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national / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday April 11, 2007 01:06 by Red Wedge   text 52 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2007 15:02)   image 5 images
In advance of the annual USI Congress, Red Wedge previewed proceedings with an article "What is to be done with the Union of Students in Ireland?" In this article, he offers an eyewitness account of the event and some thoughts on the future of the student movement.

It soon becomes clear that McGuirk - a former officer of the Freedom Institute who has been involved with both Ogra Fianna Fail and young Fine Gael, is too progressive for many of the 200 or so delegates who represent student unions from across Ireland. His plea for USI to continue its link with SIPTU and for the annual congress not to axe the deputy president position who co-ordinates campaigns is warmly received by the UCD delegation. No one else in the hall welcomes these words. Maurice Roes contribution is interrupted by regular applause. His final bit of auction politics in his call for support is that he will ensure that a new website will be constructed if he is elected-sets the congress on fire. read full story / add a comment

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 10, 2007 18:45 by Porco Dio   image 1 image
Crowd gathering at Liberty Hall
dublin / history and heritage / feature Tuesday April 10, 2007 17:30 by NMI   text 17 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 02:29)   image 15 images
Erased from the historical record for many years (literally in the case of Elizabeth O'Farrell) the women of the 1916 to 1923 period of Irish history are starting to be recognised once again for the important role they played in the struggle for Irish freedom.

Today in Dublin, a local history group organised a commemoration of the brave women who fought alongside the men in the fight against British rule and the establishment of the Free State. The march was led by a colour party of women wearing the uniforms of Cumann na mBán and the Irish Citizens Army. Photographs of many of the women were carried on the march. read full story / add a comment
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international / consumer issues / news report Tuesday April 10, 2007 12:28 by NN   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 12, 2007 20:31)   image 1 image
Venezuela has an interesting relationship with the energy giant Shell. They actually force them to pay taxes, and when they submit estimates which the govt doesn't believe, they audit them and present them with a bill. Today they told Shell to pay back over thirteen million dollars that the company was trying to weasel out of from 2005.

The Irish government, of course, has a more compliant attitude to the big energy companies... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday April 10, 2007 02:45 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   image 2 images
éirígí protest to be held outside Bertie Ahern's constituency office. read full story / add a comment
The front cover for 'Changing Ireland', the Moyross-based national community development magazine
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday April 09, 2007 22:51 by Allen Meagher   text 4 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 22:49)   image 1 image
The five area-based Community Development Projects in Limerick City have called for all-party support for John Fitzgerald’s recommendations for improving life for people in the city’s disadvantaged communities. Volunteers and workers from the five Community Development Projects also want the Government – before the Dail dissolves in three weeks or so – to set up the proposed Regeneration Boards on a statutory basis. They held a press conference in Limerick city centre today to press home their message. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 09, 2007 19:02 by IFC POW Dept   image 1 image
In an emergency message from Maghaberry prison this morning the Irish
Freedom Committee has learned there was a clash with screws on wings
Easter morning Maghaberry prison and fifteen republican POWs are now
charged with wearing Easter lilies.
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday April 09, 2007 13:59 by Missing   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2007 19:02)   image 4 images
There are over one hundred women missing in Ireland.

They are presumed dead.

It is fourteen years since Annie Mc Carrick Vanished.

There is no longer an operational website for families of vanished children,
parents, sisters and brothers, to use.

Last week families of the missing women joined together to make protest. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday April 09, 2007 09:39 by Frugal Rural   text 8 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2007 23:34)   image 1 image
Only 5 per cent, or one in 20, of 15 to 24-year-olds could quote the first of the 10 Commandments when interviewed for a new survey in Ireland.

Almost one-third (32 per cent) could not say where Jesus was born and more than one-third (35 per cent) did not know what is celebrated at Easter.

These are among the findings, published today, of an opinion poll conducted last December and January by Lansdowne Market Research for the (Catholic) Iona Institute and the (Protestant) Evangelical Alliance Ireland group. The survey involved a representative sample of 950 people nationwide. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday April 09, 2007 00:39 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 2 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 01:00)   image 2 images
Here's the first in a series of fundraising events for the Campaign to Save Tara, others coming shortly.

April 11th 2007 (Wednesday)

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday April 08, 2007 14:32 by TD   text 21 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 12:54)   image 16 images
Yesterday, the Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign did a six hour petition/info table, as part of the ongoing campaign against Israeli Blood Diamonds and DIY stores Atlantic Homecare and Woodie's, outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 07, 2007 14:30 by Seán Ryan   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 16:55)   image 1 image
Eric Montanez arrested and charged with feeding the hungry. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday April 07, 2007 09:48 by T. Yaris   text 1 comment (last - friday april 13, 2007 14:27)   image 1 image
For economic mismanagement through bribery read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday April 07, 2007 02:38 by Voter   text 7 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 10:34)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Some people don't think much of elections, but it's important to remnember that they concentrate the minds of the establishment.

From Spain in the 30's, Chile in the 70's, to modern day Venezuela, democratic elections have thrown up results which have rocked the forces of right-wing conservatism to the core.

While some people think you shouldn't vote, most people believe it's important to register.

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national / environment / other press Saturday April 07, 2007 01:43 by S.Cat   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 08, 2007 10:14)   image 1 image
In news sneaked out late on Good Friday, the Irish government has announced that the country has just gotten a bit bigger. We now have the right to extend our territorial waters beyond the 200 mile limit.

Because of today's news. we can claim a much larger chunk of the Atlantic sea bed off the south-west coast. Sadly, we don't get the fishing rights.

But if there should, by some chance, be oil and gas there, then we own it*.

So that's good news then.

*Note: This development is going to mean more to certain members of the political establishment than to, for instance, pensioners, or people on hospital waiting lists. The big energy companies might be happy tonight too, wheras children in overcrowded, underfunded schools won't notice much difference.

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Gardaí say they are happy with their operation
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 07, 2007 00:45 by Shell to Sea   text 22 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 00:30)   image 1 image
This week's Mayo Advertiser reports that Shell are very happy with the progress of peat removal from their refinery site at Bellanaboy in County Mayo, which started earlier this week. The surface of the site has to be removed before construction of the refinery can begin.

The Gardaí say they are also happy with their operation, reporting that they have easily contained the demonstrations and protests. The massive Garda operation has been widely criticised, with those opposed to the Shell/Govt scheme arguing that if protesters are breaking the law they should be arrested, and if not they should not be interfered with. To date there have been no arrests in this current phase of the conflict.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Thursday April 05, 2007 20:14 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 1 comment (last - friday april 06, 2007 00:44)   image 2 images
Update of the campaign to protect Ireland's natural resources. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday April 05, 2007 19:50 by Voice of The Youth   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Fein this week launched their bi weekly newsletter, Glor Na nÓg (Voice of The Youth). Glor Na nÓg aims to provide both activists and the wider public, with an insight into the work and news within Ógra Shinn Féin.
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national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday April 05, 2007 13:55 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 15 comments (last - saturday april 07, 2007 09:47)   image 27 images
This contains a series of photographs taken over the weekend 30 March - 2nd April of the area of Lismullin, the Gabhra Valley. This is how the most important area in Ireland is treated with the permission of Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday April 05, 2007 10:28 by DSF   image 2 images
A commemoration will be held in Arbour Hill Cemetery on Friday April 6th at 11AM to remember the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising.

All welcome.

"You cannot extinguish the Irish passion freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed"
- Pádraic Mac Piarais, Kilmainham Jail, 2nd May 1916. read full story / add a comment
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