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PRESS RELEASE - 30th September 2009 There has been a formal call for the OSCE to oversee the Irish Lisbon referendum amid growing concerns that the result of the Irish referendum may be manipulated by postal vote fraud. A source within the Dublin City Council has informed the former MEP candidate Fiachra Ó Luain of efforts by the head of the Franchise department to actively register residents of retirement homes, prisons and even the army. The source has said that the head of the Franchise department has unsupervised and unregulated access to the postal votes and suggests that there may be concerted efforts to influence the outcome of the Lisbon referendum by manipulation of the postal vote system. This corroborates the fact that the ‘People’s Movement’, who are calling for a No vote, received notice from various county councils of the issue of postal votes the day after they had been sent out. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 22:31 by Kev
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On the day of the General Strike of the Palestinians Citizens of Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) expresses our support for your ongoing campaign for human, civil, political and national rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 18:38 by pat c
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon her studies and flee Iran following her arrest for holding a left-wing meeting. If Sheida is deported, she will face arrest, prison, torture and even death. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 07:37 by SpunOut.ie
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The results of the SpunOut.ie Facebook Poll: What way will you vote in Lisbon 2? * Yes: 50.67% * No: 41.63% * I’m undecided: 3.33% * I don’t understand it: 4.37% ... read full story / add a comment 
Barry McColgan National Organiser Ógra Shinn Féin Your vote is void, please vote again. This effectively is the message being sent out by the incumbent Dublin Government as citizens across the 26 Counties are being asked to go to the polls again on Friday 2nd October to be good ‘wee’ Europeans and deliver the ‘right’ vote this time around on the Lisbon Treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 08:23 by W. Tone
A new film about protests in Germany against the Lisbon Treaty (including the demonstration in Berlin in early September) has just been released on YouTube etc. See: http://www.nuoviso.tv/krieg-und-frieden/wehret-den-anfa....html (Click on the arrow icon in the bottom right corner for the sub-menu, and on CC in that sub-menu, to activate the English subtitles) The demonstrators say they are counting on the Irish to vote NO, since they can't. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 01:12 by O.O'C
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Below for your information is a copy of the letter that was delivered to Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chairman of the Referendum Commission, from Anthony Coughlan last Thursday, with the most relevant passages highlighted in bold ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 27, 2009 - 22:53 by Repulican Network for Unity Dublin
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RNU No to Lisbon 2 protest,GPO,DublinSaturday 26th ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday September 27, 2009 - 20:16 by 32CSM
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Statement From Francie Mackey. 32CSM Chairman ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 27, 2009 - 16:33 by Republican Network for Unity Kildare
Republican Network for Unity support Green Isle Workers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 27, 2009 - 11:00 by Cailan O'Connell
Irish teens tell us how they view democracy in a short (one minute) film on the theme of "Democracy and Dialogue." A powerful portrayal of the individual power which we all posses in our democratic society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 26, 2009 - 22:56 by IFPAL
Gardai learn nothing from the Morris Tribunal and abuse their power by interfering in the democratic process at the behest of the Israeli Embassy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday September 26, 2009 - 15:59 by Citizen X
The NeoConOpticon report, released today by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch, reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefitting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme that has the explicit aim of fostering a European Homeland Security industry to compete globally with the USA in a fast growing market. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 26, 2009 - 15:33 by brendan butler
President zelaya of Honduras who was forced out of his country by a coup d'etat has returned but is in virtual captivity in the Brazilian Embassy in the Honduran capital , Tegucigalpa. ... read full story / add a comment
People Before Profit Condemns Gilmores Attack on the Left The People Before Profit Alliance today condemned Labour Party Eamonn Gilmore for his cynical attack on left wing parties who are campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty. They called on him to engage in an honest debate on the Treaty rather than trying to scare voters into voting yes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday September 24, 2009 - 19:11 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
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Anarchist organisation, Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has attacked Michael O'Leary's support for the Lisbon treaty, describing O'Leary as "one of Ireland's most notorious anti-union employers" ... read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous Thursday September 24, 2009 - 16:35 by Richard Walsh
A further delay in the release of the British Saville Report into the murderous activities of the British army in Derry City on Bloody Sunday comes as no surprise, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday September 24, 2009 - 16:15 by Richard Walsh
There has been widespread harassment of Republicans throughout Ulster, on both sides of the British-created border. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 24, 2009 - 12:24 by PRO
éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac An Mhaistír has said that the Labour Party and the SDLP are ignoring a large elephant in the room in the course of their self-congratulatory statements on the Lisbon Treaty. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday September 23, 2009 - 21:40 by Over The Edge
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Winners of the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year TO BE ANNOUNCED ... read full story / add a comment |
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