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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 05, 2006 00:24 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 05, 2006 00:28)   image 10 images
A taste of some images from the final year show of graduates from the DIT photography course. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday July 05, 2006 00:14 by Anti-War Ireland (Cork)   text 8 comments (last - friday july 14, 2006 10:40)   image 1 image
This public meeting, hosted by Anti-War Ireland, is in support of the Pitstop Ploughshares, who are currently on trial in Dublin for their decommissioning of a US warplane at Shannon in early 2003.

Both speakers are very well known US anti-war activists - one who was present during the initial bombing of Baghdad and the other a former US marine who served in Iraq.

It promises to be a fascinating meeting and should provide useful insights into why anti-war activists, such the Ploughshares (Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Ciaran O'Reilly, Damien Moran and Karen Fallon), engaged in direct action against the US war machine at Shannon airport.

Speakers:

*Jimmy Massey, Iraq war veteran and US Marine Sgt.

*Kathy Kelly of "Voices in the Wilderness", who was present during the so-called 'Shock &
Awe' bombing of Baghdad.

8pm, Friday, July 14th.

Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain Street, Cork.

ALL WELCOME!!!
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday July 04, 2006 16:34 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 15:02)   image 1 image
The work of the great Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miró will be brought vividly to life in a spectacular open-air theatre production at the Irish Museum of Modern Art at 3.00pm on Saturday 15 July 2006. Merma Neverdies, a colourful and entertaining critique of the abuse of power, draws on the Catalan tradition of street parades in a visually striking production for audiences of all ages. The play features a series of grotesque characters in the form of larger-than-life puppets, which are exact replicas of those created by Miró for his original production in 1978. Admission to the performance is free.

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Pit Stop Ploughshares outside the Four Courts with Kathy Kelly and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday July 04, 2006 14:47 by Admin   image 1 image
Five peace activists from the pacifist Catholic Worker movement (www.catholicworker.org) return to Dublin's Four Courts this Wednesday July 5th for their third trial in 16 months.

The five defendants - Ciaron O'Reilly, Deirdre Clancy, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran and Nuin Dunlop face two charges of 'criminal damage without a lawful excuse' arising out of their non-violent disabling of a US Navy plane in the early hours of February 3rd 2003 at Shannon airport, six weeks before the outbreak of the Iraq war. The maximum sentence they face, if convicted, is 10 years imprisonment. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday July 04, 2006 14:37 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 17:00)   image 1 image
Gallery Talk

Artist Candida Höfer discusses her work practice at 5.00pm on Tuesday 11 July in the East Wing, Ground Floor Galleries. Admission is free, but booking is essential. To book please telephone the automatic booking line on
Tel: +353 1 612 9948
or email: talksandlectures@imma.ie

The first solo exhibition in Ireland by the internationally-renowned German artist Candida Höfer opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 12 July 2006. Candida Höfer: Dublin presents 11 works made while visiting Dublin in 2004, including photographs taken at the National Library of Ireland, Marsh’s Library, the Long Room in the Old Library of Trinity College, the Merrion Hotel, and the Great Hall, Chapel and Johnston Room of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Although distinguished by titles indicating location, city, sequential number and date, these works are not so much records of architecture or geography as they are endeavours at capturing qualities inherent in the space – tranquillity, colour, light, atmosphere and the ambiguous relationship between space and absence. read full story / add a comment
Gardai at the door of the Wheelock home, as usual.
dublin / crime and justice / feature Tuesday July 04, 2006 14:13 by tom foley   text 48 comments (last - sunday august 24, 2008 00:35)   image 7 images
The wheelock family move house due to Garda intimidation and alleged assaults. They have moved to an undisclosed location.There was emotional scenes as neighbours bid farewell. read full story / add a comment
Limerick Republican Graves treasurer Sean O'Neill at the memorial
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 10:51 by lris   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 21:16)   image 1 image
A national monument damaged by vandals is being repaired by Limerick Republican Graves because the Limerick City Council refuse to fund the work read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / news report Tuesday July 04, 2006 10:12 by Christine   image 3 images
The theme of Thursday's protest against the M3 at Tara will be 'For the Children'. It is hoped that many people will being their kids along, to highlight the fact that Tara campaigners are fighting for the future, not buried in the past. Dress up and have fun! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / sci-tech / press release Tuesday July 04, 2006 02:27 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 37 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 20:24)   image 5 images
The profile of the "Recalim the Republic" campaign is continuing to grow with one Proclamation for every 50 homes in Dublin already distributed by éirígí activists and supporters. Those interested in supporting the campaign or obtaining a copy of the Proclamation can contact éirígí below. read full story / add a comment
Bantry Solidarity Lodge …
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 04, 2006 01:03 by Niall Harnett   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 24, 2012 04:35)   image 27 images
In the last few days and weeks, a number of volunteers who met to discuss this issue at the recent Rossport Solidarity Camp Anniversary Gathering (http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=738), have been travelling to Bantry, Co Cork, meeting with the Bantry Concerned Action Group, supporting their blockade of the ESB pylon project and setting up the Bantry Solidarity Camp & Lodge.

