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national / consumer issues Saturday September 08, 2007 - 14:58 by C Murray
 9 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 - 10:11)  2 images
The Irish Times this Morning 08/09/09 features headlines regarding Eamon Ryan's 'Signal' that the Green Party may be supporting the Referendum on the EU proposed for this country in 2008. The paper's Front page states that Minister Ryan believes that the 'accrued benefits' of EU membership signal a change in attitude by the Greens toward their EU policy. This is media manipulation of the highest order which accomplishes two things:- 1. It assures investors in Corporate Europe that the Greens are 'onside'. 2.It is part of a campaign instigated by Dick Roche TD, who assumes responsibility for both selling the public and manistream media the benefits of EU expansion and corporatism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday September 07, 2007 - 11:50 by Alan
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The debate has started. One of the ESB unions, Unite-Amicus, wants the government to build nuclear power stations. We are told that it’s a “clean technology” that will reduce climate change. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday September 06, 2007 - 15:55 by C Murray
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There is a retrospective of Ann Madden's Major works from the 1950's to Date running at IMMA until September the 30th, I had meant to write about it before. The themes are of voyages and mythos- including the Icarus story which is painted in red and gold, the paintings are ofter based in connected series through the East wing of the gallery or presented in Triptych form on the walls. Its a stunning exhibition, the later paintings are marked with small icons of crosses . the image shown with this little piece is one of a series of Aurora Borealis inspired paintings- and the exhibition is free, as is the Yeats collection at the National Library and of course walking on the Hill of Tara. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 03, 2007 - 11:24 by Zippy
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Green Minister John Gormley has express his upset and outrage over the shooting of a Red Kite in Wicklow. Meanwhile his government continues to back the US war effort in Iraq where human beings die. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 03, 2007 - 11:11 by Davy Carlin
1 comment (last - monday september 03, 2007 - 11:19)
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
6 comments (last - friday august 31, 2007 - 08:46)
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
3 comments (last - sunday august 19, 2007 - 14:33)
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 |
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