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national / miscellaneous Friday May 04, 2007 - 11:35 by Shelagh Sutton
 16 comments (last - tuesday november 04, 2008 - 23:40)  1 image
You may well be chuckling to yourself at the notion that men could be victims of domestic violence at all but the ever-increasing incidence of abuse against men in the home and the media’s subconscious conspiracy to keep this very real issue hidden might well surprise you. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 01, 2007 - 11:07 by Sharon.
71 comments (last - tuesday june 19, 2007 - 00:22) 6 images
Vote out Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats and vote in Fine Gael and Labour (or a 'different' combination) then , in a few years time , reverse the process .... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 30, 2007 - 20:21 by Kevin T. Walsh
3 comments (last - sunday december 23, 2007 - 21:28)
I always had an interest in Irish History and many summers ago I spent time travelling around Ireland viewing old graveyards. I recall being below in West Cork and old farmer brought me to view three unmarked graves on his land. They were three old IRA men shot by the Tans in 1921. The farmer had written their names on three pieces of wood. I walked through Letterfrack and I wondered if the rumours were true of the unmarked graves of little children. These children most likely died violently at the hands of Church and State. Some old men in small towns told me that if the secrets were unfolded, that Ireland was awash with babies left in bogs, and lakes. He said they not only drowned pups at that time, they drowned little children too. That men spoke to me in West Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Sunday April 29, 2007 - 16:49 by Poodle
15 comments (last - wednesday may 23, 2007 - 14:40) 2 images
The best speech in the house of eunuchs, otherwise known as the Dail was that given by Joe Higgins who alluded to the Poodles pissing against the lamp-posts in Dublin 6W upon which Minister Mc Dowell was hanging his posters. So we are into another election. therefore we can rest and enjoy the party. it is the only time when the TD's get down and dirty with the voters to justify a few more years lining the pockets and briefcases of their nearest and dearest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday April 25, 2007 - 22:22 by Joe King
12 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 11:28)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 24, 2007 - 06:40 by Perplexed
4 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 22:20)
Public servants were leaned on, to not attend a protest in Galway City yesterday, 23rd April, about the water situation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 22, 2007 - 21:57 by Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee
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This year marks the 300th anniversary of the occupation of the Catalan Countries by the Spanish State following the battle of Almansa in 1707. This date cannot be easily forgotten as both the national and social oppression by the Spanish State over the Catalan Countries still continues. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 22, 2007 - 19:15 by Niall Harnett
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“The State guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizen”. Constitution of Ireland - Bunreacht na h-Eireann, Article 40.3.1. The wide-spread and systematic corruption of Gardaí that has been exposed in this country might lead us to believe that we should be entering a new era of accountability. No, far from it, the opposite is true. That new era began last October 2006 and continues now with the practical ongoing training and conditioning of hundreds of Gardaí at Bellanaboy, to the use of violence over the rule of law. In that context of institutionalised Garda violence, I‘d hope that this article could go some way in empowering you to adopt the policy of: Never cooperating with the Gardaí unless ... 1) You have been informed of a reason why they suspect you of committing an offence, or 2) You are being assaulted by them and/or threatened with fear for your personal safety or your life. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Sunday April 22, 2007 - 16:49 by F. Fish
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By air and sea it will stretch from Donegal to Galway and beyond. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:21 by the great excluded
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Fianna Fail plan to renage on the promise to sell local Authority flats to long term residents at a reasonable price ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:18 by Lily
Appeal to other communities who have been subjected to the infamous Rural Planning Services form of 'consultation'. Shell have recently appointed RPS to consult our community about where we would like the high pressure raw gas pipeline to go...hum i can think of a few places!! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:07 by Martin Clancy
5 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 - 18:21)
This article consists of notes for a guest lecture in NUI Maynooth on the anti-war movement in Ireland at its highpoint between September 2002 and March 2003. The focus is on the use of direct action in opposition to the use of Shannon airport for re-fuelling by the American military, and the different arguments within the anti-war movement in favour of, or against, the direct action tactic. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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 |
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