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galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 00:05 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday 28th September at 9pm. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 23:36 by Daithi Byrne   image 2 images
Dublin activists today took part in a march organised by the Dublin Port Workers Group, which have been locked in a bitter dispute with their employer Peel Ports Group. The dockers have held out for over seven weeks, and were forced to strike after their employer imposed force redundancies and introduced new contracts with pay cuts and worse conditions. Despite the company employing scabs from Britain, and a security firm made up of ex-SAS operatives, the communities of Irishtown, East Wall and Ringsend have stood by the dockers in support. The company also took a high court injunction preventing effective picketing. Dock workers from across Europe have sent messages of solidarity and after pledges of similar action, Rotterdam was shut down in support of the action in Dublin today. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 20:31 by concerned friends of Niger   image 1 image

A sample letter, addresses, and statements by Nigerien and international rights groups are below.
Further links to background material follows sample letter and statements.

... read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous Monday August 24, 2009 - 18:48 by Richard Walsh
The DUP are correct to state that commemoration of the hunger strikers and their brave sacrifice is incompatible with Ruairí Gildernew's membership of the support network for the British colonial police, Republican Sinn Féin have said.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 15:14 by Pirate Party   1 attached file
The Pirate Party of Ireland is strongly condemning the blocking of the Pirate Bay website by eircom. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media Monday August 24, 2009 - 13:09 by Fred Johnston   text 8 comments (last - sunday september 06, 2009 - 14:23)   image 1 image
Artist designs book to house the work of three Galway poets ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday August 23, 2009 - 15:01 by Richard Walsh   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 18:12)
The screening of pro-EU ads in Free State cinemas has been criticised by Republican Sinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media Friday August 21, 2009 - 13:22 by Over The Edge   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 22, 2009 - 12:43)   image 2 images
Poem by Sarah Clancy and three poems and essay by Kinga Cybulska published on Over The Edge site ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Friday August 21, 2009 - 13:01 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 11:06)   image 1 image
A long-list for the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition has been announced. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 17:33 by PRO   text 15 comments (last - monday august 24, 2009 - 18:14)
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has reiterated the socialist republican party’s commitment to opposing any displays of British militarism in Ireland in response to today’s visit (Wednesday) to Dublin by a British naval warship. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 17:10 by Allen Meagher   image 1 image
Our newest edition of 'Changing Ireland' is currently rolling through the presses in Offaly. If you want to see it before anyone else, check it out at www.changingireland.ie ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 15:11 by PRO   text 5 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 00:56)
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has reiterated the socialist republican party’s commitment to oppose any visit to Ireland by Elizabeth Windsor in response to comments by the outgoing British ambassador David Reddaway.
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 03:04 by @

The solidarity initiative for Thodoris Iliopoulos has released the following call-out. Please translate it and repost it in as many languages as you can. ... read full story / add a comment
Newbridge Social Welfare Office still busy following the opening of emergency sign on centre in Ryston
kildare / miscellaneous Friday August 14, 2009 - 12:08 by Kildare Sinn Féin   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 31, 2013 - 07:00)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin have issued a bold challenge to Fianna Fáil TDs in Kildare ... read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Friday August 14, 2009 - 10:32 by Darren C
Sixteen workers at a Co-op Superstore in New Square, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork are holding a sit-in protest as a result of the company announcing redundancies without discussions with their union. The company, which is partly owned by Dairygold and their shareholders, have also announced the closure of their Patrick Street store in Fermoy, Co. Cork with the loss of eight jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Friday August 14, 2009 - 09:17 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 13, 2009 - 14:40 by Éamann Mac Mánais
Responding to news that Matt Baggott will become the new Chief Constable of the
discredited PSNI, éirigí chairperson Brian Leeson has re-iterated his party's
call for nationalist members of the policing board to resign. Leeson said, ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 13, 2009 - 14:37 by Éamann Mac Mánais   text 27 comments (last - monday august 24, 2009 - 19:45)
éirígí general secretary Breandan Mac Cionnaith has condemned the inclusion of
the British Navy's Royal Marines in the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge
festivities. Mac Cionnnaith also confirmed that éirígí activists will be on
the ground to challenge the presence of the Royal Marines in Belfast on Friday
14 August. ... read full story / add a comment
Playwright Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden, in Galway
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 12, 2009 - 20:31 by Fred Johnston   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 26, 2009 - 14:56)   image 1 image
Acclaimed playwright and novelist brings out a new collection of short stories ... read full story / add a comment
Climate Camp - Co. Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly, in a sea of orange cut bogs
national / environment Wednesday August 12, 2009 - 15:59 by Climatecamp   image 1 image
Ireland's first ever Climate Camp will start this Saturday the 15th of August in Shannonbridge, County Offaly. The gathering of activists from all over Ireland will continue for nine days and culminate in a day of action against peat burning on the 22nd of August. ... read full story / add a comment
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