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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 23, 2006 - 17:32 by Gregor Kerr
 4 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 - 17:21)
This is the text of a leaflet which has been drawn up by members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation who are opposed to the new pay deal as presented to us for ratification. A version of this leaflet was distributed to approx 500 INTO delegates from all over the country who attended a 'Consultative Conference' on Whole School Evaluation last weekend. Thanks to the generosity of a number of union members a copy of it has also been posted out to most schools in the Dublin area and some around the country. Unfortunately we don't have the €1500 it would cost to send the leaflet to all 3,000 or so primary schools in Ireland. This is not a problem that will face those who favour the deal - the union leadership. They have no problem spending members' money to give the 'pro' side of the argument. If you are a member of the INTO please print off this leaflet and distribute it to your work colleagues. If you would like to contribute financially to sending out the leaflet contact me at the Email address shown. If you're not in the INTO, the information in the leaflet might be of benefit to you in your own union. Please feel free to use it as you will. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday June 22, 2006 - 11:55 by John Flood
2 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 20:48)
During March and early April a wave of protests and occupations gripped France. On March the 7th over one million people protested against the French government’s attempt to introduce the C.P.E., a new law that reduced the rights of young workers. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday June 22, 2006 - 11:34 by Sister Conception Cramp.
4 comments (last - thursday september 21, 2006 - 14:29)
Yesterday Minister for (Justice) Michael Mc Dowell TD asked Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD to "step aside" as party leader, before the next general election. The possibilities are endless in terms of cliche. One that springs directly to mind is an old Irish favourite: "The Shit before The Shovel". ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 21:43 by anon
So I read in the Times this column inch about Bertie Ahern meeting a delegation from Iraq in Dublin organised by the IRI, that is all there no other mention of it I can find, ok so diplomatic meetings rarely get much sattention but this is more then that this is 8 MPs from Iraq's newly elected government. Ireland and the UN have brought democracy to Iraq and with all that bads news and 'unwarranted flak' the government has been getting over the Shannon and Bertie doesn' t want to use this opportumity to shout from the rooftops? with those men DEMOCRACY!! not even a photocall, or a told you so! you nitwit. Oh I wish I was one of those journalists you hear about. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 20:39 by Muriel Lumb
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I got a Hard Rain in recently and it blew me away. It's a photographic exploration of the effects of climate change illustrating Bob Dylan's prophetic lyrics. Everyone should read this book and I don't care where you get it so long as you get a look at it. If any book can shake people out of their complacency, this is the one. Make your libraries buy it, show it to your friends, family and co-workers, show it to everyone you meet every day. Read it and weep. And then do something about it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 19:40 by Mustafa Tubevis
10 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 - 02:32)
The Scottish Socialist Party United Left (or SSP United Left for short) is a new grouping in the Scottish Socialist Party. An appeal to launch this grouping took place on 13 June 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 13:37 by Ryan
8 comments (last - tuesday september 12, 2006 - 18:14)
There is a complete lack of parental control and responsibility for their children in this country. Young girls and young boys totally unequipped for adult life are enagaging in sexual intercourse at increasingly young ages. This is a direct result from imagery on television, the internet, print media and most importantly from the behaviour of their adult peers. Every day I recoil in disgust as I see young girls barely finished playing with their dolls dressed in skimpy clothing with rouged lip and make up and overhear them openly using the most profane language and engaging in sexually explicit conversation or blatant heavy petting in public. Young boys are supposed to fulfill a predatory hard drinking macho stereotype. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 13:20 by Mark G
2 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 11:10)
The Homeless agency last month claimed that homeless figures had dropped by a fifth in Dublin last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 02:34 by Fintan Lane
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There are occasions when the sheer wrongheaded analysis and distorted facts of a newspaper or magazine article cause you to stiffen with annoyance. Nine times out of ten, these articles are found in the mainstream press; the Independent Group of newspapers, for example, is a reliable purveyor of sly and explicit attacks on left-wing and progressive ideas, campaigns and parties, often underpinned by distorted ‘facts’ and baffling interpretations. It can be a frustrating experience to read these wilful misinterpretations of left-wing ideas and actions. Unfortunately, the socialist media cannot claim an entirely clean record in this regard either. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 00:46 by Stephen James Sakamoto
