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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday September 20, 2006 00:53 by Radical Student
The McDonagh/Farrell Ógra cumann in UCD kicked off the Ógra freshers’ recruitment campaign this week with great success. By today, the cumann had already recruited over 120 activists, over 50 of whom are women, with 3 more days still to go. The campaign in UCD has been well supported by leadership figures, with Caitriona Ruane, Aengus O’Snodaigh and Mary-Lou McDonald all dropping out to the Belfield campus to lend a hand. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / feature Wednesday September 20, 2006 00:50 by iosaf
Riot police have been firing tear gas at demonstrators in Budapest in the last hours as they tried to storm hungary's state TV company. Storming TV stations is a pretty traditional way of kicking off a revolution. The protesters are angry at the revelation that the current prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admits that his party lied to gain office. Being relatively new to democracy the Hungarians find such cleverness a distasteful display of sociopathy. Hungarian radio played a tape of a meeting in which Gyurcsany & other party leaders (socialists by the way) did their Nixon best to pull the wool over the electorates' eyesv last week & since then the "politicisation" index of Hungarians has shot up. They are now very newsworthy and enjoying their second day of attention on slavic language news sites. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday September 19, 2006 23:52 by as.c
Has anyone thought of Caracas or Bogotá as hubs of modern urban planning, models for other mega-metropolises that are threatened by rapidly rising populations, runaway crime and poverty, most of it squeezed into labyrinthine slums? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday September 19, 2006 20:57 by News Reader
Tanks on the street. The constitution revoked. Disgraced PM ousted. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 19, 2006 19:29 by Seán Ryan
Crime in Limerick is spiralling out of control. Another man was killed in Moyross on Sunday night after being shot in the head. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Tuesday September 19, 2006 18:14 by Dave Donnellan
Despite repeated attempts by the Office of Public Works (OPW) to move them on the Tara Solidarity Vigil remain camped out on the Hill of Tara. They have become a focus of opposition to plans to build a new motorway (M3) through the Tara valley. As opposition grows they have received increasing messages of support not just from Ireland but around the world also. Norwegians, in particular, have taken a keen interest in developments on the Hill due to a sense of shared history they have with Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday September 19, 2006 00:38 by sho
Scratch us into your diary boys and girls - the RAG magazine is here! read full story / add a comment
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday September 19, 2006 00:04 by róisín Ní Gháirbhith
On the 29th of october a fund raising concert is being held in the falls hotel in ennistymon to raise funds for a national school not recognised yet by the department of education. Doors open 9pm read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday September 18, 2006 19:12 by eekkkk
It is a weird and wonderful feeling to realise that right in front of you for once in your life in this sorry excuse for a nation that someone is actually describing in song life (as opposed to romance) as it is lived outside of the tiny Irish celebrity bubble and to realise that your unhappy hometown has unambiguously produced a living poet. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday September 18, 2006 19:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
Regardless of one's position on faith groups, comparatively recent concepts of world civilisation blocks, secularism, state & religious group relations - the importance of this last week's papal history can not quickly be underestimated. Though I come to considering Ratzinger's personal apology for his anti-Islamic comments whilst on holidays in his native Bavaria from old fashioned anti-papist prejudice. Benedict XVI who wanted us all to consider his job as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church in the terms of the last war-time (WW1) pacifist "Benedict" has instead made history as the first pope to publically apologise. & what a lame effort it was, as one nun lies murdered in a inter-religious sectarian attack in Africa & the Vatican city endures its highest level security alert since the mid 19th century. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / event notice Monday September 18, 2006 16:24 by Eugene Garvey
