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national / arts and media Wednesday November 14, 2007 - 16:14 by Miriam
 4 comments (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 - 20:22)
A very interesting and insightful discussion of various aspects of Irish media - in two parts -the second to follow within a few days. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 17:52 by linker
company laying pipes as a sop to western towns goes bust. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 16:55 by Aragon
4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 - 20:20)
'Particiaptory democracy' is not something we have heard much of from Labour over the last decade or two. Interesting therefore that the term should fetch up in arch pragmatist and moderniser Fergus Finlay's Irish Examiner column today. The piece was a kind of starting shot for the Labour Party conference taking place this coming weekend. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 15:06 by Dorothy Gale
3 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 - 13:20)  1 image
Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights. Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested. There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 00:56 by Kevin 1 attached file
Really it's far far too much ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 12, 2007 - 14:26 by Miriam Cotton
Almost never mentioned: 28,000 US troops injured in Iraq ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday November 11, 2007 - 03:36 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky
12 comments (last - sunday november 25, 2007 - 14:57)
There are those who truly care about our heritage~ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 10, 2007 - 15:35 by Obit [the second or third].
14 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 23:57) 3 images
[Due to limited time and breaking all the Obituary rules] :- The death Of Norman Mailer has been announced:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer and instead I want to focus on one issue about his writing and that is the Gilmore Case and the resultant book :- 'The Executioner's Song' which set a bar in documenting the issue of US capital Punishment and also tied into the Timothy Mc Veigh Case in an interesting manner. ... read full story / add a comment |
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