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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 02, 2008 - 16:13 by Ciaran Ó Brolcháin
A candle-lit vigil was held by Shell to Sea activists outside Belfast City Hall yesterday (Friday) to remember those who have suffered internationally because of the money-grabbing policies of Shell Oil. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday February 02, 2008 - 09:09 by Rudiger
Short summary of yesterdays Day of Solidarity in Erris. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 31, 2008 - 22:05 by Courtmacsherryite
The scenic village of Courtmacsherry has escaped the excesses of the celtic tiger. Now a group of private developers are seeking to impose a vastly overscaled marina on the only piece of open water in the village without community consent. A group of local people is resisiting however. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 31, 2008 - 16:37 by Jolly Red Giant
Approximately 200 people packed into Wynns Hotel, Dublin, on 29 January, to attend a meeting hosted by the Socialist Party on the issue of the health crisis in Ireland. The meeting was organised to discuss the health crisis and to raise the demand for “a public health service for all”. The meeting was addressed by two hospital consultants, Professor John Crown and Dr. Orla Hardiman, a nurse, Triona Murphy, and by former Socialist Party TD [member of Irish parliament] Joe Higgins. Professor Crown has won a very high profile in the media over the last year for making significant public criticisms about the neo–liberal agenda of the government for the health service. All the platform speakers graphically outlined the real crisis facing patients and workers in the health service. Many other health workers and representatives of campaigns spoke form the floor. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 31, 2008 - 12:22 by NIPSA 517
3% of evaluated staff across the Boards are on pay protection. 70% will be the number of Classroom Assistants who will be on pay protection as stated by Management Representatives for the 5 Boards in the Labour Relations Agency discussions during the period of NIPSA's strike suspension. The Boards have stated that no-one will lose any money-Fact or Fiction? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 31, 2008 - 10:44 by Damien Moran
dublin / animal rights Wednesday January 30, 2008 - 20:47 by ARAN
Supporters coming from Limerick, Clare, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Kildare, Meath, Wexford and Waterford gathered outside the department with a huge banner reading ‘Ban Fur Farming in Ireland Now!’ others held placards with a picture of a fox’s face with the tagline ‘Your Fur Had A Face’. The supporters were also joined by another ARAN member holding a body screen TV showing live footage of a recent investigation into fur farming in China where no animal welfare laws exist, the footage was heartbreaking but made people who seeing the footage more eager to double their efforts to stop this animal suffering. Six Animal Rights Action Network volunteers also posed for photographers wearing blindfolds whilst holding signs reading ‘Minister Mary Coughlan: Ban Fur Farming in Ireland’. ... read full story / add a comment |
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