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national / housing Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 13:20 by Mark G   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 11:10)
The Homeless agency last month claimed that homeless figures had dropped by a fifth in Dublin last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 02:34 by Fintan Lane   text 76 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 22:07)   image 4 images
There are occasions when the sheer wrongheaded analysis and distorted facts of a newspaper or magazine article cause you to stiffen with annoyance. Nine times out of ten, these articles are found in the mainstream press; the Independent Group of newspapers, for example, is a reliable purveyor of sly and explicit attacks on left-wing and progressive ideas, campaigns and parties, often underpinned by distorted ‘facts’ and baffling interpretations. It can be a frustrating experience to read these wilful misinterpretations of left-wing ideas and actions. Unfortunately, the socialist media cannot claim an entirely clean record in this regard either.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 00:46 by Stephen James Sakamoto   text 1 comment (last - monday june 26, 2006 - 23:18)
Cynicism and insecurity seems to reverberate amongst the 'Laboratory Rats - namely those who are full of FEAR'. Action is required and bravery of creating a movement, underground and silent resistance - rather than Protests! ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 23:39 by Jack White   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 - 10:36)
Just over a year ago, on the 2nd of June 2005 Terence Wheelock was arrested on suspicion of car theft and brought to Dublin’s Store Street Garda station. Just two hours after his arrest he was found unconscious in his cell. He entered a coma and passed away in September 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 21:30 by Michelle Clarke   text 31 comments (last - friday january 22, 2010 - 08:41)
'Knowledge is no load'........Today Knowledge flounders in vanity by revelations of a woman who forms the centre stage in Irish politics.

Money is the core ingredient of motive......entertainment, dress, holidays, no divorce because after all that would involve the judiciary deciding how to allocated funds......a deletion of power!!!!

Remember: The bus pass was a great populist move but as we moved into the pre-ordained capitalist route, privatisation will no doubt end this.

Yes, the 1970's, a woman could marry into a farm and the husband could leave it to the son.....and her fate could be the county home

But does anyone ask about Divorce, the fact that there is no clean break, the fact it is 50/50, the fact that when a person dies, their spouse is notified and within 6 months can make a claim on their estate.....

What about the 2nd bite of the Cherry.....The truth is there is one rule for the rich ......... and a completely different one for the ordinary person.

The trend in Ireland is to leave the house with wife, contributing to men living in one bed flats and in some cases homeless.

The English divide.........What is Fair? ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / sci-tech Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 18:30 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 - 20:36)   image 1 image
What do we expect from our investment in science over the next seven years? Do we really want science at all? Maybe we would be more content to persevere with the quackery and the money-making? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 14:37 by P   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 20:29)
Normally you do hear about these type of visits until very soon to the date, so this is interesting. Daily Ireland reports HMS Ocean which has played a critical part in the early months of the Iraq invasion is coming to Dublin Port later this month.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 14:27 by Ali H.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees fled or were driven from their homes during the Israeli-Arab wars in 1948 and 1967. A UN exhibition on the lives of Palestinian refugee children marks World Refugee Day on 20 June 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 00:34 by Liam Mullen   text 7 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 - 20:23)
In delivering a resounding eulogy to his former mentor and “boss”, the late Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey, the current Taoiseach Bertie Ahern showed true compassion and tenacity in speaking warmly about CJ Haughey, but the question must be asked: Has Bertie Ahern and his top henchmen lost the plot? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 16:15 by Michelle Clarke   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 - 20:04)
I am asking the question because of the outright inadequacy of mental health services and integrationist services to cater for the needs of people with health problems particularly mental health problems.....

I recall an Irish Penal Reform Trust meeting.....a Forensic Psychiatrist and his wise words about mental health definititions. The categories of say bipolar equate the same in the outside world and within the hospital implying that a lot of what is termed Psychiatric are in fact social problems. I have written an 18 page essay dealing with this topic over two centuries.

Anxiety can take you by the throat if you suffer from what is named episodic........Listen to your patients and fight for the funding to provide an adequate medical service and perhaps have less people walking the streets and begging............I have heard that if you have mental health problems in the US, you are 4 times more likely to be shot by the police....

Where is the Barr Tribunal Report......What is holding it up? Why was John Carty show. Where were the social services and the doctors.......

The Morris Tribunal has reported. Let's clearn up the act and hear what Mr. Justice Barr has to say.....

Michelle
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 15:41 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 3 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 - 02:39)
It is time to replace unelected Managers with Directly Elected Mayors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 11:49 by WS   text 9 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 19:23)
The deaths of Terence Wheelock and John Moloney in Garda custody have again focused attention on the brutal nature of policing in this state. Brian Rossiter and John Carty are other names from a long list that have a public resonance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 18, 2006 - 22:43 by Michelle Clarke   text 28 comments (last - monday april 20, 2009 - 20:52)
America, they refer to the Underclass.

Medical Services in Ireland are harnassed by the divide - you pay or you don't.......therein is the obscurity as to how to have hope and get the best treatment.....

I note Patient's Together are mobilising to challenge Professor Drumm and the HSE scandal of overcrowding in Accident and Emergency.

I am hearing too much about suicide. I am encountering a degree of medical arrogance that I can no longer accept. I wonder have people experienced similar problems.

We are not hearing about all the suicides.....i.e. those involving the Luas for example or the out of the ordinary number in Finglas at the moment.

What is the system saying......Are they confining us to no Hope and the undersclass category.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 17, 2006 - 17:15 by paul o toole
The Contradictions ... ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday June 17, 2006 - 13:48 by Daithí   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 - 19:44)
Encouraging students to get involved in politics, representation, activism and campaigning is a funny business. In an ideal, perfect situation, you wouldn't have a division between encourager and encouragee; no-one should need to drum up interest among others or to have a position of 'managing' student involvement. But we don't live in that world, and it's perfectly usual to see students' unions, political 'youth wings', campaign groups and so on trying to encourage 'others' to get involved. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday June 17, 2006 - 10:27 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 17, 2006 - 22:52)
We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning,
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light
And the lanthorn dimly burning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday June 16, 2006 - 21:24 by Boadicea   text 9 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 - 10:02)
"This is the most dangerous legislation that has ever come before the House because it seeks to deprive people of the power to make observations and objections in regard to planning matters." (Deputy Michael Ring T.D.)

"If local people cannot have an input into the planning process, they will see their local councillors as being irrelevant." (Deputy Jimmy Deenihan T.D.) ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 16, 2006 - 20:40 by Paddy Savage   text 4 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 - 21:51)   image 4 images
Some images of queer anarcho direct action/resistance and opinion all the way from the city of San Francisco,do all Dublin queers like kylie,hi-nrg trance and are in favour of Gay Marriage?Is Marriage just assimilation into the already cancerous system of capitalism,dont people have enough forms and things to sign and agree on already?,and already people find such things deviously challenging and needless? What does it mean to you to be LGBTQ in Dublin in 2006? All opinions welcomed! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 16, 2006 - 20:15 by West Papua   text 4 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 - 12:51)
MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows.

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