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galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 26, 2004 - 23:34 by Sedition   text 8 comments (last - monday june 28, 2004 - 16:46)
On the tasks needed to be fulfilled post-Bush's vist ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday June 25, 2004 - 14:33 by Stato the sado   text 48 comments (last - wednesday june 30, 2004 - 18:31)
The results of the Local Elections show that the Bin Tax is still a very real issue. In areas where Anti Bin Tax candidates ran serious campaigns the resulting first preference vote was excellent considering the lack of finance and the voluntary nature of those campaigns. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 24, 2004 - 23:46 by Eoin Dubsky   text 259 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 - 17:17)
When I saw Carole Coleman trying to press George Bush for answers on Iraq tonight on Prime Time, it reminded me of her better days as RTE's environmental news reporter. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 24, 2004 - 16:38 by Harry Rea   text 9 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2004 - 23:27)
Noam Chomsky:

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Wednesday June 23, 2004 - 22:49 by stepping razor   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 15:00)
'Respectable upstanding citizens' battle axe 'evil eye' Margerat Hewitt and George Anderson former Barnardos care home workers have been convicted of sexually and physically abusing vunerable children in their care. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 23, 2004 - 19:54 by Benjamin   text 11 comments (last - saturday june 26, 2004 - 08:31)
IAWM/SWP election candidate calls anti-war activists 'thugs and vandals'. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Tuesday June 22, 2004 - 01:06 by Dublin watcher   text 51 comments (last - monday june 28, 2004 - 20:48)
Michael Conaghan, a Dublin City Labour councillor has been elected on the back of a Fine Gael, Labour Party, Green and Progressive Democrat pact, by a vote of 27 to 10. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 21, 2004 - 18:29 by paul cummins   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 22, 2004 - 17:19)   image 3 images
i saw this and thought of you.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Monday June 21, 2004 - 17:16 by the merrovingñanvanjan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday june 23, 2004 - 18:04)
an Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland, the Premier of Eire, the leader of Fianna Fail, the the current President of the European Union, knight honorary of the Order of Constantine and St. George, Deputy for Dublin Central to Dail Eirinn.
"Bertie!" ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 21, 2004 - 14:58 by Roger Eldridge   text 28 comments (last - wednesday june 23, 2004 - 13:14)
President Bush has been castigated by the media, ostensibly for his war-mongering.
However how much of the hysteria being whipped up by the media, especially by RTE is because he is being so successful at restoring family values to the US and RTE 's agenda is vehemently anti-family. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday June 21, 2004 - 13:50 by Eve Campbell
This article briefly describes the political situation in Burma and the problems faced by refugees from Burma in thailand. It focuses on the story of Daisy Dwe a refugee activist in Thailand. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday June 21, 2004 - 10:59 by Sinn Fein   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 19, 2004 - 13:02)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP addressing the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown this afternoon said: ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 20, 2004 - 23:51 by The Plough   text 15 comments (last - thursday june 24, 2004 - 18:53)
E-mail newsletter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday June 20, 2004 - 22:19 by newspaper El Libertario
* Facing the situation created by the referendum of 8/15/2004 to recall the president, the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas and its newspaper El Libertario call for a radical rupture with those candidates for authoritarian power, presenting to the Venezuelan people ways out of the actual crisis based on mutual aid, direct action and self-management. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / politics / elections Friday June 18, 2004 - 19:24 by Sean Crudden   text 16 comments (last - friday october 22, 2004 - 16:23)
What is the political future for Co Louth or what is the future for politics in Co Louth? Where are we going and how do we get there? ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday June 18, 2004 - 19:14 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 23, 2004 - 13:41)
Is the medical profession a semi-secret society which is besotted by rules and legalisms which is ripping the community off for big salaries and at the same time doing more to compromise our health than to improve it? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 18, 2004 - 15:12 by Colm Walsh   text 12 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 - 18:31)
Many supporters of peace in the Middle East are very intimidated by being labled Anti-Semetic. So successful has the campaign to identify anything other than official Isreali government policy as Anti-Semetic that it has become very difficult for people to express any criticism againest the Tel-Aviv government..
It is with this in mind that Irish supporters of peace who dont already know are asked to support Gush Shalom, The Peace Bloc of Israel ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday June 18, 2004 - 14:00 by skafrican   text 4 comments (last - friday july 23, 2004 - 11:28)
Support NIPSA and northern irelands MOT strikers in their battle for fair pay.
The MOT offices have been shut for 2 weeks now, with a back log waiting list of 12 weeks as government penny pinchers have forced the MOT workers to strike. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 17, 2004 - 17:52 by biomatrix   text 9 comments (last - sunday june 20, 2004 - 14:05)
A question often debated by activists is whether or not to ‘mask up’. It seems the main argument against ‘masking up’ is accountability. People feel that they have a right to protest and thus have nothing to hide. Which is fair enough, but people who have been on protests on this island recently will be only too familiar with the sight of a uniformed garda filming from the side-lines. This increase in garda surveillance makes one feel uneasy, but even more so in light of the recent EU summit on Biometrics. It was held in Dublin on Monday and Tuesday (June 14 and 15). ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday June 17, 2004 - 13:32 by primarily concerning myself with Love, Salts, Bodily Fluids   text 7 comments (last - tuesday june 22, 2004 - 16:43)   image 1 image
It is thus timely to open a thread here on the ideas proposed and opposed which are going into this Pan European Constitution, which Bertie is hoping will redeem his magnificence in the eyes of Irish voters ahead of his dismal general election performance which is presently scheduled for 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
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