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national / miscellaneous Monday October 02, 2006 - 11:35 by rory   text 1 comment (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 16:46)
Its time to clean corruption out of Irish politics and focus on the real issues that are affecting people. The cosy relationships between politicians, developers and big business that engulfs the political elite in this country must end. ... read full story / add a comment
Mangroves in indus delta
international / environment Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:57 by Qasim Rajpar   image 4 images
The Indus Delta faces major degradation threats that could well result in catastrophe. The major cause of destruction of the Delta is the reduction in the flow of fresh water from Indus River. As the delta dries up and the mangrove forests decline, the sea is slowly sweeping in. The Delta is now said to be only 10 percent of its original area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:53 by jim travers   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 - 01:41)
As two countries enter the EU in 2007 are we nuturing the seeds of racial tension by opening our borders to people who wish to import their ways and culture into our society.Are we ignoring the threat of Islamic terrorism by endeavouring to be politically correct when dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and others entering this country. Is it time for change and a time to take stock of the ways in which we allow people freely enter this country? ... read full story / add a comment
So shy
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 01, 2006 - 15:06 by BP   text 8 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 18:31)   image 3 images
This character was snapped on 16th January 2004, while at a demo against the EU in Galway.

He was highly aggressive and claimed to be a garda, but refused to identify himself.

He is needed in open court, please help bring him in for questioning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday October 01, 2006 - 14:08 by paddyweb
The friends of Fianna Fail are looting this country. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Saturday September 30, 2006 - 17:06 by Annie Shipsea   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 - 11:05)
Try to overcome your revulsion/boredom/indifference or whatever it is that so many of you apparently well-meaining activists and Indymedia readers do when it comes to this issue, judging from the the general level of interest that these reports usually get. Five thousand comments on the disctinction between the SP and the SWP, about four on rights for people with disability. Pardon my bluffness but how about cutting us all some slack in this corner, eh? Maybe even give us some of your time and effort? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 30, 2006 - 16:18 by Donnchadh   text 31 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2012 - 20:46)
Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery.
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national / miscellaneous Friday September 29, 2006 - 15:20 by Miriam Cotton   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 09:25)
Vincent Browne's strange affliction with trying to find jusitifications for the likes of Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern seems now to have infected recently appointed columnist Chekov Feeney - also a member of the Indymedia.ie editorial collective. Feeney's Newspaper Watch column has, while throwing a welcome spotlight on many examples of media bias and seeming self-censorship -and is apparently unique in Ireland in its objective - sometimes failed to deliver truly well aimed punches at obviously deserving targets. ... read full story / add a comment
A public -private partnership.?
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 29, 2006 - 13:34 by John McDermott   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 20:43)   image 2 images
national / crime and justice Friday September 29, 2006 - 11:31 by Michael Coulter
A family member of a sex-offender tells me that A U.S style evangelical Preacher
is accessing sex-offenders and bringing them to the kingdom of God - Oh Yes.
He has been banned from Limerick Prison and Cork, He is currently in the process
of being banned from Arbour Hill. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 28, 2006 - 22:50 by Ingrid555   text 3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 21:15)
Ireland's revenge on England. The REAL Yorkshire Ripper has damaged the fabric of English society far more than the Provo bomb squads ever did in the 1970s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 23:41 by Michelle Clarke   text 16 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 18:17)
All I feel at this time is about the adage ' walking in the moccasins' of another.

Do many of us really remember the 1980's? I do. I emigrated with my then husband to England (we hadn't the qualifications for the US. Both he and I worked in the building industry, for large companies - M.F.N. (liquiddation) but one of the big 9 in the 1970's. Then the Gallagher's Abbey. It was rough one day to see all staff lose their jobs as the construction marketed faltered further in the early 1980's. Land banks existed but planning permission for sites in places like Yellow Walls in Portmarnock were at log jam as Governments changed.

I am forever grateful to people like Michael O'Leary and their foresight for Ryanair. It meant we had left Ireland but it was possible to come home and frequently. We brought new friends home. This would not have been possible in the Monopolised Aer Lingus challenged by O'Leary.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 22:35 by Michelle Clarke   text 20 comments (last - wednesday april 22, 2009 - 19:14)
Reuters: Leading world information source

Did you know?

