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national / politics / elections Sunday May 24, 2009 - 12:39 by Joe Higgins
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There is fear and loathing in the vegetable patch. The greens are nervous and restive. Inclement environmental conditions have sapped their once bright emerald hue leaving them looking pale and sickly. But worse is to come. Rumours abound of an army of ravenous caterpillars waiting to crawl all over them and expected to do so on June 5th. The greens know the consequences. Their once succulent leaves shredded, what beckons is a humiliating journey to the compost heap. Greens, however, have strong survival instincts and so they are desperately trying to stave off the evil day. Im off to Tralee, Twittered Senator Dan Boyle, to say something controversial. That something was a call for the renegotiation of their Programme for Government with Fianna Fail. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 23:35 by A Freeman
20 comments (last - saturday june 13, 2009 - 11:06)
No prosecutions of clerical child abusers? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 20:12 by ipsiphi
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This story comes without a summary. It is indeed such a lengthy story that it could deserve the soundtrack of the popular movie "never ending story". & So are you invited to read the main text or simply skip an opinion with what might pass for analysis and simply peruse at the Irish commission into inquire into Child Abuse Executive Summary of May 2009 the gist of which is being read more than U2 lyrics throughout the catholic speaking world. http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2009/childabusecommissi...x.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 14:34 by Roger Yates
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Gary Francione, US law professor, animal rights philosopher and founder of Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explains why human and nonhuman rights are perfect together. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 18, 2009 - 14:48 by Diarmuid Breatnach, personal capacity
14 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 - 09:34)
Despite revolutionary socialist idealogues stating the right of nations to self-determination and the duty of socialists to offer solidarity, most of the non-Republican Irish Left have ignored the Basques. With political, social and cultural organisations banned and their activists arrested and often tortured and then jailed for long prison terms (765 convicted political prisoners), the pro-independence Basque Left movement is entitled to socialist and anti-imperialist solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment |
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