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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 20, 2007 - 03:18 by LiP
The age old-adage that nobody celebrates quite like the Irish rang true this weekend. As is common during Irish festivals a large proportion of the population chose the local pub as the most appropriate venue to celebrate our patron saint. However, reports of over two hundred arrests relating to drink driving and eight fatalities on our roads this weekend leads this writer to question why in this day and age do we still refuse to follow the rules and ask is it not time we started to celebrate a little less haphazardly and a little more sensibly? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 18, 2007 - 23:46 by Idle Speculation
 10 comments (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 - 16:37)
We can speculate on alternative scenarios that may have arose if Hitler had won WW2 or JFK had not been shot in Dallas or Cantona had not attacked a spectator with a kung fu kick. But the most important question we must speculate about is the great "what if" of our times. "What if Al Gore had won the US Presidential Election in 2000?" This is what I think might have happened: ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday March 16, 2007 - 21:28 by john mcdermott
1 comment (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 08:29)
I have been trying to review Joe Higgins famous attack on Ahern and his builder friends on the RTE server but it has disappeared. Ahern's reply however is still intact. Is this an insidious form of censorship of Joe's finest moment or no? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 16, 2007 - 20:35 by Brian
1 comment (last - thursday april 03, 2014 - 19:19)
The world is in a state of chasis as Sean O'Casey might say. Since the advent of George Bush to the White House every other year seems to bring forth a war or talk of war. Few commentators believe that this will stop at Iraq. Last July even Newt Gingrich was quoted as saying that "we are in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world war..."(1) Many people are now openly speculating about who is next. Syria? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? And especially Iran are the subject of fevered speculation even in the established media. This writer would just like to opt for Russia as the next ultimate target. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday March 16, 2007 - 14:46 by Stripe
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It's hard to know where to start with this. Is it that they have reduced the whole notion of Irishness to a running shoe with a leprachaun on it? Is it the weird notion of having the colours of the Republican tricolour on an ugly pair of runners? Is it the "kiss me I'm Irish?". Is it the design of the lining showing an overflowing beer mug? Is it the sheer awful, "Americaness" of it all? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 11:31 by Joe
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Three speakers from Chile, Mexico and Spain talk about the rise of the left in Latin America in general and focus on the situation in Bolivia, Mexico and Columbia in particular ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 13, 2007 - 21:13 by Angry Man
23 comments (last - sunday march 18, 2007 - 20:45)
Today, live-line listeners heard first hand from the distressed lady whose rapist was let walk free from the court after a jury had found him guilty. On the very same day, the same judge Kearney, committed another rapist to 15 years in jail followed by 10 years supervised release. Both men broke into the womens houses, both men were under the influence, both men traumatised their victims and both victims were totally innocent of any provocation. What is the difference? According to judge Kearney, One was a young man from a "good family" and the other wasn't. So what is a "good family?" ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 13, 2007 - 00:22 by Robbie Sinnott / Saoririseoir
42 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2007 - 21:17)
Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann arís, ach fós, níl ach scrídín Gaeilge le feiceáil ar www.indymedia.ie. Seo é a leannas, mo bhronntanas fágála tar éirí as an bhfoireann eagarthóireachta (an comharchumann féin mar dheá) ar ball. B'fhéidir go mbeidh daoine eile ábalta an t-am a thabhairt chun aistriúcháin eile a dhéanamh le haghaidh na leathnacha eile am éigin arís. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday March 12, 2007 - 21:08 by Tommy Timidity
2 comments (last - tuesday march 13, 2007 - 09:57)
Is it a sign of modern Ireland? Is it an attempt to get down with Ireland's Yoof? Whatever it is, the rise in party political electronic campaigning/propaganda has, at the very least, a few funny moments as a reward for those with a penchant for punishing yourself by daring to have the images burned into your memories. The wonders of the Inter Web are now being utilised to in the name of the party political cause... ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday March 12, 2007 - 14:55 by Joe
