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the right to participate secretly in an emergent democracy regardless of ethnicity, gender,social class or creed.
national / politics / elections / news report Sunday March 13, 2005 10:04 by iosaf = O' as if   text 10 comments (last - friday march 18, 2005 14:00)   image 1 image
On the 11th of March, those Irish citizens of counties Meath and North Kildare were called to vote in a secret ballot, as is their right for living in a tippy toppy emergent democracy, regardless of Ethnic origin, Religious Creed, Social Economic class, or Gender.
( but only if they actually live there, and pay or don't pay tax there, as the tippy toppy emergent democracy of Eire doesn't afford its citizens postal votes.)
Out they came in their handfuls.
Leaping over the primroses and daffodils, pushing aside the lobbying publicans to exercise the rights so sorely won and desperately needed in far off places. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday March 13, 2005 00:38 by padraic - 1 of Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 20 comments (last - wednesday march 23, 2005 01:40)   image 6 images

On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane. Within the month, three of the four companies contracted at the time to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland.

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protesters in Dublin
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday March 13, 2005 00:33 by sally   text 10 comments (last - sunday march 20, 2005 14:24)   image 3 images
(Ireland, 12th March 2005) Forty people in Dublin, sixty in Belfast, fifteen in Galway and twenty in Derry gathered to express their solidarity with 42 Basque Youth activists of the Basque pro-independence left youth organizations Jarrai, Haika and Segi and who have been brought to courts in Madrid for a show trial and who are facing a total of 654 years in prison for their political work defending Basque youth rights and Basque Country's right to self-determination.
The judge and the state prosecution allege that "these organizations are all ETA". read full story / add a comment
View of Tramore beach and strand.
national / environment / news report Saturday March 12, 2005 11:30 by Israel Finnerty   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 11, 2005 19:25)   image 4 images
Tramore, Co. Waterford home to a three mile beach, sand dunes, back strand lagoon, wildlife sanctuary and landfill.

For years commercial and residential waste has been ‘legally’ dumped on the back of this beach. At high tide and times of flooding some of the waste ‘conveniently’ gets washed out to sea or washed onto the shore. There is also a great deal of leachate soaking into the water and surrounding soil and sand.

This environmental catastrophe has gone largely unnoticed in the past and has been successfully concealed from public knowledge. The plan is to raise public awareness and highlight this as in issue in a number of different stages.

For details on Stage 1 of the public awareness project go here http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68947 read full story / add a comment
The four Goldmines,more frolics to come.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday March 12, 2005 10:27 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:17)   image 2 images
A flurry of abnegations and 'I am not to blame' responses emerged from Leinster House,recently on publication of the Travers report.
The story may not be over....yet. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 11, 2005 20:03 by Paulo   text 48 comments (last - tuesday september 19, 2006 03:23)   image 7 images
The arrivial of http://ratemyteachers.ie on the Irish Education scene has created quiet a stir in the Educational Community. Why not have a look at the website and say what you think ! read full story / add a comment
The Primrose - Harbinger of Spring
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 11, 2005 16:50 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:11)   image 5 images
"In eunte Verae" (if I remember correctly from my schooldays) is a Latin tag which means "With the coming of Spring." The weather has been kind and growth is in the air. But what I hunger for is political growth. Will the Progressive Democrats national conference bring change or will it be, politically, another lost opportunity - another stale affair? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday March 10, 2005 22:01 by Organised Ideas   text 3 comments (last - friday march 18, 2005 23:10)   image 1 image
Lynched (acoustic folky punky propaganda)
Puget Sound (Funky flavoursume punk)
The Boy You Hit Is Dead (heavyness from Galway)
Oak (instrumental chunkyness)
Disfunktional (northside hip hop stlyie )

