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national / animal rights Wednesday December 28, 2005 - 20:12 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs
Irish Times newspaper 26/27th December 2005 Hare coursing events refused licences Author: Dan Keenan Hare coursing events in Tyrone and Antrim have not gone ahead this week after the Department of the Environment in the North withheld licences required for trapping hares. The Countryside Alliance has accused ministers on the Northern Ireland office of imposing their personal views and of being anti-democratic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Wednesday December 28, 2005 - 20:03 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs.
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Annual hunt meeting draws 500 protestors. Irish Examiner 27-12-2005 by Ciaran Murphy THE Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland yesterday urged the Government to follow Britain's example and introduce legislation to ban all forms of hunting with dogs. The call came after an anti-bloodsports protest at the annual St Stephen's Day hunt meeting in Tramore, Co Waterford. Some protest groups have warned that the sabotaging of activities will be stepped up at hunting events during the holiday period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 28, 2005 - 18:07 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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The headlines above and the report excerpted below appeared on the front page of the Irish Independent today: **** THE Government reacted angrily last night after a leading US academic compared Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to a “shoe-shine boy” for President George Bush. In a scathing attack on the Government’s foreign policy, the influential anti-war academic Noam Chomsky accused Mr Ahern of “shining the shoes” of the US President by allowing US warplanes to use Shannon airport. **** ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 23:41 by Seán MacRuadhán
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement have issused their solidarity towards the Czech Communist Union of Youth. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 22:43 by redjade
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2006 on the way ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 00:56 by joe
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With 51.1% of the vote, Evo Morales, coca farmers’ leader and head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) has decisively won the December 18 presidential elections and is set to become Bolivia’s first indigenous president. These elections were yet another sign of the radicalisation and move to the left of the masses of Latin America and represent just the first one of eleven important electoral contests which will take place in different countries across the continent over the next year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 26, 2005 - 20:11 by An Taisce Fan
An Taisce wants review of pipeline location by Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent An Taisce has called on Minister for Marine Noel Dempsey to conduct a review of the proposed location for Shell's onshore gas terminal in north Mayo in the light of a recent Government consultancy study of the controversial onshore pipeline. This article is published as "fair use" to bring its content to a wider audience than it might otherwise have. Any subsequent user should identify the author and publication from which the article originally came, and it must in no circumstance be reproduced in whole or part for profit. This article is the work of Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent of the IRISH TIMES. www.Ireland.com. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Monday December 26, 2005 - 18:45 by o as if
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Time is very special, and no-one really knows who owns it. One thing is clear - we don't. But over the millenia we have seen the state or church whichever was more powerful at that particular time meddle with both calenders and hours. On the 31st of December 2005, an extra second will be added to the world's clocks meaning the year will last 31536001 seconds rather than the usual 3156000. ... read full story / add a comment |
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