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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.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Migration Adds 707,000 People to the Population of England and Wales in Just a YEAR ? The Second Lar... Wed Jul 30, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
707,000 people have been added to the population of England and Wales in just one year ? 98% of them due to net migration ? making it the second-biggest rise in more than 75 years.
The post Migration Adds 707,000 People to the Population of England and Wales in Just a YEAR ? The Second Largest Jump Since 1945 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse ? A Rare Chance to Stop It Returning Wed Jul 30, 2025 17:00 | Dr Gary Sidley
Thanks to the Declaration of Dumfries, parents now have a real shot at suing councils that unlawfully forced masks on their children ? and at making sure this form of child abuse never happens again, says Gary Sidley.
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offsite link Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims Wed Jul 30, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Just when you think the rape gang scandal can't get worse, five Rotherham victims say police officers abused them too ? claims currently being investigated by South Yorkshire Police itself, sparking fears of a whitewash.
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offsite link The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter Wed Jul 30, 2025 13:00 | Andrew Doyle
We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle.
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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

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First World Country, Third World Standards!

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Saturday June 04, 2005 05:41author by Oisín O Reilly - U.S.S.author email ussvp at hotmail dot comauthor address 34 Broadmeadow Green, Ashbourne, Co.Meath.author phone +353 85 1421202 Report this post to the editors

The Union of Secondary Students sends its most sincere condolences to the parents and families affected by the recent tragic accident in Navan; and to the students, friends, teachers and staff at the schools who now mourn a great loss.

Our thoughts are with our peers, and especially the classmates of the 5 young girls, and all those who are now to sit their Leaving and Junior Certs while still in Grief. We hope that you are given all support in your time of need. This terrible accident has brought to light a very important issue, which until now was taken for granted. How safe are our buses? Why are our school buses overcrowded? Why aren’t the adequate safety precautions in place to prevent such accidents and loss of life? The response from the department of education is that it is too impractical to put in place the proper seatbelts needed into school buses, and of course the funding is always an issue…USS sees this as gross negligence on the behalf of the Department. USS President Hazel Nolan said yesterday, “this is an abuse of the faith of the young people, and their parents, who put the lives of their children in the hands of the Department." Why does it take a tragedy, and the loss of life and suffering before such an important issue comes to the fore? Why does the Department only act to react? We are a first world country with third world education standards. USS asks the Minister to respond on behalf of the Department, when will this government stop being reactive and start being proactive in its policy on education? For further Information please contact: Hazel Nolan, President - 087 9050713, president@ussonline.net Oisin O Reilly, Vice President – 0851421202

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author by Boscopublication date Sat Jun 04, 2005 06:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The USS has nothing better to moan about. What happened to students moaning about minimum wage, school uniform, etc. Instead they exaggerate about school conditions eg. students dehydration "Third World Standards"!!! USS werent effective during the teachers strikes or student deportation so what makes them think the minister is going to stand up and listen to the students on such an important issues.

author by toneorepublication date Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:13author email toneore at eircom dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Tell us - who is the person funding you? Where are your accounts?

author by Johnpublication date Sat Jun 04, 2005 19:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Have you ever been to the third world? When you grow up you should consider paying it a visit, then you'd realise how daft your propaganda is. In terms of educational attainments its absurd to call Ireland a third world country. Measured by the number going on to second-level education, the number going on to third-level education, the number of graduates, their types of qualifications, the results of PISA literacy and numeracy tests, Ireland not only has a first world education system, its in the top half of that first world. This isn't just my view. Its the view of Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Pfizier, Abbott and a hundred other companies at the forefront of modern industrial technology, who cite the education system as one of their reasons for investing in Ireland. Your attempt to exploit the tragic accident in Meath for political ends is disgusting. Such an accident certainly does not indicate third world status, since in the third world pupils are far more likely to have to walk barefoot to school rather than be transported in buses provided by the Government. Accidents such as happened in Meath have happened in every country in the world in which school transport is provided by the Government. Name one in which such a tragic accident has not happened. There was a similar tragic school bus accident in France last year, involving much greater loss of life, and one in Austria earlier this year. Do these countries also have third world education systems? Lefists in Ireland insult the third world by routinely describing as 'third world' every facility and service in Ireland which does not meet their standards of perfection. If any of them had ever visited the third world, they'd realise how ludicrous such claims are.

author by no money to fix de brakespublication date Fri Jun 10, 2005 02:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

we are perhaps economcally first world, any accountant will tell you that. What doesnt appear on their spreadsheet are things that are impossible to put monetary value on.

Socially we are going from 1st to third world but we all think this boom is great.

Today a kid in St Gerards, Bray(4400 euros per year) was hospitalised after another boy beat him up over an arguement about who's dad was richer

the richer we get the more we seem to snap

author by Jackpublication date Sat Jun 11, 2005 01:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ireland is by no stretch of the imagination a first world country. Money and economic success doesn’t constitute first world the moment a country attains this. Relative poverty in Ireland is shockingly high. I have lived in 2 different "3rd World" countries and mind you when I set foot in Dublin airport I could see which way things were going to go until I reached the main road from Dublin to Limerick. REDICULOUS to find such a sorry scenario in a supposed 1st world country. Irish Roads are worse than many of the countries designated 3rd world. Now, on Educational achievement. Unfortunately Irish Schools are lacking behind the rest of Europe its a well know fact in Europe (I have 1st hand experience with this). But the biggest farce of all is the institution of fossilised idiots at the helm of the fossilised National University of Ireland. Let me remind you that not a single university in Ireland has ever made the top 500 of Universities in the world. Again, a number of 3rd world countries have a couple of universities who made the top 500. Just look at all the scandals recently, Gardai grossly abusing their power, the government charging the vulnerable when it was illegal to do so, deportations are carried out in an inhumane way. Finally after 30 years of handouts from the EU (which will end very soon) and economic success due to tax incentives Ireland has become wealthy, unfortunately the 3rd world country of the 80's still lingers on!

 
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