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offsite link China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:22 | John MacNab
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international / politics / elections / other press Thursday June 02, 2005 02:19 by knowing my ancestor was a pirate & so Too am I.   text 10 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2005 22:46)   image 2 images
The Centre for Sociological Studies is one of those institutes of influence in the democratic systems which we have evolved in the European tradition since mostly embracing peace and putting aside our most ancient animosities to each other.

It does opinion polls.
In any society where the percentage of abstentionist votes is as pivotal to the security of centre parties who rule by little more wit than chasing economic indicators in the globalised free market post thatcher/reagan neo-liberal U$ project,

Opinion Polls Count.
Polling opinion pays.
1,594 completed interviews between 29/4/05 and 11/5/05. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 02, 2005 01:36 by paul o toole   text 20 comments (last - wednesday june 08, 2005 02:51)   image 1 image
Bono's answer to a question about his friend Tony Blairs attack and murder of 100,000 Iraqi people at the Meteor awards in dublin last year...anyone can make a mistake.... read full story / add a comment
Truth tellers or mouthpieces for 'Official' Sources?
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 01, 2005 16:21 by saoririseoir   text 17 comments (last - sunday june 12, 2005 04:18)   image 1 image
The best television and newspaper ratings go to light entertainment. Looking at the news, it’s easy to understand why. It’s nicer to feel happy, albeit brain-dead, than depressed and powerless; though the two are not mutually exclusive. Most of us take for granted the whole concept of ‘news’, so much so that the question ‘what is news?’ almost seems ridiculous. Yet, when we reflect honestly on the unaccountable agenda-setting power of news editors over everyday conversations in parks, pubs, the canteen etc., we can only conclude that news has a tremendous influence over the thought of the public, and the question becomes more obvious, as does its variant; ‘who decides what’s news?’ News editors are deciding what we should think is important, and in doing so, defining each of our situations for us, as well as the situation of the World around us. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / feature Wednesday June 01, 2005 10:02 by Brendan Young   text 17 comments (last - monday june 06, 2005 13:44)   image 1 image
The decisive NON to the EU Constitution in the French referendum is the first step towards a new direction for Europe. read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / news report Wednesday June 01, 2005 00:24 by Anthony O'Halloran   text 28 comments (last - thursday june 09, 2005 11:16)   image 5 images
Concerts to make povery history coinciding with G8. read full story / add a comment
All Welcome!
down / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday May 31, 2005 23:24 by Mark Hewitt   image 1 image
Featuring: Martin Moony, Moyra Donaldson, Mark Madden, Deborah Madden and Brian Bailey
4pm - 6PM SATURDAY 4TH JUNE
(After Make Poverty History rally)
John Hewitt Bar – Donegal Street
Fundraiser (donations welcome) for G8 Mobilisation buses to G8 protests
Supported by Belfast Poets – www.belfastpoets.com
For Info call 07742 531 617 read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 31, 2005 22:29 by Niall Meehan   text 14 comments (last - wednesday february 22, 2006 18:36)   image 1 image   4 attached files
A history of the discussion on this matter can be found on the following web pages:
What Is The Dispute about Kilmichael and Dunmanway really about?
Response to History Ireland Interview: Peter Hart replies on Tom Barry and Kilmichael (but not Dunmanway)
Audio Report: 'Political Culture in Cork' - a talk by Brian Murphy
Peter Hart interview with Brian Hanley from History Ireland

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Deep Throat! & He admits it!
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday May 31, 2005 20:49 by mustapha mond   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 04, 2005 13:36)   image 2 images
the journal of international make-up artists and regular blog spot of influential movers and shakers such as Twinkie, Twiggy, Naomi, Cindy, Amber and Kylie (god bless her - very brave) and michael jackson (god bless him - very brave) Vanity Fair has revealed the identity of Deep Throat, the mysterious phone caller who brought down richard Nixon one time president of the USA. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 31, 2005 20:17 by b Duggan   text 7 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 23:37)   image 1 image
I was watching a news article on RTE 30th May 2005 about drunken street violence in Dublin. It rekindled a question that has always been in my mind, "what about an alternative to alcohol". It is clear that Irish citizens desire some kind of recreational substance, the most socially accebtable being alcohol. read full story / add a comment
Niall Ó Brolocháin and Ray Rooney
galway / environment / news report Tuesday May 31, 2005 18:05 by Aoife Lee   image 3 images
Galway City Councillor, Niall Ó Brolacháin, today presented Honorary Norwegian Consul, Raymond Rooney with a letter on behalf of Shell to Sea.

