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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 13, 2006 - 12:16 by chris murray
A civil Servant on behalf of the Department of Education and Science, yesterday attended the Ryan commission on Child Abuse ,(previously the Laffoy Commisssion on Child Abuse- 1999-2003) to apologise to the victims of Church/State disregard for the health and well-being of generations of industrial school children. Whilst applauding the attempt to recitfy the deep wrongs of the Era through apology , it has come three years too late. The State continues to deny its role in the obstruction of the work of the Laffoy Committee, not has it exposed the machinations of the dept of education and Science headed up by Michael Woods that signed the Church/ State indemnity deal which absolved the Church from paying full compensation to victims. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 20:31 by Liam Mullen
 2 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 12:01)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough…you’re not close enough.”1a Death of a Loyalist Soldier, was an image captured by Robert Capa in 1936, and reveals the exact moment a Republican militiaman is killed by a bullet during the Spanish civil War. The picture shows just how close Capa got to his subjects. Capa went on to co-find the Magnum Photograph Agency.1 ... read full story / add a comment 
Audio Of A Very Recent Public Interview With Ken Loach and Paul Laverty On Their Cannes Winning Film
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 17:22 by eeeepppp
1 comment (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 - 01:46)  2 images
It's Here: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10163.php Took place on thursday 8th of June at very short notice in Queens Film Theatre in Belfast. They discuss the UK press reaction at length as well as aspects of the making of the film. About 25 minutes long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday June 12, 2006 - 16:00 by SK
Kevin Myers and 1916. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday June 10, 2006 - 19:56 by coconut
8 comments (last - thursday february 08, 2007 - 18:39) 2 images
The government earlier this year announced the purchase of enough vaccine to "protect" 200,000 people against the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. An Tánaiste seems to think this is a good idea. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday June 10, 2006 - 15:50 by Chris Murray
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Make Do and Mend. Websters (unabridged ) International Dictionary gives the physics of astigmatism as " A defect of an optical system(as a Lens or mirror) in consequence of which rays from a single point of an object fail to meet in a single focal point thus causing the image of a point to be drawn out into a line and the images of lines having a certain direction to be less distinct than those of lines transverse to that direction." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues Friday June 09, 2006 - 11:22 by Sean Crudden
3 comments (last - saturday june 10, 2006 - 12:43) 1 image
Mental illness and the treatment of mental illness have become conflated in the minds of lay people and professional alike. It is an astute practitioner who can distinguish the effects of treatment from the effects of illness when they look at a mental patient. In my humble opinion standard treatment contributes more to stigma and isolation of the mental patient than any underlying illness he or she may suffer from. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday June 08, 2006 - 19:28 by Paul MacGiolla Bán
16 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 19:03) 2 images
The mass media representation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as an Al-Qaeda leader is inaccurate. Al-Qaeda as an 'organisation' has no formal structure, and would be more accurately described as philosophy. Media representations of the group are seriously flawed and buy into the assumptions underlying the US-led 'war on terror'. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 08, 2006 - 18:12 by John O' Neill
2 comments (last - friday june 09, 2006 - 05:13)
The US and its puppet government have lost control of Iraq. They may well gloat at the death of Al-Zarqawi but their defeat in Iraq is an inevitability. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 22:10 by B Ó Ruairc
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Who are Sinn Fein? Why those you may be thinking of clearly aren't. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 20:45 by intellectual scud missile
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There's never been any investigation of a US plane on Irish soil, because Dermot Ahern says "we accept the categoric assurances of a sovereign nation, of a sovereign friendly nation." ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 19:38 by Geoffrey Cooling.
1 comment (last - thursday june 08, 2006 - 15:13)
"Your tenure has also seen the collapse of the community and the breaking of extended family links wrought by the runaway property boom. But sure we are all making a few quid out of it, so we don’t see our family as much as we like and we are all disconnected from our communities to the extent that some of us don’t know who lives next door to us" ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 15:00 by Kathy Sinnott
Once again we have scored top of the class in drinking: amount consumed and money spent on alcohol per person, most binge drinking with special honours for the exceptional, young average age of our binge drinkers. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 14:56 by Davy Carlin
34 comments (last - tuesday november 17, 2009 - 11:47)
2001 - 2004 - 'Momentous years - linked - via my Diary - http://davycarlin.allotherplaces.org/?m=200605 {Incorporates - Anti Sectarian rallies, Falls and Shankill march, - Anti Capitalism - Anti War, NIPSA branch 8, Anti Racism {etc} with the at times termed 'historic'- {etc}- mass Movements , mobilisations, and campaigns - this while in the once termed and then respected– 'Belfast SWP} 2005 -2006 Momentous years in the Continuum - {below links} {Incorporates and to be continued - Anti Poverty, Anti deportation, International mobilisations, homelessness, trade union rights, hunger Strike, etc - and again at times termed 'historic - {etc} -mass Movements, mobilisations and campaigns ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 07, 2006 - 12:28 by Bernadette
They say that She would never be forgotten, that young fifteen year old girl who died at the foot of a Marian Grotto in Granard, twenty six years ago. Ann Lovett was found dead beside the body of her new-born child twenty six years ago. She was fifteen. I keep thinking that if the Statue she had chosen to meet her death beside had been painted, or friendly, or had a rounded stomach, a vestige of humanity then maybe that little girl would not have died. She went to the lonliest place she could find, not for aid, but because she knew that no-one went there and she knew she would be safe from prying eyes and intrusion. The case haunted me at the time because we were of an age. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday June 06, 2006 - 01:08 by Seamus Kilby
The Sindonistas have swapped one form of tribalism for another. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Monday June 05, 2006 - 00:08 by Harry Wells
17 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 - 01:20) 6 images
The Sunday Independent today exposes The Sun and Daily Mail’s cynical hypocrisy in giving their two audiences in Ireland and Britain totally opposite messages with regard to Ken Loach’s prize-winning film ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’. The film depicts the brutal nature of Britain’s war against Irish Independence between 1919-21 and the subsequent Civil War conflict. In Britain The Sun boldly states Loach's film to be “the most pro IRA ever” and the Daily Mail asks “Why does” the “Marxist” film’s director Ken Loach “loath his country so much”. In the ‘Irish’ editions of these British tabloids, on the other hand, the film is an “Irish success” story. The Sunday Independent wants to associate with the national "success" and to denounce its rivals' imperial "sneer" at the same time. However, the Sunday Independent simultaneously exposes its own schizophrenia while doing so. It manages to deliver exactly the same conflicting messages in the one newspaper, the story of Irish success and also a “sneer” at this success. How so? Read on. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Sunday June 04, 2006 - 20:19 by iosaf mac diarmada
4 comments (last - monday june 05, 2006 - 21:45)
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". Very special & very short edition this one, if you're reading this in Ireland or are one of the Irish Diasporia - Congratulations! You are now one of the Establishment, in the period from the 23rd of May to the 2nd of June all the Irish people joined ranks & played their part to be the Regime. We are all Brainy. I am thus giving you all tips today - so you can go on being "Brainy". ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday June 04, 2006 - 13:56 by Ulrich
12 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 - 20:44)
I went to see this move yesterday expecting a special effects laden epic and disgusting American jingoism and was violently slapped in the face and kicked in the guts for my complacency. Instead I experienced a film such raw realism showing the utterly horrifying depravity of the hijackers such as Siad Jarrah, their utter contempt for human life especially the passengers of United 93 and their revolting sociopathic Islamic fundementalism. The moving protrayl of how ordinary people such as Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, air hostess Sandy Bradshaw and others threw themselves upon the terrorists and saved hundreds perhaps thousands of other human beings from indiscriminate slaughter. ... read full story / add a comment |
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