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international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 17:40 by Liam Ó Maoláin
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The assumptions lying behind “mass communications research” have altered in the light of new evidence thrown up in a report published in 1970, entitled “Demonstrations and Communications.” (Halloran, Elliott and Murdock ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 16:32 by Liam Mullen
Audiences see TV as a producer of news and entertainment products but in fact its core role is producing ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 22, 2006 - 23:11 by Patrique
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NIPSA conference meets next week to decide policies and principles. But who decides these, the members and branches, or General Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday May 22, 2006 - 17:22 by iosaf
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Mc Dowell wanted us to ponder this :- "Probably the most important one is that the United Nations high commissioner's representative in Ireland and his predecessor have both pointed to the fact that the Irish system is one of the best in Europe and that it's a good and fair one and that it's transparent, that it's subject to judicial review." Most of us of course disagree. But one word of Mc Dowell's statement made last week & republished again in today's Irish Times screams out for more attention :- "Transparent". ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 21, 2006 - 23:41 by Hs
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On Saturday we witnessed one of Ireland’s first organised racist counter demonstrations. The demonstrators while being made up of what can only be described as very disenfranchised poor who were joined in the evenings by an assortment of drunks. But there was at least on Saturday afternoon a number of ordinary working class residents who were angered at the attention being drawn to the refugees, while their local area suffered huge social problems. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 21, 2006 - 16:14 by sean
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marginalised anti hunger strike protestors ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday May 21, 2006 - 01:46 by Hedgehog
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Daily telegraph chooses an animal rights bashing story for their coveted front page. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 20, 2006 - 20:29 by Michelle Clarke
This was a contribution to Indymedia 4th March by Redjade Coming To Grief by Hans Johnson Like the breeze of late winter, a single word, unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several US service members returned from Iraq. Families and military presss officers have different reasons for tight lips on the topic. But Suicide among Iraq soldiers, 29 soldiers by recent count, says volumes about drooping morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service members is being measured and how much more they will bear' We all are delicate human beings...........bureaucracy can always be sorted out......life cannot be given back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 19, 2006 - 08:52 by Ramor
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( Note ; with Danish journalist Erik Pedersen I went to Michael’s house in Glasnevin a few months ago to conduct an interview about volunteers of the International Brigades for Danish radio. Despite his advanced years, a sprightly man brimming with wit and stories spoke to us for several hours. Characteristically he didn’t talk much about himself or his own endevours in Spain ( he is reported to have been a brave and fearless machine gunner in the battlefield, according to other sources ), instead concentrating on the politics of the situation and on remembering those who fell. History walks with us, and listening to Mr O Riordan reminisce about the heroic struggle waged against the fascist threat in the 1930’s reveals how many of the issues confronted then remain urgent today. Parts of the interview are unclear, and the brackets are mine, Ramor ) ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday May 18, 2006 - 20:49 by Fiachra O!
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Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Aran Islands sent this in to the Irish Times just before Easter and it wasn't published it. I thought it was brilliant when she showed me so I'm posting it here with her consent. Enjoy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 22:08 by David MAnning
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The Illusion of Balance Ah that wistful sense of balance so uncommon in the liberal media. In response to a letter sent to the Irish Times criticising Charles Krauthammer's mis-quotation, among other things, of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks at the "World without Zionism" conference held in Tehran, the Irish Times printed a 'counter balance' of sizeable proportion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 17:55 by NC
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The bullying and intimidation of workers in the Social Economy in Ireland has gone unpublisised for far to long. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 14:39 by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne
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The NRA throws around groundless allegations: and those who protest find the price of exercising their democratic rights comes very high indeed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:51 by Dave
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 17:47 by Lisa
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John Howard arrives in Ireland on Saturday on a four day trip where he will address the Dail and meet key business and political leaders. It is his first visit to Ireland since he was first elected Prime Minister of Australia ten years ago and one he sees as important because of 'the historical and sentimental links between the two countries'. Howard is currently swamped in controversy surrounding kick-backs to Saddam Hussein, state treatment of Aboriginal peoples and Refugees, his support for George Bush and his decision to send the Navy to East Timor. As he is met by anti-war protesters in Washington, Irish activists are preparing their own welcome for this notorious war monger. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday May 15, 2006 - 17:42 by Scot MacCreamhain
Short commemorative article on the Irishmen of the International Brigades ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 13, 2006 - 23:42 by DF
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Critics of Hugo Chavez have renewed their charges of authoritarianism against the Venezuelan leader. How well do these claims stand up? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 13, 2006 - 23:09 by James Reilly
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Susan McKay’s article in the Weekend Review section of the Irish Times (May 13 2006 - see link below) explains the background to the unionist sectarian killing of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena. In this DUP heartland over 90% of the sectarian attacks are unionist. The PSNI calls this sectarianism that is almost universally unionist a “two way thing”. Ian Paisley wants “all sides” to “pull back”. Instead of examining whether unionist ideology is in any way at fault, Paisley warns nationalists in an insulting and bullying manner not to turn the issue into a “political football”. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 13, 2006 - 10:24 by Sean Crudden
Nowadays none of us want to believe that we are living - or struggling to live - in a "top-down" patriarchal society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday May 13, 2006 - 10:14 by Manus O'Riordan
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Review: Eoin O’Duffy – A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2005, €35/Ł25 Fearghal McGarry first made his mark as a historian with Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999), described by me as “the definitive textbook on the subject” in the Fall 2003 issue of Irish Literary Supplement. This was in the context of a review of his second book, Frank Ryan (2002), a biography criticised as both disappointing and sensationalist, with little evidence of the depth of research and analysis required to do justice to its subject. The hope was nonetheless expressed that the author’s future work would demonstrate a return to the “high standards of scholarship, balanced presentation and conscientious evaluation” that he had previously shown. ... read full story / add a comment |
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