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national / crime and justice Friday April 20, 2007 - 10:19 by C Murray
 16 comments (last - monday september 17, 2007 - 18:48)
At the time of the murder of Rachel Kiely, Ian horgan was sixteen year old boy. He was originally convicted of rape and murder but eventually got imprisoned for manslaughter. A murder conviction would have carried a mandatory life sentence. Horgan was due to be released this year but the DPP applied to have the case appealed by the higher courts. The new sentence is a twelve year sentence for rape and man-slaughter (to run concurrently) which taking into account the four years already served means he should be out in a three-five year period. He's very young at twenty three is he not to be doing such heavy time? Is Ireland trying children as adults? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Friday April 20, 2007 - 00:17 by MJ Costello
6 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 - 17:38)  4 images
In a recent Irish Independent article Kevin Myers blamed RTE for "hate mail, death threats, and abusive graffiti on my car, concluding with my home having to be given round-the-clock Garda protection" Kevin says this resulted from Joe Duffy’s Liveline whipping up the “mob” "after (as I admitted within a day and repeat now) was [sic] a very poor article of mine". Major Myarse, as Kev is known affectionately, does not reveal why he was persona non-grata with the “mob”. Was it opposition to poor syntax, bad grammar, or irritation at Kev not letting facts get in the way of his opinions (or of his apology, which took two days to appear, not one)? Not the latter, we can be sure. Otherwise the mob would be scribbling its criticism on Kev's car every day of the week and Kev, like Salman Rushdie, would require permanent ”round-the-clock Garda protection”. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday April 19, 2007 - 22:05 by Dónal Griffin
1 comment (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 - 19:07)
A look at the plasticity of the Irish political scene in the run up to the general election. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 19, 2007 - 21:13 by blonde haired bar worker
11 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 - 14:12) 3 images
Without the right to bear arms almost a hundred years ago the Irish Republican Brotherhood would have found their strategy for Irish Independence somewhat more challenging. As we know many militia were present in Ireland at the point in our history. As for Ireland the universal right to bear arms which had first been codified in "modern law" as a privilege by the British Bill of Rights in 1689 facilitated insurrection, rebellion, revolution & held the forces of oppression in check throughout the world. The whole world. Not the bit you see in the movies or can send an email to. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 17, 2007 - 22:40 by El Bull
1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 - 00:10) 1 image
In February of this year, the government released new forms of contract to be used for the procurement of public sector construction projects. Designed to deliver cost certainty, the new forms of contract transfer considerable risk to the Contractor. It is widely accepted that one of the results of these controversial new contracts will actually be higher construction costs, albeit with certainty about the (higher) contract prices. However, there are some other very significant implications of these new contracts, in particular with regard to how protestors will be treated on construction sites in the future. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday April 16, 2007 - 20:35 by Kevin Walsh
11 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 21:52)
Some years ago, we had a tragic murder at Grange Gorman hospital of two innocent women. It was one of the most horrific murders in the history of the State. Another horrific point about it is the investigation of the Garda Siochana. Dean Lyon was a young drug addict. Depressive, suicidal and now in hindsight Dean had a walter mitty state of mind as a result of drugs. Yet Gardai had him incarcerated for 9 months in Mountjoy prison. Within a few weeks, they knew their mistake but a junior member within their ranks pushed the issue. Some time later, Dean Lyons, took his own life in London. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Sunday April 15, 2007 - 18:46 by C Murray
10 comments (last - friday june 29, 2007 - 20:02) 3 images
The LPR in Poland had attempted at the end of 2006 to force through an amendment to the article 38 of the Polish Constitution which would have transcended the already legislated for abortion rights of Polish women. The amendment was to have read ' to protect human life from the moment of Conception'. The campaigners launched a global letter of protest which went through many women's groups and a political campaign to raise awareness of the issues surrounding women's reproductive rights. The Vote happened and the LPR lost. Marek Jurek has been forced to resign. During the almost five month campaign which saw deep division in the Polish Parliament, the Alicia Tysiac case was heard in Strasbourg, The ECHR ruled that the Polish State had failed in their legal obligation to provide the mother of three with a legal abortion on medical grounds, despite three doctors advising that she would lose her sight if she was to proceed with her pregnancy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday April 15, 2007 - 12:15 by Alan MacSimoin
8 comments (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 - 16:10)
