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national / politics / elections Saturday April 07, 2007 - 02:38 by Voter
 7 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 10:34)  1 image 1 attached file
Some people don't think much of elections, but it's important to remnember that they concentrate the minds of the establishment. From Spain in the 30's, Chile in the 70's, to modern day Venezuela, democratic elections have thrown up results which have rocked the forces of right-wing conservatism to the core. While some people think you shouldn't vote, most people believe it's important to register. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Friday April 06, 2007 - 13:15 by Union member
6 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:13)
Sligo Borough Council voted down a motion condemning the governments policy which will tax aid speculators to build a private hospital on public land beside Sligo General Hospital. This is the first Council to endorse what amounts to the beginning of the privatisation of the Health Service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Thursday April 05, 2007 - 17:44 by Sean Crudden
Advocacy is an "in" term these days. When we advocate are we really pursuing the best interests of those on whose behalf we are advocating? Or are we only trying to placate and tell people what they want to hear? Then, too, there are often a lot of stock cribs which advocates may parrot easily off in the hope of gaining kudos or easy respect from the judges - the administrators and the public. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 16:48 by Andrew Flood and Chekov Feeny
23 comments (last - monday august 20, 2007 - 22:57) 14 images
Peak Oil Theory has been around since the 1970s. Some think we have already reached 'peak oil', others think it will happen with the next twenty-five years. The theory argues that when we reach 'peak oil' the rate at which we extract oil from the earth (measured in millions of barrels per day) will reach a maximum and thereafter will start to drop. As the rate at which we use oil is currently close to the rate at which we extract it, the point of peak oil will coincide or be closely followed by the world consuming more oil than it is producing. As oil reserves are very limited, within months there simply will not be enough oil available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 12:26 by Gregor Kerr
8 comments (last - wednesday april 11, 2007 - 16:16)
The nurses’ work-to-rule and their threat to escalate the action next week has been met with an outraged onslaught by Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. The sight of a group of workers standing up and demanding their rights has become so unusual that it seems as if the government cannot believe the temerity of the nurses in doing just that. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 19:57 by Hugh Murphy
4 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 - 10:08)
ON THE WATERFRONT To claim to be a Trade Union SIPTU must condemn the corruption which took place in Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 02, 2007 - 11:56 by Supporter of Nurses
11 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:05) 3 images
The banner and link to the I.N.O site are included here so that people can go take a look see. I am not a nurse, nor do I represent a union anymore- but I have done and I know when a media campaign is being played out. In this instance Mary Harney is attempting to use media to isolate the Nurses unions and it does not wash. Last week she went live on the RTE Nine O clock news and said that the maternity hospital problem in Cork was "about money": Hogwash- The Maternity hospital problem was about the failure of both the state and the HSE to think of the patient- its all down to numbers and figures. http://www.ino.ie ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 01, 2007 - 10:30 by W. Finnerty.
17 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 - 22:03) 1 image
Opportunity to challenge corruption, tyranny, and bullying ... ... read full story / add a comment
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
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