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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 21:00 by World Wide Marijuana Marcher   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 13:39)   image 5 images   1 attached file
On the 6th Of May 2007, Ireland will have its first ever End the Proihibition of Cannabis March! This issue has been brushed under the carpets by the politicians for long enough--Cannabis smokers are people-not criminals!

Assemble 2pm at the Garden of Remembrance-bring colour, good cheer and friends!
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Poster
limerick / politics / elections / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 16:24 by Limerick Socialist Party   image 3 images   2 attached files
There will be a pub quiz in Limerick in aid of the Joe Higgins election fund.

Thursday the 26th of April at 8pm, in Riddlers Bar, Sarsfield St.

Entry fee per person is €10 waged, €5 unwaged. Bring a friend! Bring a team! read full story / add a comment
Sean Phadraic
galway / history and heritage / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 11:52 by John C   image 1 image
Réabhlóid Phádraic Uí Chonaire le Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh
An tAthrú Mór, A. Ó Cathasaigh, eag,

Charlie Byrne's, sa tSráid Mheánach, Gaillimh, ag 6 pm

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national / crime and justice / news report Thursday April 19, 2007 10:39 by Patient   text 8 comments (last - tuesday august 28, 2007 08:40)   image 1 image
175 women qualify for compensation for the removal of:
uterus/ uterus and ovaries/ovaries.

The plan was announced by Ms Harney yesterday.

Younger women with less children effectively get more cash than
older women whose child-bearing years were at an end.

There is an application time for the victims of Dr Michael Neary.
You must receive independent certification that this indeed happened to you.
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Save Delara Darabi
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday April 19, 2007 10:26 by Maud Gonne   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 19, 2007 19:59)   image 1 image
Delara Darabi -- Artist on Death Row Needs Our Help!

On January 27, 2007, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Delara Darabi for a second time. Delara faces death by public hanging for a murder that took place when she was 17 years old. After murdering a woman related to Delara, Delara’s 19 year old boyfriend, Amir Hossein, convinced Delara to admit responsibility for the murder to protect him from execution. Apparently, both believed that because Delara was under the age of 18, she could not be sentenced to death. This belief proved to be devastatingly false.

With complete disregard for its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child , and despite overwhelming evidence of Delara’s innocence, as well as her repeated denials about having had any role in the commission of the crime, an Islamic court found her guilty of murder based solely on her initial claim of responsibility and sentenced her to death by hanging. read full story / add a comment
Broadhaven Bay
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:45 by Bill Poster   text 16 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 19:06)   image 1 image
Very good news for Shell to Sea from the High Court today.

* The stance of the Rossport Five and Brid McGarry has been legally vindicated.
* The original pipeline route through Rossport is now defunct.
* Shell will have to pay the €1 million costs, including those of the Rossport landowners. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:22 by F   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 19:24)   image 3 images
There are now a collection for resources you can download from the Rising Tide website for the Friday 8th June 2007 - International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8.
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Prof Liviu Librescu
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:11 by Obit   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 02:30)   image 1 image
Professor Librescu was a 75 year old professor in Virginia Tech.
He lectured for twenty years in solid fuel mechanics.
He chaired the International organising Committee of the 6th international
congress on thermal stresses in 2005.

He will be buried in Ru'anna ,Israel on Wednesday read full story / add a comment
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international / housing / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 18:32 by La Plataforma   image 1 image
A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 18, 2007 18:02 by Culture   text 10 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 01:18)   image 1 image
Yesterday (17 April), Ógra Shinn Féin and Sinn Féin activists protested Adam's auctioneers in Dublin who where selling of some of Ireland's most historic possesions.

The protesters gathered outside the Auction room and chanted 'Ireland's History is Not For Sale!' read full story / add a comment
'The Neon Rose' - novel of the Irish in Paris
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 17:04 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Author and critic Fred Johnston launches novel set in contemporary Paris read full story / add a comment
Gardaí stand watch over trucks moving surface peat from the site of the propesed refinery
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 12:33 by IT Reader   text 47 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 13:15)   image 3 images
The oral hearing in Belmullet continues, with questions still unanswered about the large Garda presence in the hotel where the hearing is taking place, and then, the surprise revelation that the consultation process carried out by Shell and Mayo County Council on the subject of "cold-venting" did not include actually consulting with anyone who lives near the proposed refinery.

Mayo County Council are still not attending the hearing.

"Cold-venting" is when you release gas directly into the environment, rather than burning it off, which is called "flaring". read full story / add a comment
Rosette Nebula
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 11:52 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 18:37)   image 2 images
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   text 19 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 16:47)   image 2 images
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.
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Page One of the Information Sheet
galway / environment / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 10:16 by Mark C   text 10 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 13:18)   image 2 images
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
Nagasaki's anti-Yakuza Ito Itcho Mayor Killed by Suishin Kai (Yamaguchi Gumi)
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 02:25 by blonde haired bar worker   text 4 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 11:55)   image 4 images
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
Whitehall - where Captain Jack White died in 1946.  The Historical Society plaque on the right hand side of the front door commemorates the dwelling as 'Home of Sir George Stuart White, The Hero of Ladysmith'.  No mention is made of Captain Jack White
national / arts and media / feature Wednesday April 18, 2007 00:24 by Kevin Doyle   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 19:36)   image 1 image
“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   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 00:10)   image 1 image
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
Protests against Bellanaboy refinery last week
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 14:02 by Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 21:17)   image 1 image
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
Protests against peat removal from refinery site at Bellanaboy site
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:30 by Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 13:50)   image 1 image
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.

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