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“Although the years from 1917 to 1923 constitute one of the least neglected segments of labour’s chronology, syndicalism remains the most underestimated and misrepresented ideology ever associated with Irish trade unionism” Audio from the 2nd Dublin anarchist bookfair of Emmet O'Connors talk and the discussion that followed it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday March 11, 2007 - 21:20 by Louise Gaffney
2 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 14:04)
The innocence and wonder of children is something that sane and decent people strive to cherish and protect. The ubiquity of terms like "child abuse" in the media can lead us to almost become innured to the reality of these repellent crimes. Rational adults expect law agencies to have such crimes prioritised and investigations prosecuted with professional "zeal" for want of a better term. Alas what happens when a cloud of doubt is cast over those very agencies and professions whose remit is to protect the weak and the vulnerable ? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 09, 2007 - 16:41 by David Morrison
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There are five “official” nuclear-weapon states in this world - the US, the UK, Russia, France and China - that are permitted to possess nuclear weapons under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT) [1]. The US is currently proposing that India be granted the privileges of these “official” nuclear-weapon states, even though it has refused to sign the NPT and has developed nuclear weapons. In effect, the US is proposing that India be recognised as the 6th nuclear-weapon state in this world, while remaining outside the NPT. Ireland is in a position to stop this happening. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday March 09, 2007 - 15:47 by Socialist Party
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Channel 4 ran a documentary on thursday nigth claiming to be a 'scientific' counter argument to climate change. The scientific method is to look at the balance of evidence and make a decision, not focus on one or two pieces alone. In this article Pete Dickenson looks at the evidence put forward by the 'sceptics' and argues for immediate action to stop climate change. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 07, 2007 - 01:07 by Eamon Sullen
59 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 - 20:29) 17 images
Fresh from smearing Manus O'Riordan, Eoghan Harris turned his ire on RTE's Tom McGurk – links below. In his Sunday Independent column on March 5th Ireland's mud thrower in chief says that it "behoves McGurk to be balanced". "Failing that, he should be fair", Harris continued. McGurks’s failing? He criticised the Sunday Independent. Also, McGurk was accused of going on the Buntollet Commemoration march of January 1969, the one that exposed the viciously sectarian nature of the RUC and of the northern state. The young protester’s heads were cracked open by the RUC and by their allies in the B Specials. The images received world wide publicity. Some people have long and bitter memories that perpetually fuel their rancid politics. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 06, 2007 - 21:03 by Twenty Years Anniversary
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The Guardian are covering the issue in their 'Transport' section. For anyone nt old enough, the ferry went down outside of Zeebruge and many lives were lost. The doors on the huge ferry jammed and it took on tons of water. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday March 06, 2007 - 16:17 by useless eater
1 comment (last - wednesday march 07, 2007 - 18:17)
Most readers and contributors to Indymedia, I presume, would be against the arms trade and money going towards 'third-world' exploitation, deforestation, or animal testing for eg., yet every one of us contributes to these decidely unethical practices. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 05, 2007 - 05:38 by Adri Nieuwhof
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The Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI), an initiative of YWCA of Palestine and East Jerusalem YMCA, carried out research among young people from the Bethlehem area, to examine the attitude of Palestinian youth towards non-violent struggle against the occupation and oppressive practices. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday March 04, 2007 - 01:57 by jim travers
What is the mixed economy of welfare and why, despite Mary Harney's assurances in that, what she is doing is really in the interest of all the Irish people and not a back door method of promoting the privatisation of our health service in the interest of the doctors and consutant's who collectively and directly contribute to the demise of the same public heath service from within. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 28, 2007 - 02:25 by PaddyK
Irish Bishops make light rebuke of Israeli policy in Palestine but is there really an reason to expect real action in light of other recent church releases ? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday February 27, 2007 - 22:11 by Dave
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Maze Stadium V's Giants Park (Dargan Landfill) ... read full story / add a comment |
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