1 comment (last - monday june 26, 2006 - 23:18)
Cynicism and insecurity seems to reverberate amongst the 'Laboratory Rats - namely those who are full of FEAR'. Action is required and bravery of creating a movement, underground and silent resistance - rather than Protests! ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 23:39 by Jack White
3 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 - 10:36)
Just over a year ago, on the 2nd of June 2005 Terence Wheelock was arrested on suspicion of car theft and brought to Dublin’s Store Street Garda station. Just two hours after his arrest he was found unconscious in his cell. He entered a coma and passed away in September 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 21:30 by Michelle Clarke
31 comments (last - friday january 22, 2010 - 08:41)
'Knowledge is no load'........Today Knowledge flounders in vanity by revelations of a woman who forms the centre stage in Irish politics. Money is the core ingredient of motive......entertainment, dress, holidays, no divorce because after all that would involve the judiciary deciding how to allocated funds......a deletion of power!!!! Remember: The bus pass was a great populist move but as we moved into the pre-ordained capitalist route, privatisation will no doubt end this. Yes, the 1970's, a woman could marry into a farm and the husband could leave it to the son.....and her fate could be the county home But does anyone ask about Divorce, the fact that there is no clean break, the fact it is 50/50, the fact that when a person dies, their spouse is notified and within 6 months can make a claim on their estate..... What about the 2nd bite of the Cherry.....The truth is there is one rule for the rich ......... and a completely different one for the ordinary person. The trend in Ireland is to leave the house with wife, contributing to men living in one bed flats and in some cases homeless. The English divide.........What is Fair? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / sci-tech Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 18:30 by Sean Crudden
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What do we expect from our investment in science over the next seven years? Do we really want science at all? Maybe we would be more content to persevere with the quackery and the money-making? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 16:25 by born in Europe...
you too? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 14:37 by P
6 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 20:29)
Normally you do hear about these type of visits until very soon to the date, so this is interesting. Daily Ireland reports HMS Ocean which has played a critical part in the early months of the Iraq invasion is coming to Dublin Port later this month. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 14:27 by Ali H.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees fled or were driven from their homes during the Israeli-Arab wars in 1948 and 1967. A UN exhibition on the lives of Palestinian refugee children marks World Refugee Day on 20 June 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 00:34 by Liam Mullen
7 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 - 20:23)
In delivering a resounding eulogy to his former mentor and “boss”, the late Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey, the current Taoiseach Bertie Ahern showed true compassion and tenacity in speaking warmly about CJ Haughey, but the question must be asked: Has Bertie Ahern and his top henchmen lost the plot? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 16:15 by Michelle Clarke
3 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 - 20:04)
I am asking the question because of the outright inadequacy of mental health services and integrationist services to cater for the needs of people with health problems particularly mental health problems..... I recall an Irish Penal Reform Trust meeting.....a Forensic Psychiatrist and his wise words about mental health definititions. The categories of say bipolar equate the same in the outside world and within the hospital implying that a lot of what is termed Psychiatric are in fact social problems. I have written an 18 page essay dealing with this topic over two centuries. Anxiety can take you by the throat if you suffer from what is named episodic........Listen to your patients and fight for the funding to provide an adequate medical service and perhaps have less people walking the streets and begging............I have heard that if you have mental health problems in the US, you are 4 times more likely to be shot by the police.... Where is the Barr Tribunal Report......What is holding it up? Why was John Carty show. Where were the social services and the doctors....... The Morris Tribunal has reported. Let's clearn up the act and hear what Mr. Justice Barr has to say..... Michelle ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 15:41 by Cllr Keith Martin
3 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 - 02:39)
It is time to replace unelected Managers with Directly Elected Mayors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 11:49 by WS
9 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 - 19:23)
The deaths of Terence Wheelock and John Moloney in Garda custody have again focused attention on the brutal nature of policing in this state. Brian Rossiter and John Carty are other names from a long list that have a public resonance. ... read full story / add a comment |
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