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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 01, 2009 - 21:17 by Derek Leinster
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Protestant abuse victims must also be heard Irish Times, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0701/1....html OPINION: Victims of Protestant prejudice and State neglect are at a disadvantage, writes DEREK LEINSTER YOU DON’T have to be a Catholic to be listened to as a victim of institutional abuse, but it seems to help. That is my experience as a Protestant victim of institutional neglect. Like all sufferers, I am a victim of prejudice. It was prejudice that forced my mother into the Bethany Home in Orwell Road, Rathgar in 1941 for the “social sin” (as one cleric put it) of being pregnant out of wedlock. To add to her burden, her gestating baby had a Catholic father. Marriage in those circumstances was out, and so was I, fostered out to a dysfunctional family in Wicklow where I was beaten black and blue and (I mention it since it seems to be what Irish people are most interested in) sexually molested. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Wednesday July 01, 2009 - 16:57 by Laura Broxson
Today is the National Animal Rights Association's 2nd anniversary, and below is our "Year in Review" report, documenting the work we've done in the past year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 01, 2009 - 16:28 by Saoirsí
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The American Conservative's (August 01, 2009 Issue) Philip Giraldi ("Deep Background") - a former CIA Officer - is a fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance: "Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, is coordinating a White House effort to remake the Israeli government... The choice of Rahm Emanuel, a pro-Israel hardliner, to head the campaign is intended to limit criticism that there might be an anti-Israel agenda at work." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Monday June 29, 2009 - 15:39 by TaraWatch
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Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, advertised a public process in December to review Ireland's Tentative List of UNESCO sites. The aim was to submit this list, including the Hill of Tara, to UNESCO at their World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, Spain. That didn't happen. Dave Kenny asks 'why?' He also notes there will be a demonstration outside the Dail on Wednesday, 1st July at 1.00pm ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday June 29, 2009 - 12:34 by The Fox
Nigerian rebels attack and raid oil facility in DELTA area. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 28, 2009 - 15:32 by Bazooka Joe
In a move that not only mimics the Bush tactics on illegal detention Obama is "crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely." The Washington Post observes, "Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 28, 2009 - 14:52 by Mohamad Reza Shalgouni
The Iranian Socialist Organisation Rahe Kargar analyses the current situation in Iran and says that it is time to move from street demonstrations to a General Strike. Full text at link. The call for a general strike has been put forward by a number of tendencies active in the current protest movement inside Iran and is gaining increasing support amongst Iranian activists outside. In my opinion, ignoring such calls is ignoring the challenging potential of the mass movement we and the world are witnessing in total amazement, a protest whose brave steps are witnessed with great admiration. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday June 28, 2009 - 07:05 by Turlough Kelly
It may no longer be hot off the presses, but the analysis of the recent European and local elections which appeared in the June 21st edition of the Sunday Business Post has something of the flavour of workhouse gruel about it. Unpalatable when hot, positively stomach-churning when allowed to cool and fester for seven days. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday June 26, 2009 - 17:21 by Susan Boyle PopQueen
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The island of Martinique is in the Carribean sea where reggae, voodoo, rum & hurricanes come from. It is also an integral part of France and as such its map appears on Euro bank notes at the bottom in a little insert. Four months ago the people of Martinique and neighbouring Gaudelope paralysed their local economies with strike actions, civil unrest, general un-mellowness and all round anti-Sarkozy attitude. This was in no small part due to their extraordinarily high levels of unemployment compared to the rest of France. Today Sarkozy has started a tour of "overseas France" and has proposed a referendum on autonomy but not independence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 25, 2009 - 17:07 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the developing situation in Iran, on howdivisions are developing amongst the Mullahs and most importantly on the class composition of the demonstrations. Full text at link. The problem with most dictators is that, even in their dying days, they believe they can stop the movement by simply passing orders or blaming ‘foreign powers’. Some supporters of the shah are still under the illusion that he was not overthrown by the 1979 Iranian revolution, but was deposed thanks to a plot by Britain and the US. In fact, as he went on speaking, attributing strange comments to Obama (the US president has apparently admitted in public that he had been looking forward to the demonstrations that have rocked Iran), one wondered if Khamenei, well known for using opium as a painkiller for his injured arm, had taken a double dose that morning. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 20:31 by gargoyle
Dublin No Borders have launched their new website to coincide with an imminent mass deportation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 19:47 by SP-USA
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* Neda Agha-Soltan, Presente! Murdered June 20, 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:35 by Brid's Blog
Our first engagement with the council as newly elected councillors was an induction session where we met the main management team of the council and were briefed on meetings, facilities, positions etc. Dublin City Council is a huge organisation and has a beurocracy to match. But what alarmed me mostly was the horse-trading for positions that goes on among the elected councillors themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:33 by Con
éirígí analysis of the recent local and European elections around the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 23, 2009 - 14:16 by Harry Wells
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Sammy Wilson bans ads on climate change (Channel 4 News 9th February 2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ey1QGtGFI&feature=related Sammy is interviewed by Ali G: "Is you Irish? "No, I am British." "Is you here on holiday then?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNG5UeKMZw ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues Monday June 22, 2009 - 15:45 by Sean Matthews-personal capacity
Mark McGregor should check his facts before embarking on baseless comments without any shred of evidence or truth, before deciding to demonise those who attended the rally as a crime and stayed with the Romanian families, who actually requested help and assistance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 19, 2009 - 14:58 by Chicherin
In this article Yassamine Mather writes about the mass demonstrations in cities across Iran. She points out that these demonstrations show the anger and frustration of the majority of Iranians with political Islam. Full text at link. Early on Saturday morning, the supreme leader congratulated Ahmadinejad, which was seen as official endorsement of the results. But by Sunday pm, under the pressure of impromptu demonstrations, he was forced to reverse this decision, and called on the council of guardians to investigate the other candidates’ complaints. By Monday June 15, with a massive show of force by the opposition - over a million demonstrators on the streets - he was instructing the council of guardians to call for a recount. By Tuesday there was talk of new elections. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday June 18, 2009 - 17:20 by scorchio
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Just before you reach for your pay-4-view digital TV zapper and start flicking through the Italian news channels to find coverage of these latest revealations, let me tell you, if indeed you needed to know, that Berlusconi's media empire have hidden the story from Italian viewers salicious and prurient interest. Nonetheless, Patrizia D'Addario, an experienced sex worker of certain allure & also a candidate in Berlusconi's party for the municipal government of Bari, attended a court hearing investigating charges of corruption laid against one of Mr B's party who doesn't have immunity yesterday. She brought along half a dozen video and audio recordings, in the best tradition of citizen journalism recorded on her mobile phone which attested to Mr B's escort service habit. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday June 18, 2009 - 12:37 by Gary Mulcahy
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Letter below sent to The Irish News today ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday June 17, 2009 - 16:10 by Roowyrm
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An account of yesterdays (16/06/2009) action at the UK offices of Van Oord (operating dredgers in Broadhaven Bay) and in solidarity with the Rossport Solidarity Camp and the people of Erris in their long struggle against Shell. ... read full story / add a comment |
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