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national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 14:25 by Dominic Carroll
Anti-War Ireland welcomes the acquittal in Dublin of the Pitstop Ploughshares defendants, who had been on trial for unlawful damage to a US military plane at Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 12:27 by Barry Finnegan   text 5 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 11:53)
[BF, personal opinion: Check this out - USI, supposedly a "Union" to protect and advance student's rights as well as being an official affiliate of SIPTU charged with advancing trade union rights, when it's bosses weren't able to harass and bully this employee to their satisfaction, they suspended him without pay. If all the details of this case go public next month after the Rights Commissioner, it is going to have a devastating impact on those who still believe that the USI is a progressive social force in Ireland. To date The Examiner and Irish Indo have carried the story.] ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 00:14 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 19 comments (last - sunday november 26, 2006 - 16:10)   image 5 images
éirígí asks people to support demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage Monday July 24, 2006 - 21:18 by Siobhan Rice   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 - 14:09)   image 1 image
The Supreme Court will deliver its third judgment tomorrow morning at 10.45AM in the Carrickmines Castle/M50 saga, and the decision will have a major impact on the Hill of Tara/M3 case now being appealed to the Supreme Court. A date of October 11 has been set for that Appeal. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 22, 2006 - 17:45 by Colm Breathnach   text 23 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 - 17:27)   image 1 image
The Irish Socialist Network condemns the Israeli assault on Lebanon/Palestine and calls for public support for the protests being organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and others. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Saturday July 22, 2006 - 03:38 by shell to sea   text 10 comments (last - saturday july 29, 2006 - 10:30)   image 6 images
Eoin Ó Broin, noted environmental and political campaigner, and one of the founders of the Shell to Sea campaign, has vowed to cut off his dreadlocks to raise money for the Rossport Solidarity Camp.

If he reaches his target of €2,000, his hair will be publicly cut on Grafton Street in Dublin on July 29th.

Eoin claims he can't remember his last haircut, and his dreadlocks represent "about six years" growth.

By this drastic action he is seeking to draw attention to the fact that the Shell to Sea campaign is continuing, and the lengths that people are prepared to go to resist Shell and the Irish government's scheme to install a dangerous, high pressure gas pipeline and a huge onshore refinery in Rossport, County Mayo.

People can donate money at pledgebank www.http://www.pledgebank.com/cutthedreadsoff (€10) or http://www.pledgebank.com/cutthedreads (€25) or in person at Connolly Books, the Sinn Féin Shop, Barracka Books in Cork or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop on Middle Street in Galway City.

Or look out for Eoin on Grafton Street or in Temple Bar next Thursday and Friday.
He'll be raising funds in person. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 21, 2006 - 13:12 by Fintan Lane   text 12 comments (last - sunday july 23, 2006 - 04:09)
PRESS STATEMENT, 21/7/06

ANTI-WAR IRELAND CRITICISES BERTIE AHERN MEETING WITH JEB BUSH

Jeb Bush, governor of Florida and brother of the US president, arrived in Dublin this morning. He is to meet the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and will speak at a business function at 12.30pm in the Conrad Hotel at Earlsfort Terrace.

Anti-war activists will stage a protest outside the hotel during the Jeb Bush event.

Anti-War Ireland, which organised the protest at Shannon airport when his brother visited in 2004, believes that Jeb Bush should be left in no doubt about the depth of opposition in Ireland to his support for the war on Iraq and Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday July 20, 2006 - 22:58 by Nuala Donlon   text 13 comments (last - friday august 28, 2009 - 04:59)   image 2 images
The Captive Animals Protection Society (CAPS) is today calling for the seizure of the animals being kept in Circus Sydney, following the admission of a circus spokesperson (Mr.Jan Erik Brenner on Matt Cooper – The Last Word Today FM) that a kangaroo escaped in Cork last weekend after children were allowed unsupervised access to its pen following one of its shows. The circus has since moved on to Wexford, effectively abandoning the kangaroo in Cork.

The kangaroo, which remains at large, escaped when children left the gate open after going inside to pet the animal. On the Last Word programme, Mr Bernner admitted that children do have unsupervised access to animals after big top shows, and that the kangaroo escaped when the gate of its pen was left open by one of the visiting children ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 19, 2006 - 17:55 by Feirsteach
Beidh Máire Nic an Bhaird, ball de Na Gaeil Óga i mBéal Feirste, os comhair na cúirte sa chathair Dé Céadaoin 19ú Iúil. A coir – gur labhair sí as Gaeilge leis na póilíní.

Arsa Ciarán Ó Brolcháin, Rúnaí Ghaeil Óga Bhéal Feirste, "Is seafóid amach is amach é gur gabhadh an bhean óg seo de bhrí gur labhair sí leis na péas ina teanga dhúchais. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday July 19, 2006 - 14:31 by Ógra B   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 - 18:25)   image 1 image
Up to 70 young people attended the Coiste na nIarchimí fourth Annual Youth Camp on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 June. Organised under the republican ex-prisoners Processes of Nation Building Programme and funded under European Peace Funding, Campa Náisiúnta Óige took place in Sliabh Beagh Tourism Centre in County Monaghan.

