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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 30, 2010 - 10:50 by SIPTU Community
The latest edition of the SIPTU Community Newsletter is now available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:37 by Mairead O'Shea
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The latest recruit to the Labour Party is Mary Harneys buddy Mae Sexton. Sexton was the PD Dail Deputy for Longford up until she was defeated at the last General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 02:12 by Larky
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This is the text of the speech made by Michael O’Boyce the president of the Garda Representative Association to their annual conference. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 15:35 by lynn
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The courts have recently become a very hotly contested arena in the conflict over Shell's imposition of their unsafe project on Erris. Charges and prosecutions have been coming thick and fast over the last year and a half, but they seem to be more about persecuting campaigners than any concept of justice, and recent weeks have shown a clear bias in the policing of protest. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 14:15 by Bimpe Archer
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The former face of the BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage has unleashed an extraordinary attack on the corporation for downgrading its coverage of Gaelic games and subjecting him to "racial harassment". Self-proclaimed "Mr GAA" Jerome Quinn is representing himself in a case against the BBC in which he alleges unfair dismissal and discrimination. He was sacked last year after his employer discovered he had been posting anonymous criticism of its coverage of Gaelic football and hurling on a GAA discussion board. The award-winning presenter said they were an attempt to "inform fans of what was behind anti-GAA coverage in BBC NI". ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday April 25, 2010 - 13:31 by WMD
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According to a notice issued by Eamon Ryan's Department of Transport, work is to re start shortly on the Corrib Pipeline. The notice gives a rough outline of plans to survey the estuary, but makes no mention of Shell/Garda security compounds, increased garda and navy presence, dodgy security guards with cameras, and articles in the O'Reily press saying "we need the gas". Maybe that's a different department... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:28 by pat c
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Here are two articles by Eva Bartlett on the war that the Israeli Army wages against Palestinian farmers. full texts at links. "Our sheep and goats would feed at the base of trees before the trees were all destroyed," she says. Over the years of Israeli air and land invasions, Israel's bulldozing and bombing trees and agricultural land, the environment in Gaza suffers almost as much as the people. With animal fodder only sparingly allowed into Gaza under the siege, that which enters through the tunnels from Egypt is unaffordable to herders like Um Mohammed. http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett230410A.htm ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:17 by pat c
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Israel continues its war against Palestinian children by destroying a Strategic WMD - a childrens playground! 100 olive and fruit trees were also destroyed. Full text at link. Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who attempted to prevent the destruction. Two Israelis were arrested immediately, and six internationals were later arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday April 24, 2010 - 17:29 by Oswald Bastable
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The Cochabamba Climate Summit in Bolivia has closed with a call for rich countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and for the setting up of a court to punish climate crimes. President Evo Morales, who organised the gathering, also announced plans to mount a referendum of 2 billion people on solutions to the climate crisis within a year. Here are three articles about summit. Full text at links. Cochabamba Summit Calls For International Climate Court By Andres Schipani Cochabamba conference closes with call for rich countries to halve greenhouse gas emissions and set up a court to punish climate crimes. http://www.countercurrents.org/schipani230410.htm ... read full story / add a comment |
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