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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday December 17, 2005 21:57 by TADHG   image 1 image
Last Shell to Sea meeting for 2005.

8PM, at EENGO, 10a Lwr Camden Street, Dublin 2

Above the Bounty Stores, opposite the Camden Palace.
Phone Tadhg on 0876181620 if you can't find it.

We might go to the pub afterwards...

Next meeting will be on Tuesday , January 10th 2006. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 17, 2005 19:48 by Jim   text 9 comments (last - monday january 30, 2006 14:22)   image 3 images
For more than a year now members of the Labour Party in the North Inner City have been protesting outside the Accident and Emergency in the Mater Hospital read full story / add a comment
Members of CAFT distribute leaflets in Grafton Street
national / animal rights / news report Saturday December 17, 2005 19:30 by Mick   text 29 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2010 22:57)   image 3 images
Members of the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade staged a protest outside Brown Thomas on Friday evening against the sale of fur. A Garda arrived and threatened to arrest the activists whose only crime was to protest against the barbaric and cruel fur trade. read full story / add a comment
& if one of those bottles should accidently fall, there'll be.....green bottles
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday December 17, 2005 15:28 by Rt. Hon. Dr. O as if   text 12 comments (last - saturday may 26, 2007 11:50)   image 3 images
Christmas will soon be upon us, the batteries will wear out, conversation will stimie, the turkey will curl and your spirits with it. Thus no more timely ocassion to remind everyone of the great and noble tradition of Irish Parlour Games.

There are many which will brighten your yuletide, and i've thoughtfully made a small selection which will challenge all ages and levels of intelligence.

There's surely an irish Parlour Game to suit you and yours on this little "human interest" list.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday December 16, 2005 11:26 by Barry   text 83 comments (last - friday september 17, 2010 23:03)   image 7 images
This article was originally written to provide background information on the discussion on the loyalist demonstration in Dublin taking place in January 2006. read full story / add a comment
Dail Express Headlines: Cancer Link To Sweetener
national / consumer issues / other press Thursday December 15, 2005 15:40 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - friday december 16, 2005 18:11)   image 1 image
The artificial sweetener Aspartame which has been around for 20 years and is used in thousands of food products is a well known toxic chemical and amongst many effects is a known carcinogen read full story / add a comment
The right and left wing faces of Bolivarian leadership where kids still sniff glue.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 15, 2005 13:17 by iosaf   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 08:31)   image 1 image
a few seperate developments have caught my eye in the global and local area of children and rights this morning.

& I hope the readership see how they come together.

Chavez, Uribe, UNICEF, birth certs and Barnardos. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday December 15, 2005 11:05 by Justin Morahan   text 5 comments (last - monday december 19, 2005 19:48)   image 1 image
The Rossport Five have won the Irish Phenomenon of 2005, six per cent ahead of Eddie Hobbs. Behind them came, IRA decommissioning, The McCartney sisters and Cork.
On the Tubridy show, Mícheál Ó Seighin paid tribute to all associated with the five winners and said that the Rossport 5 and Eddie Hobbs were not very different read full story / add a comment
Rightless Innocent clocks in...
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 14, 2005 13:05 by Geneviève Margaret Ryan Kennedy   text 16 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 18:16)   image 1 image
Hell bent for leather, I sped toward this insalubrious title of Outlaw Mother, fully aware of its legal pitfalls due to lack of legislation but still unwilling to suppress my desire to become a parent... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 14, 2005 12:15 by Des Dalton   text 201 comments (last - friday march 17, 2006 00:32)   image 7 images
A statement from the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton in which he describes the proposed Orange march in Dublin to held in January as an insult to the victims of Brititish backed Loyalist death squads read full story / add a comment
Map on a protest sign showing the extent of the development
roscommon / environment / feature Wednesday December 14, 2005 01:07 by Terry   text 23 comments (last - monday november 24, 2008 01:42)   image 15 images
An interview with a campaigner against a pylon project in Roscommon and Sligo, plus a timeline of the campaign and lots of photos. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday December 13, 2005 22:54 by Pro-choice activist   text 85 comments (last - thursday january 20, 2011 15:32)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
BODY which is a diverse group of young pro-choice activists that are campaigning for safe and legal abortion services in Ireland lauched today. BODY stands for bold open decisive youth. The launch involved prochoice women setting up a cage made of hangars from within which they leafletted passers by. read full story / add a comment
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international / summit mobilisations / feature Tuesday December 13, 2005 21:32 by Ed Lee   text 17 comments (last - monday december 19, 2005 18:02)   image 27 images
An estimated 5000-10,000 (still preliminary) protestors gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park and marched their way to the Exhibition Centre where the WTO 6th Ministerial Conference has just begun.
Protestors from all over south-east Asia expressed their solidarity with cultural gatherings and workshops. But the most hyped group are the South Korean farmers who made headline news when Lee Kyeong-hae commited suicide at Cancun 2003. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 13, 2005 00:35 by Gearóid O Loingsigh   text 46 comments (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 16:04)   image 3 images
There are many similarities between Uribe and McDowell as evidenced by the Frank Connolly issue. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday December 11, 2005 06:43 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 17:11)   image 44 images
Michael D. addressing the rain-drenched crowd at the Spanish Arch
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 09, 2005 17:41 by Tommy Donnellan   text 4 comments (last - friday december 09, 2005 18:45)   image 14 images
... for the rain came down and down, no mercy, a serious inhibitor as regards demonstrator numbers - 1,000 +, nevertheless, it did'nt dampen Michael D. Higgin's fiery denunciatory speech of Irish Ferries and their fellow-travellers in government at march's end at the Spanish Arch or Maura Harrington's (of Shell to Sea fame), collaring of Frank Fahey (of Shell to Sea notoriety) at the end of the demo : Maura asked him how the "consents" (for the pipeline) were going, "fine" says Fahey, "not up in Mayo, they're not", riposted the sharp tongued Maura, Fahey with his arse in Maura's bacon slicer and clearly discombobulated (unfortunately, the posted shot does'nt show it) trying to bollox his way out of the situation by soft-flanneling her with; "you have a strong campaign up there," "yeah", says Maura, "we fight to win, Fahey skedaddled after that - keep running, pilgrim!. read full story / add a comment
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international / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday December 09, 2005 16:16 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 16, 2006 16:37)   image 12 images
Remember Sarkozy, the son of Hungarian Immigrants, complaining about Immigrant Bloggers?

I bet he never heard of Machinima. Until now. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 09, 2005 15:16 by Chihaya   text 13 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 22:04)   image 1 image
"Christians Against All Terrorism" including Donna Mulhearn, a former human shield to Iraq, got arrested while they were investigating the U.S. spy base near Alice Springs. read full story / add a comment
At the last Dublin demonstration
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday December 09, 2005 15:16 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 67 comments (last - monday december 19, 2005 16:46)   image 76 images
This is compiled coverage of the news about the protests and other events happening on Friday 9th Dec in reaction to the attempt by Irish Ferries to lay off their employees and replace them with people paid less than half the minimum EU wage. read full story / add a comment
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