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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 20:16 by eamonn
 30 comments (last - monday august 21, 2006 - 11:48)
The manouverings of the SWP in Scotland are a significant factor in the general chaos within the Scottish Socialist Party. The manner in which this party are currently operating in Scotland should act as a warning to those on the Left in Ireland who believe that that party has anything to offer the struggle for socialism here. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 18:36 by Equaliszer777
7 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 - 20:43)  1 image
This is as good a time as any to recall to mind the shenanigans that were going on in Dublin in 1970, as the Haughey clique sought to insulate their 'kingdom' from the storm that was about to break in the north of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 16:35 by Peter Magee
1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 16:21)
Before I begin I must say I hate Bush and I hate this whole nihilistic Iraq war. The Americans, I think we can all agree are in a quagmire in Iraq. The country is ravaged by daily car bombings which have killed thousands of innocent civilians since 2003 while Sunni, Shia and Kurdish areas are at each others throats. Every day dozens of tortured and mutilated bodies have arrived at Iraqi hospitals after being dumped in the streets. The country is on the brink of all out tribal and sectarian civil war. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 14:20 by John McDermott
2 comments (last - sunday august 13, 2006 - 06:55) 1 image
Frank Fahy is a busy man.Wonder is he ever finds time to pick up his public representative remuneration from the taxpayers of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 13, 2006 - 12:16 by chris murray
A civil Servant on behalf of the Department of Education and Science, yesterday attended the Ryan commission on Child Abuse ,(previously the Laffoy Commisssion on Child Abuse- 1999-2003) to apologise to the victims of Church/State disregard for the health and well-being of generations of industrial school children. Whilst applauding the attempt to recitfy the deep wrongs of the Era through apology , it has come three years too late. The State continues to deny its role in the obstruction of the work of the Laffoy Committee, not has it exposed the machinations of the dept of education and Science headed up by Michael Woods that signed the Church/ State indemnity deal which absolved the Church from paying full compensation to victims. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 20:31 by Liam Mullen
2 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 12:01)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough…you’re not close enough.”1a Death of a Loyalist Soldier, was an image captured by Robert Capa in 1936, and reveals the exact moment a Republican militiaman is killed by a bullet during the Spanish civil War. The picture shows just how close Capa got to his subjects. Capa went on to co-find the Magnum Photograph Agency.1 ... read full story / add a comment 
Audio Of A Very Recent Public Interview With Ken Loach and Paul Laverty On Their Cannes Winning Film
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 17:22 by eeeepppp
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It's Here: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10163.php Took place on thursday 8th of June at very short notice in Queens Film Theatre in Belfast. They discuss the UK press reaction at length as well as aspects of the making of the film. About 25 minutes long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday June 12, 2006 - 16:00 by SK
Kevin Myers and 1916. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday June 10, 2006 - 19:56 by coconut
8 comments (last - thursday february 08, 2007 - 18:39) 2 images
The government earlier this year announced the purchase of enough vaccine to "protect" 200,000 people against the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. An Tánaiste seems to think this is a good idea. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday June 10, 2006 - 15:50 by Chris Murray
1 comment (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 01:34) 4 images
Make Do and Mend. Websters (unabridged ) International Dictionary gives the physics of astigmatism as " A defect of an optical system(as a Lens or mirror) in consequence of which rays from a single point of an object fail to meet in a single focal point thus causing the image of a point to be drawn out into a line and the images of lines having a certain direction to be less distinct than those of lines transverse to that direction." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues Friday June 09, 2006 - 11:22 by Sean Crudden
3 comments (last - saturday june 10, 2006 - 12:43) 1 image
Mental illness and the treatment of mental illness have become conflated in the minds of lay people and professional alike. It is an astute practitioner who can distinguish the effects of treatment from the effects of illness when they look at a mental patient. In my humble opinion standard treatment contributes more to stigma and isolation of the mental patient than any underlying illness he or she may suffer from. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday June 08, 2006 - 19:28 by Paul MacGiolla Bán
16 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 19:03) 2 images
The mass media representation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as an Al-Qaeda leader is inaccurate. Al-Qaeda as an 'organisation' has no formal structure, and would be more accurately described as philosophy. Media representations of the group are seriously flawed and buy into the assumptions underlying the US-led 'war on terror'. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 08, 2006 - 18:12 by John O' Neill
2 comments (last - friday june 09, 2006 - 05:13)
The US and its puppet government have lost control of Iraq. They may well gloat at the death of Al-Zarqawi but their defeat in Iraq is an inevitability. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 22:10 by B Ó Ruairc
48 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 - 03:35) 1 image
Who are Sinn Fein? Why those you may be thinking of clearly aren't. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 20:45 by intellectual scud missile
6 comments (last - friday june 09, 2006 - 10:49) 1 image
There's never been any investigation of a US plane on Irish soil, because Dermot Ahern says "we accept the categoric assurances of a sovereign nation, of a sovereign friendly nation." ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 19:38 by Geoffrey Cooling.
1 comment (last - thursday june 08, 2006 - 15:13)
"Your tenure has also seen the collapse of the community and the breaking of extended family links wrought by the runaway property boom. But sure we are all making a few quid out of it, so we don’t see our family as much as we like and we are all disconnected from our communities to the extent that some of us don’t know who lives next door to us" ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 15:00 by Kathy Sinnott
Once again we have scored top of the class in drinking: amount consumed and money spent on alcohol per person, most binge drinking with special honours for the exceptional, young average age of our binge drinkers. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 14:56 by Davy Carlin
34 comments (last - tuesday november 17, 2009 - 11:47)
2001 - 2004 - 'Momentous years - linked - via my Diary - http://davycarlin.allotherplaces.org/?m=200605 {Incorporates - Anti Sectarian rallies, Falls and Shankill march, - Anti Capitalism - Anti War, NIPSA branch 8, Anti Racism {etc} with the at times termed 'historic'- {etc}- mass Movements , mobilisations, and campaigns - this while in the once termed and then respected– 'Belfast SWP} 2005 -2006 Momentous years in the Continuum - {below links} {Incorporates and to be continued - Anti Poverty, Anti deportation, International mobilisations, homelessness, trade union rights, hunger Strike, etc - and again at times termed 'historic - {etc} -mass Movements, mobilisations and campaigns ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 12:28 by Bernadette
They say that She would never be forgotten, that young fifteen year old girl who died at the foot of a Marian Grotto in Granard, twenty six years ago. Ann Lovett was found dead beside the body of her new-born child twenty six years ago. She was fifteen. I keep thinking that if the Statue she had chosen to meet her death beside had been painted, or friendly, or had a rounded stomach, a vestige of humanity then maybe that little girl would not have died. She went to the lonliest place she could find, not for aid, but because she knew that no-one went there and she knew she would be safe from prying eyes and intrusion. The case haunted me at the time because we were of an age. ... read full story / add a comment |
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