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Gathering at the church on Sean McDermott Street
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 03, 2006 18:44 by kevin   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 20:47)   image 20 images
Selection of images from earlier today. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday June 03, 2006 14:20 by Sean Crudden   text 6 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 19:13)   image 1 image
Is a cosy consensus the same thing as the rule of law? How are politicians or judges prevented from mucking about with the law, introducing bad law, administering the law in a partial or unfair way? Does the system require more checks and balances? Is obscurity and obfuscation the order of the day? Are we taking the modh direach to a lawless and capricious Alice-In-Wonderland world? read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / press release Saturday June 03, 2006 03:06 by Con Connor   text 15 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 18:47)   image 2 images
On Saturday, the 13th of May 2006, the day of the Full Moon of Beltine, the Opus Dei Lismullin Institute charged E50 to hear an all day talk about Opus Dei's plans for our Celtic Heritage. Opus Dei's Lismullin Institute in the high valley of the Royal City of Celtic Tara (supported by the state funded Heritage Council) managed to keep everyone silent about the 'problem'. No one was allowed to mention the 'M' word (M3 dual toll road motorway) as there was a dictate (in their promotion) that - "The cut off at 2000 AD is chosen to exclude discussion of the proposed route of the M3 Motorway and to leave more time for learning about the history and traditions associated with the Valley". Those who force this toll road have an agenda that restricts free speech. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / press release Saturday June 03, 2006 02:58 by Con Connor   text 30 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 02:13)   image 3 images
Edain Echraidhe is her Gaelic name; her home is the high valley between the hills of Tara and Skryne in the Royal City of Celtic Ireland. This high valley holds a sacred stream called the Gabhra (pronounced gow-ra), which means the white mare. The Gabhra Valley was free range for the White Mare of our Celtic ancestors who came from northern Spain. In Cymru (Wales), she is called Rhiannon, and the Celts of Gaul (France) called her Epona and in a chalk hill in Oxford (England) many people today say that the giant image of the Uffington Horse is a Celtic Horse Goddess. read full story / add a comment
Shell's Hi-tech Pipeline Scheme in Rossport
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday June 03, 2006 02:07 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 18:48)   image 1 image
We've gotten used to Shell's slick Public Relations, from John Egan to Andy Pyle, to that woman with the strange accent who was on "Questions and Answers", but we haven't heard anything from them yet about this story.

To sum up, Shell have been carrying out work on their scheme illegally and without planning permission.

Perhaps the PR people have run out of statements of regret, or apologies, or are just fed up with this continuing crazyness. Maybe even they are asking Andy Pyle whether it's really a good idea to install a dangerous experimental pipeline between the bottom of the Atlantic ocean and a giant refinery miles inland, through a special area of conservation.

Does anyone why they won't go offshore?
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dublin / environment / feature Friday June 02, 2006 20:22 by Paul Baynes   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 14:21)   image 9 images
This article gives details of a new community garden that has been established in Finglas, in the north of Dublin city. A teacher in a primary school offered some land on the school grounds to activists from the Dolphin’s Barn Community Garden, so that they could set up a new community garden for the city. read full story / add a comment
gender equality debates in Europe 228 years after Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsoby ran away...
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 02, 2006 18:33 by Oliver Cromwell, the Lord High Protector   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 03, 2006 18:02)   image 1 image
30 years after the deaths of De Valera & Franco the difference between Spain & Ireland's social & gender debate could not be starker. Today as the Spanish Cabinet approved yet another of their election manifesto promises of 2004 to "enact equality of gender identification legislation", The Irish Legislature found itself discussing the legalities of a 60 year old man engaging in oral sex with a 15 year old boy. What was in one state simply another move at Cabinet Executive level to correct intolerable wrongs of the past counterpointed an Emergency Session of the Legislature in the other state to patch yet another hole in the 1937 constitution left to the majority of Irish people by De Valera.

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national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday June 02, 2006 16:22 by David L   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2016 12:46)   image 1 image
Protest: Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 6.30-8 p.m.

Yitzhak Laor: Teacher’s Club, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 8 p.m.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 02, 2006 14:38 by chris murray   text 32 comments (last - wednesday september 16, 2009 19:20)   image 2 images
Debate on Criminal Law(sexual offences ) Bill 2006.

Democracy -Lite. Three opposition parties welcomed Mc Dowell's Bill, with reservations. Enda didn't broach the subject of resignation, but told Michael that "he Knew what he should do".....
Section 5 is an absurdity, according to Labour as it is not gender neutral and is open to constituional challenge by young men, not to mention the ever increasing discussion on sexual positions that peppered the chamber, that led to the departure of the rather more faint-hearted TDs, including most of the Front Bench.

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international / arts and media / other press Friday June 02, 2006 11:21 by Duncan Campbell   text 10 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 13:01)   image 3 images
"I find the attitude of the museum bizarre and nonsensical. "On the basis of the current 'reason' offered by the V&A of refusing to invite politicians, it would appear that if Che was alive, he would be barred from his own exhibition. The British establishment works in wondrous ways." Gerry Adams

Che Guevara himself would have enjoyed the controversy. The Victoria and Albert Museum has decided that Gerry Adams, the Sinn Féin leader, should be removed from the guest list for next week's opening of its big exhibition on the "revolutionary and icon" because his attendance would not be "appropriate".

