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Protest for Traveller rights
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday June 24, 2006 19:36 by Caitriona   text 21 comments (last - thursday june 29, 2006 13:02)   image 2 images
(Indymedia.ie 24th June 2006) Traveller organisations and community groups protested today outside Dail Eireann at the forced eviction of a lone parent family in North Cork. read full story / add a comment
consenting adults (the felatio & cunnilingus of 2/6/06 behind them now)
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 24, 2006 04:40 by apophenia   text 13 comments (last - saturday november 08, 2008 18:13)   image 2 images
A picture of awesome indecency is about to hit news-stands across Europe today.
Big Swinging Mickey Mc Dowell & the Mammy Harney having a snog on the Irish Independent.
Thats thier way of portraying a united party after Michael tried like many before to belt in the girth of Harney's ambition. The party that gave us FF coalition governments and put the squeeky clean into FF slime. The worst ministers of Justice & Health in the history of the state.
At the same time we hear of FF backbenchers marching on Bertie's office to demand their concerns be addressed...( all of a sudden they have concerns... ) That means they've started worrying about thier seats facing the implosion of the next general election.
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 23, 2006 19:16 by Brian   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 14:34)   image 1 image
I just hope to show that Secret Societies or groups sometimes exercise great power in Western countries and that Ireland has not escaped this phenomenon. read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday June 23, 2006 17:14 by Conor Cregan   text 232 comments (last - saturday july 08, 2006 03:51)   image 18 images
While Driving through Ennis town yesterday afternoon a local anti-war activist put six young US service men under (citizens) arrest. On Thursday morning an US troop carrier landed at Shannon with technical problems. This is a common occurrence with the chartered troop carriers that come through Shannon Airport. With an average of 1100 hundred troops going through Irelands second international airport on a nightly basis these aircraft are flat out ferrying young men and women to Iraq. Many of these stranded soldiers were billeted at the West County Hotel in Ennis near where peace activist Conor Cregan encountered six young US servicemen on the main Ennis to Limerick road. read full story / add a comment
Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney play two brothers in the Ken Loach film
international / history and heritage / other press Friday June 23, 2006 11:21 by Luke Gibbons   text 2 comments (last - monday june 26, 2006 09:34)   image 1 image
Families divided by ideals

Ken Loach's award-winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley captures the tragic texture of the War of Independence and the Civil War, writes Luke Gibbons

At one point in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an Irish audience is depicted watching a film about the War of Independence that gives rise to uproar in the cinema. The film is a newsreel outlining the details of the Treaty that had just been negotiated between the Sinn Féin delegation led by Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, and the British cabinet fronted by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Responding initially with cheers, the mood of the audience divides and darkens as the realities of the historic compromise are spelled out on the screen. In this we have, perhaps, a dress rehearsal for Ken Loach's work since the 1960s, which has managed not just to entertain but to agitate audiences and bring viewers, in more ways than one, to their feet. read full story / add a comment
An Phoblacht criticises RTE documentary
cork / history and heritage / other press Friday June 23, 2006 02:25 by Ellen Wilkinson   text 8 comments (last - friday august 23, 2013 23:43)   image 1 image
TV review: Documentariy on the making of The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Good in parts

'Rebel County' Hidden History. RTE 1 Tuesday, 13 June. Pat Collins, Producer/Director, Harvest Films

This documentary on the War of Independence in Cork, using Ken Loach's prize winning The Wind that Shakes the Barely as a backdrop was, like the curate's egg, good in parts. Interviews with Ken Loach, Scriptwriter Paul Laverty, academic historians and relatives of those who fought, illustrated the fight against the RIC, Tans, Auxiliaries and regular British forces.

