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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 23:09 by James Reilly
Susan McKay’s article in the Weekend Review section of the Irish Times (May 13 2006 - see link below) explains the background to the unionist sectarian killing of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena. In this DUP heartland over 90% of the sectarian attacks are unionist. The PSNI calls this sectarianism that is almost universally unionist a “two way thing”. Ian Paisley wants “all sides” to “pull back”. Instead of examining whether unionist ideology is in any way at fault, Paisley warns nationalists in an insulting and bullying manner not to turn the issue into a “political football”. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 13, 2006 22:55 by Susan McKay
'I don't think I'll ever get over it. Me and my son were very, very close,' says Gina McIlveen, pictured at the shrine to her son, Michael, outside her home in Ballymena. Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast The killing of Ballymena teenager Michael McIlveen is evidence of the deep-rooted sectarianism that is infecting a new generation, reports Susan McKay Gina McIlveen had her own experience of sectarian violence before she lost her 15-year-old son, Michael, to it this week. Last Christmas, she and her 16-year-old daughter, Jodie, who was heavily pregnant, were in the Tower Shopping Centre in Ballymena. "This girl was following us around and she came over and she said: 'I'll kick that Fenian baby out of you.' She went for me outside Santa's grotto and then this man ran out and cracked my face with his fist and broke my nose," she says. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday May 13, 2006 13:53 by Magdalena from Dun Laoghaire
This year -- as more and more mothers, in America, Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland as well as Iraq, mourn their fallen sons and daughters, lost to the insanity of organized violence -- Julia Ward Howe's call for women to not allow their men to constantly play at war is back in fashion, part of a growing awareness of the link between patriarchy and war. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday May 13, 2006 13:08 by Des Long
A new memorial is to be unveiled to two Limerick men murdered by Crown Forces - the ceremony takes place on the main Limerick to Tipperary Road at the Cross of Grange on 21st May - all are welcome read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 09:22 by Manus O'Riordan
CORK COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS May Day commemorations by MANUS O’RIORDAN HEAD OF RESEARCH SIPTU Metropole Hotel, Cork MAY 2nd, 2006 James Connolly “Be Moderate”: “Some men faint-hearted ever seek Our Programme to retouch And will insist when e’er they speak That we demand too much. ‘Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements cause me mirth, For our demands most modest are: We only want the Earth! PHOTOGRAPH COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON JAMES CONNOLLY AND TERENCE McSWINEY BY MANUS O'RIORDAN ON EASTER SUNDAY 2006 AT THE FORTRESS OF CASTELL DE SANT FERNAN, FIGUERES, CATALONIA. (see linked story) read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 12, 2006 22:43 by Ógra B
Friday 5th May seen Omagh PSNI base as the scene of the latest leg of Sinn Féin's ‘End Political Policing’ campaign. Ógra Shinn Fein had organised the protest to call for an End to the political nature of policing in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 12, 2006 20:46 by Elaine
Charlie McGlade Cumman in Drimnagh held a black flag vigil at the junction between Walkinstown Road and the Long Mile Road this evening between 5.30 and 6.30. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / news report Friday May 12, 2006 20:37 by Florian Burkhardt
My article is about the worldwide spread (including to Ireland) of a new form of potentially dangerous type of psychotherapy. It has reached Ireland from Germany via the UK where it is already a huge business. The new development is that followers of this semi-cult want to apply it to politics and other social areas. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 12, 2006 19:45 by Ógra B
Ógra Shinn Féin held a white line vigil in Omagh town centre on Friday 12th May. Ógra activists were there to remember the 25th Anniversary of Francis Hughes. Francis was the second hunger striker to die in Long Kesh on the 59th Day of his hunger strike, on May 12th 1981. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 12, 2006 11:24 by J
Around thirty people attended an Anarchist meeting, in Cork, on war and the ongoing use of Shannon Airport for US military purposes. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday May 11, 2006 23:12 by Noise Hacker
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 11, 2006 22:16 by gurggle.
In the last week the Iranian regime has sent 2 letters to the USA, a state which like it is ruled by God Freaks, and also like it is plausibly credited with promoting the most anti-zionism in the world. It has been a long time since anything as simple as an 8 page letter sent from one "religous nutter" to another could excite comments or be included by the soothsayers of Capital in the reasons for the brief lull and then spike on Oil prices this week. Actually it might be the first time anything as simple as a letter caused that... Dr. Mahmoud (Ahmadinejad / Ahmadinezhad) is the "democratically" elected president of the Islamic republic of Iran, a state which is comitted to the destruction of Israel, the development of Nuclear power, and generally getting up the Yankee nose. George Bush is a man who doesn't read newspapers, uses his illiteracy and mal-adroit speech as a propaganda tool, and consistently involves Jesus (PBUH) in all his decision making. Guantanamo Bay is the most obvious and public sign of US disregard for international law, the place they bothered to tell us about, where over 500 people are held without trial, and experimented on. Its a really scary place. Its so scary that for years we didn't ask questions about it, and its so horrific that Gary Mc Kinnon who used his IT know-how to access the USA defense computers to find out where UFO's really alien or just natural phenomona today is reported as being scared he will be sent there, if extradited. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday May 10, 2006 19:37 by Ógra B
Suicide Prevention Vigil Belfast City Hall Front Gates @ 11am Saturday 13 May Organised by Ógra Shinn Féin read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 17:37 by o as if
little human interest filler article for you all on "world parenting day"(*).- Tokyo yesterday saw a national campaign to encourage the Japanese to have more babies launched. Apparantly the Japanese aren't having enough babies anymore. What is really interesting is the way they decided to promote "having babies". read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday May 10, 2006 17:18 by Annie Winters
As the grim state of our health service makes the news, with tales of trolleys, overcrowding and 'third world' standards this reporter took herself off to Cavan for this years INO delegates conference in the Slieve Russel Hotel to see what nurses had to say... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 10:37 by redjade
'' A Nato spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands. There are concerns that some may have been siphoned off." '' read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Tuesday May 09, 2006 22:46 by Michael O'Callaghan
Meath County Council last night unanimously passed two motions that are widely expected to force the world’s largest chemicals company BASF to abandon a controversial experiment with patented genetically modified (GMO) potatoes which it hoped to launch in the area this week. read full story / add a comment
clare / environment / news report Tuesday May 09, 2006 20:54 by Niall Harnett
Born after the success of a Summer Craft Fair in Bealkelly Wood, the first weekend of traditional craft courses took place under a few hastily hoisted tarps between the trees in the wet Autumn of 2002. It was booked out. Since then, the event has gone from strength to strength and the workshop infrastructure along with it, so much so that the little 'Village in the Woods' looks like a scene out of an Asterix comic. Weekends in the woods take place three times a year in Spring, Summer and Autumn at the invitation of host Del Harding in his woodland home on the shores of Lough Derg. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 09, 2006 18:46 by watcher
A “special all-day debate” on European issues is to be held in the Dáil Eireann, on 10th May. But it’s unlikely that CIA torture flights will be mentioned or indeed the fact that (unelected) EU foreign policy chief claims that he knows nothing or has no power to ask countries about the flights. Or the fact that EU governments, including Ireland's, are covering up the truth. And meanwhile, the US claims that rendition is a well-established procedure that has no connection with torture. It all depends on your definition it seems. "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday May 09, 2006 17:19 by Ógra B
Ógra Shinn Fein in Strabane held a white line vigil in the town centre on Saturday 6th May. The vigil was part of a weekend of events organised across the country to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of bobby sands on Hunger-Strike in 1981. read full story / add a comment |
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