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national / anti-capitalism Friday January 16, 2004 - 22:46 by Peter Doran
 5 comments (last - tuesday january 20, 2004 - 14:17)
The Green Party leader in Northern Ireland, Dr John Barry has tackled the Sinn Fein and SDLP leaderships for their decision to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday January 16, 2004 - 17:39 by Pippa
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Do you want to do more in your own daily life to make a difference to the environment? Learn more about natural cleaning products, or how to reuse items you'd normally throw away. Maybe you want ideas on saving water, or reducing your energy bills, or want to share some of your own resourceful ideas! If so, a new group has been set up for people exactly like you! To join or find out more, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/do-your-bit/ or send a blank email to [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Friday January 16, 2004 - 15:45 by Cork WP
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The Workers' Party has said the decision of An Bord Pleanala to give the go-ahead for the proposed hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy showed contempt for the concerns of local people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday January 16, 2004 - 15:41 by SIPTU member
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Strike action is not inevitable if workers concerns are addressed says SIPTU President Jack O'Connor ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday January 16, 2004 - 15:21 by allen
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Pointing out that, after narcotics and arms, the trade in wild animals is the most valuable illegal trade, Dublin Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa this afternoon urged the European Commission to take a range of integrated actions to halt the hunting and trading of wildlife meat for human consumption, also known as ‘bushmeat’. Mr. De Rossa said that both EU and national development aid policies must be ‘conservation audited’ to ensure that they supported the efforts of local governments to eliminate the hunting and trading of wild animals, while also assisting local communities to obtain other affordable sources of protein. Mr. De Rossa has authored a report on the trade in bushmeat passed in the European Parliament today. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 14, 2004 - 14:24 by matt
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Sinn Féin to hold urgent discussions on Racist Attacks South Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Alex Maskey along with party colleague Stiofan Long will hold urgent discussions with representatives of the ethnic minority communities in Belfast tomorrow to discuss ongoing racist attacks. The meeting will take place with the Multi Cultural Resource Centre, 9 Lower Crescent, Belfast at 1pm. Speaking today Mr Maskey said: " Those of us in political leadership have a duty to stand with ethnic minority communities in the face of what is an ongoing campaign being waged by loyalist gangs against them. " Tomorrow's meeting is part of an ongoing engagement between Sinn Féin and the representatives of the ethnic minority communities. We will be listening to their concerns and together trying to work out practical steps to bring about an end to the current campaign of racist attacks, particularly in South Belfast." ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday January 13, 2004 - 14:32 by Seán
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Ógra Shinn Féin is to launch a nationwide campaign calling for voting rights to be extended to citizens in the Six Counties for the Irish presidential election. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / miscellaneous Monday January 12, 2004 - 19:00 by rayo
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Once again Manorhamilton and the North Leitrim area have been ignored and forgotten by Government, said Labour representative Mr Gabriel McSharry when he referred to the fact that none of the proposed decentralised jobs announced by Minister McCreevey on Budget day, will go to North Leitrim ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 11, 2004 - 17:19 by Johnny X
Start the new year with a letter to a prisoner ... read full story / add a comment
galway / eu Sunday January 11, 2004 - 17:05 by Orla Ni Chomhrai
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There will be a press conference happening in the Imperial Hotel, Monday the 12th of January between 12pm and 1pm (possibly spilling over into the lunch hour). This will be to voice concerns over certain aspects of EU and Irish government policies, in advance of the EU ministers visit to Galway later that week. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Friday January 09, 2004 - 19:38 by pat c
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The first exhibition in Ireland by sculptor Martin Puryear opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 21 January 2004 and continues until 9 May. "Martin Puryear" comprises a selection of characteristically large-scale, enigmatic, semi-abstract sculptures, dating from 1997 to 2001, presented alongside a selection of large, limited-edition prints from 2001 and 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday January 09, 2004 - 11:08 by Allen
“The statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Brian Cowen, in which he welcomed the announcement by President George Bush that his government was planning to regularise the position of undocumented foreign workers in the United States will strike many as an act of extraordinary hypocrisy given the Fianna Fail/PD government’s treatment of foreign workers who find themselves in a similar position in this country. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 07, 2004 - 18:56 by Na Fianna Éireann
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1909-2004 Unbowed and Unbroken ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 06, 2004 - 19:00 by Ireland Democracy
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Every now and again most of us get the chance to cast a vote for those who aspire to govern us. Are these occasional performances of supposed popular consultation sufficient though to qualify the Irish Republic for the status of a democracy? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Tuesday January 06, 2004 - 16:46 by Joe Noonan
Cork's County Waste Management plan is being reviewed by the County Manager. This Plan will govern how waste is managed in Cork for the next five years at least, and may pave the way for incineration. A press notice during the Christmas holidays was the only public announcement of this review. Time for making representations on the Plan runs out soon... ... read full story / add a comment
"No Justice, No Peace" - Street Theatre in Dublin for the EU Justice Ministers meeting on January 22
dublin / eu Tuesday January 06, 2004 - 12:13 by bluekingfisher
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Calling all anti capitalists, libertarians, anarchists, and theatre enthusiasts! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 05, 2004 - 17:40 by Global Women's Strike Ireland
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*US military Out of Shannon and Raytheon Out of Derry* The Global Women’s Strike calls on all women to join the women’s anti-war vigil at Shannon, from midnight tonight to noon on Tuesday 6th January – Women’s Christmas in Ireland. In this autonomous women’s action, we join women from Shannon, veterans of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and of the 2003 Shannon peace camp, students, housewives, teachers, office workers . . . We join with women and men in Derry who on Wednesday will vigil all day to demand that Raytheon, giant US arms manufacturer, get out of the city. Now governments and political parties talk about peace and jobs in the North and the South, and the necessity of keeping the US 'friendship' to enable them to import the arms trade to Derry and the US military to Shannon... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 05, 2004 - 11:04 by Ken O'Keefe
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Irish Citizen Burns U.S. Passport - Ex-U.S. Marine, Gulf War Veteran & Truth Justice Peace (TJP) Human Shield Iraq Founder to Burn U.S. Passport in Baghdad When – 10 AM, January 7, 2003 Where – Firdos Square - Baghdad’s Infamous Saddam Statue Toppling site Contact – [email protected] (checked throughout the day) ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday January 03, 2004 - 14:00 by earrach/samhradh
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Just to let you know... ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday January 02, 2004 - 01:45 by john mc dermott
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The inexpensive ,environmental solutions to waste,are availible and well documented.(If a competent government is ever elected to implement them) ... read full story / add a comment |
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