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national / environment / news report Monday June 05, 2006 23:27 by Revolt Video   text 8 comments (last - friday june 09, 2006 18:48)   image 40 images
Joe, blood pressure low last week, forced to rest up for a few days.
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 05, 2006 23:15 by Niall Harnett   text 26 comments (last - wednesday november 26, 2008 20:56)   image 6 images
The Bantry Concerned Action Group want the ESB to put this 14km stretch of powerline underground, as is the accepted norm now internationally, for health and safety reasons. Know this … pylons and overhead lines cause leukaemia and cancer.

Following the recent high court injunction granted to the ESB against 6 Bantry landowners, effective from last Thursday June 1st, local residents, inspired by the Rossport Five, are committed to treating this injunction with the contempt it deserves and will be blockading any attempts by the ESB to start work on their land from tomorrow Tuesday 6th June onwards. read full story / add a comment
'Walk the line.'
limerick / environment / news report Monday June 05, 2006 22:55 by Niall Harnett   image 5 images
The Bleach Lough Spring Water Retention Group want to stay connected to the lake which has provided them with spring water for more than 50 years. Limerick Co Council want to divert them to a water supply from the polluted River Deel.

Last Thursday 1st June, Limerick Co. Council obtained a high court injunction against 7 local residents who have drawn a line in the road and are blocking this ‘new’ pipeline from crossing that line and coming any further. They will continue to walk the line from tomorrow Tuesday 6th June, when Co Council workers are expected to try and force their way through using the threat of this injunction.
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In response to the “historic compromise” between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, the Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro – the former Italian Prime Minister in 1978.
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday June 05, 2006 15:42 by Conor J. McGowan   text 16 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 01:08)   image 1 image
Further to last weeks pamphlet on the post war revolutionary situation in Italy from 1943-48, the ISN have made available our latest pamphlet on the left in lo stivale: “Italy’s Red Decade Social struggles & political power 1968-80”. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / press release Monday June 05, 2006 08:02 by Colin Scallan   image 1 image
Colin Scallan has always been the dark horse of the Dublin music scene.
Since writing his first song, aged 15, his music has taken him onto countless stages, from the Olympia to the RDS, sharing bills with the likes of Van Morrison, Mary Black, Paddy Casey, Damien Dempsey and Mundy, and through many cities across the world.
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'Fearless' Sindo fears to mention who wrote Daily Mail "sneer"
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday June 05, 2006 00:08 by Harry Wells   text 17 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 01:20)   image 6 images
The Sunday Independent today exposes The Sun and Daily Mail’s cynical hypocrisy in giving their two audiences in Ireland and Britain totally opposite messages with regard to Ken Loach’s prize-winning film ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’. The film depicts the brutal nature of Britain’s war against Irish Independence between 1919-21 and the subsequent Civil War conflict.

In Britain The Sun boldly states Loach's film to be “the most pro IRA ever” and the Daily Mail asks “Why does” the “Marxist” film’s director Ken Loach “loath his country so much”. In the ‘Irish’ editions of these British tabloids, on the other hand, the film is an “Irish success” story.

The Sunday Independent wants to associate with the national "success" and to denounce its rivals' imperial "sneer" at the same time.

However, the Sunday Independent simultaneously exposes its own schizophrenia while doing so. It manages to deliver exactly the same conflicting messages in the one newspaper, the story of Irish success and also a “sneer” at this success.

How so? Read on. read full story / add a comment
Some of the crowd at the Justice for Terence Wheelock Protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday June 04, 2006 19:42 by NMI   text 43 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 22:10)   image 9 images
One year on from the unexplained death of Terence Wheelock after his detention in Store Street Garda Station, his family, his community and the wider Irish public demand some meaningful answers. In that time, the gardaí have paid their respects by physically attacking the Wheelock family and continuing their harassement of youths from Dublin's east inner city.

Indymedia has videod and otherwise documented garda brutality in the past, only to see those caught red-handed, be exhonerated by the irish Justice System. However, the deaths of Brian Rossiter, 'Johnner' Moloney, and Terence Wheelock, and the lack of accountability regarding numerous garda usage of lethal force, point to something very sinister among the ranks of the Guardians of the Peace, and a willingness to cover up, if not sanction it, within the Department of Justice. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday June 04, 2006 17:54 by Charlie Donnelly   text 143 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 21:42)   image 14 images
Anti Fascist Action and members of Anarchist Youth routed a planned meeting of Nazi bonehead gang, the Celtic Wolves in Dublin city centre yesterday. What was planned as the first meeting in Dublin this year for these sad tossers ended in utter humiliation as anti-fascists first evicted them from their meeting point in a city centre pub and then proceeded to beat them up and down O'Connell Street.
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Who is the real threat?
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday June 04, 2006 16:00 by MichaelY   text 72 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 01:45)   image 11 images
The timing of the debate assumes a greater importance as a result of the US decision to consider sitting down with the Iranian Government read full story / add a comment
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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