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Diplomat Iggy : Blue in tongue and jumper
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 26, 2007 22:38 by TD   text 21 comments (last - thursday may 17, 2007 20:54)   image 10 images
Iggy Madden of Iggy Madden Haulage Ltd, Galway, crony, “close friend and confidante,” whatever, of shady Frank Fahey, was the target of Galway Shell to Sea’s concern this afternoon on account of the imminent removal by his firm of some 660,000 metric tonnes of blanket bog from Shell’s proposed gas refinery in Bellanaboy and dumped in a Bord Na Mona cutaway bog in Bangor Erris despite serious ecological concerns for such a venture.

As karma or serendipity would have it, the great man himself was to hand when 13 Shell to Sea activists, prior to a picketing of his depot, were handing in a letter of protest to his docklands offices. Instead of hearing our plaints with a fair ear we were verbally abused, instead, and subjected to diplomacy of the bar room, redneck, kind ; “I’ll shove yer camera up yer arse” "Do ya have a job" etc, etc. So it goes.
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Picket from across the road
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Monday March 26, 2007 20:26 by Joe   text 22 comments (last - wednesday march 28, 2007 11:45)   image 5 images   audio 1 audio file
Photos and audio from the picket of the rogue pregnancy advice agency in Dublin. Audio (first comment) includes some an anti-choice activist trying to defend the agency on the grounds that the ends justify the means. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 26, 2007 14:29 by Edward Horgan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 16:21)   image 1 image
Next Protest at Shannon

Many people wonder why so few protesters turn up for protests at Shannon airport. They frequently ask why does'nt someone organise something. The answer to this is, why dont you? This is your airport too, and the children killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are all of our children.
Please don't give up on this most serious of issues, please make it an issue in the comming election.
We need weekly protests at Shannon airport on a continuous basis not only up to the election at the end of May but also afterwards, so that the next Government don't take our silence as agreement with Irish Government complicity in crimes against humanity. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday March 26, 2007 13:01 by Peter Jones   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 11:09)   image 1 image
Archbishop Oscar Romero
international / crime and justice / other press Monday March 26, 2007 09:54 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 16:57)   image 4 images
The 24th of March 2007 was the 27th anniversary of the death of
Archbishop Oscar Romero who was murdered in San Salvador at
the orders of Roberto D'Aubisson.

For the first time in 26 years the annual mass to commerorate him was refused permission
in the friary of Adam and Eve's Church in Dublin.

Adam and Eve's Church is a Franciscan Basillica on the Liffey quays
just opposite the Four Courts and has educated many Missionaries who
work in all parts of the world.

Before Romero was murdered he was denounced by the Catholic church and ignored
by the Carter Regime.
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antrim / arts and media / event notice Monday March 26, 2007 00:30 by Ciarán   text 1 comment (last - monday march 26, 2007 01:54)   image 3 images
Sacco and Vanzetti

An Chultúrlann,
Falls Road, Belfast

Monday 26th March, 7.30pm

£4.50/£3.50

Part of Belfast Film Festival read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 25, 2007 16:07 by Sean Clinton   text 37 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 00:04)   image 11 images
Members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign manned stalls in Galway and Limerick on Saturday to highlight the clandestine trade in Israeli diamonds. Irish consumers are unaware that most of the diamonds sold in Ireland are crafted in Apartheid Israel, the worlds leading exporter of cut/polished diamonds. This year gemstone exports from Apartheid Israel are expected to approximate $18-$20 billion or more than 150% of Apartheid Israel’s $12 billion military budget for 2007. Diamond exports comprise 30% of Apartheid Israel’s total manufacturing exports and are the backbone of the apartheid regime’s economy. Consumers need to be made aware that when they purchase diamonds they are likely to be supporting the illegal occupation and brutal subjugation of the Palestinian people. read full story / add a comment
Fire at refinery in 2005
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday March 25, 2007 00:01 by Shell watcher   image 1 image
This interesting article from a hearing earlier thos week into safety at energy refineries makes scary reading for anyone who is being forced to live with one of these monsters on their doorstep.

It seems that in the first six weeks of this year, there were 43 reported serious incidents inthe United States, any one of which could have turned into a major disaster.

A former member of Shell's staff spoke about two incidents at the refinery where he worked (in Washington). One of these was a near miss but could easily have resulted in a huge fire cloud, the other caused six deaths among contractors.

It seems in a majority of cases, poor safety procedures are to blame.

