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Hill of Tara
meath / miscellaneous / event notice Monday October 16, 2006 21:30 by Martin Dier   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 13:51)   image 1 image
Samhain

Hill of Tara

Sunday Nov 5th at 3.00pm

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silent walk to the gates
mayo / environment / news report Monday October 16, 2006 18:08 by Eve   text 31 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 17:26)   image 15 images
Protesters hold a silent walk to the proposed refinery site and independent TDs show their support. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 16, 2006 10:51 by anarchaeologist   text 1 comment (last - monday october 16, 2006 21:34)   image 1 image
The regular fortnightly meeting of the Dublin Shell to Sea campaign group will take place on Tuesday, 16th October 2006, at 8 p.m. at Seomra Sproai.

Seomra Spraoi is on the first floor, 6 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 (on the north quays between the Millennium Bridge and Capel Street Bridge, just across from the Clarence Hotel). Ring the top buzzer.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 16, 2006 05:03 by Galvia   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 23:09)   image 2 images
Galway, Shell to Sea activists with the much appreciated support of Labour Youth, SP, Sinn Fein, SWP and NUIG Eco Soc will be picketing the Westside Shell Service Station this Tuesday evening from 5.30 PM to at least 6.30 PM.

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tyrone / miscellaneous / press release Monday October 16, 2006 01:12 by Anti Imperialist   text 32 comments (last - sunday june 03, 2007 00:20)   image 5 images
Ógra Shinn Féin last weekend claimed back Omagh British army base by erecting an Irish national flag at the front entrance to the base. The action was part of a demilitarisation protest held at the base as a part of an Ógra Shinn Fein national demilitarisation protest.

Young people from throughout the 32 counties of Ireland and representatives from the troops of movement, the Wolfe Tone society and the SLP also travelled from England for the weekend. It was the fifth annual demilitarisation protest and according to Ógra chairperson in west Tyrone, Barry McNally was held to ‘Claim Victory on the issue of British demilitarisation’ in the county Tyrone Town.
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The window is a bit dodgy, but the pipeline will be safe, honest...
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 16, 2006 01:01 by Shell to Sea   text 13 comments (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 12:05)   image 13 images
Last Wedneday, when protesters who are opposed to the destructive scheme that Shell and their partners the Irish Government, Statoil, and Marathon Oil want to impose by force on the people of Erris, scaled the roof of Corrib House, they were surprised to find that the building has windows that don't seem to lock.

Several members of Shell's staff tried various options for keeping the window that faces out onto the roof closed, but all proved useless. At one point there were five different men all trying to shut one window (presumably in case one of the scary protesters tried to force their way in through it).

Nobody in the company proved able to mend the broken catch, and as the protest gathered attention, the staff got more and more irritated with the window. Perhaps they realise that the fact that they can't organise window catches that work, doesn't exactly build confidence in their abilities to build and run an extremely high-pressure raw gas pipeline through a bog... read full story / add a comment
get on yer bike
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 15, 2006 23:32 by amanda allaway   image 3 images
Raytheon's own 'how to find us'
derry / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday October 15, 2006 23:22 by Eamonn McCann   text 19 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 21:50)   image 2 images
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 15, 2006 23:11 by o as if   text 5 comments (last - friday october 20, 2006 02:57)   image 2 images
Apparantly ten foot high cannabis plants planted close to together for strictly medicinal export purposes are
difficult to burn.

Not even White phosophorus (the soldier's friend) will clear a field of grass. This is bad news for Canadian troops attached to NATO in Afghanistan as they must resort to burning the areas with diesel. A very smelly & nauseating noxioum ambience resulting.

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Nuria & Zahraih
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday October 15, 2006 22:33 by TD   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 22, 2006 05:19)   image 5 images
Yesterday, the Galway branch of the IPSC was out in relative strength in Shop Street manning an info table and dispensing an information leaflet containing such loathsome nuggets as the aforementioned quotes from Menachem Begin and Ben-Gurion. To boot, the leaflet contained read full story / add a comment
Dr. Francisco "Dodong" Nemenzo, Jr
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday October 15, 2006 05:56 by LABAN NG MASA (Struggle of the Masses)   image 3 images
Yesterday, former University of the Philippines president and Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses) Chairperson, Dr. Francisco "Dodong" Nemenzo, Jr and ten others were charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly harboring fugitive rebel soldiers belonging to the Magdalo group which the government believed to be involved in the July 2003 failed coup.

