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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 23:24 by Activist   video 1 video file
Dublin Bus workers protest at Noel Dempsey, Minister for transport, over the proposed cutbacks in jobs and services in Dublin Bus ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 20:05 by Niall Smyth   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 12, 2009 - 00:32)
This evening, Wednesday 11th February, a packed emergency meeting attended by 500 members of Dublin City North Branch of the INTO, held in the Regency Hotel, unanimously passed a resolution calling for a strong campaign of united industrial action across the public service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 17:20 by Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
As for the third year International Week of Solidarity with the Basque Country has been organised. Here in Éire also many events will take place across the country. The Irish Basque Solidarity Committees want to reflect on the terrible political situation in the Basque Country and encourage everybody to take part in the events organised. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 23:04 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
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   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2009 - 02:45)
A metal recycling plant, a sewage treatment plant, two quarries, a landfill, electricity pylons and a telemast ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:38 by Paula Geraghty   text 9 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 18:51)   image 5 images
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
after 17 years she has surely had her purgatory and walked her calvary?
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 20:01 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 - 07:38)   image 4 images
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
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 18:48 by TD   text 18 comments (last - tuesday february 17, 2009 - 19:59)   image 6 images   video 3 video files
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
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 23:11 by Edward   text 7 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 18:14)   image 4 images
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
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 18:00 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 03:13)   image 1 image
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.
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national / education Sunday February 08, 2009 - 10:29 by Julian - UCD FEE   text 3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 12:12)   image 4 images
This is a report from the February 4th national protest and the FEE breakaway that followed. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 21:38 by Paula Geraghty   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 - 13:00)   image 30 images   video 1 video file
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
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 05, 2009 - 15:40 by Educate to be Free   text 6 comments (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 19:47)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
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.
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