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international / history and heritage Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 04:39 by iosaf
 12 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 22:27)  5 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” or looking back at "how history was made". We will assume dear & attentive reader that you are one of those who has passed directly from Saturday to almost Tuesday with the sort of crumpled Sunday Papers a person uses to mop up spilt things like milk. Maybe you didn’t absorb your interesting facts & didn’t want to absorb more Dangerous places. We all have a limit of absorption, like that point where credulity ends & credibility is lost. This edition I will consider the mystical progress from Tolstoy's "War & Peace" and his accompanying anarchist beliefs to the composer Scriabin & his experimental music & then his nephew a.k.a. Comrade Molotov, Soviet negotiator with Hitler & daddy of the "petrol bomb". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Monday February 12, 2007 - 10:38 by Chris murray
2 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 - 15:43) 1 image
The Socialist Leader Jose Socrates insists that abortion rights will be legalised in Portugal after a large abstention in the electorate. The Leader of Christian Democratic Party Riberio de Castro says that the referendum is not legally binding,Of the % that voted the right to legal abortion was carried. The Socialist Party must now use their parliamentary majority to legalise abortion as they promised in the 2005 election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 11, 2007 - 18:42 by jim travers
9 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 - 01:28)
History was made today as the GAA opened its doors and welcomed in a modern Ireland for all to enjoy. The pitch was fantastic, the fans were in their thousands and the stadium was a shining tribute to an association that calls itself the governing body of amateur games while boasting a world class stadium for its members to play in. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 10, 2007 - 20:03 by jim travers
Integrated ticketing is a most desirable move forward in helping public transport users move from one form of public transport to another with relative ease, if only it was as easy as that. Providing an actual operational and successful integrated ticketing system such as those seen on the continent, while desirable is but the final process once we have resolved the various other issues that inhibit the successful introduction of the system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 20:31 by Michelle Clarke
19 comments (last - sunday july 27, 2008 - 01:24) 4 images
Thankfully these men were found out.......Thankfully the police system and legal system could take this to court - to the Crown Court. This is about hard core paedophiles, their fantasies and using websites on the internet to conspire a plan - a plan that would mimic what happened to 'Holly and Jess' RIP, to young girls who experienced a sordid death. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 19:32 by jim travers
1 comment (last - thursday april 12, 2007 - 01:21)
In order to survive we must eat, when there is a plentiful supply of food we live in the knowledge that since variety is the spice of life and food is in abundance, there is nothing to think about and less to worry about. Despite our preferences towards organically grown produce, modern 21st Century life styles dictate that the foods we eat must be readily available, possibly precooked and ready for consumption at the click of a switch. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 14:29 by Simon Bolger
1 comment (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 - 23:32)
Yesterday I was horrified to see that politic campaigns are getting started and soon we will have to endure giant billboards of Michael McDowell face scaring us at every turn. Something you would not want to run into in a dark alley. But this got me thinking about a serious question, should political parties have anything to do with Students’ Unions? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 04, 2007 - 23:01 by Kevin T. Walsh
4 comments (last - monday may 14, 2007 - 22:37)
In the last number of years we have heard about Gardai indiscipline and Gardai brutality in our country. The Morris Tribunal in Donegal states that is fact. But tonight let us focus on prison in-discipline and prison collusion of hatred within the system. The 17 years I worked with Simon gives rise to meeting a variety of people. They were mostly homeless due to a compulsory overtime system. This system was overturned in the High Court in the 1980's but it was too late for hundreds of officers who suffered from depression and additcton to alcohol within the System. Tonight I give their story. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 03, 2007 - 17:24 by Liberates
12 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 - 00:17)
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in which a US navy plane was decommissioned with the aid of tools and symbols of peace. This five-part article by Harry Browne charts the journey of the action from inception to acquittal, and in turn, paints a portrait of each of the five activists who sacrificed so much, that others might not suffer. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Saturday February 03, 2007 - 10:22 by John mcDermott
