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antrim / health / disability issues Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 12:11 by PRO
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In June of this year Art Ability – a community organisation assisting children and adults with disabilities - based in Agnes Street, Belfast, was given just one week’s notice that it’s funding was to be removed. A SIPTU organised campaign has been running since then to secure funding to protect this vital cross community organisation from closure, and to ensure its client’s needs were addressed. This campaign resulted in the initial securing of limited funding which did not fully protect the organisations future. However, as a direct result of the SIPTU campaign we are delighted to be in a position to report that interim funding has been secured to enable the organisation to continue to operate. Art Ability will now be in a position to apply for further funding for the autumn quarter, and their doors remain open. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 05:12 by IRSCNA
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Statement of solidarity and support for Palestinian hunger strikers ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday September 26, 2011 - 22:56 by Iseult OSullivan
Feasta http://www.feasta.org/ on the 22/23 of September and the Smart taxes network http://smarttaxes.org/ held an international conference on exploring Irelands debt crisis and a view on running a parallel currency alongside the Euro http://www.feasta.org/2011/09/17/the-parallel-punt/ The following people spoke or were in the panel at various times throughout the two day conference. I have summarised there main points to form opposing policy views. ... read full story / add a comment
Despite the widespread condemnation of the recent auction which seen some repossessed homes being sold by UK Auctioneers Allsop abetted by Irish accomplices Smart Properties, They have decided to have another round of Auctions.... This time for Hundreds of Repossessed Family Homes. ... read full story / add a comment
The Government should come clean with the Irish public about the European Stability Mechanism Treaty
national / eu Friday September 23, 2011 - 13:49 by O.O'C
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The People’s Movement welcomes today’s wake up call in this morning’s Irish Times by twenty six Oireachtas members and one MEP warning about the implications of an commitment by the Government to a very significant diminution of the sovereignty of the State, hoping that it can sleep walk the country into it. We agree wholeheartedly with their demand that the issue must be put to the country in a referendum. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday September 23, 2011 - 12:34 by Cherishing our Wildlife Heritage
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Galway Bay is feted in song and story as one of Ireland's key tourist attractions. How sad then that Island Eddy, located at the eastern inner end of the bay, is a prime target for hare coursing clubs. The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS) has just issued this statement: ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday September 23, 2011 - 11:28 by Ernest Everhard
Trinity's Philosophical Society has invited the leader of the racist British National Party, Nick Griffin, the speak in a debate entitled, "This House Believes that Immigration has gone too far." Concerned students and organisations are organising to oppose the BNP leader. ... read full story / add a comment |
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