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louth / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 22, 2006 - 17:58 by Sean Crudden
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In an atmosphere of hustle, hassle, harass, hurry it is difficult to think straight. Even those who can think under pressure would surely think more clearly if there were peace. We need to settle down and get our heads together because we are approaching a decisive political cross-roads in Ireland. There may be tiredness and frustration on one hand and powerful, discordant and divisive voices on the other. Now is not the time to allow ourselves to be manipulated any further. Every individual must assert his and her rights and think clearly for themselves. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday September 22, 2006 - 16:30 by John McDermott
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"Me Ma said that uncle Phil died,when he was 75 in a place where only rich people went for medical treatment when they got ill.There was no waitin lists or queus there as long as you had plenty of money.It was in a posh part of the city too out past Ballsbridge. I was grown up then and runnin the country of course. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 22, 2006 - 15:48 by Dec McCarthy
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Rice’s new’ Middle East is depressingly and wearyingly familiar to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the history of imperialist interventions in the region. Just like those British and French colonialists who sat over maps a century ago redrawing boundaries across the Middle East, the US, the UK and the Israelis imagine they can shape a subcontinent regardless of the needs or desires of the majority of the people who live there. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 22, 2006 - 12:03 by Mark Malone
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The Irish government’s explicit support for Shell’s proposed development in Rossport, against the demands and wishes of a large proportion of the locally affected community, exemplifies not only the highly organised and funded public relation strategy that Shell and its partners have used. It also highlights the massive democratic deficit in this country. In a broader sense corporate Public Relations, and it’s close links to government, is perhaps one of the most potent factors in curtailing meaningful democracy. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 22, 2006 - 10:18 by John O'Shea
2 comments (last - monday september 25, 2006 - 17:50)
The need for an international standing army to prevent horrendous massacres is no more clearly demonstrated than in the case of Sudan's cursed Darfur zone, which is in free fall. The risk to civilians there is greater now than at any time since the conflict first erupted. The African Union peacekeepers' mandate expires at the end of this month, and Sudan has rejected entry of a UN peacekeeping force. Aid agencies - the lifeline for 2.5 million people - are threatening to pull out as a result of the direct targeting of humanitarians, leaving the already devastated civilian population further exposed and at risk. Sudan plans instead to send in a large number of its own troops. Given the government's record, it seems quite likely that - with international observers out of the way - Khartoum can get on with the business of completing the genocide that it already under way. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 22, 2006 - 03:16 by Pinhead
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Lightswitch is a Dublin based production company promising to bring theatre goers the 'ridiculously serious and the seriously ridiculous.' If its chaotic humour and a theatre of the absurd they aspire to then through a healthy mangling of a Greek classic with Antigone Interactive, they hit the nail partially on the head but falter at the point of audience interaction and political depth. The Antigone lead comes across oozing sassy stylistic rebellion like a photo shot prepped baile funk star MIA - all gun belt for show and Che Guevara t-shirt as poseurish portend to an inevitable martyrdom for ritually burying her brother against her father's edicts. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 22, 2006 - 02:57 by Paul Baynes
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During the week of the annual conference of the IMF and the World Bank, some thoughts on the nature of employment in the current phase of globalisation. More and more, workers throughout the so-called developing world are relying on low paid, unstable employment in the informal economy. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 21, 2006 - 21:15 by Denmann
Pointers to organizing a purpose-driven group without relinquishing control to a boss. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Thursday September 21, 2006 - 11:41 by Miriam Cotton
3 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 - 12:52)
I have to take issue with Fergus Finlay’s article in last Tuesday's Irish Examiner (‘Aisling’s story shows how special people are doing it for themselves’). ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Thursday September 21, 2006 - 10:12 by W L Blower
1 comment (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 - 12:51)
Just in case anyone in the SEELB area was wondering who the Governments appointed commissioners are. As you can see they represent a wide range of views that will enable them to make the right choices for the children, parents and employees in the area. Just checking there are two blue moons in the sky, and the pigs are on the runway ready for take off!!!! Douglas Osler- Chairman of the Scottish Conservative policy advisory group. Joan Christie O.B.E- Company Director, Chair of Ballymoney District policing partnership, Deputy Lieutenant of the county. Lawson McDonald-Accountant and former senior executive with the investment agency the Industrial Development Board. Pat Carvill-Former permanent secretary of the Department of education and the Department of finance and personnel in Northern Ireland, Member of the Government appointed Advisory Council of the Partnership UK 2002/03. PUK works with its public sector partners to deliver PFI/PPP solutions. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:40 by Radical Student
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By Dermot Keenan The start of the 2006 / 2007 academic years brings with it, for the first time, the burden of top up fees on new students. Previously, most students in Britain and the North (except Scottish students studying in Scotland) pay a contribution towards their tuition fees (anything from £0-£1,250 a year). ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:33 by Martin Hogan
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Gore places the scientific facts of global warming in a real life context that captures the attention of all but the most apathetic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 17:53 by chomh glic le fear dlí
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This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 21:57 by Kevin T. Walsh
48 comments (last - wednesday april 15, 2009 - 09:19)
Criminal Asset Bureau, ARA, The concept of power; absolute power Quotation: Freedom 'The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is Freedom of Thought and Action Albert Camus (1915-1960) French Writer ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / crime and justice Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 19:29 by Seán Ryan
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Crime in Limerick is spiralling out of control. Another man was killed in Moyross on Sunday night after being shot in the head. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 15:10 by Chris Murray
11 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 - 11:08)
" Since last week the Labour Party has consistently argued for the closing off of this loophole. For that reason when the Government was persuaded to deal with it this week, last night we facilitated it being taken, which is the reason for us not voting against the order of business.However , we have not seen the bill and there will be little time to look at the issue. I urge the Tanaiste to cause the Minister for Justice , Equality and Law reform to make it available as soon as possible. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 01:02 by David Manning
8 comments (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 - 22:17)
Five years on since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the wars that precipitated from that act are now discussed in frustratingly candid terms. While the thousands of American deaths are fittingly remembered as avoidable tragedies, the military responses, claiming the lives of many more innocent people, are described as 'mistakes' and 'necessities'. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:12 by eekkkk
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It is a weird and wonderful feeling to realise that right in front of you for once in your life in this sorry excuse for a nation that someone is actually describing in song life (as opposed to romance) as it is lived outside of the tiny Irish celebrity bubble and to realise that your unhappy hometown has unambiguously produced a living poet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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Regardless of one's position on faith groups, comparatively recent concepts of world civilisation blocks, secularism, state & religious group relations - the importance of this last week's papal history can not quickly be underestimated. Though I come to considering Ratzinger's personal apology for his anti-Islamic comments whilst on holidays in his native Bavaria from old fashioned anti-papist prejudice. Benedict XVI who wanted us all to consider his job as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church in the terms of the last war-time (WW1) pacifist "Benedict" has instead made history as the first pope to publically apologise. & what a lame effort it was, as one nun lies murdered in a inter-religious sectarian attack in Africa & the Vatican city endures its highest level security alert since the mid 19th century. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Sunday September 17, 2006 - 18:03 by diren
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The proposed legislation to ‘manage immigration’ has far-reaching consequences, not only for immigrants, but also for Irish society. While the government preaches integration, it is doing everything to undermine it. ... read full story / add a comment |
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