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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 23:04 by Paula Geraghty
Taxi Drivers staged a protest this Monday 9th of February from the Garden of Remberance, Parnell Square to Merrion Square to demand an immediate stop to the issuing of new Taxi licences. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 09, 2009 - 23:00 by Contaminated Crow
A metal recycling plant, a sewage treatment plant, two quarries, a landfill, electricity pylons and a telemast ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:38 by Paula Geraghty
Teachers say enough is enough as they are pilloried for their pensions and underfunded workplaces while banks plead they can't reduce top bankers pay due to 'contractual obligations'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 20:01 by iosaf
Eluana Englaro has died peacefully this evening Tomorrow Italy's progressives and secularists will demonstrate against Berlusoni's unconstitutional decree attempting to ensure a woman who was in a coma since 1992 continues in that vegetative state. In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act. However, the 11th president of the Italian Republic Goirgio Napolitano refused to sign Berlusconi's decree deeming it to be unconstitional. A petition started by Umberto Eco and Dario Foy amongst others has now collected over 1000 signatures. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 18:48 by TD
Last Saturday in the Nun's Island Theatre, Galway, fundraiser and activist with the Palestine Children's Appeal, Treasa Ni Cheannabhain, delivered a harrrowing and powerful eyewitness account of her recent humanitarian mission to Gaza and Free Gaza Movement and Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist, Derek Graham, made an impassioned plea for funds to purchase a ship that would be instrumental in ferrying building materials essential for the rebuilding of Gaza's war shattered infrastructure. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 23:11 by Edward
Business as usual at Shannon airport on 8 Feb 09, showed few commercial airlines landing but three OMNI Air chartered aircraft were being refuelled as they were transporting hundreds of armed US troops through Shannon airport. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 18:00 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
At a ceremony held in Copenhagen on 26 January, 2009, former Danish military intelligence officer Frank Grevil was given the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, in recognition of the role he played in exposing the falsehoods that led to Denmark's invasion of Iraq in 2003. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Sunday February 08, 2009 - 10:29 by Julian - UCD FEE
This is a report from the February 4th national protest and the FEE breakaway that followed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 21:38 by Paula Geraghty
The day public servants discovered how much Cowan was taking from their take home pay to bail out the system , 25,000 students took to the streets of Dublin shouting 'No Cutbacks, No Fees, No Fianna Fáil TD's!' ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 05, 2009 - 15:40 by Educate to be Free
Ógra Shinn Féin activists from across Ireland, students and workers alike, joined with thousands of people yesterday marching against the introduction of student fees by Minister Batt O Keefe and the Fianna Fáil led government. Ógra Shinn Féin held banners, and placards, distributed thousands of leaflets and Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty passionately addressed the thronged crowd of protestors at Leinster house to a very warm and enthusiastic reception. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 05, 2009 - 10:42 by t.a.
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 22:19 by Kevin 1
DEFEND BUS SERVICES: SUPPORT THE BUS WORKERS Dublin Bus drivers, members of the NBRU, are balloting over the next week for industrial action if the company press ahead with 160 threatened sackings. And Dublin North West People Before Profit is organising a protest meeting on the cuts plan in Ballymun Thursday 5th February 8pm Axis Centre ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 19:20 by Paula Geraghty
international / animal rights Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 18:14 by John Carmody
Today a groundbreaking new documentary revealing the all too visible distress that lab primates face on a daily basis is revealed by Animal Defenders International (ADI). The Save The Primates investigation exposes every aspect of the global primate trade across three continents, including one of Europes largest testing facilities “ Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire. ... read full story / add a comment |
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