|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday June 30, 2009 - 23:53 by Victim of Abuse
 7 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 - 01:12)
Recent allegations that Sr Stanislaus new about abuse in the religeous order years ago came across as sickening to me. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 30, 2009 - 23:10 by Just popped in!
1 comment (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 - 08:33)  1 image
Title V, Solidarity Clause, Article 188R, Page 132 Lisbon Treaty. 1. The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The Union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the military resources made available by the Member States, to: assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a terrorist attack; ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 28, 2009 - 11:48 by Guillotine
2 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 - 10:09)
A series of 17 Bills which are in the queue for legislation for the Dáil period 2009 are now subject to guillotine debate and are expected to be passed into law. One of the list is the 2006 Defamation Bill which was part of a twinset introduced to the Dáil by now defunct Minister for Justice and Barrister Michael Mc Dowell. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Friday June 26, 2009 - 16:34 by FSB!
5 comments (last - sunday june 28, 2009 - 19:43) 2 images
A written reply to a Dáil question by Aengus Ó Snodaigh by justice minister Dermot Ahern shows that Garda personnel strength in a large majority of Irish counties is less than the number of Gardai deployed in Erris to protect Shell's interests. For example, Shell has more cops than Co. Clare, Co. Kerry, or Co Sligo. Shell also has more cops defending its corrupt Corrib Gas Project than there are Gardai 'defending' the citizens of Galway, Waterford or Dún Laoghaire. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday June 25, 2009 - 14:33 by League for the Fourth International
For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 25, 2009 - 12:14 by Socialism or Barbarism!
An in-depth socialist review of the IMF report on the economy of the Republic of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 25, 2009 - 02:57 by Nick Folley
43 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 - 02:33) 3 images
So Sarkozy – and others in the UK – cry ‘Ban the burkha!’ What do they have against it? I picked up a copy of the Daily Express (Wednesday 24th June 2009) which carried the loud headline “Ban the Burkha here in Britain” (all in capitals in the original, of course) with my morning coffee, hoping to shed some light on the answer. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 16:21 by paul o toole
Generous Multinationals...stop giving out about them ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 16:20 by john
4 comments (last - thursday june 25, 2009 - 10:13)
Their names are John Kerr, former British ambassador to US and deputy chairman of Shell UK, also Jeroen Van der Veer, CEO Netherlands. Also present at this meeting were Irishman Dermot Gleeson who is or has been involved with Independent News Media, has recently resigned as Chairman of AIB and is chairman of UCC governing body since 2007 and another Irishman Peter Sutherland who is worth looking at on Wikipedia as someone who has his fingers in a lot of pies. A Guardian journalist, Charlie Skelton attempting to report on events was seriously followed and harassed over several days. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:44 by I. Greene
On 8 June 2009 Mr Justice (Sir) Declan Morgan delivered the judgment in the marathon Omagh civil case. The judgment delivery ended the year long hearing leaving more questions unanswered than answered with its content less than convincing. The burden of proof in civil cases is based on the laws of probability and in this case Mr. Justice Morgan stretched the probability rule well outside the boundaries. The judgment in its entirety contained multiple ambiguities and inevitably the defendants will appeal. One can only assume that Mr Morgan is a highly intelligent man by the very fact that he has recently been elevated to the office of Lord Chief Justice, however this particular judgment may come back to haunt him. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday June 23, 2009 - 14:13 by Socialist Party
13 comments (last - wednesday june 24, 2009 - 11:32)
Analysis of Local and European elections and the aftermath. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 22, 2009 - 23:40 by John
2 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 - 09:08)
While in Cobh today, we also met some of the local fishermen who still manage to work despite years of depredation by the pharmaceutical industry in the harbour. We passed on to them copies of this letter printed here which we encourage anyone else with any contacts whatsoever in the fishing community to use to communicate to the the situation to other fishermen. I am also looking for information regarding the state of the fishing industry in Ireland over the last 60 years. I am coming to understand that our fishing rights have been given away as surely as our oil and gas over a longer period. I am convinced that these issues have to be linked in the common consciousness. A significant difference being that fishing, done right is a renewable resource. It ain't being done right now. The sea is being f**ked and so are the fishermen. If only ye could stand together lads. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 18, 2009 - 14:14 by Davy Carlin
1 comment (last - thursday june 18, 2009 - 14:17)
In Solidarity ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Monday June 15, 2009 - 19:52 by Ray
11 comments (last - sunday june 21, 2009 - 19:37)
Labour Councillor Jim Mc Garry has been elected as Mayor of Sligo at the Council AGM this afternoon. The voting alliance between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour which elected Cllr Mc Garry was harsly criticised at this afternoon’s meeting of Sligo Borough Council. After all the speculation, there will be no left-wing alliance on the Council, despite the fact that seven of the 12 councillors elected onto the new council are from left-wing parties. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Monday June 15, 2009 - 15:21 by Davy Carlin
15 comments (last - wednesday october 21, 2009 - 13:06)
Racist attacks on Lisburn Rd Belfast Questions need to be answered by police Accusations of ‘police inaction’ and ‘feeding misinformation’ to media ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday June 13, 2009 - 01:02 by Daniel James
7 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 - 17:56)
Is a decline in the glorification of Irish heroes and the use of the Irish languge just a fad or a worrying, long-term trend on the part of the Gaelic Athletic Association? The disappointing latter may well be true. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday June 11, 2009 - 10:06 by rebels yell
1 comment (last - friday june 12, 2009 - 06:58)
European Election OR Sectarian Head Count 2009? Sinn Féin's sitting MEP Bairbre de Brún created Northern Ireland electoral history by topping the poll with 126,184 votes. However, both the Dublin and Irish governments will tonight be pondering nervously about the future of their landmark Good Friday Agreement (Sunningdale Mark II). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 11, 2009 - 09:47 by Paddy Hackett
1 comment (last - saturday june 13, 2009 - 15:04)
In his article in the The Sunday Business Post David McWilliams dishonestly fails to reference a main source for his article called Moral of the Mayan Meltdown ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 11, 2009 - 09:07 by Marie O'Connor
The severing of women's pelvises in childbirth for doctrinal rather than medical reasons must rank as one of the biggest health scandals in the history of the State, second only to the contamination of the human blood supply. Only an independent inquiry into symphysiotomy can close this final, shameful chapter in the story of institutional abuse in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 09, 2009 - 23:25 by RasTinny
3 comments (last - sunday july 05, 2009 - 02:51) 2 images
The much appraised living standards of the west are not to be envied as they are created at the cost, murder and sufferring of millions of humans and the inevitable destruction of all natural live on earth. Thats why the promise of economic development is a lie, a myth. It is based on the philosophy that the wealth and living standards of Europeans and Americans are more important than the welbeing and survival of any other life form on earth. ... read full story / add a comment |
|
|