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clare / environment / news report Sunday October 15, 2006 02:18 by Clare Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 14:08)   image 5 images
Last Friday evening Clare Shell to Sea staged a picket outside the local Shell garage in Ennis. This protest was held to show solidarity with the beleaguered people of Erris. With just under twenty people gathering outside the forecourt a spokesman for the group said " this is a great turn out considering the call out was at short notice". Many of the protesters handed out leaflets to passing traffic as most of the drivers beeped the horns in agreement of the sentiment.
Although Royal Dutch Shell sold its many retail outlets last year the Shell to Sea campaign has stage many pickets at franchised petrol stations all over the country. This tactic in Ennis was working well on Friday with no motorists stopping to fill up with shell petrol. This picket will continue next Friday after a public meeting in Ennis. The time and venue will be announced soon.
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday October 14, 2006 22:27 by xtic   text 46 comments (last - tuesday october 24, 2006 16:07)   image 2 images
Shell to Sea in Erris has called for a National Day of Action to take place on Friday 20 October at the blockade at Bellanaboy. A bus from Dublin is available leaving the city on Thursday evening and returning on Friday afternoon. read full story / add a comment
Revealing social control mechanisms
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 14, 2006 19:13 by The pointing finger   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 22:27)   image 2 images
At a shell to sea stall in Daunt's Square earlier today activists noticed unusual interest and activity from the two cctv cameras positioned near Daunt's Square, traditionally a favourite location for public gatherings and events. read full story / add a comment
Irish Freedom Committee marathoner
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday October 14, 2006 18:50 by Irish Freedom Committee   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 21:47)   image 1 image
A multiple marathoner will dedicate his run in the Chicago Marathon, October 22, 2006, in support of the families of Irish Republican political prisoners.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 14, 2006 18:23 by Jim   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 07, 2007 20:03)   image 15 images
Thousands of Tallaght residents marched today to save the Childrens Hospital in Tallaght. The march was organised by the Labour Party and supported by the Tallaght Hospital Action Group, SIPTU, the Irish Nurses Organisation, Labour Youth, Sinn Fein and the Socialist Party. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Saturday October 14, 2006 13:42 by Gaz B -(A)-   text 5 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 14:57)   image 2 images
"it is laughable to say that in some way Shell has press-ganged the media to its cause" - Daily Mail ShellToSea basher Paul Palmer

Learning its lessons from the disaterous PR that resulted from the incarceration of the Rossport 5, Shell has steadily accrued a team of PR companies, gurus, community liasons and external advisors to help it launch a charm offensive with the re-start of work at the site in Bellnaboy. Financial Dynamics (a PR comany were the name says it all really), london PR guru and Tony O'Reilly employee Roy Godson, John Egan, Susan Shannon, Louise McMahon, Christy Loftus (58k a year for 3 years), Padraig Hughes and retired Garda John Carey have all been hired to win over support despite Shells claims that the "Corrib Gas Partners have the consent of the majority". Odd that Shell has to hire these people when they have the support of the majority, Shell could easily save themselves a few quid there.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 13, 2006 22:10 by TD   text 6 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 18:30)   image 8 images
This evening, Galway Shell to Sea activists , our ranks augmented from the Socialist Party, Labour Youth and students from Germany picketed the Westside Shell Service Station in solidarity with our beleaguered brethern in Erris for an hour-and-a-half. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Friday October 13, 2006 17:51 by John Cunningham   image 1 image
IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
20th - 21st OCTOBER 2006, Liberty Hall, Dublin

90th ANNIVERSARY JAMES CONNOLLY (1868 - 1916) read full story / add a comment
Maura Harrington gets bounced by a herd of Shell’s cops, and Garda GW163 specifically …
mayo / environment / news report Friday October 13, 2006 17:30 by Bob & Niall   text 33 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 05:16)   image 14 images
This morning’s protest at the proposed gas refinery site at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo saw another Shell to Sea campaigner injured by over enthusiastic police. Local schoolteacher Maura Harrington, an outspoken opponent of the Corrib project since the beginning was taken to Castlebar hospital by ambulance shortly after 8am today. read full story / add a comment
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