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national / environment Thursday June 28, 2007 - 21:47 by greendublin2007
After recent denials of interest in Green Party leadership it emerges John Gormley has been soliciting support for the last week. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 28, 2007 - 20:38 by Paula Geraghty
Yet another year and Stonewall is commemorated with a big celebration of joy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday June 28, 2007 - 20:31 by ribbid
A 2005 UNICEF report suggested 97%of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 had undergone some type of genital mutilation or circumcision. Last week ago Bodur Ahmed Shaker an 11 year old girl died after undergoing the operation at a private clinic in Minya province in the south of the state. Doctors at the clinic had suggested her death was due to a a heavy dose of anaesthetic and her operation is believed to have been a result of her parents wish to preserve her chastity.., Since then the Egyptian establishment has moved to close a final loop-hole in their legislation which had allowed a practise which has been common since Pharonic times to continue. The change to the law announced this afternoon followed statements on Islamic theology from the state mufti (supporting the end to this barbaric practice and reminding all it has no scriptural basis in either Quran or Talmud [old testament] ) ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday June 27, 2007 - 22:16 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Members of the EU petitions committee today visited the Hill of Tara and the new National Monument at Lismullin along with petitioners who had made submission. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / history and heritage Tuesday June 26, 2007 - 15:32 by Connection Breaker
Thousands of Republicans from, across Ireland and Internationally gathered in Bodenstown, County Kildare, on Sunday 24th June to honour the founding father of Irish Republicanism, Theobold Wolfetone. As part of the crowd was a vibrant display of youth from Ógra Shinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 25, 2007 - 23:00 by Gan Ainm
Well over a hundred people attended a video showing and music night to raise funds for Mumia Abu Jamal and Anarchist life prisoner and jailhouse lawyer Harold Thompson. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 22:51 by Edward Horgan
Protest at Shannon on Sat 23rd June, Galway airshow on Sunday 24th and the shocking attempts to indoctrinate GAA underage players into the myths of US military just wars ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 22:17 by Wandering Reporter
Last Thursday 14th June in Asturias, Northern Spain I was present at an action where a Zombie Collective came back from the dead to support La Campana Asturiana e Contra el Expolio de las Petroleras and other Spanish solidarity organisations by staging a series of die-ins in a garage forecourt and elsewhere around the city of Gijon. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 15:10 by TD
Shortly, ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday June 24, 2007 - 14:28 by Brendan Young
CAEUC to meet Saturday July 7 at 11.00 at the WP offices in Hill St We are now in the run-up to either a referendum or Dáil decision on a revised version of the EU Constitution. The EU Heads of Government agreed on changes to the failed Constitution over the weekend and a full IGC will begin in July to finalise a new treaty / constitution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 24, 2007 - 08:21 by Caoimhe Butterly
As the siege of Nahr al Bared continues reports of the systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees have emerged. ... read full story / add a comment |
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