The letter requested the Norwegian government take immediate action tostop Shell pushing through this unprecedented pipeline. It also asked that Shell be mandated to behave as they would in Norway. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday May 31, 2005 16:59 by iosaf   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 21:28)   image 1 image
Very clever man is Mr. Chirac, very clever.
I reckon it's on account of him not watching telly,
and avoiding the richer heavier sauces at the antonine carâme suppers.

Raffarin the unpopular and over-fed is out
de Villepin the tall and lean is now PM. read full story / add a comment
Send us your picture now!
national / environment / news report Tuesday May 31, 2005 11:27 by Lale Metzinger   text 3 comments (last - monday july 11, 2005 22:27)   image 1 image
Send your photo to Greenpeace to add your voice to the No Whaling Virtual March, June 19, Ulsan, South Korea. Your photo can save the whales! read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday May 30, 2005 22:36 by Jane   text 171 comments (last - wednesday june 15, 2005 19:04)   image 8 images
The 2005 Labour Party National Conference has today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion brought by the UCD Pat Upton Branch expressing solidarity with the Coca-Cola workers of both Colombia and of the Naas Rd, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday May 30, 2005 16:52 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 12:55)   image 1 image
"We were stupid," said Dominic Nutt at Christian Aid. "We didn't check it out, Cafod didn't check it out, and Oxfam didn't check it out." read full story / add a comment
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mayo / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday May 30, 2005 15:12 by redjade   text 9 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2005 03:28)   image 15 images
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No-one has ever really explained why it was such a good idea in terms that convince one it was the only option. That's intellectually lazy. The Shame of Beethoven on them.
international / eu / other press Monday May 30, 2005 13:14 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 10:21)   image 3 images
As we were told, in no uncertain terms by the yes campaign, the rejection of the Constitution, would mean a rejection of not only the lengthy document of V.Giscard d'Estaing, but also of the treaties and accords incorporated therein- Nice, Maastricht, Shengen, Versailles, Lisbon and Rome.

In it is thus not surprising that throughout France this morning, in between burning the 12 starred flag, shoppers have been attempting to pay for their bagettes in francs.

Meanwhile the Pope has called on Kathurliks to abstain from €U referenda. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday May 29, 2005 22:50 by Clovis   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 13:44)   image 1 image
The legal black hole that keeps 'suspects' detained by the US military in Guantánamo is not just an issue for liberals. From a pragmatic as well as moral perspective the system created in response to the September 11th attacks needs to change argues David Rose, journalist and author of Guantánamo. America's war on Human Rights. - in interview with Three Monkeys Online

Interview available free online at:

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_guantanamo_human_rights_abuses_david_rose.htm read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday May 29, 2005 19:29 by Eoin Dubsky   text 16 comments (last - saturday june 11, 2005 01:31)   image 3 images
Everyone in the house is getting ready to go out and vote. Polling stations in our area (Bagneux, one of the last two Communist towns left in Paris's former "red belt" suburbs) are closing at 9 or so. Nina and I (we're engaged - did I say?) are then off for a non-party with some friends. I can't vote here, but I've been following some of what others have been saying here, and would like to share a few observations with you. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 29, 2005 18:53 by anonymus   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 18:24)   image 1 image
Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / property tax / water tax / news report Sunday May 29, 2005 12:14 by John Bruscar   text 9 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 22:54)   image 4 images
FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW THE COLLECTION MEN HAVE LEFT OUR RUBBISH IN THE STREET. read full story / add a comment
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