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national / politics / elections Monday July 03, 2006 - 18:40 by o as if
For almost 2 decades I have been aware of the awesome extent of Ivana Bacik's ambition. Ivana Bacik has found the cash to put up a banner advertisement on the online version of the Irish Times, alledging that only 1 in 3 of TCD graduates voted in the last Senate elections. It appears to me, that Ivana moving on from her failure to win a seat in the European Parliament is now setting her sights on the Senate. Oh dear - whose seat is she after? Will it be David's or Shane's? For as a TCD graduate she can only seat on the education panel unless she wants to go on the rubber chicken circuit and find voters all over the country. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Monday July 03, 2006 - 15:28 by The Blanket
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The Blanket new edition online. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Sunday July 02, 2006 - 22:24 by Dublin Shell To Sea
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From the beginning, Shell to Sea has depended on support from the Socialist Workers Party, Sinn Féin, the Workers Solidarity Movement, the Greens, and other smaller groups, working together in a way that has been effective and efficient, all around the country. Links between various parties and groups have shown that the Left can work together cohesively. Shell to Sea has identified vulnerable TD's who will need transfers from other parties to get elected. Many politicians have fudged whether they support the scheme, implying that Shell's plans have no direct import for their constituents. News that voters in Dublin are to receive clear, concise and up to date information on the issue, bringing home the truth that the millions of euro profits from Ireland's natural gas reserves will go to big business rather than pay for improvements in services in health, education, and justice, will wake them up to the fact that they have to make public whether or not they think the "great gas giveaway" is such a good idea after all. The fact that the community in Erris are just as opposed to the plan for a giant refinery at Bellinaboy as they are to the pipeline itself, give the lie to the notion that simply re-routing the pipeline will be enough to placate protesters. The Shell to Sea Campaign says the whole scheme needs to be scrapped and the deal re-negotiated. Politicians who support this position should have no trouble making this clear. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday July 02, 2006 - 06:20 by Who's an Anti-Semite this Week?
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We just wanted to let you know that we saw the article "Irish Indymedia And Jew hatred" http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=1629 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 01, 2006 - 20:40 by Zeal
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An agreement with a man who calls himself a lawyer accused of sexually abusing his daughter and being criminally negligent in providing the neccessities of life recieves over 11,000 hits on website and confirms the allegations by tacit consent. This simple achievable method provides all abused women and children with a new tool to expose and get confessions from abusive mates, corrupted police , court officers, social services officials and associates. As an irrefutable method of gaining confessions from mperpetrators it is highly recommended and is totally lawful as no one can interfere with your ability to privately contract and tell the truth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 01, 2006 - 01:24 by Completely Unmanageable
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A horse of a very different colour emerges from a report by Australian journalist J Cook today. Funny this story has not made mainstream press anywhere, despite the murderous events now unfolding in Gaza ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 01, 2006 - 00:24 by Black Flag
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Blueshirt T.D. John Perry, has announced in this week’s edition of the ' Sligo Champion' that George Bush’s pal, the billionaire Republican Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, is to unveil a monument to Brigadier General Michael Corcoran of the U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment, in Ballymote, County Sligo, at 2.00.p.m.on Friday 28th of July. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 30, 2006 - 16:11 by gade
The US Supreme Court ruled today that Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre was illegal (by implication) and the kangaroo military commission established to try the detainees is in breach of the Geneva Convention, well duh! Expert international lawyers stated the plain facts – illegality – of the matter from the start. Who could accuse the ‘slow to see daylight’ US court system of bias? Surely the principal pillars of American ‘justice’ could not be influenced by Bush or his neo-cons? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday June 30, 2006 - 16:06 by provie
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Provisional Sinn Fein Press Release re: Conditions in Maghaberry Gaol ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday June 30, 2006 - 10:33 by Niall Meehan
