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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 22, 2013 - 14:46 by Seamus Mc Goldrick
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The Yes Vote in last year's Children's Rights Referendum began proceedings to change Children's Rights in Ireland. However, a legal challenge to the referendum has suspended the referendum process and, for now, prevents the Irish president signing this amendment into the constitution. Ever wanted to know more about the Children's Rights Referendum and amendment 42a? Read on to find out. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Thursday February 17, 2011 - 13:03 by Bakunin
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It might seem like a contradiction in terms, but this Anarchist explains his strategy for voting in the forthcoming general election in the Sligo North Leitrim Constituency. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 09, 2009 - 21:08 by North West Red
3 comments (last - tuesday november 10, 2009 - 17:53)
Sligo's demonstration was one of a series of marches organised on both sides of the border by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to campaign against cutbacks in pay and essential public services being imposed by both the Dublin and Stormont administrations. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Monday June 15, 2009 - 19:52 by Ray
11 comments (last - sunday june 21, 2009 - 19:37)
Labour Councillor Jim Mc Garry has been elected as Mayor of Sligo at the Council AGM this afternoon. The voting alliance between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour which elected Cllr Mc Garry was harsly criticised at this afternoon’s meeting of Sligo Borough Council. After all the speculation, there will be no left-wing alliance on the Council, despite the fact that seven of the 12 councillors elected onto the new council are from left-wing parties. ... 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
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
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
sligo / consumer issues Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 17:51 by a rock
85 comments (last - wednesday october 29, 2008 - 20:45)
Labour canditate for Sligo/Leitrim Jimmy Mc Garry used his casting vote to bring in water-meters after telling IFA he do everything to stop them ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 09:51 by Jim O'Sullivan
43 comments (last - saturday november 25, 2006 - 13:03)
Water is in the process of being privatised by stealth. Citizens must inform themselves regarding the ongoing process to hand our water over to a private multi-national company to make profit and learn from the experiences in other jurisdicitons where privatisation has brought hardship to communities and particulatly to the most vulnerable members. Voters should seek to have this placed on the issues list for the upcoming general election. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests Friday December 23, 2005 - 12:35 by John McGowan
20 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 - 23:04)
Civil Servants across the North of Ireland were outraged by the paltry pay rise offered to them by Secretary of State Peter Hain. ... read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 17, 2005 - 20:23 by Sean Fleming
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Between November 2004 and April 2005 I in a personal capacity wrote to pharmaceutical companies in the 26 county state who manufacture what are known as atypical 'anti-psychotic' drugs in the 'treatment' of 'mental illness'. I was motivated to do this by what I believe is a failure on the part of these companies to fully inform psychiatric patients in relation to the dangers of such drugs. This article on how pharmaceutical companies play down the dangers of neuroleptic drugs appeared in two Irish newspapers. One journalist who viewed it invited a psychiatrist friend of his to comment on it. These comments by Siobhan Barry of the Irish Psychiatric Association as well as my own counter response also are published here. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 18, 2005 - 23:40 by s.fleming
17 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 - 14:18)
The mental health organisation Aware received 90, 490 euros in donations for the year 2003. They refuse to say how much of this money came from individuals with links or associations to pharmaceutical companies promoting the theory that depression is a real disease related to a brain chemical imbalance. It's important to note that these donations are separate from D.A.W.N donations, etc, and no breakdown is given. ... read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2005 - 15:49 by sean fleming
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Over the course of the past few months I have written to the various divisions of companies that are based in Ireland and who manufacture what are known as ‘anti-psychotic’ drugs. What I have found in the course of this research and the responses I received is that there is a serious lack of information concerning the health risks provided in the patient information leaflet (PIL) or package leaflet that a patient receives with these drugs. The response of the Irish Medicines Board, as I will show, in all of this has been very disappointing given that they claim to exist in order to monitor and ensure that medicines are safe for patients. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 03, 2005 - 19:35 by sean fleming
11 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 - 12:41)
'anti-psychotic' drugs continue to be prescribed to the elderly in Ireland despite the knowlege of the Irish Medicines Board concerning their fatal effects ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 02, 2004 - 00:09 by s.fleming
9 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 12:21)
The medicalisation of human behaviour as disease or illness must be challenged ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 01, 2004 - 21:22 by vincent
2 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2004 - 20:12)
The Irish College of Psychiatrists refuses to declare the extent of its involvement in drug company sponsorship ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 15, 2004 - 16:22 by Vincent
167 comments (last - friday july 18, 2008 - 18:55)
Lundbeck Ireland is a pharmaceutical company which claims to be “focused on finding new and effective therapies for psychiatric and neurological disorders". Instead psychiatric drugs have for many proved to be mind disabling and brain-damaging drugs which do not help people who suffer from severe mental distress. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 07, 2003 - 15:06 by Dannie McQ
18 comments (last - thursday october 09, 2003 - 18:01)
Yesterday I went to the Burger King on O'Connell Street and got a take away meal. I left the joint to meet with my mates in McDonalds. After a few minutes the manager came up to me and took my meal off me saying "next time you eat in here make sure it's McDonalds". He then dumped it in the bin. It wasn't even half ate and it really annoyed me cause he actually threw away my donought which was in a plain brown bag on the middle of the table. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous Sunday August 10, 2003 - 18:37 by sean fleming
73 comments (last - tuesday september 15, 2009 - 05:57)
Psychiatry is a harmful and dangerous practice which is disabling and debilitating the lives of many people through so -called anti-psychotic drugs and E.C.T. There is a need for people in Ireland to waken up to this fundamentally flawed practice and the harm it is causing and work for human rights for people labelled ' mentally ill' ... read full story / add a comment |
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