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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 31, 2007 - 16:45 by B Scanlon
 34 comments (last - friday february 11, 2011 - 23:47)
The house that countess Markievicz was born in now has exhibition in her honour. This woman born into wealth gave her live to Ireland and its poor. Bertie Ahern kicked the show of on Friday for his friend the owner Eddie Walsh the very man who had closed of rights of way on the estate to the people of the area ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Saturday March 31, 2007 - 10:28 by Margaretta D'Arcy
65 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 - 14:15)  1 image
A defence of the resolution which was attacked by the Israeli embassy on the ground that it was biased and misinformed. The author of the resolution explains its background and proves how she was not misinformed and did not mislead the Irish artists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday March 31, 2007 - 03:49 by johnfitz
demand that the Dail is not dissolved until it ends the atrocity of our complicity in mass murder in Iraq. There is an irrefutable case that our TDs are aware that we, members of the UN, remained silent while half a million Iraqis kids were murdered by UN Sanctions up to 1998 That continued at 5,000 a month under 5y/o kids until March 2003. We then supported the illegal war of aggression - "the greatest crime of all" according to the Nuremberg Tribunal. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / history and heritage Thursday March 29, 2007 - 19:25 by Joe
1 comment (last - friday march 30, 2007 - 10:16)  1 audio file
William Thompson was one of the of the first people to critically engage with political economy and attempt to turn it around to defend the improvement of the condition of the working class and rural poor. He was from a Anglo- Irish landowning family from West Cork and was to become a leading figure in the early Co-operative movement. In this talk from the anarchist bookfair Paul Bowman talks about the importance of Thompson and the relevance of his ideas today ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday March 29, 2007 - 12:31 by Johnny Finn
4 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 - 17:46)
A commentary on the power held by the PDs in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 29, 2007 - 12:16 by Fr. Commandante
1 comment (last - thursday march 29, 2007 - 15:08)
listening to pope, Benedict. last week ... read full story / add a comment 
cavan / miscellaneous Tuesday March 27, 2007 - 21:55 by an searbhán lochlannach
9 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 15:51) 10 images
I’ve just spent 3 days at Jampa Ling Buddhist centre 2 miles from Bawnboy in West Cavan. I’d been thinking about going there for over a year, having heard a very favourable account about the place from a friend. Then, due to start out on a new job, I finally decided to make the time and go, to think and meditate, to re-organise my brain and my heart, to re-evaluate my priorities in life. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Tuesday March 27, 2007 - 11:58 by Chris Murray
2 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 - 11:23) 1 image
The Alliance for Natural Health filed nine applications to Annex 1 of the EU Food Supplement Directive and a further six to annex II in Late Feburary and early March 2007. The primary subjects of the applications were natural vitamins and minerals which were ommitted from the Directive's Annexes ('positive list'). On the 16th of March , the ANH informed the EU Commission that it had filed the applications and would scrutinise it and the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) procedures with regard to their evaluation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 26, 2007 - 14:29 by Edward Horgan
1 comment (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 - 16:21) 1 image
Next Protest at Shannon Many people wonder why so few protesters turn up for protests at Shannon airport. They frequently ask why does'nt someone organise something. The answer to this is, why dont you? This is your airport too, and the children killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are all of our children. Please don't give up on this most serious of issues, please make it an issue in the comming election. We need weekly protests at Shannon airport on a continuous basis not only up to the election at the end of May but also afterwards, so that the next Government don't take our silence as agreement with Irish Government complicity in crimes against humanity. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday March 26, 2007 - 13:01 by Peter Jones
3 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 - 11:09) 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 23, 2007 - 19:53 by Common Sense
8 comments (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 - 00:50)
Everybody but the most myopic neo-conservative agrees that the invasion of Iraq has been an utter catastrophy. It seems inevitable that US troops will be withdrawn, if not in the lifetime of the Bush administration, then certainly in the lifetime of the next US administration either Democrat or Republican, when a realist will certainly occupy the White House with the mandate of a US public who have awoken from the hysteria after 9/11 which brought to them to war in the first place. But only a fool would believe Iraq will be peaceful after the US withdraw. Indeed it seems obvious that Shia and Sunnis will slaughter with impunity once the ineffectual US referee is removed from the boxing ring.That is why the UN must send peacekeeping troops to the region to prevent this catastrophe from occuring. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 22, 2007 - 20:04 by BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Sum
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 12:25 by BossWatcher
7 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 - 13:37)
I have been contacted recently by a number of foreign workers who have been screwed over by their employers in both money and health and safety issues. None of them speak much english and none were in a union. Finding it hard to get them help through Solicitors, any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Tuesday March 20, 2007 - 23:38 by seashell
1 comment (last - thursday march 22, 2007 - 16:28) 1 audio file
In 1996, what we know today as the Corrib Natural Gas Field was discovered by Enterprise Oil, which was subsequently acquired by Shell in 2002. The Shell oil company had entered into talks with An Bord Pleanála about securing planning permission for a gas pipeline through north Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday March 20, 2007 - 20:06 by C Murray
8 comments (last - saturday march 24, 2007 - 20:44)
The European Court for Human Rights today held that Poland was in violation of the human Rights of Alicja Tysiak who had sought an abortion due to a medical condition which had caused irreversible eye damage. She had been refused a certificate authorising the abortion, which had left her forced to continue with the pregnancy. By Law Poland allows women to have abortions when their health is in danger, in the Tysiac case the Polish State had failed to meet with it's legal obligation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 20, 2007 - 03:18 by LiP
The age old-adage that nobody celebrates quite like the Irish rang true this weekend. As is common during Irish festivals a large proportion of the population chose the local pub as the most appropriate venue to celebrate our patron saint. However, reports of over two hundred arrests relating to drink driving and eight fatalities on our roads this weekend leads this writer to question why in this day and age do we still refuse to follow the rules and ask is it not time we started to celebrate a little less haphazardly and a little more sensibly? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 18, 2007 - 23:46 by Idle Speculation
10 comments (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 - 16:37)
We can speculate on alternative scenarios that may have arose if Hitler had won WW2 or JFK had not been shot in Dallas or Cantona had not attacked a spectator with a kung fu kick. But the most important question we must speculate about is the great "what if" of our times. "What if Al Gore had won the US Presidential Election in 2000?" This is what I think might have happened: ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday March 16, 2007 - 21:28 by john mcdermott
1 comment (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 08:29)
I have been trying to review Joe Higgins famous attack on Ahern and his builder friends on the RTE server but it has disappeared. Ahern's reply however is still intact. Is this an insidious form of censorship of Joe's finest moment or no? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 16, 2007 - 20:35 by Brian
1 comment (last - thursday april 03, 2014 - 19:19)
The world is in a state of chasis as Sean O'Casey might say. Since the advent of George Bush to the White House every other year seems to bring forth a war or talk of war. Few commentators believe that this will stop at Iraq. Last July even Newt Gingrich was quoted as saying that "we are in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world war..."(1) Many people are now openly speculating about who is next. Syria? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? And especially Iran are the subject of fevered speculation even in the established media. This writer would just like to opt for Russia as the next ultimate target. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday March 16, 2007 - 14:46 by Stripe
3 comments (last - sunday march 18, 2007 - 19:52) 6 images
It's hard to know where to start with this. Is it that they have reduced the whole notion of Irishness to a running shoe with a leprachaun on it? Is it the weird notion of having the colours of the Republican tricolour on an ugly pair of runners? Is it the "kiss me I'm Irish?". Is it the design of the lining showing an overflowing beer mug? Is it the sheer awful, "Americaness" of it all? ... read full story / add a comment |
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