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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 22, 2010 - 21:46 by Morbeg
UCD Student Union Council has called for a referendum in an attempt to repeal the boycott of Coca Cola products in SU outlets, which was put in place by referendum in 2003. When this referendum was passed it made UCDSU the first students union in the world to support the call for a boycott made by SINALTRAINAL a Columbian trade union whose members have been threatened and killed as part of a brutal campaign to stifle trade union activity in their bottling plants in Columbia since the beginning of the1990s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday February 22, 2010 - 18:07 by Mrs. Charity Sweet
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I have been further arrested on two separate occasions for public expresion of "bollocks" and "blair". Both cases were dropped on the date of trial under somewhat convenient circumstances, the CPS offering no evidence. The first case was dropped the week the Sex Pistols released their 3oth anniversay edition of the album "Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols". The second case was to be attended by Lady mary Warnock, picking up the torch of common sense from Professor Kingsley and QC John Mortimer who valiantly defended our right to use that Saxon Age old word of bollocks. ... read full story / add a comment 
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 22, 2010 - 11:58 by Brendan Guilfoyle
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Deputy Jackie Healy Rae has told public service workers that he is powerless to prevent further cuts to services in Kerry. Healy Rae made the comments to 65 members of the Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance (KPSWA) who protested at his constituency clinic in Killarney on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 21, 2010 - 17:48 by Jim Monaghan
PANA welcomes the collapse of Dutch government over the Afghan War. The Peace & Neutrality Alliance welcomes the decision of the Dutch Labour Party to collapse the Dutch Government because of Prime Minister Balkenende efforts to refuse to honour a commitment to withdraw Dutch troops from the occupation forces in Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 20, 2010 - 20:56 by Timgos
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1000 Architects and Engineers call for new 9/11 Investigation. They cite evidence of demolition at three World Trade Centre Towers. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 20, 2010 - 15:34 by PBPA
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To mark the showing of Michaels Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story the People Before Profit Alliance today held a street theatre performance of Capitalism: An Irish Love Story outside the Savoy Cinema in O Connell Street. Michael Moore’s film shows how the recession has led to a horror story for many American workers and their families. He highlights the issue of home repossessions. He also shows how the banks have been bailed out by the taxpayer. In the film Moore goes into banks asking for the return of the people’s money. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media Friday February 19, 2010 - 12:41 by Fred Johnston
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Charlie Byrne's Bookshp, Middle Street, Galway, played host to French poet, Colette Wittorski. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 19, 2010 - 10:07 by DS2S
Shell’s decision to suspend key parts of its work on the Corrib Gas project is the beginning of a recognition by the company that its experimental inland refinery project is “not going to work”, according to the Shell to Sea campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 19, 2010 - 00:39 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Amnesty International today criticised Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country. The Iranian Government was before the UN Human Rights Council this week to defend its track record on human rights and came in for tough criticism from Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 20:11 by B
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TEEU says hunger strike at Green Isle Foods will last until dispute ends ... read full story / add a comment 
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 11:01 by Brendan Guilfoyle
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A Kerry North Fianna Fail TD has told public servants that there will be further cuts in the public service if they choose to vote for any alternative candidates in the next general election (audio clips below). Deputy Tom McEllistrim made the comments during his address to members of the Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance who picketed his Tralee constituency clinic on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 01:43 by James Connolly
RSYM: "House the Homeless!" RSYM House the Homeless Campaign Over the last number of weeks the Republican Socialist Youth Movement has been agitating over the issue of homelessness in Ireland. With young activists in areas such as Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Ennis, Derry, Sligo, Strabane, Tipperary and Galway taking part in our ’House the Homeless’ campaign which was designed to highlight the plight of some of the most vulnerable people in Irish society today. ... read full story / add a comment |
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