The story of the "ordinary people" who in Ken Loach's words "were able to shake the might of the Empire" was well expressed. So too was the effect on the community of the torture and executions of IRA prisoners. Post-torture photographs of Tom Hales and Pat Harte, hit with hammers and their fingernails pulled out, and with Harte forced to hold up a Union Jack, was reminiscent of more recent US torture in Abu Ghraib, read full story / add a comment
Get down to Eamon Doran's Andy!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 23, 2006 01:11 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 23, 2006 14:29)   image 7 images
Rossport Solidarity Camp/Shell to Sea Fundraiser Gig at Saturday July 22nd at Eamon Doran's

An eclectic mix of music featuring:
Flash McFrankenstein (rock/brass)

Alan Can't (comedy rock)

Love Pop Suicide (alternative progressive metal)

Hardcore Priests of Yemen (reggae rock)

Tickets €10/7.50 -

All the proceeds will go to the Rossport Solidarity camp and the Shell to Sea campaign

more details from Martin at the email address shown read full story / add a comment
Maybe Andy Pyle will come!
dublin / environment / event notice Friday June 23, 2006 00:19 by Shell to Sea   text 4 comments (last - friday july 14, 2006 14:21)   image 6 images
Thursday July 13th

The Dublin Shell to Sea Table Quiz is organised for Thursday the 13th of July in Doyles Pub (opposite Trinity College, near Pearse Street Garda Station).
It runs from 8pm to 11pm and teams of 4 will compete in ten rounds of questions.

The entry fee is 20 euro per table with great prizes for the winning teams, there are also fun spot prizes in the raffle. All funds raised will go to the Shell to Sea campaign.

For further info about the quiz call Sinéad on 0876411984
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national / crime and justice / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 20:22 by Elaine and Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - sunday june 25, 2006 18:01)   image 8 images
Pallaskenry residents were up in court again today as Limerick County Council once and for all proved that this is not about law, but about intimidation and depletion of financial resources. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 20:16 by W.   text 8 comments (last - sunday june 25, 2006 12:57)   image 5 images
While Over 20,000 people marched in Vienna yesterday in opposition to George Bush's arrival, Austria's "KinderGarten Anarchists" (KGA) used the opportunity to meet other young anarchists and spread their ideas to the youth of their nation.

George Bush became the first US president to visit Austria in over 27years yesterday as he arrived for an EU-US summit similar to the one held in Shannon (Ireland) in 2004. Police bomb squads blew up three suspicious packages and closed down the airport-city motorway in preparation for the visit while planned protests passed off peacefully with only a handful of arrests despite huge police numbers.
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Lets March Together
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday June 22, 2006 18:39 by MichaelY   text 139 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 15:19)   image 14 images
NO WELCOME FOR THE TERRORIST SHIP IN IRELAND read full story / add a comment
Ógra Shinn Féin
kilkenny / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday June 22, 2006 18:07 by Ógra B   text 9 comments (last - monday august 14, 2006 13:29)   image 2 images
Beidh céiliúradh náisiúnta Ógra ar siúl i gCathair Cill Choinnigh ón 21-23 Iúil

Sé an príomhfheidhm atá ag baint leis an deireadh seachtaine na céiliúradh a dhéanamh ar an deichniúr a fuair bás ar stailc ocrais i 1981

Tá fáilte roimh roimh gníomhaithe óg uile agus iadsan go bhfuil suim acu insan tréimhse seo de stair ár dtír.

Chun teacht ar tuilleadh eolais is féidir dul i dteangmháil le: p_debluit@yahoo.ie

There will be a national youth weekend taking place 21-23 July in Kilkenny City.

This will be a commemorative event to coincide with the anniversary of the Hunger Strikes of 1981.

All young republican activists and those with an interest in these events are welcome.

For further information contact: p_debluit@yahoo.ie
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Maryland's Residents Hold Blockdade At Marrowbone Lane Entrance
dublin / housing / news report Wednesday June 21, 2006 21:03 by James R   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 02:19)   image 14 images
Residents in the vicinity of the construction being undertaken on the site of the recently demolished Fatima Mansions today protested at the entrance of their estate over the inadequacy of a long time promised traffic management system which had been promised to them prior to construction work beginning. Two simultaneous blockades were mounted at either end of Lorreta Road, residents joined and left with a fluctuating prescence of anywhere between ten and fifteen maintaining the line on either side of the estate. Marylands is an estate located close to the canal, just off Marrowbone Lane beside Cork Street. Traffic on any given day on Marrowbone Lane is hectic, with cars using it as a route to cut through the Liberties to reach Cork St, leaving a very narrow artery dangerously clogged with passage for cyclists generally untenable at peak hours without using the paths. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 21, 2006 21:00 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 08, 2006 21:06)   image 1 image
BBC reports that company "ignored accident warning"

