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international / crime and justice Saturday September 25, 2004 - 20:32 by Sean Dowling   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 09, 2005 - 00:23)
Contact Al Jazeera to try to Save Hostage ... read full story / add a comment
Earth moving equipment moves in on paralysed Traveller women
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 24, 2004 - 16:31 by David McCarthy   text 2 comments (last - friday september 24, 2004 - 21:13)   image 1 image
Resolving the Traveller accommodation crisis is a matter of urgency and one of primary concern in combating discrimination. The negative public perception of Travellers is reinforced daily by the sight of families living on roadside sites with no sanitation, water, electricity, refuse disposal, or facilities to dispose of liquid waste. The local authorities collectively are the only agents of change who can help improve the position of Travellers through co-ordinated action to address the human rights problems of Travellers by resolving their most basic need of shelter.
TVG makes the case to Cork County Council to take the appropriate actuion as part of its Traveller Accommodation Programme 2005 to 2008. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 23, 2004 - 16:29 by No Masters   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2004 - 01:49)
Education is not accessible to all in society. A blatant fact. I challenge anybody who thinks on the contrary to this. The reasons for this inequality are abundant. The main reasons are predominantly due to broader social and economic inequalities created and maintained by the present government. ... read full story / add a comment
UUP Recruit in UCD
national / miscellaneous Thursday September 23, 2004 - 15:07 by DUP Supporter   text 15 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2004 - 03:45)   image 1 image
It’s great to see the Ulster Unionist Party recruiting in UCD – or so I thought until I realised the Union Jack bedazzled stand was actually that of Young Fine Gael!

I guess they’re really taking Bruton’s comments about reaching out to England and re-joining the Commonwealth seriously! ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday September 22, 2004 - 01:41 by paulc   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 22, 2004 - 17:11)
Critical Mass Cork and Dublin see events for details. A report with video and photos of last months (monthly) critical mass. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 20, 2004 - 20:37 by Randall Krucher   text 33 comments (last - wednesday october 06, 2004 - 12:43)   image 2 images
I am a committed anti-war activist and would like nothing better than to see Bush hurled from a cannon from the White House lawn.

But don't bet on it.

I'd say Kerry is Bush's dream opponent. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 20, 2004 - 13:37 by Liberty Hall Langer’   text 19 comments (last - saturday june 25, 2005 - 20:28)
Opinion piece on the IWU ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday September 19, 2004 - 23:50 by john mcdermott   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 - 22:35)
Only people protest can stop them... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday September 19, 2004 - 14:50 by Michael Hennigan   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 19, 2004 - 17:38)
Last June, during the voting on the referendum on citizenship, an exit poll of 3.300 voters which had been commissioned by RTE Radio, found that 36% of yes voters at 166 polling stations agreed that the main reason for their vote was because 'the country is being exploited by immigrants.' Another 27% had agreed with the statement that 'there are too many immigrants in the country.'

It may surprise some of those voters who believe that immigrants (the bulk of whom are here on approved work permits) are costing us lots of money, that we are still receiving large transfers from the European Union. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday September 19, 2004 - 02:38 by john mcdermott
The Luas has crashed,and Bertie will re-open the damaged fiasco/700 million euro toy train,. a few days before his major re-shuffle.Question is will this venture be a goldmine for the legal profession or will Mary Harney curb their avarice? ... read full story / add a comment
louth / consumer issues Saturday September 18, 2004 - 18:21 by Sean Crudden   text 29 comments (last - saturday september 25, 2004 - 16:34)
Will the Church transform itself or will it decay and allow a phoenix to arise from the ashes? ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 18, 2004 - 14:38 by s.fleming   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 22, 2004 - 17:23)
749 receive ECT.The question to psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is: Would you be prepared to administer this to one of your loved ones? ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Saturday September 18, 2004 - 12:41 by Malatested   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 - 23:58)
Direct Rule Minister John Spellar has announced that we can expect to pay an average of £415 for our water by 2008. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday September 18, 2004 - 07:53 by Migratory Bird
I have written a few reflections on the daily poetry movement, my featured poem of the day and also inluded a link to my page on the imc network. Please feel free to submit orginal peices to me to be featured. Rise up! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 17, 2004 - 20:43 by David C.   text 2 comments (last - friday september 17, 2004 - 23:42)
The war on Iraq was illegal, fraudulent and has killed many tens of thousands of innocent people, and making this war is very probably a war crime. But the Americans commit war crimes every day in Iraq. One such war crime was the Haifa Street massacre, which occurred last week and which was televised. Jonathan Steele has courageously written a clear and insightful analysis of this massacre in today's edition of The Guardian. This posting examines Steele's position and asks why criticism of American war crimes in Iraq is so rare. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 15, 2004 - 18:58 by An Puca   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 16, 2004 - 14:50)
Take these things out of my fathers house and stop turning it into a market? ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday September 15, 2004 - 14:48 by Tom   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 - 17:09)
Designing a system to effectively govern over four million people isn’t easy, but serious reform of the system that we have accepted is required if our goal is to achieve a pure democracy in which the greatest majority of citizens is represented satisfactorily. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 15, 2004 - 09:32 by Time For Change   text 67 comments (last - saturday october 02, 2004 - 17:57)
The end of the Civil Service pay dispute has been a bitter pill for NIPSA members to swallow. NIPSA members have fought the governments for eight months firmly believing that our campaign was about fundamental issues. As the dispute developed that view was confirmed.
This dispute has been a struggle for the right to be properly recognised as a trade union including the right to negotiate on behalf of members, it was a struggle for the end of low pay in the Civil Service and it was the a struggle to end pay inequality.
Unfortunately in the final settlement none of these issues was properly addressed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday September 14, 2004 - 19:36 by Frank Rotering   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 16, 2004 - 18:50)
The expansion of humanity's ecological impact on the planet cannot continue much longer without violating natural thresholds. To survive, we must develop a new way of thinking about our economic activities. This article briefly describes the author's approach to such a new mode of thought. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday September 13, 2004 - 22:37 by Michael Hennigan   text 2 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 23:37)
It is strange that while it is often said that the purchase of a house is the biggest decision which most people have to make, newspapers make no claims that property reviews are objective. Nevertheless, they are presented under journalists' bylines, sometimes following a site visit, but the resultant copy does not differ from what an estate agent would produce. ... read full story / add a comment
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