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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Ulez Expansion Had No Impact on Air Pollution, Study Finds Wed Oct 22, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan's hated Ulez expansion across Greater London had no impact on air pollution, a new study by scientists at the University of?Birmingham has found.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Ulez Expansion Had No Impact on Air Pollution, Study Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Letter From America Wed Oct 22, 2025 17:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Guy de la B?doy?re has recently returned from a road trip across the American West. Along the way he spoke to various Americans, among them Trump supporters but more noticeably demoralised and disaffected Democrats.
The post A Letter From America appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?One In, One Out? Migrant Returns on Small Boat Wed Oct 22, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
A migrant deported to France under?Keir Starmer?s 'one in, one out' scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat, leading Kemi Badenoch to ask, "Does that mean we now have to take two people from France to return him?"
The post ‘One In, One Out’ Migrant Returns on Small Boat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Free Speech Union Turned the Tide on Non-Crime Hate Incidents Wed Oct 22, 2025 13:10 | Will Jones
As the Metropolitan Police announce the demise of non-crime hate incidents, the Telegraph has run a feature on the Free Speech Union, crediting its years of campaigning against NCHIs and support for cancel culture victims.
The post How the Free Speech Union Turned the Tide on Non-Crime Hate Incidents appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Protesters Attack Irish Police Outside Migrant Hotel Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:08 | Will Jones
Irish police were attacked with bricks, glass bottles and fireworks during a violent protest outside a migrant hotel in?Dublin following reports that a 10 year-old girl had been sexually assaulted by an asylum seeker.
The post Protesters Attack Irish Police Outside Migrant Hotel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday February 21, 2010 17:48 by Jim Monaghan
PANA welcomes the collapse of Dutch government over the Afghan War.

The Peace & Neutrality Alliance welcomes the decision of the Dutch Labour Party to collapse the Dutch Government because of Prime Minister Balkenende efforts to refuse to honour a commitment to withdraw Dutch troops from the occupation forces in Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
Colette Wittorski (left) with writer and activist Margaretta D'Arcy  (c) LitPix 2010
galway / arts and media / press release Friday February 19, 2010 12:41 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Charlie Byrne's Bookshp, Middle Street, Galway, played host to French poet, Colette Wittorski. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / press release Tuesday February 16, 2010 01:43 by James Connolly
RSYM: "House the Homeless!"
RSYM House the Homeless Campaign

Over the last number of weeks the Republican Socialist Youth Movement has been agitating over the issue of homelessness in Ireland. With young activists in areas such as Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Ennis, Derry, Sligo, Strabane, Tipperary and Galway taking part in our ’House the Homeless’ campaign which was designed to highlight the plight of some of the most vulnerable people in Irish society today. read full story / add a comment
The old Forge in Gort's main street
clare / arts and media / press release Sunday February 14, 2010 16:19 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - friday february 19, 2010 12:46)   image 1 image
The Third Forge At Gort takes place March 26th and 27th. All events are free. The festival is organised by The Western Writers' Centre (Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude) Galway and is sponsored by The Arts Council and the generous assistance of Knute Skinner, Edna Keil, O'Grady's Lounge and Restaurant, O'Sullivan's Royal Hotel, Pat O'Callaghan and Poetry Ireland and Galway County Council. read full story / add a comment
Harper and harp-maker, Paul Dooley
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday February 09, 2010 15:23 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 15:26)   image 6 images
The Western Writers' Centre has succeeded in providing their third literary festival in Gort, Co. Galway, blending music and poetry read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday January 18, 2010 14:01 by Fred Johnston
The Western Writers' Centre needs support in these fiscally-challenged days to keep going and provide a varied programme - read full story / add a comment
Storyteller Eddie Lenihan reading at a previous festival
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday January 05, 2010 11:48 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 05, 2010 17:56)   image 2 images
The third Forge at Gort literature festival at the town of Gort, Co. Galway, is due to take place at the end of March. The festival celebrates the presence of W.B.Yeats, the forge from which he drew materials to reconstruct Thoor Ballylee, and the significance of this town in the Irish Literary renaissance. It is no secret that arts' organisations throughout the country have suffered from Arts Council budget cuts. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday January 04, 2010 21:16 by Jim Monaghan
The Irish Government pays for the security of American army personnel in Shannon
PEACE & ECONOMIC STABILITY