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national / crime and justice Tuesday July 18, 2006 - 02:00 by B   text 72 comments (last - wednesday august 23, 2006 - 10:59)
Press Release
From: sylvia wall ( mailto:[email protected] )

Today (monday 17th July) is the 57th day of the hunger strike of Peter Preston.

He is in a tent on the pavement outside the National Library. He is weak, looks very thin but was alert,
lucid and both pleasant and amusing.
He has an appointment to see the Minister for Justice, equality and law reform - Michael McDowell - at 9-30 am on Wednesday, 19th July. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Monday July 17, 2006 - 22:30 by Stephan Wymore   text 15 comments (last - sunday november 05, 2006 - 13:55)
ARAN is taking a big step and is willing to organize a huge rally against the cruelty on December 10th 2006, which is the official International Day For Animal Rights. All over the world events will be taking place and we want this year to be the biggest ever here in Ireland.

Right now the animals are counting on us all to speak up and free them from the pain and needless suffering that is taking place in the greyhound industry, bloodsports, circuses that use animals, animal experiments, shooting, fishing, homeless and abandoned dogs, cats and other animals, animals slaughtered for their skins, their flesh and even dogs that are chained up all over the country who are forced to live outside in all weather extremes be it in the thundering harsh winter or the excruciating summer heat that we seem to be getting, all this without food, water or shelter and there is so much more happening to animals. They desperately need us all to help them and we must because we all know this cruelty is needless and it’s in our hearts to do so. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 17, 2006 - 18:57 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
Beidh Máire Nic an Bhaird, ball de Na Gaeil Óga i mBéal Feirste, beidh sí os comhair na cúirte sa chathair Dé Céadaoin 19ú Iúil. A coir – gur labhair sí as Gaeilge leis na póilíní. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday July 17, 2006 - 11:29 by Friends of the Earth   text 1 comment (last - monday july 17, 2006 - 21:20)
Friends of the Earth has described the government's climate pollution plan, published on Friday, as " the ultimate stealth tax". It will cost the public at least €2 million a week according to the environmental justice group. The EPA plan estimates the rise in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions will be twice what is allowed under the Kyoto Protocol from 2008 to 2012 or, put another way, an average of 7 million tonnes of excess pollution a year[1]. Every tonne of this overshoot will have to be offset by an emissions permit. The government is assuming permit prices will remain steady at around €15 a tonne giving a total cost to Ireland of €105 million a year or €2 million a week for five years[2].

Commenting on how government inaction will cost the consumer and the taxpayer, Friends of the Earth Director, Oisin Coghlan said:
"This is the ultimate stealth tax. The government has replaced the polluter-pays principle with the public-pays principle. On the one hand industry will get their pollution permits for free but raise consumer prices to reflect their value [3]. On the other hand the government will use taxpayers' money to buy permits for the rest of our Kyoto overshoot. It's a double whammy for the average household." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday July 16, 2006 - 23:31 by G8-int   text 3 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 - 00:15)
Russian 'Network Against The G8' and international activists blockaded the entrance of a hotel in St. Petersburg where delegates of this year's G8 summit were staying
Police heavy-handed.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 15, 2006 - 16:08 by g8 press berlin   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 15, 2006 - 16:19)
Global Day of Action Against the G8, Solidarity Shown with Protesters in
St. Petersburg Worldwide. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage Saturday July 15, 2006 - 12:26 by Siobhan Rice - Political Affairs Officer   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 16, 2006 - 18:24)   image 4 images
The Solidarity camp is an independent, democratic, non-hierarchical group. TaraWatch met with members on the Hill of Tara yesterday. We were asked to send out a universal call for support and issue a statement, on their behalf.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 14, 2006 - 23:53 by FG   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 15, 2006 - 16:43)
Inflation Set to Wipe Out Wage Increases

Campaign Calls For Pay deal To be Rejected
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national / environment Friday July 14, 2006 - 22:52 by Dr Liam Leonard
This week sees the release of Green Nation: the Irish Environmental Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5 by Dr Liam Leonard of NUIG. The book places Irish environmental campaigns in the context of a populist 'rural sentiment' which communities under threat from infrastructural projects draw on to mobilise territorial dissent. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 14, 2006 - 16:43 by RPAG
On Friday 14th July 2006 Republican POW’s both in Maghaberry and Portlaoise will hold a 24hour fast in protest against the regime in Maghaberry and the attempts to criminalise Republican Prisoners by enforcing sub-standard conditions on the segregated landings.

SUPPORT THE POWs ... read full story / add a comment
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