The museum authorities felt that because there was a high-profile exhibition of 60s fashion opening simultaneously, with many models and fashion photographers due to attend, Mr Adams's presence would not be "relevant". So Jerry Hall is on the guest list - but not Gerry Adams.
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Just in case you didn't know or care
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 02, 2006 04:18 by Seán Ryan   image 1 image
89 kidnapped victims are now refusing food in Guantanamo Concentration Camp. 6 are currently being force-fed. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 02, 2006 03:34 by erqwnqr   text 36 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 22:15)   image 14 images
'Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.' UK/USA: Gary Mc Kinnon has lost his extradition case & will now be sent to the USA. A UK court recommended last wednesday that the 40 year old unemployed Gary Mc read full story / add a comment
Story in June 1 2006 Daily Ireland
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 02, 2006 00:15 by Jude Collins   image 1 image
If you’re looking at a report in the media, one of the first questions the experts say you should ask is “Who produced this report?” Depending on the answer to that question, your understanding of the report can change dramatically.
For example, I came on a report about Sammy Wilson recently. It consisted of four pages, and inside the four pages I found ten photographs of Sammy: two on the first page, two on the second, two on the third, and four photographs on the last. Since it had the word ‘Westminster’ in its title and an image of the British House of Commons, I assumed the report had been produced by some source within Westminster – an all-party committee, perhaps - and I was mightily impressed. Ten photographs inside four pages! The East Antrim MP must have really made his House of Commons colleagues sit up to get that sort of attention.
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Ken Loach answers The Sun and Ruth Dudley Edwards in Daily Ireland exclusive
national / arts and media / other press Thursday June 01, 2006 23:45 by Mick Hall   text 23 comments (last - tuesday may 27, 2008 01:02)   image 5 images
Director of Tan War film The Wind that Shakes the Barley rejects British tabloid ‘vitriol’ against his work saying ‘partition has failed’ and the unionist veto should be replaced ‘by a way of unravelling the sad legacy of the 1921 treaty’

The acclaimed film-maker Ken Loach yesterday hit back at British press criticism of his award-winning film on the Tan War.

Speaking exclusively to Daily Ireland last night, the 69-year-old director said some of the criticism had been of an “amazingly vitriolic and personal nature”.

He said it had been movitated by a “deep-seated imperialist guilt” over the partition of Ireland and the subsequent years of conflict that had resulted.

Mr Loach said the British government should now acknowledge that “partition had failed”. He said the “unionist veto” on political progress should be replaced by a way of “unravelling the sad legacy of the 1921 Treaty.”
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international / summit mobilisations / news report Thursday June 01, 2006 19:51 by Paula Geraghty   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 20:10)   image 19 images
Popular beat combos such as the Basque favourite Am Paranoia (?), Rashid Taha and some really good Greek bands played to entertain the masses after the heavy days foruming! read full story / add a comment
When you mentioned 'Street Art'....
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday June 01, 2006 18:50 by Noise Hacker   text 12 comments (last - saturday june 10, 2006 19:52)   image 43 images
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CNN.com 16:35 IRL Time 1 June 2006 Screenshot
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 01, 2006 18:02 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 06:05)   image 6 images
The Pentagon pulls an Orwellian phrase out of its arse but its all just more CYA read full story / add a comment
NIall Cusack piece taken from June 2006 Irish Political Review
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 01, 2006 15:55 by Niall Cusack   text 12 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 17:36)   image 4 images
Belfast actor Niall Cusack attended the launch of the republication of Ruth Dudley Edward's biography of Patrick Pearse, at Queens University Bookshop. He recounts Ruth's performance, including his own bit-part in the proceedings - taken from the just published June Irish Political Review.

Ms Ruth Dudley Edwards in person inspires a number of adjectives - 'frail' first and foremost. One thinks of Blanche in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Other adjectives include: fragile, confused, nostalgic, brave, timid, hopeful, pessimistic... oh, one could ransack Roget!

She chose to devote her entire speech at the launch of her book in the Bookshop at Queen's in Belfast to a review in this journal (May IPR page 3, graphic attached) and to the absurd allegations made by 'a well-known eccentric' called Jack Lane. 'He may be here now!' she cried, with great bravado, peering around a uniformly sycophantic Queen's academic audience. A shudder went round the room. But no, the Great Ogre was conspicuous by his absence.
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday June 01, 2006 13:59 by W.   text 6 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 14:32)   image 1 image
All four people arrested at the Easter Sunday anti-war action in Baldonnel have been processed by that courts, three of them received fines which we hope to help them out with. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 01, 2006 11:32 by Chris Murray   text 37 comments (last - saturday july 15, 2006 17:46)   image 3 images
The attempt by Michael Mc Dowell to defuse the crisis over the statutory rape ruling of Last week, and the Laffoy decision on the Mister A case smacks of indolence. The usual political opportunism of the Government is revealed in an attempt to bury the issue in the Summer recess and hope it will all go away. The catalogue of Laissez -faire policy indicated by the State's refusal to deal with the issue which was amply signposted and reported in Yesterday's article is compounded by reports that the state was told in 1990 by the Law Reform Commission that the law should be changed , because it was open to constitutional challenge on the grounds of reasonable belief. read full story / add a comment
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