and how it came about? He was a triple murderer, physically strong and, as far as I know, suicide was not a factor. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday August 09, 2007 - 15:38 by C.
Having had our bags stolen in Belfast many years ago, we got invited to Anderstown social club by some fellas who had tried to stop the snatchers and we went to the club. It is a memory etched onto my brain and says something important about community memory and retaining those places for the upcoming generations of this Our Island. Politically naive southerners like myself did not know the North of Ireland, nor where it was 'safe' to go , back in the nineties; but you learn quickly enough. our hiking trip coincided with some appalling tragedies and personal dangers that are largely gone. The London type taxis Which were 50p were operating and some drivers were being sniped on call-out. ... read full story / add a comment |
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