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national / miscellaneous Thursday July 13, 2006 - 14:16 by Jim O'Sullivan
 4 comments (last - thursday november 16, 2006 - 19:06)
The government policy of privatisation is being undertaken by stealth, Community Alliance are taking any opportunity available to alert the public and promote discussion on the issue to be open it for discussion ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday July 13, 2006 - 01:36 by Nick Folley
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(Originally written in response to this article - ed) I am one of the legion of the amused who watched as (mainly British) critics lashed "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" before they'd even seen it - a fact which in itself speaks volumes for their motives. I have seen it, and in terms of historical accuracy it seems pretty close to what I've read in IRA veterans accounts and heard from their mouths. True, in real life there were some decent individuals - there always are. There was a Black and Tan who allowed an IRA captive to nip in and see his dying brother when the Tan's officer's back was turned. Yet there were also ones like those who slit Kathleen Clarke's sister's hand from fingers to wrist with a razor. I think critics of Loach would do well for their own sakes not to make too much noise about the depiction of the Tans. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 22:00 by aaronrip / chekov / kev
5 comments (last - wednesday july 12, 2006 - 18:24)  3 images  1 video file
This 25 minute long film was produced very quickly in the immediate aftermath of the riots in Dublin in Febuary 2006 and was only ever to date screened at the anarchist bookfair which took place within a short time of the events depicted. It was basically made by combining a text opinion piece/story about the events with footage uploaded to indymedia ireland in the very immediate aftermath of the riot. I (aaronrip) took the two, voiced one (chekov's text) and cut up the other (kev footage) and within a day or so had an acceptable film. Hope others will try this method of instant filmaking about events in the near future. The generally copyleft nature of material uploaded to Indymedia makes this possible and easy. If you can't/don't want to write 'voiceovers' then steal/channel them. Dedicated to the charming and busy Revolt Video heads ;-) ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 03:15 by Michelle Clarke
29 comments (last - thursday july 02, 2009 - 16:43)
As a person with many disabilities I have spent over three years writing via net for broadband........all I end up is paying for broadband since 2004, then the 1892 account t that ran tadjacent and my own account.......was running up a bill, on the basis that I had no broadbank. I write emails because I am phone phobic and limited to certain tasks a day otherwise it is confusion and I advised Disability section broadband all about these criteria. Now I am cancelled with aq bill. I lose out on the rent change paid by government....... All I asked was that a service man put in the equipment as my intellectual abilities make it difficult!!!! But no........Service is Irish style, lots of advertising and no action or no thought. Has anyone else fallent into trap............ ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 09, 2006 - 00:08 by Seán Ryan
4 comments (last - monday july 10, 2006 - 16:29)
Chapter 9 of Book II. Been a while since I last published from Book II. This time I have a go at proving the existence of God, as was promised in an earlier chapter, in which the groundwork was laid. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday July 08, 2006 - 17:04 by Political Hostage
6 comments (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 21:49)
Running parallel with the vicious media campaign of vilification against the McKevitt family was a campaign of intimidation and harassment conducted by members of the Garda Emergency Response Unit ERU. The overt campaign was directed at the entire McKevitt family including the three youngest children who were aged 8, 6 and 5. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 07, 2006 - 16:57 by Frank Lee
13 comments (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 - 01:23)
I was suprised to read in todays Belfast Telegraph Frank Bunting offering any opinion on the cash crisis at the SEELB. The conduct of the INTO in this matter has been disgraceful. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 06, 2006 - 22:56 by Revolt Video
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Short video about the mass media and the butchering of life in Iraq, contains some graphic images. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday July 06, 2006 - 21:40 by number 6
4 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 - 16:15)
Hidden additives. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday July 05, 2006 - 00:43 by Paula Geraghty
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I met people after and they asked, but was it art???? Another person said it's art if thats the context that it's made in......... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday July 05, 2006 - 00:24 by Paula Geraghty
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A taste of some images from the final year show of graduates from the DIT photography course. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Monday July 03, 2006 - 20:18 by iosaf
17 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 12:18) 4 images
Voters went to the polls in Mexico, a federation of 31 states and one district yesterday the 2nd of July to directly elect their new President. There are roughly 106.5 million Mexican citizens and their state ranks 12th in the World GDP and 4th for "per capita income" in Latin America. The "not voting" thing was very simple for Mexico, 2005 saw Chiapas agree to send Sub Comandant Marcus out on a nation-wide "other campaign". Officially 99.4% of ballot offices were opened without incident, and 58.91% of the electorate voted. That means an abstention of roughly 41%. The "voting" thing has produced a result so narrow that the Federal Electoral Institute can't call the election yet. The mechanism used dictates that the candidate with "plurality of votes" shall win, even if that candidate hasn't got more than 50%. If the IFE can't call the results, it means there is less than 0.3% difference in the results. there is no mechanism for a "run-off" election which readers will remember occured in the recent Peruvian presidential elections. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday July 02, 2006 - 21:21 by Chris Murray
