New Events

Dublin

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

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 >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Angry Outbursts of Climate Alarmists Show a Scientific Establishment in Crisis Sun Aug 10, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Defenders of the climate 'consensus' have been getting angry in recent weeks, leading to embarrassing outbursts in the media. It's a sign of crisis in a scientific establishment that has banned dissent, says Ben Pile.
The post The Angry Outbursts of Climate Alarmists Show a Scientific Establishment in Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Aug 10, 2025 00:01 | Will Jones
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Starmer?s ?Deterrent? Fails as 400 Cross Channel in First Two Days of Migrant Returns Deal with Fran... Sat Aug 09, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
More than 400 small boat migrants have arrived in the first two days of Labour's returns deal with France, making a mockery of claims it would be a "new deterrent".
The post Starmer’s “Deterrent” Fails as 400 Cross Channel in First Two Days of Migrant Returns Deal with France appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres Sat Aug 09, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Bell
AI is a distraction from what it means to be truly human, says Dr David Bell. We should aim for far greater things, find again the vastness of the jewelled sky and the light that only shines in another's eye.
The post Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Three Top Hotels Yards From Bournemouth Beach Being Used as Migrant Accommodation Sparking Fury From... Sat Aug 09, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Three top hotels yards from one of Britain's favourite beaches are being used as accommodation for asylum seekers during the peak ?summer season, sparking fury from tourists and locals.
The post Three Top Hotels Yards From Bournemouth Beach Being Used as Migrant Accommodation Sparking Fury From Tourists and Locals appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Oh, you can't scare me, I'm stickin to the Union

category dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Sunday February 12, 2006 03:22author by seedot Report this post to the editors

Crumlin, Ashleaf Shopping centre 11/2/06 12 - 3.30pm

A report on the successful information picket at the Ashleaf shopping centre on which took place on Saturday 11th February. Every entrance to the shopping centre and the store is covered and worker and shoppers alike wear the trade union badge that Joanne Delaney was sacked last November for wearing. Loads of pictures of placards.
wearing a union badge
wearing a union badge

I stopped shopping in Dunnes for years after the South Africa strike, Ive only just gone back but not again. Not after they did this.
But how can they do that. Sure dont you have the right to wear your badge.
Yeah I heard about that, of course Ill wear a sticker. They cant get away with that.

Itd be a lie to say that support was unanimous for the picket at the Ashleaf shopping centre in support of Joanne Delaney. One man walked by me saying that he had lost his job and the union had done nothing for him. Others said they were in a rush, or that no, they couldnt wear a sticker in support of that. But this was by far the minority and by three oclock, the majority of people in the Ashleaf shopping centre were wearing a sticker with the union badge that Joanne Delaney was sacked for wearing.

There were pickets at all the entrances to the shopping centre and most people were happy to stop, sign the petition and put a sticker on their lapel. Inside the centre kids were circulating with leaflets and sheets of stickers and people were reading and talking about the case.

Can I stop you for a moment to talk to you about Joanne Delaney
Will you support the young girl who was sacked by Dunnes management
We're not asking for a mass boycott at the moment, but go in and show the sticker to the managers in there, if you do shop there.

At the front entrance there was a table with a box of leaflets and stickers and a big posterboard stack that every now and again, people would talk about setting up somewhere. The stream of people arriving included the sinn fein councillors there to take Joanne off to an event she was speaking at and others living in the area whod called in to help out. Dunnes workers came out for their cigarette break and chatted to the pickets and the security, whose company is organised by SIPTU, came out to give the soccer and rugby scores. Joannes sister was there in her uniform on her break and the rest of her family came along including her father John who talked about his own union, Batu.

There was a stream of leaflets and stickers from the front entrance around to the side entrance and into the shopping centre where groups of people stood at the bottom of the travelator and at the columns by the entrance to the Dunnes outlet. The tannoy told everybody that the moving walkway from the car park into the centre was a travelator and played 98fm as groups of people all over the Ashleaf centre talked about a 22 year old who got the sack from her job for believing in trade unionism. While those of us who had answered the call of the support group for a picket focussed on giving out information about Joanne, Irish Ferries, South Africa and a host of union struggles were raised by the people of Crumlin.

