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international / eu Thursday February 15, 2007 - 11:34 by David Lundy
The report on CIA illegal rendition and detention of prisoners in Europe was passed at plenary stage after one years work. The GUE/NGL is seeking strong action to be taken against states for their collaboration with, and failure to prevent, human rights abuses. The final report was adopted by 382 votes to 256 with 74 abstentions. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 15, 2007 - 00:10 by KJ
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On Saturday the 17th of February there will be a 24 hour fast in Dublin to protest the continued detention of Iñaki De Juana. The fast begins at 2pm outside the Bank of Ireland (Opposite Trinity College). At 8pm the participants will move to the Spanish Embassy at Merlyn Park, Ballsbridge, where the fast will continue. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 14:51 by PdeR
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In today's marathon vote on the Parliament's inquiry into CIA renditions and secret detention centres in Europe, all the Fianna Fail/UEN amendments were defeated. ... read full story / add a comment 
armagh / miscellaneous Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 20:57 by Anti Imperialist
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……and we have already bid farewell to Carrickmore. Yes today the final spy post and sanger of the British War Machine in Crossmaglen, South Armagh was dismantled. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 19:12 by Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth will be picketing Dublin Castle on Thursday morning, for the first meeting of social partners under Towards 2016, the latest national agreement, to protest at the exclusion of environmental groups from the discussions. The Department of the Taoiseach has twice refused to meet with representatives of environmental organizations to discuss their participation in Partnership, turning down their written requests point blank. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 12, 2007 - 19:22 by iawm pr dpt
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The Irish Anti War Movement condemned today’s “revelations” of Iranian weapons being supplied to insurgents in Iraq . ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday February 12, 2007 - 17:15 by Pádraig
The James Connolly Debating Society have published the written submissions from their extensive debates on the issue of policing in the occupied six counties. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday February 09, 2007 - 12:00 by Iseult
One Visual Artist and two Drama Practitioners with experience of working with Theatre of the Oppressed wanted ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / miscellaneous Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 01:40 by reabhloid dearg
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The Republican Socialist Youth Movement have again uncovered the attempts of the British army to recruit young Irish nationalist youth into the ranks of their imperialist army with the view of normalising their rule on these shores and spreading their misery to those of other sovereign nations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 20:15 by Seán Ó Murchú
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Statement by Des Dalton Vice President of (Republican) Sinn Féin Poblachtach The visit to Dublin on February 5 of a member of the British royal family, Andrew Windsor, can only be viewed as part of the normalisation of British rule in Ireland. Staged events such as this are used to support the pretence that British rule in Ireland is now accepted by the Irish people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 17:07 by Dermot L
On Saturday February 3rd delegates at the IUSY (International Union of Socialist Youth) World Council held in Cork passed a resolution in support of the Boycott of Coca Cola proposed by Labour Youth in Ireland. The boycott was called for in 2003 by the Colombian Trade Union SINALTRAINAL in response to the murder and intimidation of its members by Colombian paramilitaries with the complicity of the Coca Cola corporation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday February 05, 2007 - 16:05 by Seán Ó Murchú
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At a special meeting of the Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive) body of Republican Sinn Fein a decision was taken to field candidates on an abstentionist basis. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday February 05, 2007 - 12:17 by The National Secretary
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FINGLAS COMMUNITY WORKER TO STAND FOR DUBLIN NORTH WEST IN GENERAL ELECTION John O Neill, a local community worker, is standing as a socialist candidate for the Dublin North West constituency in this year’s general election. With a solid performance in the Finglas Ward on his first electoral outing in the 2004 local election (where he finishing on the fifth count with 1300 votes, ahead of the Green Party and Progressive Democrats), John is in position to make a breakthrough on a clear platform of independent working class politics. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 03, 2007 - 15:41 by jay
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We the undersigned note call on the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Department of Transport to invest in facilities to encourage the pursuit of cycling in Ireland. It is now 20 years since Stephen Roche won the Tour de France and in that time car dependency has been encouraged at the expense of cycling. More teenagers drive to school than cycle. To encourage cycling in Ireland, we call for more cycle lanes, cycle tracks to encourage cycling at all ages and a national velodrome with a cycling academy to find a new generation of world class cyclists in Ireland. We need your support! ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 03, 2007 - 01:19 by Con Connor
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How can we stop our corrupt governance from destroying our unique heritage that is the Gaelic Celtic Royal City of Tara? Nice letters to the corrupt media? Answering Pat Kenny's questions - do you live on Tara? By asking Meath Co Co to stop the NRA? By telling everyone that the forced double troll road will not fix the designed transport problem? Protests? Listening to unqualified sham lawyers? Signing petitions? I dont think so - the corrupt governance of this country is steered by the most devious of them all - bad bertie and he only listens to bad bad bush. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous Friday February 02, 2007 - 17:15 by Limerick Socialist Youth
• Minister for Education finally promises to fund upgrade of Ardscoil Ris • Keep up the pressure to make sure the promised Ardscoil Ris building is financed • Upgrade all Limerick schools to accommodate the growing need for places • Provide new school places for the new housing developments ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Wednesday January 31, 2007 - 01:25 by Bernie Wright
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Animal rights group call on Environment minister to discontinue Stag- hunt licensing, Demonstration Wednesday 31st January, Time 12.45-2pm. Department of Environment Custom House Dublin.1. The AOHS are issuing a renewed call for the Ward Union’s hunting license to be revoked by the Minister Dick Roche. ‘ In the aftermath of this weeks serious safety risk to children, the terror and ultimate death of a hunted stag , the property damage and disruption of a small village due to stag hunting, we want stag hunting ended permanently now.’ Minister Roche is responsible for issuing the permit to the Ward Union to hunt stag, which really is an exemption to the Wildlife Act, granted to Ireland’s one and only Carted Stag Hunt Club ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 20:32 by Seán Ó Murchú
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ARISING from a motion passed at the Ard Chomhairle of Republican Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 16:32 by Internationale
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On Friday 26th, Ógra Shinn Féin sent a delegation across to London to take part in the 8th Annual Inter-Isles Forum. This years Forum theme was on Faith and State. Ógra’s discussion document, which proposed the complete separation between Faith and State, was the view shared by a majority of the other parties present. Although the theme of the weekend was on Faith and State, there was a wide range of discussion outside of the main events. Topics ranging from alternate fuel sources, to the break up of the Union and everything in between were brought up at different points. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous Monday January 29, 2007 - 20:57 by reabhloid dearg
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Following last night's riots in the Bogside area of Derry following the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration there are facts we would like to place on record. ... read full story / add a comment |
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