A Mass will be held in St Patrick¹s Cathedral Dundalk on Tuesday 3rd October 2006 at 7.30pm. this is to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the ten young Irish men who died on Hunger Strike in Long Kesh in 1981 for political status. It is also to commemorate the sacrifice made by their two comrades Micheal Gaughan who died on Hunger Strike June 3rd 1974 Parkhurst Gaol and Frank Stagg who died on Hunger Strike 12th February 1976 Wakefield Prison. The Mass has been organised to mark the ending of the 1981 Hunger Strike on the 3rd of October 1981 and to mark this tragic period in Irish history in a proper, fitting and dignified manner. The committee wish to stress that everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the Mass. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday September 18, 2006 16:16 by pat c
You truly could not make this stuff up. Lead-free bullets are safer: for the user, but for the target. Read the full story at the link. pat c read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday September 18, 2006 13:31 by orig mac consaidin, edit dot
www. rateyoursolicitor.com was set up last March to allow Irish users of legal services to communicate their experiences of solicitors and barristers. The site provided the public with an opportunity to name and shame (or name and fame) the legal practitioners they had experience of, by awarding them a 3, 2 or 1 star rating or an AVOID rating. However, over the past couple of weeks serried ranks of lawyers have lined up in the Four Courts to try to get the site taken down. The site was indeed down all day today and today’s paper claims it is down because of a court order. In fact it is only off-line for technical reasons. It is being given broader bandwidth and other improvements and it will be back on-line within days. In the meantime it can be accessed from the www.crookedlawyer.com site by clicking on “Latest News 15th September 2006”. read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / press release Monday September 18, 2006 01:19 by Brits Out
Ógra Shinn Féin will welcome delegates to Omagh in October for their fifth annual Demilitarisation Weekend. Youth from throughout the 32 Counties as well as International delegations from Britain and the Basque Country will converge to ‘claim victory’ according to local Ógra Shinn Féin chairperson Barry McNally. The weekend, organised from the 6th – 8th October will be the fifth annual weekend focussing on British demilitarisation in the County Tyrone town. In the past the weekend has been the target of hoax bomb alerts and huge British military and RUC surveillance. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / feature Monday September 18, 2006 01:02 by Jim
There was a large turnout today on the 1st anniversary of Terence Wheelock who died as a result of injuries received in Garda custody. About 500 people from the Sean McDermot Street and Summerhill community turned out in support of the Wheelock familes demand for an independent inquiry. The protest was preceded by a mass in Sean McDermot Street church. Other groups that came to show their support included activists with Residents Against Racism, Working Class Action, Sinn Fein, Labour and the Workers Solidarity Movement. The family of John Maloney also came out in solidarity as well as independent T.D. Tony Gregory, Cieran Perry, Christy Burke of Sinn Fein and Joe Costello of Labour. Larry Wheelock addressed the crowd and was followed by Joe Costello speaking on behalf of the local public representatives (Burke and Gregory) and Cieran Perry then spoke. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday September 17, 2006 17:27 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí
Join in the International Day of Action on September 23rd to voice your opposition to Imperialist aggression. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Sunday September 17, 2006 13:55 by John McDermott
It is not an easy task selling your house in some parts of Limerick.Perhaps the mcDowell reserves can be mobilized.? read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday September 17, 2006 12:17 by Anti-War Ireland
A demonstration against the presence of the US military at Shannon airport will be held on Saturday, 28 October. This will be a protest and rally against the misuse of an Irish civilian airport and in solidarity with those who have suffered at the hands of the US war machine. Several US Iraq War vets are expected to travel from the United States to participate in the demonstration, which will be the first at the airport this year. Among those expected to come to Shannon to register their objection to the presence of the US war machine will be Joshua Castell, a former US army interrogator at Abu Ghraib. We want this to be a colourful and imaginative protest, so please bring homemade banners, placards and other symbols of your opposition to the so-called US 'war on terror'. It is important that people travel for this protest and make their voices heard. Please attend and bring your kids, friends, grandmother and/or dog! read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Sunday September 17, 2006 02:02 by richard whelan
Residences from Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Inchicore, Rialto and Walkinstown were out again yesterday morning to take part in a community self- service clean up at the Dublin City Council depot Davitt Road The protest will continue read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Saturday September 16, 2006 21:38 by Dave
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