|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
donegal / environment Monday March 15, 2004 - 12:16 by C. Price
 2 comments (last - friday march 19, 2004 - 20:05)  3 images
Before coming to Ireland, I was warned not to have any romantic notions about the ‘Emerald Isle’. My Irish friend had travelled to my home country of Canada and was aware that many Canadians, especially those of Irish ancestry, have notions of Ireland that are based on commercial hype about leprechauns and beer and on the nostalgic laments of The Chieftains and the Irish Tenors about rolling hills and a glorious past. He cautioned that Ireland was changing and that the nation is manifesting the most unfortunate symptoms of economic success. I shrugged off the warning because my hopes for Ireland went much further than commercial stereotypes and, admittedly, because I really wanted to believe. After all, I endured eighteen years in a North American suburb. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 14, 2004 - 05:15 by john throne
1 comment (last - sunday march 14, 2004 - 21:05)
I am posting a piece below on Patricks Day that I wrote a couple of years ago. It tries to give an idea of the contradiction between remembering and missing my home and at the same time having to seperate myself from the form that the celebration of March 17th takes in Chicago. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday March 13, 2004 - 21:49 by In Solidarity
5 comments (last - tuesday march 16, 2004 - 02:03) 3 images
Reports have it that many political prisoners are currently being attacked while being held in Spanish prisons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 12, 2004 - 21:45 by iosaf
50 comments (last - sunday march 12, 2006 - 22:17) 17 images
In the corner of the screeb of every national TV channel in Spain. In the corner of every local cable TV station in Spain. On the banner of most national newspapers. On the doors of many shops, retail chains, ministry of culture, museums, libraries. In madrid the route of the concentration was overlooked by black ribbons hanging from the tower blocks. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday March 12, 2004 - 20:43 by NBRU
4 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2004 - 22:28)
Absolutely disgraceful. That's the only way to describe the National Bus & Rail Union's (NBRU's) total lack of support for SIPTU's official 24-hour bus and rail strike next Thursday, March 18th. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 12, 2004 - 13:45 by Anarcho
28 comments (last - thursday march 18, 2004 - 12:12) 1 image
The horrific bomb attacks in Spain are inexcusable. Targeting ordinary people is the work of evil people and no cause can justify it. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / politics / elections Wednesday March 10, 2004 - 14:31 by Anarcho
1 comment (last - wednesday march 10, 2004 - 19:47)
Blair's support for random drugs tests in schools is just insane. It should provoke any sensible person to demand random drugs tests for the cabinet. Only someone out their face on drugs could make the decisions Blair's government has made. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Tuesday March 09, 2004 - 15:42 by Celeste
1 comment (last - thursday march 11, 2004 - 12:50)
'The boys who remember and the School that forgot' a documentary shown last night, told the harrowing story of how the sexual abuse of young boys was brushed under the carpet by a Top ulster private establishment school Campbell College. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Tuesday March 09, 2004 - 11:23 by Shinner
18 comments (last - friday march 12, 2004 - 13:57)
Establishment parties quaking in their boots at the rise of Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 08, 2004 - 23:45 by Fintan Lane
26 comments (last - monday march 15, 2004 - 05:17)
On International Women's Day, it is worth reminding ourselves of the dedication of those Irish women who struggled for the women's right to vote in the early 20th century. Sometimes one gets the impression that the vote was gained through nothing more than polite lobbying. Not the case, as the following excerpt from Maria Luddy's short biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1995) shows. These women went to jail while fighting for a basic right, and today a number of women (Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon and Mary Kelly) are facing jail sentences for similar actions, taken while protesting against an immoral and unjust war. These women stand in a proud tradition of civil disobedience against injustice. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 08, 2004 - 17:52 by jordanista
15 comments (last - monday march 22, 2004 - 16:55)
After a report carried out by Deloitte and Touche, it seems Dublin Institute of Technology SU has found that the best way to increase the participation of students in their organisation is to write students out of the constitution! ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday March 08, 2004 - 14:10 by Jolly Giant
10 comments (last - thursday march 11, 2004 - 00:27)
Die Gruenen, Les Verts, the Green Party - the German, French and UK Green Parties, along with 29 other European Green parties, are now one party standing on one platform. This move comes ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, in which the Greens hope to make gains. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday March 07, 2004 - 15:21 by ipsiphi
1 comment (last - sunday march 07, 2004 - 18:48)
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. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Sunday March 07, 2004 - 14:21 by Sean Crudden
13 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2004 - 22:10) 1 image
At a recent debate on education held in The Fairways Hotel attended by a few hundred teachers and parents, et al - including Minister for Education, Noel Dempsey, the function of teachers as role models received heavy emphasis. In particular some of the teacher/speakers (men) seemed to think they were of vital importance as role models for young boys. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Saturday March 06, 2004 - 18:04 by John McDermott
6 comments (last - tuesday march 23, 2004 - 10:51)
Todays 'Irish Independent carries some more of the horrendous facts relating to the jailing of decent T.D.'s and working people while the gangsters in and out of government carry on business as usual. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday March 05, 2004 - 19:25 by CWU member
6 comments (last - saturday may 02, 2015 - 19:06)
...or how to become a millionaire by abusing your position as a trade union official. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 05, 2004 - 16:15 by Janus
22 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2004 - 18:53)
Socialist revolutionaries and the use of force ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday March 05, 2004 - 01:48 by John McDermott
The cosy arrangement between Fianna Fail politicians from Bertie Ahearn's own Dublin constituency was brought to an abrupt end when Mary Harney began a crusade to reform the Taxi industry...read on for details of the fallout,(compensation)as announced by minister Seamus Brennan this week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday March 04, 2004 - 17:52 by Nader for Pres
Interesting comment from Ralph Nader in the States over the use of electronic voting there. Good background for our problems with electronic voting here... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 04, 2004 - 16:26 by Paul Bowman
7 comments (last - thursday april 22, 2004 - 16:35) 3 images
Western Imperialism Finally Re-united in Haiti? Lessons from the US-backed coup in Haiti ... read full story / add a comment |
|
|