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"Practically all commanders and intelligence officers considered that 90 per cent of the people were Sinn Féiners or sympathisers with Sinn Féin, and that all Sinn Féiners were murderers or sympathisers with murder. Judged by English standards, the Irish are a difficult and unsatisfactory people. Their civilisation is different and in many ways lower than that of the English. They are entirely lacking in the Englishman's respect for truth . . . Many were of a degenerate type and their methods of waging war were in the most case barbarous, influenced by hatred and devoid of courage." British intelligence assessment of the Irish People from The Record of the Rebellion Steven King's review of 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' contains many contentious allegations. Perhaps the most extreme is that "many a Cork Protestant was murdered in pure sectarian reprisals" during the War of Independence. King attempts to portray in Cork a mirror opposite of the sectarian cauldron created by Unionism in the North of Ireland. This depiction could not be further from the truth. Evidence suggests that Protestants lived more in fear of Crown Forces reprisal than of IRA action. This was true of Protestant unionists as well as Protestant nationalists. In July 1920 Mr J.W. Biggs, a wealthy Unionist, wrote: "I feel it my duty to protest very strongly against this unfounded slander (of intolerance on the part) of our Catholic neighbours ... I have been resident in Bantry for 43 years, during 33 of which I have been engaged in business, and I have received the greatest kindness, courtesy, and support from all classes and creeds in the country". Some days after publication of these remarks Mr Biggs' business premises, valued at £20,000, were burnt down by the RIC. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 30, 2006 - 02:10 by Mark
The Carnival Parade Raffle Draw will be held tomorrow (Friday) June 30, on the Jimmy Norman Lunchtime show on Galway Bay FM between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 30, 2006 - 02:03 by Sandra
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Bush's military tribunals violate US law ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 30, 2006 - 01:52 by Mike
Catherine Connolly leaves the Labour Party ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 30, 2006 - 01:47 by Joe
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Israelis arrest Hammas leaders ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday June 29, 2006 - 20:01 by Sean McIntyre
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Dan Keating (104), and patron of Republican Sinn Fein , made a two hour trek to see new film "The Wind That Shakes The Barley". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 29, 2006 - 16:45 by The Alternative Information Center
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Stop Israeli Attack in Gaza Immediately A statement by the Alternative Information Center ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday June 29, 2006 - 14:16 by pat c
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This is an Amnesty report on a Womens Rights march in Tehran, Iran, which was attacked by the Iranian Regimes police. This shows the reality of how women are treated in Iran. Full article at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday June 29, 2006 - 13:31 by Tony
The Australia media has exploded with stories of sexual abuse in remote aboriginal communities. This article deals with the question of why now. This is not to deny the abuse - friends who work in these communities confirm the abuse - it's a matter of why the sudden interest by the media. Incidentally, the biggest abusers of aboriginal women and children are the cops, as you might expect. Just last week Western Australian cops used pepper spray to "subdue" a 10 year old Aboriginal girl ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 19:34 by iosaf
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Michael Mc dowell wants an all party Dáil discussion on the use of force by people to protect thier homes from intruders. His comments were made public today in response to a story doing the rounds that FG leader Enda Kenny warded off two drugged up muggers who were about to knife him. Not to be outdone, big swinging Mickey has at last revealed the "poker wielding incident" when at age 19 he held a burglar to his parents house with a poker. Its part of a PD / FG exchange of little real worth which continues their implosion strategy as transfer of power. Until of course you see the subtle shift in our national narrative from Shakespearian drama, ( the black / white analogies of Othello & Titus Andronicus [ general Titus on his 38th day but really focussing his ire on the Labour party) to the dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, the life of Edward 2nd and its introduction of "pokers" into the Western Armoury, remembering that real men used swords and halbards back then. & then of course the memorable "poker wielding incident" between Witgenstein and Popper. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 16:51 by Kwang zi
The Zionists in Washington (Perle, Wolfowitz etc) have the entire Bush regime distracted. While America fights all of Israel’s major wars in the Middle East – to no advantage whatsoever for America – the most strategically important regions in the world are left to other nations. As world power shifts inexorably eastward, to China, America is at a loss to meet the challenges of the future. ... read full story / add a comment |
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