The Bantry Solidarity Camp & Lodge is ready now to receive visitors who wish to support the Bantry Concerned Action Group in their fight against the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) who are attempting to bully their way without permission onto their lands, woods and farms to construct pylons, poles and overhead power lines in order to facilitate the private development, Glanta Windfarm, on behalf of developers Murnane & O'Shea, who by all accounts have gotten their way in Bantry, Co Cork, for far too long now.

I phoned Bob Murnane of Murnane & O’Shea on Friday for a comment/drink/meeting/interview, but he declined. Maybe we can meet another time Bob or perhaps you’d like to add a comment on to this article.

BURY THE POWERLINES, NOT THE CHILDREN! read full story / add a comment
In Nahuatl, Teotihuacan means 'The City of the Gods', or 'Where Men Become Gods'. who will sit atop the Mexican pyramid next? probably the same eagle as usual.
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday July 03, 2006 20:18 by iosaf   text 17 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 12:18)   image 4 images
Voters went to the polls in Mexico, a federation of 31 states and one district yesterday the 2nd of July to directly elect their new President. There are roughly 106.5 million Mexican citizens and their state ranks 12th in the World GDP and 4th for "per capita income" in Latin America.

The "not voting" thing was very simple for Mexico, 2005 saw Chiapas agree to send Sub Comandant Marcus out on a nation-wide "other campaign". Officially 99.4% of ballot offices were opened without incident, and 58.91% of the electorate voted. That means an abstention of roughly 41%.

The "voting" thing has produced a result so narrow that the Federal Electoral Institute can't call the election yet. The mechanism used dictates that the candidate with "plurality of votes" shall win, even if that candidate hasn't got more than 50%. If the IFE can't call the results, it means there is less than 0.3% difference in the results. there is no mechanism for a "run-off" election which readers will remember occured in the recent Peruvian presidential elections. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 03, 2006 19:38 by Ploughshares Support   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 23:48)   image 1 image
WHERE-ATGWU Building, 55 Middle Abbey St. Dublin 1 (City Centre)

TIME 7pm-9pm

FREE ENTRY read full story / add a comment
“Determined to meet and surpass the expectations of our stakeholders - to whom we are accountable” - ESB Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday July 03, 2006 16:41 by Niall Harnett   text 33 comments (last - wednesday june 28, 2017 19:01)   image 40 images
After 3 years fighting the ESB down the usual dead end routes of the courts, the planners, the politicians, the County Councils etc, things finally came to a head for the Bantry Concerned Action Group (BCAG) over the last few days when an assault by the ESB Networks Crew and Officials on a number of local farmers resulted in an ESB blockade of farm entrances in attempting to access their lands for the purposes of erecting pylons, poles and an overhead 38kv power line, to connect the as yet unlicensed and unbuilt 'Murnane & O'Shea' development 'Ballybane Glanta Windfarm' in Dromourneen to the substation at Ballylickey 14km away.

ESB Networks have been granted high court injunctions / restraining orders against a number of the BCAG and are seeking more injunctions against more local residents at the high court in Dublin tomorrow Monday 3rd July (to be adjourned). The ESB are seeking to enter their lands on the back of these injunctions and their associated threats of jail, costs and/or fines. But the BCAG are not lying down and are committed to blocking all attempts to start work on their lands, until the ESB reverse their plans and agree to PUT THIS POWERLINE UNDERGROUND.

In a disgraceful display of true form, ignoring all ‘commitments’ to ‘social responsibility’, ‘codes of practice’ and ‘open communication in relation to the concerns of local communities’, ESB Networks Manager, Liam O’Sullivan (and his foot) accompanied by sidekick David Killian, blockaded their own contactors from pulling out of Joe Burke’s and other farms, after the contractors agreed to leave having been stopped in their tracks by the group. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / news report Monday July 03, 2006 12:30 by mOuse   text 8 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 17:22)   image 3 images
Mr Preston wants to know why the journalists and mainstream media are not asking
Minister Mc Dowell why he keeps referring to the attack on his daughter to the criminal case
which resulted from investigations at the Goose Pub and not to the conspiracy of silence
surrounding the removal and alteration of documents related to the civil case, in which he has
implicated Mr Joe Costello TD?

Mr Preston wants to know who provided the doorman service to the Goose Pub,
where two people implicated in the assault on his daughter were allowed
free access. Witnesses who made statements to the Gardai were minors
and served openly in the pub and allowed access to the facilities.

