New Events

Cork

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

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

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

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

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

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

Anti-Empire >>

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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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

offsite link 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,

offsite link 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.

offsite link [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.

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Old Head of Kinsale revisited

category cork | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Monday July 26, 2004 14:09author by Red Hugh O'Donnell - Free the Old Head of Kinsale Report this post to the editors

Exclusive Golf Links still denying access to ancient right of way

Protesters from the Free the Old Head of Kinsale Campaign paid a surprise visit to the West Cork headland yesterday (Sunday) to renew their demand for the right of public access to this historic place of beauty.

For several years the owners of an exclusive Golf Course, built at the Old Head of Kinsale despite its historic and tourist importance, have denied the public the right to walk on the headland. For generations - centuries even - local people and visitors have enjoyed the breath-taking scenery of the Old Head of Kinsale.

The Old Head offers spectacular views of the West Cork coastline and is Ireland's premier location for whale and dolphin watching. It also has important flora and fauna and is the site of an Iron Age fort and the medieval De Courceys Castle.

Since time immemorial people have enjoyed walking on the Old Head of Kinsale and up to recent times it has been a popular spot for hill walkers, nature lovers, rock fishers, bird watchers and cetacean watchers.

The Free the Old Head of Kinsale campaign and many people from Kinsale and throughout Ireland (and beyond) have disputed the denial of public access and over the last three years have staged numerous protests and "People's Picnics" at the Old Head.

The entrance to the headland is closed by the Old Head Golflinks where multi-billionaires and their hangers-on hang out.
CCTV cameras, barbed wire and high fences block the way, with security personnel just in case a dreaded hill walker might try and get in.

Yesterday about a dozen members of the Free the Old Head Campaign paid a surprise visit and set up camp outside the gates. There we witnessed dozens of tourists being turned away, some of them having driven forty or fifty miles to see the Old Head of Kinsale only to find an entrance more akin to Israel's new security wall.

Yesterday we met Germans, Americans, English, Poles, Latvians and Australians who were incensed at the privatisation of this superb beauty spot (not to mention dozens of Irish people).

The Free the Old Head of Kinsale campaign will hold its first 'official' People's Picnic of the year on August 22nd next. Watch Indymedia and local press / billboards for details of transport.

author by conor (wsm personal capacity)publication date Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Any pics or was it balaclavas at dawn?

Conor

author by Tpublication date Thu Jul 29, 2004 00:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I am glad to hear there is still life in this campaign. Something like this is always good news!

author by David - Max Wiggan International Tradingpublication date Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The denial of access to walk the land is shamefull, well done we need to fight the property barrons and keep the landscape accessable. It is our right as humans to traverse the earth.

Related Link: http://www.geocities.com/maxwiggan
author by Dave McCarthypublication date Thu Aug 05, 2004 20:04author address Corkauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Elderly relations (80 years) going there since they were children, were very distressed when they were told they could not get in. Is this ban on access now permanent, or is there still a way for the County Council to enforce its own planning conditions?

author by alex rossipublication date Sun Aug 15, 2004 21:41author email axitaliaNOSPAM at email dot itauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hi all!

I'm from Italy and I've been for the first time in the Old Head two years ago. The place is magic, for me more of the cliffs of Moher, but that golf club was very sad :(

in september I will return in the wonderful ireland, my travel will start just from the old head: it's the first place!

so come on "Free the Old Head Campaign" I trust in you!!!

thanks a lot!

alessandro

 
© 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