'More die from Suicide than Wars, Murders'

Mental Health, Drug Addiction, Brain Injury Recovery, Addictions, eating disorders, anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, Fears, and so much more.

Where is the integration in policy..........Who understands and who really cares? The areas include social, community, education, health, the thread runs through society......even to the mentality of people driving cars and flying planes.....Yes, the big one is Stress - Anxiety - and Depression
it is said 25 % of people killed in RTA's are in fact Suicides. Let's get real.

Integration, co-operation, rehabilitative disciplines and teams to work on say people with mental health and neurological provlsion complicated by Chronic Fatigue syndrome while at the same time ensure that people are sufficiently alert and aware to physical conditions like cancer... The statistics and comparisons in this area make interesting reading.

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national / miscellaneous Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 16:50 by Peader De Bluit   text 8 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 08:43)   image 1 image
Peader De Bluit

Tá an teanga Gaelach mar chuid lárnach de shaol na tíre seo. Is teanga fíor-stairiúl í an Gaeilge. Sí an céad teanga scríofa an Eoraip, agus ó shin i leith tá mórán athruithe feicithe aici, cosúil leis na hathruithe a tháinig ar an tír féin. Ní hí an teanga céanna a labhair Cú Chulainn, ná fiú an teanga céanna a labhraíodh nuair a bhí na Gaill ag iarraidh a lámh láidir a chur i bhfeidhm anseo. In ainneoin sin áfach sí ár dteanga fós í agus tá se de dhualgas againne í a labhairt agus a bheith bródúil aisti.
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national / racism & migration related issues Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 11:46 by Kimmage Red
In another vainglorious attempt to misuse electronics to exclude, the newly-erected Tánaiste intends to make it an offence of the State to be a non-EU national without good reason to be in Ireland. Non-EU nationals, including one might assume North Americans, New Zealanders and those sexy Brazilian dancers - you know, good migrants? - will be asked to prove that they have good reason to be shopping in Carroll's O'Connell Bridge. In other words, the burden of proof that one is not a ‘foreign national’ lies on the individual. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday September 26, 2006 - 11:04 by Dermot
I wonder am I alone in thinking, when presented with a collective picture of career politicians smiling on the steps of the Dail, that the elected members of that house might have difficulty finding their arse with both hands. It is little wonder that the grinning gombeens are smiling like a cats after a bowl of cream. ... read full story / add a comment
my pal Steve Bell of the Guardian newspaper was the first one to notice "Blair's eye", my granny would have thought that dead give-away, "don't trust that one".
international / politics / elections Monday September 25, 2006 - 20:40 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 12 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 - 19:55)   image 2 images
Many eyes at the moment are on the UK's "new Labour" party leadership. Tony Blair the man who became the youngest ever leader of the "labour party" & then renamed the party which once had been a movement. He went on to become the longest running prime minister in British history apart from the historic & ghastly Thatcher, Disraeli & Gladstone.

His regime saw quite a few key incidental & tragic deaths, constitional reform in Scotland, Wales, London and the northern Ireland statelet, & a commitment to war coached in his namesake's Eric Blair (George Orwell's) "big Brother's peace".

We know he lied many times to parliament, people, party & even we presume his Queen. What made many of us choke on the splinters was his assertion (july 2004) that "he couldn't lie". In many ways his style put "sociopathy" into social democracy whilst all the time pushing a vague concept of "meritocracy"......" if you can lie through your teeth you may be one of us someday!"
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national / arts and media Monday September 25, 2006 - 16:08 by ronan   text 11 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 - 02:09)
"The first sequence with Caine is what started me hating the whole thing, summing up the political depth of the implied critique by the soundtrack of Radiohead and the Beatles; might as well have namechecked George Monbiot while they were at it. " ... read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections Monday September 25, 2006 - 13:09 by nothing leftist   text 24 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 15:28)   image 1 image
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 24, 2006 - 19:18 by Kevtin T. Walsh   text 17 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 14:09)   image 1 image
And the other side........Development, Racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Celtic Tiger that is sometimes called the 'Pussycat'

Rolf Harris 1960's
'Two little boys......; moral being, one assist the other to get back up on the horse. ... read full story / add a comment
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