The report in todays Irish Examiner (3/1/10) by Mary Regan that the Irish Government had spent almost €10 million in just three years protecting US troops passing through Shannon Airport to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is just the latest example of an Irish political elite wasting Irish taxpayers money and leading this country deeper and deeper into an even greater economic disaster, one that will make the current situation in a few years look like the good old days.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 18, 2009 21:59 by John Hurson   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 12:54)
On the 27th of December, 10 Irish people in 3 vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid will attempt
to cross into Gaza. They will have spent 3 weeks on the road, and cover over 4,000 miles.
They form part of a 250 vehicle convoy, driven by people from all over the World. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Thursday November 19, 2009 16:15 by Jolly Red Giant
One hundred and twenty delegates attended the Socialist Party National Conference this weekend in Carlingford, Co Louth. The Conference discussions ranged over the crucial issues affecting working class people on this island North and South and in particular the acute economic crisis which is having a devastating effect on the livelihoods of ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday October 09, 2009 18:51 by Nazanin Afshin-Jam   text 10 comments (last - monday november 16, 2009 15:56)
Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this Sunday October 11 which falls one day after the International Day Against Execution. Some reports say that they may be executed tomorrow. Another juvenile,Safar Angooti is scheduled to be executed on October 21st. The Supreme Court is also deciding the fate of another minor on death row, Ali Mahin Torabi. This sad news is worrying the families of these youngsters, NGO's and human rights activists internationally.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday August 25, 2009 22:27 by Darren J. Prior   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 12:14)
See: www.slideshare.net/darrenjprior/presentations. read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston (photo Brenda Malloy)
national / arts and media / press release Monday August 24, 2009 13:09 by Fred Johnston   text 8 comments (last - sunday september 06, 2009 14:23)   image 1 image
Artist designs book to house the work of three Galway poets read full story / add a comment
Playwright Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden, in Galway
galway / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday August 12, 2009 20:31 by Fred Johnston   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 26, 2009 14:56)   image 1 image
Acclaimed playwright and novelist brings out a new collection of short stories read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Monday June 29, 2009 23:54 by JM
CONNOLLY YOUTH MOVEMENT CONDEMN COUP IN HONDURAS

The Connolly Youth Movement condemns in the strongest possible terms the military coup that has taken place in the Republic of Honduras. The kidnapping and exiling from the country of, the democratic and rightful President, Manuel Zelaya, is an outrageous affront to democracy and stinks of Yankee involvement. The Connolly Youth Movement calls for President Zelaya to be returned to power in Honduras and for those traitors in the military, who moved against him, to stand down. The CYM echoes the words spoken by the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla in denouncing “the criminal and brutal character of this coup d’etat.” read full story / add a comment
Well she's neither a Polish nor a Chinese lass, is she?
national / history and heritage / press release Saturday June 27, 2009 14:18 by "Captain William Johnston"   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 28, 2009 20:45)   image 1 image
Although for many readers it might seem in poor taste to publish words from either the UVF or Red Hand Comando on this website- it may also be understood as serving an important archive role. The IRA issued its order to decommission and abandon arms on the 28th of July 2005.

However it has not been until today an arguably older militia tendency & organisation (if in name only on) our island, the UVF and a smaller but no less murderous group "the Red Hand Comando" issued an equivalent order to their membership.

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On June 5th - Vote Joe Higgins
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday May 30, 2009 10:35 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 2 images   video 1 video file
This is a press release from Joe Higgins on the unemployment crisis in Ireland. It documents the huge levels of unemployment and puts forwards a socialist solution. Joe Higgins demands that the state take emergency action to defend provide jobs. He called for the renationalisation of SR Technics and Eircom and the nationalisation of other major companies threatening closure. read full story / add a comment
Help out: http://www.joehiggins.eu/190
dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 28, 2009 15:55 by Joe Higgins.eu   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 17:37)   image 1 image
The European election campaign is now in it's final push. The main leaflet for Joe Higgins' campaign has been produced, with the hope of getting it into 200,000 homes in the next week. We have produced 2,000 new full colour posters which we need to get up. In order to do that we are launching an appeal for volunteers to help out - take a bundle of leaflets for your estate or one nearby, spare an hour to put up some posters, hand out leaflets with Joe in town or donate towards the cost of the campaign.
Simply log on to the link below to help out. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 28, 2009 01:37 by Justin Morahan
Free Gaza Movement reports that Mairead Maguire was detained on 15 May by Homeland Security on entry to US and attaches her statement on release. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 22:48 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dublin Euro Election Candidate, Joe Higgins has signed a pledge from the European Federation of Public Service Unions on defending public services and public sector workers. Joe stands fully in defence of workers rights and public services. Workers and our services should not be made pay for the crisis caused by neoliberal governments, big business and the rich. read full story / add a comment
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