Saturday March 26th
Voodoo Lounge
Doors 7.30pm
First band bout 8.30 ish

5 euros in read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday March 10, 2005 19:23 by Trident Ploughshares   text 2 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 11:41)   image 2 images
Anti-Nuclear Protesters from across the country are locked on to a 25 foot mock Trident nuclear Submarine outside the Scottish Parliament today. They are raising awareness of the UK’s obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to get rid of Trident. There are 17 people inside the submarine locked on including a member of the Scottish Parliament Rosie Kane MSP. They began their protest at 10.15 this morning. A number of MEPs have come outside the parliament building to show their support. There have been no arrests as yet although the protests will not move until their Trident submarine has been dismantled – symbolising the dismantling of the real Trident subs. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday March 10, 2005 15:19 by GG Head   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 14:33)   image 2 images
Benefit to raise much needed funds for the next Grassroots Gathering

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Holy Thursday, 24th of March
8pm
The Gingerman, Fenian Street

(mark it in your diaries)

DRAG BINGO!

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday March 10, 2005 15:11 by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy   text 15 comments (last - monday march 14, 2005 02:32)   image 3 images
The case for the defense of five women and men charged with criminal destruction for damage committed against a US war plane at Shannon, Ireland airport began. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday March 10, 2005 09:25 by Bukharin   text 48 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 17:44)   image 1 image
Just in case you thought they had gone all soft and cuddly, heres an article from the current edition of the CPI publication 'Socialist Voice' justifying the Hitler-Stalin pact! Of course if you dare mention Stalin's crimes you are either a right-wing stooge or worse still an 'ultra-left'. Looking forward to their justification of the Moscow Showtrials.

Here's the full article, warts and all: read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Thursday March 10, 2005 00:55 by redjade   image 2 images
Future of Dancer at Dublin's Project Theatre Still Uncertain read full story / add a comment
Vulture on the wing?
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday March 09, 2005 22:11 by Edward Horgan   text 9 comments (last - wednesday march 16, 2005 07:36)   image 2 images
Abuse of human rights is serious. It sometimes happens when undemocratic regimes feel threated by freedom movements. It is happening in the so-called war on terror because democratic US is seeking to maintain its access to an undue share of the world’s limited energy resources. Ireland is facilitating this torture process, and the even worse large-scale killing of innocent people in Iraq, by facilitating the US military transit through Shannon and the transport of prisoners for torture. Ireland’s reasons for this complicity amount to the worst of all reasons, just money. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 09, 2005 20:09 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 15, 2005 18:51)   image 5 images
U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday March 09, 2005 12:35 by Trial Watcher   text 10 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 21:26)   image 6 images
The prosecution case came to a close at 11.15am this morning. This morning there was one witness at the stand, detective seargant Houlihane, who went through his interview notes from Ciaron O'Reilly after the arrest. He also recounted brief statements that damien Moran and Deirdre made. read full story / add a comment
Letters & Numbers but no ©  = Reclaim the Genome!
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday March 09, 2005 10:33 by Rapheal .:. + @ xxiii   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 11:03)   image 1 image
The continuing campaign to ban human cloning has run into difficulties and the issue has been fudged by fundamentalist based politics and obfuscated by claims of Bush to victory.

The Muslim states abstain, Blair defies the world, the Pope mobilises the catholics,
the French and Germans original very simple motion is changed, but remains in the draft €U constitution .:.

The most recent UN vote is however a new milestone we must realise we have passed and clarifies the attitute of the different states and corporations who sponser the graduates and research programs. We know now who are enemies in this conflict are. read full story / add a comment
20 million  Euro subsidy for private enterprise.?
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 08, 2005 22:45 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 21:54)   image 1 image
The increased funding of an Airline which is already very successful,is possibly a repeat of the Air Lingus story.
Two heavily susidised entities,Irish rail and a local airline are in direct competition with each other,and as business flows to the private airline,our national rail system will require more and more taxpayers funding. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday March 08, 2005 19:02 by -   text 7 comments (last - thursday march 10, 2005 20:18)   image 1 image
It has now been less than a month since the billionaire former president of the Lebanon died in a car bomb.
No formal investigation has established the guilty party or even type of explosive used despite requests for such an investigation from the UN, public, EU and USA.
In the meantime thousands of pro-democracy protesters demanded that Syria leave, (in honour of a previous UN resolution) and late last Saturday the Syrian government bowed to this pressure- read full story / add a comment
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