Protesters against the Corrib gas scheme have often highlighted the appalling terms of the contract whereby the shareholders of the Shell, Statoil, Marathon Oil, and even the people of Norway, will gain more than the people of Ireland from the exploitation of Irish natural resources. Others however, claim that private operators simply would not be attracted to the Irish scene if the government didn't give them such a good deal (so what difference would it make?).

However the thing that no-one can argue about is safety. No-one believes that people should be forced to live beside an experimental piece of industrial equipment carrying explosive gas at extremly high pressure, if there is a chance that it might explode. Everyone agrees- if it's not safe, it shouldn't be built.

Shell say it is safe, but the following report from the BBC casts doubt on the company's attitude to safety.

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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 21, 2006 20:39 by Muriel Lumb   text 1 comment (last - friday june 23, 2006 01:41)   image 5 images
I got a Hard Rain in recently and it blew me away. It's a photographic exploration of the effects of climate change illustrating Bob Dylan's prophetic lyrics. Everyone should read this book and I don't care where you get it so long as you get a look at it. If any book can shake people out of their complacency, this is the one. Make your libraries buy it, show it to your friends, family and co-workers, show it to everyone you meet every day. Read it and weep. And then do something about it.
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Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev.
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday June 21, 2006 19:33 by Kevin Murphy   text 5 comments (last - monday june 26, 2006 15:53)   image 1 image
32 CSM sends its condolences to the comrades of Chechen leader killed in battle against occupying imperialist forces read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday June 21, 2006 19:28 by krossie   text 6 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 21:58)   image 3 images
Porco Dio

June, 29 2006 at Emcee Lynx (USA) + Disfunktional + Project 77 + Dj Krossphader
The Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin, The Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin,
Cost: 6/5 euro

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Amnesty Int'l Eng Group Sets up for Photo-Op
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday June 21, 2006 19:22 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 21:55)   image 11 images
all photos copyleft
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There's gas under the sea, gold in dem der hills, you'd get a few apartments on that cliff (nice view too). Just hope there's no archaeology there though...
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday June 21, 2006 19:21 by anarchaeologist - GrassrootsDissent / IMC Editors   text 6 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 23:31)   image 3 images
Planning law in this country is a joke. For years the odds have been stacked in favour of unsustainable development and now the FF/PD coalition is making it harder for communities to legally challenge those who are making fortunes out of wrecking the place, be they speculators, developers, multi-nationals, politicans, contractors, quarrymen or even archaeologists (but not this one). read full story / add a comment
Marie Mulholand
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday June 21, 2006 16:26 by Labour Youth   text 7 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 19:32)   image 9 images
The Connolly Festival took place last weekend on Friday evening and all day Saturday. It was well attended by a large and diverse group of activists. On Friday night the same sex marriage discussion was packed to the brim with the meeting overflowing into the next room. What follows are some quotes and notes on what the different contributors said.

Marie Mulholand :

“More than 10 years ago two female friends of mine lived together in a couple and had a child together, living in London. One of these friends, Deborah, was involved in the Nicaraguan support community and wanted to visit Nicaragua. She drowned over there. Our union (UNISON) worked with Nicaraguan comrades to get the body home. Deborah had been ostracised by her family when she came out. They had had no contact with her since, didn’t know she had a child. When Anne arrived to the airport to the body arriving home, they found out that only the “family” had the rights to the body.

No one was at the ceremony, only her parents, who had ostracised her. It was a horrendous situation. There were no rights for Anne. It was a painful experience for all of us who were gay, it brought home with such force exactly where we stood. The experience never left me.”
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