You cant touch me cause Im in the union
An injury to one is an injury to all
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: "We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing."

There were officials from Joannes own and other unions on the picket today and lay activists and senior committee members from still more, including my own, the ATGWU. In an environment where trade unionists are told they have access to the corridors of power but know that often their own members are made to hide their union membership this issue resonates well beyond Dublin 12. The support group has made sure that Joanne has been informed of the solidarity expressed around Ireland and the world, of the pickets and protests that the labour movement inspires. Over the next weeks district committees and councils will debate this, spurred on by members who have read or heard about the issue and know that sometimes you have to take a stand. The movement needs to show visible support for the principles it was founded on, and in this case has the opportunity to build on the momentum of Irish Ferries and campaign for the role of trade unions in our workplaces.

The support group is meeting on Tuesday evening and the expectation is that next Saturday will see more leaflets, more stickers, more pickets. Today there was a queue of people expressing their views to the Dunnes store management and already people started saying they wouldnt shop in the store. While everybody knows that a corporation like Dunnes can only really respond to a financial threat the objective is not to damage the company. The point is to get Joanne Delaney reinstated and make sure that in our workplaces we can visibly and proudly be organised, together, into a trade union.

picketingwithplacard.jpg

pickets2.jpg

stickersand_petition.jpg

readingleaflet1.jpg

author by seedotpublication date Sun Feb 12, 2006 03:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

.

reading about the case
reading about the case

wearing the colours
wearing the colours

"Didn't lick it off a stone" - Joanne and John Delaney
"Didn't lick it off a stone" - Joanne and John Delaney

Leafletting the travelator
Leafletting the travelator

Making a stand
Making a stand

author by seedotpublication date Sun Feb 12, 2006 03:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

.

every entrance covered
every entrance covered

rights not company might - Joannes sister
rights not company might - Joannes sister

author by Ciarán Ó Brolcháinpublication date Sun Feb 12, 2006 04:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I apologise if anyone thinks I'm trying to derail this thread or am acting as a PRO for Dunnes, or whatever, but I just found it funny that in pretty much every picture there the LY crest on the posters were covered up with stickers. (Yes, I do have a messed-up sense of 'humour'.)

And those stickers are a really good idea, by the way.

author by Margaret O'Neill/Rooneypublication date Sun Feb 12, 2006 20:36author email avoncalling at rogers dot comauthor address Canadaauthor phone Report this post to the editors

I was shop stwert in Dunnes on the Crumlin Road meny years ago I see they havent changed much, I cant belive they are still not allowing staff to bring a union rep. with them to a meeting, what are they afried off. I live in Canada now thank god becouse every time i see that store i get the shivers. The managers treated the staff like dirt. Joanne i wish you look and hope it all works out for you, I was many times standing outside with Pickets and i know how frustrating it is, My prayers are with you and all your family. I will keep reading about your story and hope to see you reinstated in your Job.
Margaret

author by Margaret O'Neill/Rooneypublication date Sun Feb 12, 2006 21:23author email avoncalling at rogers dot comauthor address Canadaauthor phone Report this post to the editors

In my last email im sorry for the incorrect spelling, i also wanted to just add a few more comments, I just cant belive that Dunnes stores is still ill treating there staff when i was Shop Steward in the Crumlin shopping center in was like working in a prison camp. I worked there for ten years saw many many changes was involed in many disputes, myself and my friends could write a book on working there. That was back in the days when you got into trouble for calling your co-workers by there first name, Come on Dunnes change with the times, Joanne has the right to wear her union badge and be very proud of it, Joanne stand up for what you belive in.
Margaret

author by Support - Joanne Delaney Support Grouppublication date Thu Feb 16, 2006 21:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Joanne Delaney Support Group have organised two information pickets for this weekend at Joanne's workplace the Ashleaf SC Crumlin Cross

Fri 17th 5.00pm to 8.00pm

Sat 18th 12noon to 4.00pm

See event notices for details

Your support is invited.

Number of comments per page
  
 
© 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