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A government which gives out fracking licences in the Lough Allen basin while in the same breath insisting on septic tank measures "to protect the water and environment" is a lying sneaky government not to be trusted!!!

Source http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101347&comment_id=287771

limerick / arts and media / news report Sunday September 25, 2011 17:19 by Dominic Taylor   1 attached file
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD to Launch Luaithreach Angela.
Luaithreach Angela is a limited edition, Irish translation of Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Angela's Ashes
It will be launched by the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD, at the Frank McCourt Museum, Hartstonge Street, Limerick, at 4pm on Monday Oct 10th.
The translation was commissioned by The Limerick Writers’ Centre, from writer and translator Padraic Breathnach. read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston
limerick / arts and media / press release Monday May 30, 2011 15:08 by Western Writers' Centre Galway   image 1 image
Fred Johnson will be guest poet on June 1st Born in Belfast and spending his childhood in Canada, in 1972 he received a Hennessy Literary Award. Fred Johnston was a co-founder of the Irish Writers' Co-operative in Dublin in the 'Seventies and founded Galway's Cúirt festival in 1986. Eight years ago he founded The Western Writers' Centre in Galway. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / elections / press release Tuesday January 25, 2011 22:44 by Limerick Socialist Party   image 2 images
● United Left Alliance Limerick Launch Rally, Tuesday February 1st
● ULA will expose Fine Gael & Labour's conspiring with Fianna Fail to implement savage cuts in Finance Bill
● Call for the Finance Bill & economic policy to be the heart of the election debate read full story / add a comment
limerick / elections / news report Wednesday November 03, 2010 14:01 by Jolly Red Giant
A packed public meeting in Limerick last night signalled the launch of the Socialist Party's General Election campaign in Limerick. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / rights and freedoms / press release Monday October 25, 2010 13:58 by Cathal McCarthy   image 1 image
A petition calling on the Minister for Environment, John Gormley TD, to sack the CEO of Limerick’s Regeneration Agencies was launched this week. read full story / add a comment
Tree of Remembrance for Gaza & our recently deceased friends on the Flotilla
limerick / anti-war / news report Saturday June 05, 2010 20:59 by Zoe Lawlor   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 05, 2010 21:02)   image 5 images
The Limerick branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a protest against the Israeli murder of humanitarian aid workers on Saturday 5th June in Arthur’s Quay Park. This was also be a vigil to remember the murdered aid workers and to show solidarity with the Flotilla, the people of Gaza and our friends aboard the MV Rachel Corrie which was hijacked just miles from Gaza. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / news report Tuesday June 01, 2010 17:03 by Zoe Lawlor   text 3 comments (last - tuesday june 01, 2010 20:51)   image 4 images
Over 100 people came out at short notice in Limerick today to protest against the murder of humanitarian aid activists on their way to Gaza by Israel. read full story / add a comment
ringer'ing' in the greyhound awards
limerick / animal rights / press release Saturday March 06, 2010 22:09 by bernie wright   image 1 image
DEMONSTRATION AT THE GREYHOUND AWARDS GALA IN LIMERICK.

Message to the IGB
This year we will be‘ringing’ in the GREYHOUND OF THE YEAR awards in limerick.

Limerick Strand Hotel , Ennis Road, Limerick City
at 12.30 on Sunday 7th March.

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limerick / rights and freedoms / news report Monday December 28, 2009 14:35 by Sean Clinton   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 29, 2009 16:51)   image 5 images
On Sunday 27th December the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign erected a memorial tree in Limerick city centre to mark the first anniversary of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza last winter, The names of the 1415 people who were killed during the 22 day assault were printed on colour-coded cards for the public to attach to the tree - blue for men, pink for women and white cards for the over 300 children killed. A detailed list of the names, addresses, gender, ages, and occupation of those murdered was displayed on large laminated sheets for the public to study and see for themselves the fact that the overwhelming majority of the victims were innocent civilians.

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limerick / workers issues / news report Wednesday November 18, 2009 12:28 by Tom   text 2 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 06:54)
THE Polish community in Limerick has withdrawn an invitation to the Mayor of Limerick, Kevin Kiely to officially open a Polish festival in the city this week, following his controversial remarks in relation to deporting unemployed foreign nationals. read full story / add a comment
Willie O'Dea admits lying to High Court
limerick / crime and justice / news report Sunday November 01, 2009 16:16 by Limerick Born   text 2 comments (last - monday november 02, 2009 14:10)   image 3 images
Willie O'Dea,Irish Minister for Defence admits giving false evidence to High Court after tape of what he really said emerged. Makes you wonder he much truth he is telling about Irish neutrality. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / workers issues / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:34 by Cian Prendiville   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 20:23)   image 1 image
Element Six/De Beers’ plan to shut their Shannon plant, sacking 370 workers, and move production elsewhere is a disgusting stab in the back of the workers whose hard work has made them billions in profits over the years.

