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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 11:52 by C Murray
The images and story about the Rosette Nebula are in today's Guardian and include all the technical language regarding the birth of stars. [including the Bok Globules] The images are very arresting and only published in black and white in the dailies. A bit of the science :-" The image the most detailed taken , reveals the red glow of hydrogen in the Rosette nebula, a vast cloud of cosmic detritus left over from dying stars and cataclysmic explosions drifting in space 4,500 light years from earth...." read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 11:43 by Christopher Isherwood
An in-depth survey into the attitudes of Muslims living in London has revealed that less than 5% thought homosexual acts are "acceptable," compared with over 65% of the general population The Gallup poll, reported in The Times, found that Muslims differed significantly with the rest of the capital's population in their attitudes to a range of social questions. More than 80% of the public think sex outside marriage is acceptable, with only 10% of Muslims agreeing. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 10:16 by Mark C
A meeting will be held in Eyrecourt, Go. Galway, Town Hall, Wednesday 18th April, 2007 at 9 PM to discuss an action plan against the spreading of human waste (urine and faeces) on farms in Galway. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 02:25 by blonde haired bar worker
The mayor of Nagasaki city in Japan made popular by the role it played Nuclear weapon development & Global Psychological Warfare suffered serious injuries in the last 24 hours when he was shot twice by Tetsuya Shiroo a 59 year old member of the Suishin Kai branch of the Yamaguchi Gumi. A very well known and feared Yakuza clan. as seen in movies like Kill Bill and Kill Bill (2). Itcho Ito had campaiging for re-election on an anti-yakuza platform; all types of yakuza, suishin kai, yamaguchi gumi, non-yamaguchi gumi. This would have been at root, branch and clan level. The Japanese a usually stoic and reserved people see no immediate threat to their institutions or democracy. The emperor is safe. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / feature Wednesday April 18, 2007 00:24 by Kevin Doyle
“The Burning” – PDF available below – is a full length play written about the circumstances surrounding the destruction Captain Jack White’s papers following his death in Broughshane, Co. Antrim in 1946. White, as many people will know, was one of the more well known figures in Irish history that identified with anarchism. The only son of British Boer War hero, Sir George Stuart White (“The Hero Of Ladysmith”), he was assured a bright future in the upper echelons of the British military until his conscience intervened and he resigned his commission. Breaking with family, he gravitated to political activism and the revolutionary left. His baptism of fire was the Great Lockout in Dublin in 1913, where he worked alongside Larkin and Connolly and proposed the idea of the Irish Citizen Army. Of Protestant “stock”, he was active in the fight against imperialism, reserving particular vitriol for the “Orange” state formed in the north of Ireland after partition in 1922. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 17, 2007 22:40 by El Bull
In February of this year, the government released new forms of contract to be used for the procurement of public sector construction projects. Designed to deliver cost certainty, the new forms of contract transfer considerable risk to the Contractor. It is widely accepted that one of the results of these controversial new contracts will actually be higher construction costs, albeit with certainty about the (higher) contract prices. However, there are some other very significant implications of these new contracts, in particular with regard to how protestors will be treated on construction sites in the future. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 14:02 by Shell to Sea
Concerns expressed about Shell's record on environmental destruction. Fishermen troubled by outfall. Many say that EPA hearing is a "rubber stamp" process. Cops cram the hotel where inquiry to be held. Translators provided are for the benefit of English speakers who need Irish translated, English used throughout. Article from Mayo News below read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:30 by Shell to Sea
People around the country and abroad have expressed concern at the news that Statoil are considering using the Bellanaboy gas refinery to process gas found in blocks they've licensed off the west coast of Ireland. Campaigners against the Irish government-backed pipeline and refinery scheme have always said that the huge amount of Coilte land that Shell got hold of indicated that the refinery site would grow. If the initial scheme is allowed to be forced through, then planning for a "brownfield" site would be easy to get , so expansion of the refinery, and addition of more dangerous pipelines, is inevitable. The article in the Mayo news below, finds that the no-one in the government, Shell or Statoil is refuting this anymore. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:06 by Mark
