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Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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national / arts and media Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 23:28 by Me   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 - 21:16)   image 8 images
Expiry date: April 16th
Place: O'Connell Street and environs ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 16:48 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 13, 2006 - 11:20)
Such is the logic of Blairs Britain: an anti war protester went to the Cenotaph and read out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq. For this he was arrested, charged with holding an illegal demonstration and now has been convicted and fined. Theres an extract below and you can read the full story at the link.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 14:37 by Geoff Dolan
Judge strips her of parental rights due to Church of membershipSub-genius
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sligo / politics / elections Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 21:59 by Pat   text 3 comments (last - friday april 14, 2006 - 13:24)
Internal fighting within the Labour Party in the Sligo-North Leitrim constituency has deepened with the decision of the all the members (23) of the North Leitrim branch not to renew their membership of the party. Former Sligo-Leitrim TD Declan Bree, who comes from the left of the party, has been in sharp conflict with the party leadership. Bree said he regretted the resignation of former county council candidate Gabriel McSharry. Sources in Sligo say Bree is coming under strong pressure from supporters to leave Labour and stand as an independent socialist. Also Bree and several of his supporters did not attend Labour’s annual conference last weekend.

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international / miscellaneous Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 16:19 by Irish Socialist Network   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 - 11:15)
1916 proclamation, the original was illegally flyposted on the streets of Dublin
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 16:11 by shane ocurry   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 16:34)   image 1 image
Full wording and story at blackshamrock.org follow link ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 00:22 by R. Isible
Counterpunch Apr 10 2006 carries _An open letter to the Primate of all Ireland on the Memorial to the China War at St. Patrick's Cathedral_ in which Ronan Sheehan of the Irish Writers Co-Op meditates on the bloody involvement of the Royal Irish Regiment in the Opium Wars in China. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 00:15 by SP Member
The Alma-Ata City authorities are determined to destroy the homes of settlers who have built poor but dignified living quarters on the outskirts of the city. Many of those who live in Shanyrak were driven out of their last homes by the collapse of industry in Kazakhstan, in the early and mid-nineties. With nowhere else to live, they moved to Shanyrak, and used old and second hand building materials to build modest homes in formerly uninhabited regions of the city. Now the Alma-Ata City authorities want the land, to build ‘entertainment complexes’ and elite flats for Kazakhstan’s ‘new rich’. ... read full story / add a comment
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 22:27 by Danny Kaplan
A jury has ruled that a British activist shot while acting as a human shield in the Gaza Strip was "intentionally killed".
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national / miscellaneous Monday April 10, 2006 - 18:52 by RSF   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 16:46)
Irish Republican Information Service (no 61)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 10 Aibreán / April 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

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international / politics / elections Monday April 10, 2006 - 16:36 by Dan   text 1 comment (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 18:30)
Exit polls indicate the impending fall of Belusconi in the Italian General election ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday April 10, 2006 - 11:00 by Dan   text 5 comments (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 22:11)
Victory for French Workers and Students

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 02:08 by Margaret Evans   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 19:30)
One of the world's best known investigative reporters, Seymour Hersch, is revealing in the next issue of The New Yorker magazine that Bush & co are actively planning a major air attack on Iran and that; one of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran.

BELOW ARE FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THIS DISTURBING AND LENGHTY REPORT, READ THE FULL McCOY AT "RELATED LINK". ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:53 by Tadhg McGrath   image 1 image
A sad day for Irish journalism, and also very bad news for the many talented and dedicated staff who worked there.

This article is from the Sunday Times Ireland Edition, and I haven't seen or heard this news anywhere else. Even the CPI's own website doesn't have it. Therefore it's possible that this is nonsense. However the CPI has been under attack since its launch, so I wouldn't be surprised if they have finally decided to give in to the enormous pressure they have been under. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:33 by mms
Hello from Guatemala. I am forwarding the article written by Sandra, she contacted me recently during my stay in Guatemala. If any of you took part of the presentation of the book "Fumigation: the human and environmental costs of chemical warfare in Colombia" last October in Trinity the following article will make sense.
I have seen the mentioned plantations in San Marcos and i believe that the the propossal fumigations here is going to finish with the farmers livelihoods and other plantations. I have been following close the case of the Mining company and there is a great video for anybody in Ireland interested to watch about the consultation propossed by the Indigenous people about the mining.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:23 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
I thought this article in the Sunday Times was worth a look.

It seems that Christy Loftus, Shell's new hired help in Mayo, is saying that they are going to have to find a new pipeline route. He's getting €58K pper year for stating the obvious there, but he also seems to believe that there actually is a route they can find where the community will accept the danger posed by an experimental high pressure raw-gas pipeline. It looks as though Shell are also paying him to learn Irish, so some good will come of this scheme...

Further on in the article, Maura Harrington wonders about the possibility of someone giving birth at the Rossport Solidarity Camp. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 09, 2006 - 18:24 by Ben Murphy
Tomorrow, the high-profile inquest into the death of Tom Hurndall, the 22 year old British student shot in the head as he shepherded Palestinian children to safety, opens.
Beneath the gaze of the world's media, his mother , Jocelyn, will tell coroner Andrew Reid, at St Pancras Coroners' Court, London, how the Israeli authorities tampered with evidence, suppressed investigations and attempted to cover up the shooting.

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hmmmm 6 legs good, 2 antennae very cool, able to spit acid !? wow, very strong little fellows too, gosh, how do they decide their queen?
international / politics / elections Sunday April 09, 2006 - 16:10 by iosaf   text 11 comments (last - sunday june 04, 2006 - 19:12)   image 3 images
3 states today see the citizen called to do the voting / not voting thing.

& they are all quite important, and so not surprisingly lots of money and news-space will be dedicated to the results.

Italy. You know who.
Peru. 3 way race.
Hungary - will the "socialists" hold?
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 09, 2006 - 00:04 by Ploughshares
An interview with Ciaron O'Reily of the Pit Stop Ploughshares conducted by Loserdom 'zine. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 08, 2006 - 17:42 by Badman   text 38 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 - 14:04)   image 2 images
The Irish independent reports:

" In February a cargo plane carrying three Boeing Apache helicopters, the type used by both the American and Israeli forces, landed at Shannon, where it stayed overnight before taking off for Israel.

When contacted last month both the Department of Transport, which is responsible for foreign civilian flights, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, which is responsible for foreign military flights, denied any knowledge of the flight.

This week, when presented with the serial numbers of the cargo planes and of the helicopters, they conceded the flights had taken place and said that they have launched an inquiry.

Although Shannon airport is routinely used by American planes in support of the ongoing occupation of Iraq, this is the first time it has emerged that Ireland also facilitates the sale of American heavy-arms sales. " ... read full story / add a comment
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