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35 million euros missing from Black Bart Aherns shoebox in St Lukes.! Consumer Protection Bill passed into law.! its the taxpayers he has bitten though.! Maura Magahy , twinned with Monica (Lewinsky) Leech.? Another consultancy contract worth 400,000 euros per annum for the sweet Maura, in "Digital Hub" fiasco. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday February 02, 2007 - 19:35 by Sean Crudden
1 comment (last - saturday february 03, 2007 - 22:16)
When Louis XIV made the statement "L’etat c’est moi" (I am the state) he diminished himself because whatever way you think about it the state is a smaller and less important thing than any one of its individual citizens. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Thursday February 01, 2007 - 12:23 by Ireland plc
Mrs Thatcher once said 'there was no such thing as society or community', and she dedicated her years in power to destroying many working class communities, through privatisation and closure of industries, and the depletion of council public housing stock by promoting private property ownership. In Thatchers tiny insulated world of isolated inward looking, nuclear family units, living in detached or semi detached private properties, whose only opportunity for socialising is through the workplace, and only allegiance is to their isolated families, and making money. Hence the abundance of programmes on tv promoting buying houses, selling us the capitalist dream. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 17:22 by Snooker-Neil
The facts are about to be revealed. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Monday January 29, 2007 - 21:56 by mr cranmore
45 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 - 19:01)
I just received a flyer in my door 10 mns ago I have read it 3 times I cant beleive a man of 20 years a Clr could hand round complete nonsense Is this man Jimmy mc garry running in a Gen election or is he pulling your leg ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 28, 2007 - 17:57 by iosaf
19 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 - 16:39) 11 images
This morning as thousands of delegates went to the Ard Fheis of Sinn Fein in Dublin to discuss policing matters & shock the unionists by saying "yes" & of course include plastic bullets in the list of lethal weapons - elsewhere the road to peace, dialogue & inter-community relations seems as daunting as ever before. The Basque moderate nationalists PNV who hold and have held the democratic majority in Euskadi launched the counter-offensive against the Spanish state judiciary who have put the Lehandakari (taoiseach) in the dock "for talking to Batasuna". Meanwhile thousands of people including many hundreds of "heavy weights" from the world of culture & intelligentsia concentrated in Barcelona to demand dialogue more than 80 entities took part including all left wing parties & Catalan nationalist formations & many Basque peace groups. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 27, 2007 - 18:48 by Kevin and Michelle
15 comments (last - saturday march 14, 2009 - 20:19)
I was quite surprised at the reaction of the Report by Nuala O'Loan on Collusion and the murder of innocent people during the dreadful Troubles in the North of Ireland. My surprise is like that of the Haughey Repoirt and corruption, it proves that inspite of the fact that we all know, denial takes over. Some years ago, Nuala O'Loan gave a report on the 1998 Omagh bombing. Her reporr then was thorough and very well investigated. Afterwards, Ronnie Flanagan, the then Chief Constable of the RUC, when he said in public 'I will commit suicide if one single statement of this report is true'. At that time Nuala O'Loan criticised the handling by the RUC before and after the Omagh bombing. Nuala O'Loan had come across serious evidence that the RUC ignored vital information which may have prevented the attack. Do not forget that the Gardai Special Branch have serious matters to answer on this matter too. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 27, 2007 - 04:19 by TD
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Last Tuesday in his State of the Union address, Bush was explicit about the future of the US war machine in Iraq and further afield : "to design and establish a volunteer civilian reserve corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them". However, this force, this outsourcing of privateers is already doing its lethal work in Iraq and Afghanistan, ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice Friday January 26, 2007 - 22:47 by sanctuary for spooks
The recent Special Branch buck passing fiasco is proof that the PSNI is far from reformed. As relatives of those murdered by UVF serial killers under the thumb of Special branch have found out,, Special branch are still in no mood for admitting culpability in murder. Hugh Orde has said it wouldn't happen on his watch, but under his watch, Johnny Adair's 'C' company were allowed free reign to murder unchallenged. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 24, 2007 - 20:18 by SWM PR
CD Stelzer investigates the secret role of freight airlines under contract to the US military and asks why they are allowed to refuel at civilian airports all over the world ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 24, 2007 - 18:59 by Kevin T. Walsh
This evening I was listening to Minister Michael McDowell on Radio 1 at 5 O'Clock in relation to the murder of the young innocent man last night. This 'Dying Wasp' has an amazing lifespan. McDowell spoke of a research committee on how to tackle organised crime. This so called genius is now almost 7 years in power, between being Attorney General and in the last 5 years, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform...... ... read full story / add a comment |
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