Publishing Guide

Upcoming Events

National | Miscellaneous

no events match your query!

New Events

22 Mar [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End...

more >>

Other Press

Cops welcomed with smoke bombs and flares Dublin Pride 19:57 Jul 14 0 comments

Gemma O'Doherty: The speech you never heard. I wonder why? 05:28 Jan 15 0 comments

A Decade of Evidence Demonstrates The Dramatic Failure Of Globalisation 15:39 Aug 23 1 comments

Thatcher's " blind eye" to paedophilia 15:27 Mar 12 0 comments

Total Revolution. A new philosophy for the 21st century. 15:55 Nov 17 0 comments

more >>

User Preferences

Feeds

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

The Saker

Indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

Public Inquiry

Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland

Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Search words: raytheon

Derry 22 March 03 - Protest against the War

national | miscellaneous | news report

Monday March 24, 2003 13:05

by George Row

gh_row at yahoo dot co dot uk

Report this post to the editors

Rally at Derry's Guildhall and march around the city.

People in Derry continue to oppose the attack on Iraq. A rally took place in Guildhall Square, Derry on Saturday afternoon (22 March) Between six hundred and a thousand people attended. The speakers included: a trade unionist, a young man from Youth Against War, a representative of Artists Against War, a doctor from the local hospital whose family live in Baghdad and someone from FEIC - who campaign against arms manufacturing in Derry. Then a march took place around the city centre.

People in Derry continue to oppose the attack on Iraq by USA and UK military.

A rally took place in Guildhall Square, Derry on Saturday afternoon (22 March). There was an attendance of between six hundred and a thousand people.

The speakers, who were introduced by journalist and veteran Civil Rights campaigner Eamonn McCann included:
- local trade unionist Eileen Webster,
- Seamus O'Reilly of Youth Against War,
- Marion Donnelly of the Workers Party,
- Jan Caspers and Joe Duggan of Artists Against War,
- Jim Keys of FEIC (Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign), who are best know for their opposition to the presence in Derry of missile manufacturer raytheon.
- Dr. Abdul Aljibouri (from the local hospital) who talked of his family in Baghdad.
- Colm Bryce of Socialist Workers Party

Then a march took place around the city centre. The marchers had short sit-downs at several points along the way, including in front of the Richmond Shopping Centre, in the middle of Craigavon Bridge and on the dual carriage way adjacent to the river.

The protest ended at 5:00 pm.

Protests will continue - Derry Anti War Coalition have there own website:
http://www.dawc.org/
which includes a calendar of future protests:
http://www.dawc.org/index.php?module=PostCalendar

Larger copies of these and 35 other photos are available from:
http://homepage.mac.com/grow/PhotoAlbum18.html
You can contact the photographer via that page if you want high resolution copies.

Add Your Comments >>

printable version

with comments

atom feed of comments

rss feed of comments

RSS and atom feeds allow you to keep track of new comments on particular stories. You can input the URL's from these links into a rss reader and you will be informed whenever somebody posts a new comment.

Digg this

Furl

Reddit

Gab

Twitter

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy