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national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 20, 2009 - 17:06 by Fintan Lane
IRELAND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN PRESS RELEASE, 20/12/09 Irish citizens travel to Middle East in Christmas bid to break Israeli blockade on Gaza Following several months of fundraising, four teams from across Ireland departed on Saturday, 5 December, to travel 4,000 miles across land to Gaza in Palestine to deliver ambulances and humanitarian aid to the besieged people of that tiny region. Concerned Irish citizens from Cork, Derry, Dublin, Galway and Tyrone are bringing two ambulances, a mini-bus, and a truck filled with over 10 tonnes of humanitarian aid. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 18, 2009 - 21:59 by John Hurson
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On the 27th of December, 10 Irish people in 3 vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid will attempt to cross into Gaza. They will have spent 3 weeks on the road, and cover over 4,000 miles. They form part of a 250 vehicle convoy, driven by people from all over the World. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 13:10 by Amnesty Ireland
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The Irish Government is failing children with mental health difficulties. Urgent reform of the mental health system for children and young people under 18 years is desperately needed. In response, the Children’s Rights Alliance and Amnesty International Ireland have brought together 38 NGOs to form the Children’s Mental Health Coalition. The newly formed Coalition is today launching a manifesto and website www.childrensmentalhealth.ie to demand action from the Government. ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / animal rights Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 00:17 by Bernie Wright
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The Minister for the Environment Mr. John Gormley was today urged to immediately suspend the licence he granted earlier in the autumn to the Ward Union Stag Hunt following a serious incident last Friday when a deer being hunted by the Ward Union was chased onto the main road between Ashbourne and Slane. The deer, which was hit by an on-coming Mercedes, was seriously injured and had to be put down at the scene. It had been seen exiting Seamus Dardis’s farm having begun its chase from Huntsman Pat Coyles premises. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 14, 2009 - 11:28 by KSI
Gathering on Wednesday 16th outside Turkish Embassy at 1pm. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 13, 2009 - 13:59 by Republican Network for Unity Dublin
END POLITICAL INTERNMENT NOW! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 10, 2009 - 23:27 by RNU Kildare
Boots workers strike plans cancelled!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 20:16 by Fiona Tyrrell
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Momentous day for women's reproductive rights in Ireland Three women living in Ireland challenged Ireland’s ban on abortion on the grounds that the law jeopardised their health and their wellbeing in violation of their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 22:41 by Mairtin Og Meehan
Last month in it's 22ND report, the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) alleged that Concerned Families Against Drugs (CFAD) were, 'a vigilante group who was responsible for a number of punishment shootings and pipe-bombings of suspected Drug Dealers' in the North Belfast area. Although, we were surprised and dismayed at these unfounded allegations, given that the IMC had not contacted CFAD before issuing its report. CFAD complained to the IMC through our legal representative and were subsequently invited to meet with the IMC today (8/12/09). ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 16:10 by Freda H
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On Wednesday 9th December 2009 at 6.30pm members of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and concerned residents of the Dublin 15 area will hold a peaceful and unobtrusive protest against the presence of Israeli-made products in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 15:38 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
Anarchist Organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has described the leaders of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee as “traitors who have connived with government to attack the wages and conditions of trade union members”, and has called on workers in all unions to unite and organise to “reclaim ownership of the trade unions and get rid of the traitors”. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 14:06 by Republican Network For Unity Dublin
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Official RNU Dublin website & other RNU websites ... read full story / add a comment 
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 |
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