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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 18, 2006 - 19:06 by Anamia
 17 comments (last - friday january 05, 2007 - 14:44)  2 images
Shell to Sea has, from the very start, been about more than the fact that a community in a remote area of Ireland were being used as guinea pigs in a vast experiment to see if natural gas could be processed on shore. What was at stake was whether the state would support the needs of big business against its own people. The central question of the campaign has always been whether communities are expendable, not in the interests of the nation, but in the interests of the shareholders. How far, the campaign asked, is a European government willing to go to support the desires of a multi-national, when these run counter to the demands of its own citizens? Could the Left in Ireland use the energy of the state's unquestioning support for Shell to expose and undermine the state's apparatus of control? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 16, 2006 - 14:43 by I. McCabe
In June 2006 the Director of Public Prosecutions revised his general guidelines. One section of the revised guidelines caused bemusement amongst some in the legal profession. Section 9 in particular which refers to the guidelines on disclosure is the one which has created a point of debate and criticism. Ironically the DPP singled out the McKevitt case as a shining example of fair procedures on disclosure when in fact the opposite happened in the McKevitt trial. Both nationally and internationally legal observers have described the disclosure process used during the McKevitt case as one of the most blatant abuses on disclosure that they have ever witnessed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 22:23 by Michelle Clarke
16 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 - 18:09)
What needs to be done? Game plan to combat crime for 2006......... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 20:25 by paul o toole
5 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 15:24)
Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 14:51 by M Cotton
2 comments (last - wednesday february 07, 2007 - 20:27)
Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 11:16 by fourth mary
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Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly, as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously jaundiced world view. But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:40 by wsm
3 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 01:25)
A consortium of Shell, Statoil, and Marathon do a deal with the government allowing them exclusive exploitation rights to the Corrib gas field, off Mayo. Not only that, but they are allowed to write off their costs against taxes, meaning that the whole project is being funded by the PAYE taxpayer, who will receive nothing, not even lower gas prices. It may sound a bit iffy but there is no garda investigation into possible bribery or corruption. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:04 by John McDermott
3 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 11:16) 1 image
national / miscellaneous Monday December 11, 2006 - 19:31 by Saoirse
15 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 - 01:27) 2 images
It is all to easy to get wound up in the festive cheer and hype in the run up to Christmas and while I do no advocate going ‘cold turkey’ (excuse the Pun) on Christmas altogether I do ask everyone as you sit around your table this Christmas spare a thought for republican prisoners who spend yet another Christmas away from home and loved ones. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 16:25 by Ian Greene
Upon reading one of the redtops (tabloids) on the weekend of 3rd Sept 2006 I came across an interesting article by journalist John Mooney. The article led me on to search for a website referred to in the article. The website itself was interesting and gave an indepth background into the case of Michael McKevitt. However, one thing was confirmed to me during my search, that one can be seriously misinformed and mislead by the print media and the redtops in particular. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 03:27 by Harry Wells
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The Mail on Sunday returns today to the story the Irish Times and Irish Independent don't want to touch with a forty-foot pole. It is ironic that an Irish edition of a Conservative English newspaper shows more gumption in exposing this scandal than Irish owned newspapers. See also: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80012 - for previous Mail coverage of this story and how the Times and Indo have effectively ignored it. Who are these newspapers protecting? The Fine Gael-Labour coalition of 1973-77, who ran scared from the bombs and instituted a reign of repression and terror against republicans and the (minority) of socialists who stood up to them, that's who. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment Sunday December 10, 2006 - 21:39 by John Baker
3 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 - 18:57) 5 images
This is a small piece of the story of Ireland, taken on its own it is a local issue but it is being echoed right now all across the country and it raises many other issues in its wake; housing, development, local democracy, accountability, sustainability. All important and interesting but to cover all of them would make a long article so this concentrates on just one – Water, because that’s something I’m passionate about and something that is too much taken for granted in this water rich country. I trust that readers are intelligent enough to make the links. ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday December 10, 2006 - 19:00 by EddyB
The insolvency of the German maker of mechanical biolocical waste treatment (MBT) goes to court in Dublin. The former Herhof owner Treasury Holdings may have to pay more than 10 million Euro to a German community. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 08, 2006 - 23:26 by David Morrison
3 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 02:33) 1 image
Ireland is supplying troops to fight the Bush/Blair “war on terror” in Afghanistan, and it has been doing so since July 2002. Not many, it’s true. But Ireland is a contributor to ISAF, the NATO-led multi-national force there, which has killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Afghans in recent months. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday December 08, 2006 - 07:38 by m.m.mccarron
4 comments (last - sunday december 10, 2006 - 15:44)
Shell ordered to clean up site of pollution by refined petroleum hydrocarbons from leak at petrol station. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday December 07, 2006 - 06:59 by Jupiter
3 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2007 - 14:07) 1 image
As Christmas approaches we all need to be aware of the importance of proper animal care, in particular dogs and cats, many of which when puppies and kittens are given as Christmas presents. It might be a great idea at first but what about when reality sinks in and by the time New Year arrives your puppy has chewed your child's favourite new toy? Or your kitten has clawed her way round your new leather handbag? Animals are exactly that- animals, and without lots of advanced planning and preparation it is un-realistic to treat them like cute Christmas presents that can be played with then put away. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 19:20 by Queen of Clubs
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A few things happened on 'Budget day', Minister Mc Dowell wasn't in the house (at least for the analysis) - and why should he be? his very public campaign to abolish Stamp Duty for first time buyers was ignored by the wealthy FF party. That is humiliating now isn't it? Kyoto was ignored- indeed , hats off to Joan Burton and her engaging quip-"he,Mnister in charge of climate change cannot even get the electoral register right." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 17:34 by Augusto César Revoredo.
Brazilian entrepreneurs, workers and unemployeds, we need workmanships, projects and initiatives that multiply chances, wages, jobs and businesses, and this will not happen in desirable speed while the Union to spend, as in the year of 2006, 490 billion Reals (U.S.$ 220.000.000.000, 00) with a presumpted financing of the internal debt next to bankers ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 10:59 by C Murray
3 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2007 - 17:32) 1 image
Last night Minister Mc Dowell informed the media that the Privacy and Defamation Bill would not be going throught the Oireachtas together/in toto and that the Defamation Bill, alone, was on the table at Seanad Eireann. He has to re-adjust and re-appraise the 'Privacy' section- this was the section which criminalised 'certain forms' of news-gathering. It had been criticised throughout Europe for 'reining' in the press. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 03:43 by Amanda Slevin
3 comments (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 - 21:46)
The Government is giving away Ireland's natural resources without any benefits to Ireland! ... read full story / add a comment |
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