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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:30 by Mick
 17 comments (last - thursday august 30, 2007 - 16:08)
What are the causes? This is not scientific but I believe that a scientific study would probably identify these factors in order of significane. 1. Public ignorance and stupidity. 2. Speeding 3. Alcohol and drugs. 4. Poor driving tests and skills and lack of knowledge of the rules of the road. 5. Poor secondary roads. 6. Poor enforcement of road laws by police and lenient punishments for offenders. 7. Increased road usuge and congestion in urban areas. Most importantly - "What is the solution?" ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:29 by Miriam Cotton
5 comments (last - thursday march 30, 2006 - 17:27)
I don’t know the last time the Irish Examiner bothered to write about the subject of disability but it is a certainty that the issue is not a priority for the paper’s editors in the normal run of events and it has negligible coverage in its pages. For instance, if you compare its coverage of the subject of horseracing or business issues, disability trails well behind either despite its significance to huge numbers of people. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 05:00 by John Aherne
23 comments (last - saturday march 21, 2009 - 12:20)  1 image
Can anyone tell me as to why it is so difficult to have a basic need catered to regarding accessibility in Ireland? In this day and age you would think firstly that pure and utter logic would prevail, but with my expieriences, and with the so called "Celtic Tiger" we are years away from being a society that open doors. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 28, 2006 - 14:19 by Friends of Kunle
50 comments (last - wednesday july 05, 2006 - 13:18) 4 images
TODAY is the day that Nigerian Asylum Seeker Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo has been ordered to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau by Justice Minister Michael McDowell so that the deportation to Nigeria proceedings against him can be expedited. Let’s see a show of support for Kunle outside the GNIB today and more until he is allowed to stay in Ireland! ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday March 27, 2006 - 17:32 by WS
4 comments (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 16:19) 1 image
Mary Harney has banned the sale of magic mushrooms!! In a decision taken in record-quick time, Harney and her government colleagues decided that they couldn’t have us all going around sampling mind-altering fungi and maybe even enjoying them. More importantly the decision was made that we couldn’t be trusted to decide for ourselves what was safe/unsafe for each of us to try. We need such decisions to be made for us because apparently we are incapable of deciding for ourselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 27, 2006 - 16:23 by Mick
1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 - 08:01)
The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast. The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe. Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul. Roll opening credits. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 27, 2006 - 13:56 by U McBride
35 comments (last - thursday april 06, 2006 - 14:58) 1 image
Most people find it hard to believe that the US and Britain could be planning another war - on Iran this time - after the disastars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Read on please. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Monday March 27, 2006 - 00:23 by Iosaf mac D .:. "the ipsiphi"
9 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 - 23:01) 3 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". Music will carry us through all tyranny. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 26, 2006 - 21:15 by Topper
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media has consistently failed to report the truth about Iraq. This article looks at some of the most striking failures, and asks why ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Sunday March 26, 2006 - 14:36 by Seán Ryan
1 comment (last - friday may 05, 2006 - 04:44) 1 image
Short article that examines murder in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday March 26, 2006 - 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on. If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 25, 2006 - 00:33 by MLC
1 comment (last - sunday march 26, 2006 - 09:23)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday March 24, 2006 - 12:27 by PR
The victory of Evo Morales in the presidential elections in Bolivia in December has underlined once more that across Latin America there is a demand for change. The first significant victory came back in 2002 when Lulu, the leader of the Brazilian Workers Party was elected to power after a long and arduous campaign that stretched back almost two decade. It is claimed that Lulu’s victory and his pronouncements about making Brazil a fairer society sent ‘shivers’ through world stock markets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday March 23, 2006 - 13:26 by WS
3 comments (last - friday march 24, 2006 - 19:55)
Labour leader pat Rabbitte showed his opportunism when he called for a look at work visas for EU nationals. He raised the spectre of 40 million poles chasing “Irish Jobs”. It was a thoroughly disappointing turn by Labour but hardly surprising. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 23, 2006 - 13:23 by Ted Bagg
2 comments (last - sunday march 26, 2006 - 17:27)
Framing vs Money: Don't blame the public. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday March 23, 2006 - 03:30 by hackwatch
3 comments (last - monday march 27, 2006 - 22:34)
To see the ideological bias of the Irish media, the treatment of the trade unions by our tribe of opinion writers is probably as good a place as any to start. If one was so foolish as to believe that the national media's commentators presented a reasonably accurate range of the opinions held by the population then you would probably come to the conclusion that trade unions were some sort of masonic conspiracy, made up of "pampered dinosaurs" who regularly "hold the country to ransom" and never cease to threaten our poor down-trodden consumers with their refusal to "embrace change". ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 20:25 by Gaz B
2 comments (last - friday march 24, 2006 - 18:07) 1 image
Unless you're dead you've probably all heard about how shittty Irelands health service is. Our minister for health has her own 'Mary Harney Suite' (it's a corridor full of trolleys) in Tallaght hospital. A decade of unprecedented economic growth has proved that throwing money at a problem won't make it go away. So what’s the answer I hear you say? Well.....a doctors strike if we are to believe the evidence. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 19:41 by Seán Ryan
43 comments (last - saturday may 20, 2006 - 19:47) 1 image
A look at racism in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 12:57 by Alan McSimion
A small band of fringe nationalists decided to stop the Love Ulster parade. There is no question but that crowd of loyalists are sectarian bigots. During a protest against the release of republican prisoners as part of the Good Friday agreement, their leader, Willie Frazer, was asked about loyalist murder gang prisoners. “They should never have been locked up in the first place,” he replied. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 19:20 by David Manning
The Bloody Shoe Shines RTE distorts the level of deaths inflicted upon ordinary Iraqis. Senator Brendan Daly likens Shannon protestors to Saddam's minions. John Waters okays an illegal war and lays the blame at the feet of the 'perverse' public. It is not just Bertie Ahern that shines the shoes of those in power. ... read full story / add a comment |
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