The Workers Solidarity Movement, along with anarchist organisations throughout the world, refuses to take part in parliamentary elections. Is it not downright weird, or even hypocritical, when anarchists claim to want more democracy than anyone else? Is this a rejection of democracy? Alan MacSimoin tries to answer some of the questions that arise again and again ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 15, 2007 - 03:41 by Seán Ryan
38 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2007 - 03:32) 1 image
When water is finally privatised we will thank our masters for it ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday April 14, 2007 - 14:24 by Sean Crudden
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What is wrong in the health services? Is it a question of money and working hours? Perhaps it is the quality of the work professionals are expected to implement? Is a more research orientated outlook important for all nurses and doctors? Is it any longer possible to have blind faith in the administrators or, even, in the stock nostrums of medicine? ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:26 by Galway water crisis
10 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 - 16:52)
Galway Spring Water get looked after by Galway City Hall. The people of Galway, having already lost their choice to drink tap water, now told they must drink Galway Spring water if they want to avail of the "buy one, get one free" offer. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday April 09, 2007 - 13:59 by Missing
3 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2007 - 19:02) 4 images
There are over one hundred women missing in Ireland. They are presumed dead. It is fourteen years since Annie Mc Carrick Vanished. There is no longer an operational website for families of vanished children, parents, sisters and brothers, to use. Last week families of the missing women joined together to make protest. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Saturday April 07, 2007 - 16:21 by useless eater
12 comments (last - sunday september 16, 2007 - 21:06)
Frank Fahy has launched a webpage called www.isupportthebypass.com Ye can add yer votes and comments. I do NOT support the bypass for the following reasons: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2007 - 09:48 by T. Yaris
1 comment (last - friday april 13, 2007 - 14:27) 1 image
For economic mismanagement through bribery ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Saturday April 07, 2007 - 02:38 by Voter
7 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 10:34) 1 image 1 attached file
Some people don't think much of elections, but it's important to remnember that they concentrate the minds of the establishment. From Spain in the 30's, Chile in the 70's, to modern day Venezuela, democratic elections have thrown up results which have rocked the forces of right-wing conservatism to the core. While some people think you shouldn't vote, most people believe it's important to register. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Friday April 06, 2007 - 13:15 by Union member
6 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:13)
Sligo Borough Council voted down a motion condemning the governments policy which will tax aid speculators to build a private hospital on public land beside Sligo General Hospital. This is the first Council to endorse what amounts to the beginning of the privatisation of the Health Service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Thursday April 05, 2007 - 17:44 by Sean Crudden
Advocacy is an "in" term these days. When we advocate are we really pursuing the best interests of those on whose behalf we are advocating? Or are we only trying to placate and tell people what they want to hear? Then, too, there are often a lot of stock cribs which advocates may parrot easily off in the hope of gaining kudos or easy respect from the judges - the administrators and the public. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 16:48 by Andrew Flood and Chekov Feeny
23 comments (last - monday august 20, 2007 - 22:57) 14 images
Peak Oil Theory has been around since the 1970s. Some think we have already reached 'peak oil', others think it will happen with the next twenty-five years. The theory argues that when we reach 'peak oil' the rate at which we extract oil from the earth (measured in millions of barrels per day) will reach a maximum and thereafter will start to drop. As the rate at which we use oil is currently close to the rate at which we extract it, the point of peak oil will coincide or be closely followed by the world consuming more oil than it is producing. As oil reserves are very limited, within months there simply will not be enough oil available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 12:26 by Gregor Kerr
8 comments (last - wednesday april 11, 2007 - 16:16)
The nurses’ work-to-rule and their threat to escalate the action next week has been met with an outraged onslaught by Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. The sight of a group of workers standing up and demanding their rights has become so unusual that it seems as if the government cannot believe the temerity of the nurses in doing just that. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 19:57 by Hugh Murphy
4 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 - 10:08)
ON THE WATERFRONT To claim to be a Trade Union SIPTU must condemn the corruption which took place in Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment |
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