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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 07, 2009 - 12:24 by Amnesty Ireland
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Twenty years ago, on 8 December 2009, the Irish Government ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). They refuse to re-ratify it, and have failed to deliver on it for the past twenty years. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 06, 2009 - 20:26 by Alan Davis
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Cork Women's Right to Choose Group issues statement of support for the women whose legal challenge to Ireland's abortion ban will be heard in Strasbourg on Wednesday (9th December) ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday December 06, 2009 - 15:25 by Paddy Healy
Emergency Meeting of NPSA, this Monday at 7.30 in Teachers Club Public Services Committee of ICTU recommended a series of strikes against cuts in pay and pension and compulsory redundancies. One strike against pay cuts took place and another was called for last Thursday. PSC leaders entered talks with government. They deferred the strike without a written agreement that permanent pay cuts were off the table. They then entered sectoral talks. They finalised agreements on huge changes in each sector in written documents. The government then pulled the plug on the temporary nature of the pay cuts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday December 03, 2009 - 22:18 by Republican Sinn Féin
Statement by Fergal Moore, Vice-President Sinn Fein Poblachtach ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 23:57 by Ardoyne Republican
Throughout the past year or so, CFAD has taken a large amount of dangerous narcotics off the streets, highlighted the scourge of drugs in working-class communities and exposed dozens of drug barons to the wider public. Our record speaks for itself and people who live in Nationalist areas of North Belfast know only too well, the positive impact our anti-drug campaign has had. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 14:59 by R.N.U Cill Dara
RNU Kildare Day Of Action ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 11:57 by Republican Network for Unity Dublin
END POLITICAL POLICING IN 6 COUNTIES ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous Saturday November 28, 2009 - 17:15 by Richard Walsh
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Around sixty protesters attended the Republican Sinn Féin picket outside the maximum security Maghaberry Gaol in County Antrim on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / miscellaneous Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 18:02 by Richard Walsh
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Former Limavady borough councillor Mickey McGonigle from Dungiven has hit out at the selection of Constable Billy Leonard in East Derry as the replacement for Francie Brolly in Stormont. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 18:14 by Bolivia Solidarity Campaign
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Michael Dwyer was an employee of Irish based company Integrated Risk Management Services IRMS through whom it appears he made contact with international mercenaries and travelled to Bolivia. Bolivian civil society groups in Europe have called on Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin to fully investigate the activities of this company which also provides security services to Shell in Rosport as well as to Fianna Fail during its annual conferences. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 15:12 by maire
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While we all reel in horror at what has happened to the inhabitants in Cork City because of flooding' why on earth has it taken 8 years and hundreds of thousands of euros for the inhabitants of the harbour of Cork to get someone in planning to recognise that building a toxic or municipal plant on a flooding site on a crumbling coastline at a time of climate change is lunacy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 13:19 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has congratulated public sector workers who took part in today’s 24-hour work stoppage and called for further stoppages “in order to force a change of direction from the government”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 20, 2009 - 10:04 by Witness Against Torture
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Justice Delayed, Justice Denied Witness Against Torture Responds to Obama’s Statement that Guantanamo Will Not Close by January 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday November 19, 2009 - 20:43 by Laura Broxson
***NATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION PRESS RELEASE*** ACTIVISTS TO RETURN TO CHARLES RIVER ANIMAL TESTING LABORATORIES WHEN: Tuesday 24th Nov. First protest from 12noon - 2.30pm outside Charles River in Carrentrila, Ballina. Second protest outside Charles River in Glenamoy, from 4pm - 6pm approx. Contact N.A.R.A. spokesperson: Laura Broxson - 086 8729 444 - www.naracampaigns.org 2 months after they organised Ireland’s first ever protests outside these laboratories, activists from the National Animal Rights Association are returning, as promised. They will be joined by other groups this time, such as Donegal Veg and Animal Rights Northern Ireland, as well as activists travelling all the way from the U.K. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 19, 2009 - 16:15 by Jolly Red Giant
One hundred and twenty delegates attended the Socialist Party National Conference this weekend in Carlingford, Co Louth. The Conference discussions ranged over the crucial issues affecting working class people on this island North and South and in particular the acute economic crisis which is having a devastating effect on the livelihoods of ordinary people. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Thursday November 19, 2009 - 14:45 by Bernie Wright
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NOTIFICATION OF DEMONSTRATION AT CLONMEL COURSING FINAL,on Wednesday 3rd February 2010 PROTEST AT CLONMEL (POWERSTOWN Park ) COURSING MEETING IN CLONMEL On Wednesday 3rd FEBRUARY 2010, ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. TIME 12.30 until 2pm FOR THE SECOND PROTEST IN OVER 10 YEARS AT THIS CRUEL SPECTACLE. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday November 19, 2009 - 10:53 by Workers Solidarity
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We carried out an anti-Lisbon campaign involving the distribution of 15,000 copies of a special edition of Workers Solidarity and putting up posters advocating a no-vote. Our activity was designed to begin a discussion about the sort of Ireland and Europe people would like to live in, and was centred on the needs of working people. The vote may have been lost but several thousand people got to hear about the anarchist alternative. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 17, 2009 - 23:41 by Ógra Shinn Féin
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Last weekend saw in excess of a hundred young republican activists, gather at the Felons Club in Belfast for the Ógra Shinn Féín national congress. The weekend was the conclusion of a significant year for Ógra in which the republican youth movement remembered the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the original republican youth movement, Na Fianna Éireann. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Tuesday November 17, 2009 - 16:15 by Bernie Wright
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SHAC PRIORITY TARGET DEMO at ASTRAZENECA DUBLIN. WHEN Tuesday 24th NOVEMBER 2009 from 1-2pm at College Park House, Corner Nassau St., Dublin 2 (Entrance is off South Fredrick Street) from 1-2pm. ASTRAZENECA www.astrazeneca.com ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous Monday November 16, 2009 - 20:35 by North West Red
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Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council Gerry Murray to hold a civic reception tomorrow for the former DUP leader Ian Paisley in Tubbercurry, County Sligo ... read full story / add a comment |
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