When Ms Preston was attacked, Mr Preston wants to know why the
security at the pub called the gardai and not an ambulance. The girl
was left standing outside the pub for fifteen minutes with a bleeding face.

Two people implicated in the case have faced serious criminal charges.
One is deceased, (shot).

Mr Preston asks again why Michael Mc Dowell TD refers the issue to the criminal case
and not the tampering with evidence in a civil case.

He wants indymedia readers to be aware that the political parties who
fight for rights of citizens do not stand in solidarity with him.

He is forty three days on hunger strike.

He has asked for Brian, who previously reported the story to make contact regarding
the situation at the Goose pub. read full story / add a comment
As ye sow, so shall ye reap
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 03, 2006 00:35 by Tim Hourigan   text 16 comments (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 17:08)   image 12 images
On Saturday a small bunch of peace activists entered Shannon Airport and distributed flowers and petals in rememberance of all the people killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars, and calling for an end of military use of Shannon, be it the US going to Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran, the Israeli Air Force, or the Russians and Belgians arming South and Central America.
The date co-incided with the withdrawal of World Airways from Shannon. World is now routing its military flights through Leipzig in Germany. Although the Shannon option provided the most fuel effiecient route over the Atlantic, World Airways contends that it can cut out a crew change by using Leipzig and having a short route to the M.E. from Europe.
World has brought most of the 600,000 troops through Shannon for the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
All sorts of groups have pledged to help the Shell to Sea campaign
dublin / politics / elections / other press Sunday July 02, 2006 22:24 by Dublin Shell To Sea   text 2 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 19:01)   image 1 image
From the beginning, Shell to Sea has depended on support from the Socialist Workers Party, Sinn Féin, the Workers Solidarity Movement, the Greens, and other smaller groups, working together in a way that has been effective and efficient, all around the country. Links between various parties and groups have shown that the Left can work together cohesively.

Shell to Sea has identified vulnerable TD's who will need transfers from other parties to get elected. Many politicians have fudged whether they support the scheme, implying that Shell's plans have no direct import for their constituents. News that voters in Dublin are to receive clear, concise and up to date information on the issue, bringing home the truth that the millions of euro profits from Ireland's natural gas reserves will go to big business rather than pay for improvements in services in health, education, and justice, will wake them up to the fact that they have to make public whether or not they think the "great gas giveaway" is such a good idea after all.

The fact that the community in Erris are just as opposed to the plan for a giant refinery at Bellinaboy as they are to the pipeline itself, give the lie to the notion that simply re-routing the pipeline will be enough to placate protesters. The Shell to Sea Campaign says the whole scheme needs to be scrapped and the deal re-negotiated. Politicians who support this position should have no trouble making this clear.

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national / politics / elections / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 21:12 by Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 12, 2006 11:48)   image 7 images
Politicians from several political ideologies gathered at the gates of Leinster House on Tuesday 27th June to meet campaigners from Dublin and Mayo who wished to draw attention to a new leaflet on the issue of the Corrib Gas scheme.

Joe Higgins from the Socialist Party, Mary Lou McDonald and Arthur Morgan from Sinn Féin, and Dan Boyle, Eamonn Ryan and John Gormley from the Green Party, were joined by Independent TD Jerry Cowley as they met some of wives of men who were imprisoned last year for protesting against the government-backed scheme to install a dangerous, experimental pipeline scheme through a residential area in north west Mayo.

Mary Corduff, Maureen McGrath and Caitlín Úi Sheighin travelled to Dublin from Rossport to give interviews and pose for pictures to raise the profile of the campaign's new leaflet, aimed at informing voters in next year's election of the facts surrounding the contentious Corrib scheme.

Although Joe Costello of the Labour Party was also present, it's not clear whether Labour would allow work on Shell's project to continue in the event of a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government. read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday July 02, 2006 17:33 by James R   text 15 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 18:19)   image 1 image
Just after returning from watching Ken Loach's Palm D'or reaping drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley and like most feel slightly compelled to add one or two words to the flurry of type and hype that has accompanied the movies release on these shores. The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a typical Loach movie betraying many of the core techniques of his previous outtings. Again he relies on plunging a shallowly crafted personal relationship, this time between two brothers, into a set of tragic circumstances. These circumstances provide an emotional cover for his overly didactic political approach to popularising alternative historical mythologies that challenge the authors of a victors' history. This time the contested historicity is the rabid nationalism of the Irish text book, that sweeps aside socialist and labour based movements in the process of consolidation of the free state. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / housing / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 15:30 by richard whelan   text 5 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 16:49)   image 16 images
Residents say goodbye to life as they knew it in Fatima Mansions read full story / add a comment
Euro Pride 2006
international / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday July 02, 2006 15:27 by .   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 02, 2006 15:47)   image 35 images
An estimated 40,000 people attended! read full story / add a comment
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