Looking back on the 2005 fire I was reminded of this quotation from a Texas City Resident.
Mr. Herman Batist:

"Anytime you live by a plant like this, you've got to worry about this kind of situation. They don't happen very often, but when they do, the first thing you check is which way the wind is blowing"

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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday March 24, 2007 19:02 by Paula Geraghty   text 59 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 00:44)   image 25 images
The march went from Fortunestown to Saggart in County Dublin. read full story / add a comment
What is Shell's wildli_e?
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday March 24, 2007 17:55 by Ciarán   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 19:17)   image 3 images
Around ten Shell to Sea activists took part in a protest today outside the Odyssey Arena's W5 attraction in Belfast, where a wildlife photography exhbition sponsored by Shell Oil is being presented from today. read full story / add a comment
Shell to Sea campaigners view aluminium levels in Belmullet Mayo coco offices
mayo / environment / news report Saturday March 24, 2007 16:52 by EC   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2007 10:30)   image 2 images
After failing to receive satisfactory explanation of the continually excessive levels of aluminium documented in County Council figures, missing testing results and suspected untreated run off from the site a contingent of Shell to Sea campaigners visited the council offices yesterday evening to demand answers. read full story / add a comment
Cleaning up a dirty attack on democracy....................
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday March 24, 2007 16:47 by Oscar   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2007 14:29)   image 1 image

Dublin City Council will debate and vote upon the motion that
seeks to place conditions on notices of public meetings and
assembly, on public property in the Capital.

Conditions Include:-
One hundred Euros to be deposited with DCC for notices of public meetings.
Name and address to be printed on all notices of public meetings. read full story / add a comment
protest inside CityWest complex
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday March 24, 2007 14:45 by Shell to Sea, Dublin   text 13 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 21:57)   image 12 images
Protesters from Dublin Shell to Sea managed to evade the heavy security at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis this morning. A number of activists held a protest at the main door of the Ard Fheis venue inside the City West complex.

A banner was unfurled and one protester spoke to conference delegates through a megaphone, pointing out that the people of Ireland were being forced by the government to watch as their natural resources were handed over to Shell and Statoil, with nothing coming back, while the people of Erris have to put up with the severe degradation of their environment and unacceptable risks to their lives.

The protesters, some of whom were wearing masks of Bertie Ahern and Noel Dempsey, were soon surrounded by Gardaí and security guards.
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Saturday March 24, 2007 12:51 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 11:56)   image 10 images
The Bin Tax campaign hasn't gone away you know. Activists have been continuously challenging the privatisation and sell off of our public services. Here are some images to remind what grassroots campaigning is happening every week. read full story / add a comment
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clare / environment / event notice Saturday March 24, 2007 10:39 by Clare Shell to Sea   image 1 image
The Clare Region launch of the book "Our Story The Rossport 5" will take place on Friday March 30th at 6.00 pm in Sceal Eile bookshop in Ennis. read full story / add a comment
Bertie Ahern in the Shell HQ
dublin / politics / elections / event notice Saturday March 24, 2007 08:17 by FF   image 1 image
71ú Ard-Fheis

Citywest Hotel, Saggart, Co Dublin 24th March 2007 read full story / add a comment
RSF Dublin Commemoration , Easter 2007 .
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Friday March 23, 2007 19:24 by Sharon .   text 26 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2007 01:37)   image 5 images
RSF in Dublin has re-arranged its main Dublin Commemoration , from Easter Sunday (8th April) to Easter Monday (9th April) . read full story / add a comment
SpaceMonkey, braced for Lift-Off
international / crime and justice / news report Friday March 23, 2007 17:52 by Foreign Correspondents   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 24, 2007 14:05)   image 1 image
The US' chief-puppet Ban Ki-moon's bowels were today involuntarily loosened by a nearby rocket blast which interrupted a brown-nosing session with the 'Iraqi' Prime Quisling Nouri Maliki inside the Invader's Greed Zone in Baghdad.

dateline: 22 March 2007, Baghdad read full story / add a comment
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derry / miscellaneous / event notice Friday March 23, 2007 16:09 by Student Struggle   image 1 image
The Magee Ógra Shinn Féin University cumann in Derry are hosting a function next week to raise funds for the development of the cumann.
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dublin / environment / event notice Friday March 23, 2007 14:28 by BAC   image 1 image
Sinn Féin are calling for five hundred new buses for Dublin.

The money is there, but the Govt won't act because the PD's insist that the new buses must be for privately-run routes. So while their neo-con ideology insists on more subsidies for their friends in big business, Dublin commuters have to wait at bus stops.

In the rain.

In Fairview. read full story / add a comment
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