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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 12, 2006 14:36 by Tadhg
There are currently Republican prisoners held in both Castlerea and Portlaoise prisons. Four POWs, imprisoned in Castlerea, are qualifying prisoners under the Good Friday agreement and should have been released long ago. The Dublin government is in breach of its commitments under that agreement and must release these prisoners if they are to live up to their obligations under the Good Friday Agreement. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 12, 2006 11:16 by fourth mary
Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly, as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously jaundiced world view. But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 12, 2006 08:42 by Fran
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad this morning after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday December 11, 2006 22:29 by Aoife and Joe
Like many other employers UCD has sought to save money in the last couple of decades by refusing to create permanent pensionable posts. Instead, a growing percentage of the workforce have been left on short-term contracts without any pension rights.. SIPTU estimates that almost a third of workers in UCD are ‘fixed term workers’. The university also made a number of them redundant over the summer, including one who had been working for the college since 1981. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 22:04 by John McDermott
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by Saoirse
It is all to easy to get wound up in the festive cheer and hype in the run up to Christmas and while I do no advocate going ‘cold turkey’ (excuse the Pun) on Christmas altogether I do ask everyone as you sit around your table this Christmas spare a thought for republican prisoners who spend yet another Christmas away from home and loved ones. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by walter
Coillte in breach of FSC certificate read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Monday December 11, 2006 16:49 by Conor McGowan
A document outlining the basic principles of the ISN on the issue of elections is now available to download at the publications and articles section of the new ISN site. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday December 11, 2006 16:14 by Shell to Sea
All welcome! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday December 11, 2006 14:47 by Seomra Spraoi
dublin / history and heritage / news report Monday December 11, 2006 13:05 by Secretary
Another very positive meeting of the Save Tara campaign was held on Sunday. Facilitating was an experienced community worker and facilitator from Galway, who has worked closely with the Zapatistas in Mexico and in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 11, 2006 12:01 by pat c
An unfortunate gathering, especially following Tehrans Holocaust cartoon competition. This is no Histography Conference; the Iranian Foreign MInister has said: The first question to be posed is: Did the Holocaust actually happen or not? No mistaking that agenda. Conference participants include: Australian Fredrick Toeben, jailed in Germany for incitement and insulting the memory of the dead Frenchman Robert Faurisson, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws Frenchman Georges Thiel, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws American David Duke, a former KKK leader and white supremacist Full story at link. pat c read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 11, 2006 03:33 by JD
Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, lecturer in contemporary Jewish history, Soviet history and the history of science at the University of Montreal since 1973 and practising Orthodox Jew, tonight laid bare the provenance of Zionism in Russia and voiced his opposition to it, full blown, in Israel When Zionism, we were told, began to take root at the turn of the 20th century, most rabbinic authorities saw it as a dangerous tool to tear the Jews away from Torah and its commandments. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 03:27 by Harry Wells
The Mail on Sunday returns today to the story the Irish Times and Irish Independent don't want to touch with a forty-foot pole. It is ironic that an Irish edition of a Conservative English newspaper shows more gumption in exposing this scandal than Irish owned newspapers. See also: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80012 - for previous Mail coverage of this story and how the Times and Indo have effectively ignored it. Who are these newspapers protecting? The Fine Gael-Labour coalition of 1973-77, who ran scared from the bombs and instituted a reign of repression and terror against republicans and the (minority) of socialists who stood up to them, that's who. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Sunday December 10, 2006 21:49 by Internationale
On Monday the 4th of January, members of Ógra Shinn Féin from the McDonagh/Farrell cumann, UCD, visited the European Parliament building in Brussels. From an early morning flight over, the Ógra activists made their way to the parliament buildings to meet with the Sinn Féin team working there. They gave us a briefing in their important work in Brussels on issues such as workers' rights and other areas. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday December 10, 2006 21:39 by John Baker
This is a small piece of the story of Ireland, taken on its own it is a local issue but it is being echoed right now all across the country and it raises many other issues in its wake; housing, development, local democracy, accountability, sustainability. All important and interesting but to cover all of them would make a long article so this concentrates on just one – Water, because that’s something I’m passionate about and something that is too much taken for granted in this water rich country. I trust that readers are intelligent enough to make the links. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday December 10, 2006 02:37 by DaveD
"You see I was born back in the so-called free days of the sixties, in the front bedroom of a working class house back in Dublin. My mother's water's broke, a girl was born but a boy was celebrated. A two second glance. A decision made condemning me to a life rejection, loneliness, misunderstanding, bias, loss and rape. I don't mean rape in the sexual sense but in the sense of being forced to live a lie. That is a rape of my soul, the real me." - Talk given this evenng by Lynda Sheridan at LGBT Carol Service in the Unitarian Church read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 10, 2006 01:51 by Naomi Horowitz
Recently, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. As expected, the resolution passed by a large majority of 157. Seven countries voted against: Israel, the U.S., Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. Ten members abstained read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday December 09, 2006 16:31 by Make Trident History (Ireland)
Five people, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Mark Chapman, Philip Mangold, Ann Patterson and Miriam Turley were arrested by Strathclyde police outside the UK trident nuclear submarine base at Faslane , Scotland on Saturday 9 December at 12 noon. Mairead Maguire is a Nobel Peace Laureate and honorary President of the Peace People . The five were part of a larger group called that had come from Ireland as part of the Faslane 365 campaign to protest against nuclear weapons of mass destruction at the Base. The blockade lasted about 40 minutes while the traffic was slowed down to a single lane. The other members of the group sang songs and shouted words of encouragement while the five were being arrested. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday December 08, 2006 23:26 by David Morrison
Ireland is supplying troops to fight the Bush/Blair “war on terror” in Afghanistan, and it has been doing so since July 2002. Not many, it’s true. But Ireland is a contributor to ISAF, the NATO-led multi-national force there, which has killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Afghans in recent months. read full story / add a comment |
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