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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 02, 2005 - 00:01 by City of Exclusion
 8 comments (last - tuesday december 26, 2006 - 23:48)
The 18-hole course at Castlereagh hills has been dubbed one of the most spectacular council-owned courses in Northern Ireland, and is exactly what deprived, international jet set , rich buisness executives and professionals need to unwind and relax in luxury after they attend their private 'Fitness first' gyms. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday July 01, 2005 - 23:00 by City of Exclusion
2 comments (last - monday july 04, 2005 - 07:11)  1 image
As hoity toity sophisticated professionals, and 'cultured' yuppies sat down to sip their champers and 'enjoy' a night at the opera in Botanic gardens, to whinny along to 'la bohema'. They're enjoyment was somewhat curtailed by 200 protestors picketing the presence of a Royal Marine band at the lavish Belfast City council's opera in Botanic Gardens. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Friday July 01, 2005 - 16:49 by Mago Merlin
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The free movement of workers is claimed within the EU but now with reduced, curtailed rights, workers moving from one country to another find themselves discriminated against. In effect they are being recast as second class EU citizens, only achieving first class status when it comes to pay taxes. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2005 - 20:14 by Michael Seighin via Roisin via eeekkk
12 comments (last - wednesday september 02, 2009 - 01:48)
[Ed. Note- This is the statement Micheál Ó Seighin prepared for the High Court yesterday as his rationale for refusing to abide by an injunction aimed stopping local people and landowners from getting in the way of Shell Oil's construction of a controversial 'offshore' pipeline on land at Rossport Co. Mayo. He extemporised and ad libbed from this prepared statement in the court] ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2005 - 18:05 by Mary Carroll
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The G8 summit & the issue of aid to Africa is explored in an interview with an Irish missionary working in Uganda ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 29, 2005 - 00:27 by Michael
3 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 - 23:17)
The below is a plea to the world to finally end poverty. Please read and pass it on by e-mail to all of your contacts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 29, 2005 - 00:07 by IRSP
10 comments (last - monday july 04, 2005 - 00:38)
The following speech was delivered by IRSP Ard-Comhairle member John Murtagh to a gathering of about 200 members of the Republican Socialist Movement at Bodenstown, the burial place of the Founding father of Irish Republicanism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Tuesday June 28, 2005 - 08:51 by John McDermott
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Well connected businessmen never need to follow the law of the land. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 27, 2005 - 01:51 by iosaf very late at night.
10 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 14:49) 7 images
It has long been observed, that on Sunday the mass does different things. Some go to church, some return from clubs and sleep, some read a book, some do the gardening, some catch up with their kids, some eat a lot, some practise yoga, some Vote. It has long been valued that on their non-banking days people are pretty much the same as when they work, graft, toil and sweat. Except they have less money making opportunities. This facilitates their increased participation in their society as citizens and nationals of the Civilised World. It has long been observed that the mass on their non banking days readily absorb shite. This is why coups are most successful on the weekend, and elections as well. It is on your non-banking days that you are presented with the most filagree woven tissues of spirit and lie, ghost and truth. It is through weekend that we have considerable space in your head. In today's edition :- "being counted" ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Monday June 27, 2005 - 00:50 by Miriam Cotton
You might be forgiven for thinking that the election of two women presidents had firmly established respect for the contribution that women can make to Irish public life. A review of the media coverage of Kathy Sinnott makes you realise, sadly, that we have some way to go. You’re left wondering exactly whose interests some newspapers exist to serve because it is unlikely to be the large – if silent – majority of offended readers who are actually very grateful for Kathy Sinnott’s efforts on their behalf. Thankfully, for the thousands of disabled people and their families, who have benefited from Sinnott’s determination, she is sanguine about this. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Monday June 27, 2005 - 00:47 by Miriam Cotton
Dan Boyle doesn’t represent any West Cork constituency but he is TD for Cork South Central, which is not a million miles away. His voice is increasingly influential in national and south western regional policy-making and he is also Party Chief Whip, Spokesperson for Finance & Social & Family Affairs, Community, Rural Development and the Islands. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday June 24, 2005 - 16:33 by sheeeessshhh
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international / summit mobilisations Friday June 24, 2005 - 16:28 by Carl H
23 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 - 17:36)
Article below ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday June 24, 2005 - 10:28 by Translated by irlandesa
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This is not a letter of farewell. At times it is going to seem as if it is, that it is a farewell, but it is not. It is a letter of explanation. Well, that is what we shall attempt. ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Thursday June 23, 2005 - 22:39 by l
the following message is from the very nice convergence space crew: We will be sharing the space with People and Planet, who will be hosting a student activist village and we are working alongside them to provide a safe and lovely space for all to enjoy. ... read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous Thursday June 23, 2005 - 20:20 by MC 23
3 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2005 - 22:35)
The Mexican government admitted on Thursday that a military report of marijuana plantations in Zapatista rebel territory that raised tensions in the state of Chiapas was not true. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 23:48 by K.T. Walsh
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The rights of Wildlife; the ethcis of people; and the romance of our Taoiseach ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 23:02 by Ruairi
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Below is an article written by 17 year old Tracey McGroary who is a youth writer for the SpunOut.ie National Youth Website. Tracey is also a volunteer youth worker at the Ballintra-Laghey Cross Community Youth Project in South Donegal. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 10:12 by Tom Paine
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Ghana has been forced back to the future poverty. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday June 21, 2005 - 14:39 by john McDermott
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The end of a relationship is in sight... ... read full story / add a comment |
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