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dublin / environment Wednesday May 04, 2005 21:28 by Paul Baynes

It was a cold, wet April evening when a small group of us gathered by the canal in order to open the Dolphin's Barn Community Garden. It had been a dull day, and by the time we made our way into the garden, the full moon was hanging overhead. On the bank of the canal opposite the public library, close to the bridge at Dolphin's Barn, behind the walls of a factory, stood a disused area of grass. This area contained three billboards, 6,000 square metres of grass, and very little else.

At the recent Grassroots Gathering workshop it was decided to take over the space to plant trees and vegetables rather than to see it wasted. And so, on April 12th, in co-operation with a week-long 'tree walk', through Dublin city, we made our way down the canal in the rain, armed with hazel trees to plant in our new garden.  

Why are we doing this? Well, there are several of us involved, each for our own reasons, but I suppose the idea is centred around the two ideas of environment and community. The project is an attempt to address the lack of green spaces in our city.   We are using the garden to grow food. We intend to engage with the local community. The garden is also a social space, giving us a chance to engage with other like-minded people. Some of us have a vision of an unbroken greenway through Dublin City, encompassing the two canals, the Botanic Gardens, and the Phoenix Park. The idea of the garden is not an original idea: there are community gardens in Cork, and in Belfast , and around the world. This garden fits into a bigger picture of community activists trying to improve the urban experience.  

By the end of that first evening my socks were wet through and my trousers were filthy, but we had planted three hazel trees and two willow trees, and the community garden was underway. Now, three weeks later, we have planted another three hazels and some apple trees, and we have cleared a large space of earth, planting four rows of herbs, seeds, vegetables and flowers, including potatoes, garlic, onions, celery, parsley, rosemary, and fuchsia. We also made initial contact with the local community, survived a visit from the Garda , made several useful external contacts (including in the city council), and each of us has made new friends.

dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 03, 2005 13:35 by Noise Hacker

:-) .:.-) @-) +-) €-) $-) %-) maith an rts! & tell me you auld fellahs and auld wans, did yiz think the day would come when a pirate flag would fly in Dublin, and your james connolly would be hooded, and your sean o'casey would have a bridge and the civic guards would be on bikes watching the kids scrawling in crayon on the wall?

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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 01, 2005 14:48 by Gearoid O Loingsigh

Coca Cola have repaid Siptu's loyalty on the Boycott issue by closing down the one plant where an anti-boycott campaign was launched.

From The Newswire: Extract: "The plan of action is mere representations. During the boycott campaign, it was said that Siptu’s blaming the boycott for possible job losses was Siptu signalling in advance that it had no intention of fighting any such losses. Here we have the living proof. Now that real job losses are on the cards we have a muted reaction from Siptu. If they put half the effort into fighting these losses that they put into running an they might just go somewhere.

The worst part of it all is that Siptu through Anne Speed have stated that “So, even though the company’s investment of €80 million is welcome, there is huge disappointment at the prospect of losing so many jobs”. What sort of union says that an investment plan that reduces the work force is welcome and that they are merely disappointed at losing so many jobs. This contrasts to the insults that were directed at the “petty bourgeois” and “middle class” students and teachers and the “sectarians” on the left

Their reaction contrasts starkly with that of Sinaltrainal whose leadership have not only fought job losses but they even went on hungerstrike. There is no fear of Liberty Hall skipping breakfast for their affiliates in the Naas Rd bottling plant.

The victims in this situation are the workers in the Naas Rd bottling plant who were led up the garden path by the union bureaucracy who encouraged them to engage in a campaign to protect the company’s image and more importantly its market share. Their thanks for this loyal service is the scrap heap and the union which so encouraged them to do so has nothing to say except that its is disappointed and that it “raises serious concerns about the strength of the Government’s commitment to the manufacturing sector of our economy.”

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mayo / environment Saturday April 30, 2005 17:06 by Terry

On Thursday the 28th, after several accidents, Shell called a temporary halt to their construction of a massive gas refinery in Mayo. This suspension is ongoing.

Ninety Bord na Mona workers contracted to them have been laid off with twenty four hours notice.

The photos are from Wednesday the 20th of April. There was, it is rumoured, one similar truck accident before then, and there was certainly one on Monday the 25th. These Iggy Madden lorries are bringing removed bog from the Ballinaboy site, where the refinery is to go, to the peat storage place in Srahmore. The one in the photo went straight off the road and into the bog. There is anecdotal evidence of other accidents on site. Moreover actually removing the peat from the trucks appears to be a fairly involved sort of operation as it sticks to them.

As was said during the planning hearings - 'you can't build a refinery on a bog - that's free advice.'

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national / crime and justice Thursday April 28, 2005 17:02 by JW

From the newswire (our correspondents are everywhere)!:

April 27th 2005 (Indymedia.ie) Yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Carroll Moran was the guest speaker at a public talk hosted by the University of Limerick Law Society. Two local people with an interest in judicial standards heard about it and decided to attend. The judge gave a one hour talk on “A judge’s perspectives on Circuit Court Practices” in which he outlined his insightful views on the jury system. He was not comfortable with some of the questions at the end which related his own conduct while presiding over the trial of Mary Kelly (see previous indymedia.ie coverage).

judicial watch logo The talk began at 6pm in the Charles Parson's Theatre in the University. Most of the audience were either studying law or teaching it. There was brief introduction listing Judge Moran's career path from a solicitor in 1970, to being a barrister, and then a judge. After this the judge briefly outlined the different tiers of the courts system in Ireland: District Court, Circuit Court, High Court, Supreme Court.

He said that there was a culture of expediency in the Circuit Court, where a case could be heard in a week that might take months to argue in the High Court.

He then spoke about the different parties in the Supreme Court: solicitors; barristers; jurors; witnesses; and the judge.

Given the audience he had (mostly aspiring solicitors and barristers) his discussion of solicitors and barristers was limited to comparing and contrasting them as careers rather than their functions in court. He also told his audience that they “probably know more law than [he] does, as one forgets so much of it after graduation, but compensates for this with experience and practice.”

Judge Moran had some interesting things to say about jurors though! He described the Jury System as a slow, expensive system that evolved by accident. He also said that “the jury system is not something we would invent if we were starting from scratch today”. He disagreed with the view expressed by some that a Jury is somehow the “democracy on the ground” of the judicial system.

He explained how in earlier times jurors had to be householders, “people who were considered safe, and reasonably pro-establishment.” He said that now many such people will beg to be excused from jury duty because of work, children or holidays, and that “juries tend to be mostly made up of unemployed or retired people”.

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