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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
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 14:43 by Hilda
Holyland residents can let out a sigh of relief, as St Patricks day, passed by. Most families evacuated their children out of the Holylands in an effort to preserve the magic of St Patricks day, but those that remained again had to endure the depraved behaviour of our future professionals, middle classes and SDLP voters. Only 1.2% of the student population is from a poor or working class background, you've only to look at the top range model cars the students of the Holylands drive, to see they're all from money backgrounds, with the bad manners and disassociated aloofness of the snooty rich. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 12:19 by Jack White
Just as the cartoons simplified and obscured the reality of Muslim attitudes, the media coverage caricatured and simplified the debate. The real world was much less black and white then the media portrayal. Jllands-Posten was eventually revealed not to be a brave defier of censorship but a source of anti immigrant rhetoric, whose owner had campaigned for Muslims to be expelled from Denmark and who had, in 2003, refused to publish cartoons depicting Christ on the grounds that they were offensive! On the other side it emerged that hardline Danish imams had toured the cartoons around the Muslim world for months, and even added their own! ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 04:07 by RSF
"Those who failed to have a loyalist march forced through the centre of Dublin at the end of February claimed a near-monopoly of suffering for themselves and ignored the sacrifices of the nationalist community over the past few decades," said Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President of Republican Sinn Féin when he spoke at a 30th anniversary commemoration of the deaths of Fian James Francis McCaughey (13), Fian Patrick Bernard (13), Joseph Kelly (57) and Andrew Small (62) in Edendork Cemetery, Co Tyrone. [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 20, 2006 - 20:29 by Brian Kelly
49 comments (last - thursday march 23, 2006 - 18:59) 2 images
Announcement of Meeting on Danish Cartoons 'controversy' and steents form local activist and organizations condemning The Blanket's decision to republish the cartoons. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday March 20, 2006 - 13:07 by WS
7 comments (last - monday march 20, 2006 - 18:45) 1 image
This Easter marks the ninetieth anniversary of the 1916 rising. There is an unedifying scrabble by every politician in the state to wrap the green flag around themselves and stake their claim to be the inheritors of the tradition. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 19, 2006 - 18:54 by Orlaith Farrell
6 comments (last - thursday march 23, 2006 - 13:38)
Irish neutrality is an area that has long been mis understood and mis-interpreted. The majority of people are very opinionated but know very little on the subject. Our Government has made decisions that will affect us without any referendum or regard for public opinion. But were we ever really neutral? The time has come for the Irish people to make a decision. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday March 18, 2006 - 23:22 by papidan
On 16 March, 64 French universities, out of 84, were on strike. This huge movement of young people started in January. Why? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 18, 2006 - 18:00 by IPSCite
Now with Hamas’ electoral gains in the Palestinian elections, Israel, from a position of strength, can decide if it wants to inflict an economic blockade on the West Bank and Gaza. “It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die,” was how top Israeli government adviser Dov Weissglas recently described how an intensification of a blockade could affect ordinary Palestinians. see David Lynch in Daily Ireland http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_ticket=O...opp=1 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Saturday March 18, 2006 - 15:23 by Andrew McGrath
4 comments (last - sunday october 22, 2006 - 16:06)
The PDs' announcement of a plan to move Dublin Port comes at an interesting time, when the Dublin Port Tunnel (an integral part of the expansion plan implemented by the Dublin Port Authority) is nearing completion. This article reveals that the idea to relocate the Port is not an original creation of the PDs': in fact it goes back to 1990. But why, in spite of a set of logical reasons in favour of the move, was the plan put on the back burner in favour of the construction of the multi-million Port Tunnel and minor upgrades to the port facilities? ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 18, 2006 - 12:31 by Le Sybarite
14 comments (last - wednesday april 19, 2006 - 13:50) 2 images
Trinity College Dublin has ordered the seizure and destruction of a student magazine called Piranha! because it used what the College authorities say is “offensive language” in an article about Muslim reaction to the cartoons depicting "the Prophet Muhammad". “Irish people should know that this type of racism is not funny and in 2006 it is just not acceptable,. Satirical magazines sometimes argue that they are causing debate on issues by writing articles from a certain point of view, but in this case that argument doesn’t hold water.” Sheikh Dr Shaheed Satardien ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday March 15, 2006 - 19:29 by MichaelY
1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 - 19:59)
As the Israeli Army attacks, the streets are burning in Milan, French Universities are occupied, Paris reminisces of '68 and the US Senate will discuss impeaching Bush. Is Spring on the way? ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday March 15, 2006 - 15:12 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Anyone who can, would they carry a SAVE TARA banner at their Patrick's Day parade or whatever event is being held in their town or city? Here or abroad? Two Latin biographies of Patrick appear in the seventh century and it is no accident that his major confrontation with druidry and paganism happens at Tara the main pre-Christian site in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 15, 2006 - 12:19 by John Byrne
28 comments (last - sunday march 19, 2006 - 16:13)
"No one now disputes that stopping Slobodan Milosevic was the right thing to do,” wrote the Wall Street Journal this week, several days after the deposed Serbian strongman expired in his cell in the Hague. It’s an appealing sentiment, suggesting as it does that the man who presided over the deaths of 250,000 people in Yugoslavia in the 1990s died unsung and unmourned. In reality, however, even Slobodan Milosevic had his defenders. What is more, they are the same voices--largely on the far Left but also on the isolationist Right--who have now taken up the cause of Saddam Hussein. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Monday March 13, 2006 - 17:02 by Godot
Identity, Language and the Recent Riots in Dublin ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Sunday March 12, 2006 - 14:03 by Seán Ryan
9 comments (last - sunday april 02, 2006 - 22:03) 1 image
A tongue in cheek piece that explores many paradoxical ideas associated with the theory of evolution. - That evolves into a discourse into a series of primal theological questions that still remain unanswered. Might be interesting reading for anyone into evolutionary debate and for anyone with pre-conceived notions about their right to define creation superceding the rights of others. This is my first submission from what will be my second Indybook. It is the fourth chapter - but stands on its own merits. It becomes my first submission simply because I think it's relevant to many religious and secularist debates currently raging on Indy. ... read full story / add a comment |
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