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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 14, 2004 - 16:21 by AI
Arms export controls in the expanded European Union are dangerously ineffective and stringent new regulations are urgently needed to protect human rights and safeguard people's security, Amnesty International said today. ... read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations Friday May 14, 2004 - 15:46 by Laurence Cox
 57 comments (last - thursday may 20, 2004 - 11:32)
The four spokespeople of the Dublin Grassroots Network - Aileen O'Carroll, Mark Malone, Liz Curry and Laurence Cox - have laid down their mandates, which were for the May Day events only. They will remain active in relation to ongoing court cases and possible legal action. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 14, 2004 - 12:00 by Shane Foran
11 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2004 - 23:55)
The Galway Cycling Campaign has rejected the National Safety Council's recent call for compulsory cycle-helmets for children and has dismissed the National Safety Council's claims regarding helmets as false and untenable. ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / anti-capitalism Thursday May 13, 2004 - 11:25 by Roy Hassey
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Everyone invited ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday May 13, 2004 - 09:28 by Michael Gallagher
77 comments (last - monday june 14, 2004 - 11:08)
MICHAEL GALLAGHER REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST LOCAL ELECTION CANDIDATE I am formally launching my campaign to stand in the North Inner City Ward as an Independent Socialist. Born in the North Inner City, where I have lived - and struggled - for most of my forty-seven years, I will continue to fight for my community and the working class in the battles ahead against the capitalist system. In a time of unprecedented wealth, the divide between the rich and the poor has widened even further, pushing people even more to the margins and the growing 'underclass'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 12, 2004 - 22:38 by Elaine Byrne
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PRESS RELEASE Following a peaceful demonstration (May 12th) by the Irish Peace Society on the visit of the Premier of China, Mr. Wen Jiabao, to the University of Limerick, the Irish Peace Society received a commitment from the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Zhang Xiaokang, to meet formally with members of the Irish Peace Society to address the concerns raised. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday May 12, 2004 - 18:19 by Will St. Leger
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Voice Of Irish Concern for the Environment (VOICE) have launched a national ‘voting' campaign called ‘ Down to Zero' . The campaign calls on the Government to reject incineration and provide maximum recycling and composting for household and commercial waste. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 12, 2004 - 14:56 by Eoin Dubsky
2 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2004 - 00:20)
This morning at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, Mr. Justice Grigson delivered his ruling on what legal arguments will be allowed in the trials of the "Fairford Five," anti-war protesters awaiting trial for disarmament actions at a Gloucestershire air base. In three separate actions at RAF Fairford last year, all five defendants tried to reach and damage US bomber planes, or damaged aircraft support vehicles, in their efforts to resist the war on Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 19:38 by YFG Member
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Suicide, attempted suicide and the pressures on people in modern Irish society must become an issue in the forthcoming elections on June 11th according to Young Fine Gael President William Lavelle. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 16:13 by rovingreporter
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FF's Eoin Ryan's opinion on use of shannon and idea about confronting councillors and wannabeMEPs ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 10, 2004 - 19:56 by inspector
2 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 - 22:53)
Another time some persons will enter as civil inspectors publicly the fences and wires, and will try to reach the main installations of the military base in order to realize an inspection. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Monday May 10, 2004 - 13:13 by Dublin Grassroots Network
8 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 - 20:32)
May Day organisers challenge criminalisation of dissent Dublin Grassroots Network, the organisers of many of the May Day protest events, today condemned the effective suspension of civil liberties for the weekend. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 09, 2004 - 11:32 by Organise!
The role of teachers? Teachers are viewed by some as the ‘soft cops’ of the state; a youth wing of the police force whose objective is to atomise individual creativity, to accustom young people to their role as submissive industrial fodder, and to indoctrinate against subversion and unorthodoxy of any kind. In Ireland, the role of Christian faith meted out in form assemblies and classrooms across the country is hand in glove with statist control. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 09, 2004 - 04:35 by Anti-War Ireland
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PRESS RELEASE, 9/5/04 ANTI-WAR IRELAND criticises presence of US Secretary of Health in Cork ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / anti-capitalism Friday May 07, 2004 - 19:21 by Roy Hassey
Dr. Paul Connet to speak in Waterford Friday 14th May, Granville Hotel, 7.30pm ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday May 07, 2004 - 16:23 by Eoin Dubsky
65 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 19:54)
Eoin Dubsky (24) from Ballymoney, Gorey in north Wexford is to contest a seat in the European Parliament elections for the East (Leinster) constituency as an independent candidate. The young peace activist and environmental campaigner helped throw Ireland's role in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq into the spotlight when he spray-painted a U.S. warplane at Shannon Airport and took the Irish government to court later the same week in 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 07, 2004 - 15:39 by DFC
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Doctors For Choice in Ireland have published a guide to clinical practice for GP's, and other interested doctors, on the management of the abortion patient in Ireland. This is the first such guide published in this country. ... read full story / add a comment
(DAPSE (Democracy and Public Services in Europe) is a citizens group which is lobbying for greater public scrutiny of the formulation of EU policy on trade in services, particularly in the context of the draft EU Constitution. DAPSE emerged out of last year's Irish Social Forum - a gathering of civil society groups from the island of Ireland.) ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday May 06, 2004 - 11:37 by YFG
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Young Fine Gael are calling on young commuters to use their vote on June 11th to call for improved public Transport in the Greater Dublin Region. ... read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations Wednesday May 05, 2004 - 21:59 by Laurence Cox
8 comments (last - friday may 07, 2004 - 15:55)
Dublin Grassroots Network welcome the High Court decision to grant bail to the 12 people remaining in custody following the May Day weekend and condemn the District Court's refusal to grant bail to the same individuals earlier in the day. ... read full story / add a comment |
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