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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 12, 2006 - 21:01 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - monday july 17, 2006 - 01:06)
Living Wage
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 12, 2006 - 19:37 by Jim   text 25 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 16:29)   image 5 images
The Living Wage Campaign was lauched today in City Hall. It is calling for a Living Wage of 10 euro an hour as the minimum rate that any employees of companies awarded public contracts should be paid. Crumlin based Cllr. Eric Byrne has submitted a motion to Dublin City Council calling for contracts only to be given to companies that pay a Living Wage. The campaign launch was supported by Mick O Reilly of the ATGWU, Jack O Connor of SIPTU, Labour Youth, Joanne Delaney and Pat Rabbitte T.D. leader of the Labour Party. ... read full story / add a comment
Archipeligo and Other Stories
dublin / arts and media Wednesday July 12, 2006 - 14:19 by Lee Welch   image 1 image
Archipeligo and Other Stories

27 July - 30 September 2006
Preview 27 July 6-8pm

Four is pleased to present Archipeligo and Other Stories, an exhibition of new work by Ciaran Walsh. Walsh's work plays with imagined geographies and popular culture references to explore notions of escapism, confinement and the sense that perfection is always elsewhere. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 12, 2006 - 12:38 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 16:35)
Labour Youth have called given their full support to the Living Wage
campaign that demands that all City Council contracts are awarded only
to companies that pay a Living Wage of at least €10 an hour, as proposed
by Cllr Eric Byrne in a motion to Dublin City Council. ... read full story / add a comment
Limerick Republican Sean O'Neill
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 10:20 by Sean O'Neill   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 09:19)   image 1 image
The tarnishing of the name of a dead mother by the Provos is yet another example of their corner of the mouth approach to the truth ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday July 10, 2006 - 17:07 by G8press
Two Germans who had taken part in a “cycle caravan” to St. Petersburg were arrested along with a Russian ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 10, 2006 - 14:38 by David L   text 4 comments (last - wednesday july 19, 2006 - 05:38)
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will tomorrow mark the second anniversary of the landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel’s wall in the West Bank is illegal. The IPSC will pay a visit to the Department of Foreign Affairs to deliver some 5,000 petitions collected in recent months by its Dublin and Limerick branches. The petitions will be handed in at 12.30pm, preceded by a ceremonial signing of the petition by a number of politicians from various political parties, including Senator Brendan Ryan of Labour. ... read full story / add a comment
The peaceful river Gabhra
meath / environment Monday July 10, 2006 - 13:36 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 38 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 00:25)   image 2 images
Despite Minister Roche's assurances, the planning permissions are beginning in the Gabhra Valley, right in the middle beside the proposed interchange. Who said the Valley would not be swallowed up by development and the road hasn't even started yet.
Everyone can object to this. ... read full story / add a comment
How would you like one of these?
cork / environment Sunday July 09, 2006 - 21:24 by Quentin Gargan & Clare Watson   image 1 image
IMMINENT ARRESTS AND PRIVATE INJUNCTIONS
Dispute escalates and West Cork Farmers maintain resolve to keep overhead pylons out

ESB TO SEEK FURTHER HIGH COURT INJUNCTIONS MONDAY

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national / history and heritage Saturday July 08, 2006 - 13:51 by Siobhan Rice, PRO   image 1 image
TaraWatch, the group campaigning to save the Tara archaeological complex, has made a decision shelve pland to join other protesting groups in setting up a political to run in the 2007 general election.
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galway / arts and media Saturday July 08, 2006 - 02:36 by Fred Johnston   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 - 03:57)   image 1 image
The Western Writers' Centre, (Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlin Maude) perserved through numerous Arts Council rejections of grant-aid applications. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 07, 2006 - 13:39 by G8press
Today the international Anti-G8 Bike Caravan will
arrive in St.-Petersburg. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 07, 2006 - 11:31 by David L   text 1 comment (last - friday july 07, 2006 - 11:43)
Speaking at a press conference hosted by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), elected representatives from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour condemned Israel’s escalation of the crisis in Palestine, including their jailing of Palestinian elected representatives. They commended the IPSC demonstration this Saturday, 8th July at 2pm at the Central Bank in Dublin as a way of highlighting the humanitarian crisis Palestinians face. Aoife Daly from Amnesty International warned of ‘Gaza verging on a humanitarian catastrophe.’
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international / anti-capitalism Friday July 07, 2006 - 11:00 by Kevin Wingfield   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 - 00:45)
Roland Denis, a former Minister of the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela, will be speaking at three locations in Ireland. He is a guest speaker at meetings organised by the Socialist Workers Party.
The locations are:

* Cork: 11 July 8pm Victoria Hotel, Patrick St
*Dublin 12 July 8pm ATGWU Hall 55 Middle Abbey St
* Galway 13 July 8pm Foster Court Hotel, Foster St
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national / arts and media Thursday July 06, 2006 - 23:50 by poetry news   text 3 comments (last - friday july 07, 2006 - 03:05)
Galway-poet Kevin Higgins has three new poems on the July issue of http://www.nthposition.com including the highly political 'Page From The Diary Of An Officially Approved Person'

In the same issue Higgins reviews recent poetry collections by Colette Nic Aodha and Michael S. Begnal ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 06, 2006 - 09:57 by Siobhan   image 1 image
A demonstration will take place on Kildare Street, outside the houses of the Oireachtas, at 10.00 AM this morning, Thursday July 6th. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 05, 2006 - 21:59 by RSF   text 30 comments (last - wednesday july 26, 2006 - 17:12)
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 05, 2006 - 14:54 by FG   text 19 comments (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 - 17:04)
Leaflets, website and meeting ... read full story / add a comment
Limerick Republicans Des long (left) and Joe Lynch
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 05, 2006 - 11:44 by Des Long   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 - 00:33)   image 1 image
All the coverage in relation to the commemoration of the Somme mask the real intent of the politicians and the failed Good Griday Agreement ... read full story / add a comment
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