From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia – will take place in Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Germany’s Baltic Sea. The Summit location is the Kempinski Grand Hotel. As there seems to have been a remarkable absense of discusion, debate and practical organising surrounding this years G8 blockade mobilisations in germany this june, ive attempted to collate some info that may be useful for readers. It is by no means comprehensive and apols of not having mastered HTML but hope it is of some assistance One thing is certain. This year is going to be big. Even though the traditional date have been moved forward a month to try to disrupt our 'disruptions', the unprecedented call, planning and actions will have an impact far greater than recent G8 manifestation. This will be part of making capitalism history. Check out the links below for more info. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 10:06 by J Aubrey
This is the update:- *INO and Psychiatric nurses will continue to highlight inequity in the health system. They will use their votes in the General election. *Impact are planning a clerical workers strike which the health unions will support. *The consultants are refusing to re-negogtiate salaries and this is being buried by the gutterpress behind the nurses strike. *The junior doctors of Ireland are the only ones in the EU who have to a 60-70 hour week. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday April 16, 2007 20:11 by Zachary Litwiller
This morning in Blacksburg, Va. tragedy struck Virginia Tech College Campus when shooter entered the campus and shot first in a dormitory and then in a classroom building. This is the worst campus shooting to have ever occurred in U.S. history. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 18:21 by Sean Crudden
The forum is to use open space technology in a full-day session on Saturday 28 April 2007 in The Fairways Hotel, Dundalk. The idea is to review the progress of the forum over the last few years and to plot the way ahead. Not only stakeholders who may already have a connection with the forum are invited to attend the open space day but also anyone who is interested in or curious about the forum's function and who may have ideas or opinions which might help to advance the work of the forum. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 15:36 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new collection of poetry comprising old and new work set to be launched at The Meyrick Hotel, Galway, by John Liddy read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 13:39 by Anti-Fascist
Ógra Shinn Féin organised a number of actions at the weekend to highlight the fascist decision by the Spanish Government to outlaw Basque Youth Movement SEGI and to subsequently jail their entire National Leadership for prison sentances up to 6 years. There was a protest in Omagh and Dublin where a leaflet drop and petition signing also happened. There was also leaflet drops in Strabane and Castlederg. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 00:46 by Harry Wells
Sunday Independent journalist Jim Cusack’s one-man campaign to deny British involvement in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is criticised in today’s Sunday Independent (April 15 2007) by Justice for the Forgotten, which speaks for the families of those who died. No doubt collusion in 1974 bombings http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...15510 Justice for the Forgotten secretary, Margaret Unwin, points out that ”This journalist has refused consistently over the years to accept any version of the event other than that relayed to him many years ago by the Ulster Volunteer Force.” Cusack ignored the main findings of the limited terms of reference of the McEntee Enquiry, concerning the inadequacy of the Garda investigation, in order to proclaim, irrelevantly and incorrectly, British innocence of collusion. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Sunday April 15, 2007 22:50 by Tribune reader
Lots of people have been concerned that the Bellanaboy Refinery Site is as big as it is. 400 acres for an installation that the world's frendliest company tell us will only occupy about 20. So what's the story? Others tell us that the government can't get involved in the oil and gas business (as the Norwegians did) because just isn't enough oil and gas out there. But what's this in todays business section of the Sunday Tribune? read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 18:46 by C Murray
The LPR in Poland had attempted at the end of 2006 to force through an amendment to the article 38 of the Polish Constitution which would have transcended the already legislated for abortion rights of Polish women. The amendment was to have read ' to protect human life from the moment of Conception'. The campaigners launched a global letter of protest which went through many women's groups and a political campaign to raise awareness of the issues surrounding women's reproductive rights. The Vote happened and the LPR lost. Marek Jurek has been forced to resign. During the almost five month campaign which saw deep division in the Polish Parliament, the Alicia Tysiac case was heard in Strasbourg, The ECHR ruled that the Polish State had failed in their legal obligation to provide the mother of three with a legal abortion on medical grounds, despite three doctors advising that she would lose her sight if she was to proceed with her pregnancy. read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 16:50 by TD
"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36). Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 14:09 by german communist
The black forest city of Freiburg, in Germany's southwest, yesterday held a burial with full state honors for the former Nazi navy judge Hans Filbinger. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 10:23 by Edward Horgan
Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early. Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people. read full story / add a comment |
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