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dublin / miscellaneous Sunday March 26, 2006 - 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on. If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 25, 2006 - 00:33 by MLC
 1 comment (last - sunday march 26, 2006 - 09:23)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday March 24, 2006 - 12:27 by PR
The victory of Evo Morales in the presidential elections in Bolivia in December has underlined once more that across Latin America there is a demand for change. The first significant victory came back in 2002 when Lulu, the leader of the Brazilian Workers Party was elected to power after a long and arduous campaign that stretched back almost two decade. It is claimed that Lulu’s victory and his pronouncements about making Brazil a fairer society sent ‘shivers’ through world stock markets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday March 23, 2006 - 13:26 by WS
3 comments (last - friday march 24, 2006 - 19:55)
Labour leader pat Rabbitte showed his opportunism when he called for a look at work visas for EU nationals. He raised the spectre of 40 million poles chasing “Irish Jobs”. It was a thoroughly disappointing turn by Labour but hardly surprising. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 23, 2006 - 13:23 by Ted Bagg
2 comments (last - sunday march 26, 2006 - 17:27)
Framing vs Money: Don't blame the public. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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
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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
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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 |
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