29 comments (last - tuesday march 13, 2007 - 11:55)
Archives dating from the period 1922-1939 are to be opened by Pope Benedict on the 18th of September 2006. "Giving new insight into what the Catholic Church knew and did as Europe saw the rise of Nazism in Germany and the Spainish Civil War" The files are known as the Secret Archives and files of its Secretariat of State for the Pontificate of Pius X1. Reuters/ Irish Times :- (1-07-06). www.ireland.com Googled the Holy See, (as one does) to see if more info can be had on Benedict's criteria for choosing this specific time-frame, such as- have the archives up until 1922 been opened before and this is part of a synthesis of release, or why the abrupt stop at 1939? Reading history in a linear fashion rather than as something which often involves mass-movement or community consciousness would tend to point to this era being crucial. The period preceeding 1922 would hold an unlimited fascination in terms of labour movement and the assasination of such figures as Rosa luxemburg (Jan 1919). The Spainish Civil war is mentioned also in the hopeful analysis of that specific time encapsulation, the assasination of Lorca comes to mind. The 17 year period of file and archive release necessarily reduces the reading of the archive within a specific narrow framework which does not account for the build-up to facism which would definitely preceed the watermark indicated. The archives would contain some fascinating documentation of that period in world history but are they part of an ongoing cycle of release or are they an isolated example of a criteria of choice with regard to the Shoah? informations on the secret archives are to be had on the Vatican website www.vatican.ca http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm http://asv.vaticanva/en/studi_stud,htm In terms of bureaucracy and official secrets, many governments wd have a specific period of time during which state papers are sealed and released. The opening of the secret archive in an Independent State such as Vatican city would probably have a different criteria for selecting and approving the dates for release of such documentations. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Sunday July 02, 2006 - 17:33 by James R
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Just after returning from watching Ken Loach's Palm D'or reaping drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley and like most feel slightly compelled to add one or two words to the flurry of type and hype that has accompanied the movies release on these shores. The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a typical Loach movie betraying many of the core techniques of his previous outtings. Again he relies on plunging a shallowly crafted personal relationship, this time between two brothers, into a set of tragic circumstances. These circumstances provide an emotional cover for his overly didactic political approach to popularising alternative historical mythologies that challenge the authors of a victors' history. This time the contested historicity is the rabid nationalism of the Irish text book, that sweeps aside socialist and labour based movements in the process of consolidation of the free state. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Saturday July 01, 2006 - 16:05 by Sean Crudden
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Is the curriculum at second level largely dated and irrelevant? Does the Leaving Certificate Exam serve any worthy educational purpose any longer? Has it, even, any practical benefit worth the considerable cost? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 29, 2006 - 20:19 by Chris Murray
2 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 22:03)
Professor Peter Mitchell of the UCD school of physics , provided today a completetly risible excuse for the media -led campaign on nuclear energy in this country. The campaign has been trundling on at least since Feburary 16th of this year, though it gathered momentum on June 1st with the press release from the Oireachtas Committee on natural resources that the nuclear option is one that we should be examining. According to Mitchell nuclear power generation in Ireland could provide an answer to our offence at and opposition to war. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 17:59 by Chris Murray
10 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2007 - 10:53)
How apparent was it in in the Dail? A constitutional referendum on the recently debated (use the term advisedly) Criminal law (sexual offences) Bill 2006, has produced more controversy in Dail Eireann today. Mr Ahern has stated that there may (after an all-party committee) hearing on all aspects of the law , including the constitutional implications, which may lead to a referendum to drop the 'honest mistake' defence and a referendum would ensure that in effect we would be returned to the 1935 act. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 15:41 by B. F.
4 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 19:36)
We need a 'Highly Respectable' Dublin Law Firm which offers Pro Bono facilities to help discover the truth regarding a £1,00000 Donnybrook estate. The matter is still on-going... however we need serious answers from the Bank of Ireland and the Post Office. Please help. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 01:05 by Liam Mullen (Liam Ó Maoláin)
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The British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in a speech given to the House of Commons has stated that “the global scientific landscape is now shifting”, and she has referred to the rise of India and China as highly significant. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 14:54 by Seán Ryan
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Three new Mayors 'elected' last night. ... read full story / add a comment |
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