After huge sacrifices, including working part time on the promise that this would save jobs, the company now want to pack up and jump ship, with only a pittance of a redundancy. The entire cost of the redundancy scheme to the company is only €6.6m, about one week’s turnover for the factory, according to the Irish Independent!

Note: This article was written before management started discussing an "alternative" proposal saving "some" jobs, probably only a stay of execution, and demanding much reduced wages and terms and conditions. Therefore, the need for a fight still very much stands. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / workers issues / press release Friday July 24, 2009 16:33 by Limerick Socialist Party   image 2 images
The announcement by Element Six that it is to close its manufacturing base in the Shannon Free Zone has been slammed as “a disgusting stab in the back” and the redundancy package was called "derisory", by the Limerick Socialist Party this morning. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday June 30, 2009 14:37 by Irate Murroevian   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 02, 2009 23:13)
Despite no mention on the company website this customer can confirm that the Ice Broadband service in East Limerick has been down for the past nine days and the company is stil not able to give any indication of when the service will be reinstated. read full story / add a comment
Stop funding the Greyhound Industry
limerick / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 03, 2009 16:36 by John Fitzgerald   text 10 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2010 18:50)   image 1 image
The finding of three mutilated greyhound carcasses this week at a popular seaside resort (Kilteery Pier in County Limerick) shows just how expendable these animals are deemed by their owners once their performance days are over.

The likelihood that they were greyhounds bred for hare coursing, judging from their build, should serve as yet another reminder that we are one of the few remaining countries that still permit this depraved and viciously cruel blood sport.

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limerick / animal rights / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 13:38 by Bernie Wright   text 6 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 21:28)
The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is horrified that a CONVICTED serial animal abuser in County Limerick is apparently running for a Council seat in the Adare area elections. Richard Smith,(48) a dairy farmer and also owner of Company Richie Tryes on the Kilmallock Road* is hoping people will vote him in as a Councillor in Adare. He has repeatedly abused animals, this being his possible third conviction for abuse to animals on his farm. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday April 29, 2009 04:56 by RM
Limerick Tuesday 28th April - Party President Ruairi O’Bradaigh who forecast a massive swing against Fianna Fail to candidates who are honest with the electorate launched the local election campaign for Republican Sinn Fein in the Mid-West in Limerick today. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / miscellaneous / feature Thursday March 26, 2009 12:09 by UL F.E.E. Campaign   text 11 comments (last - monday march 29, 2010 16:20)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Today (Thursday) there is a vote of students in UL on fees. It arose from a proposal by the chairperson of UL Fianna Fail to make students vote on what kind of fees we want – which would have assisted the Student's Union to 'lobby' for that specific type of fees, instead of fighting to defeat all forms of fees. Student opposition, including from the UL branch of F.E.E. succeeded in getting a ‘no fees’ option 4 included, which reads: “I am opposed to alternatives to exchequer-funded third level tuition fees”,

UL F.E.E. have been the only ones campaigning on the vote, with everyone else focused on the SU officers elections. F.E.E. has been calling for a clear, "No to fees" vote - putting No Fees as your 'number 1' vote and not giving any vote, even a second preference, to the other pro-fees options. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday March 04, 2009 13:15 by CRPHS, Limerick   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 13:23)   video 3 video files
The Limerick branch of the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service (CRPHS) have launched a new website, www.limerickhealth.blogspot.com, to highlight health cuts and scandals in Limerick and help build a campaign against them. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / workers issues / press release Tuesday January 13, 2009 11:09 by Socialist Party   text 25 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 08:11)   image 2 images   1 attached file
“ This is not about a company that's in trouble. This is about greed, corporate greed. They're going to Poland because apparently they can make an extra 3%”
- Sacked Dell Worker (quoted in Associated Press)

Like a vulture, having ripped profit out of its workers in Limerick, Dell now wants to go exploit workers elsewhere.

Dell must not be allowed get away with this robbery. This Government can't be trusted to do anything to stop this crisis. Workers in Dell and throughout the Mid West must act to defend the 10,000 jobs at stake.

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