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A Turkish crime boss said to be one of Britain?s biggest?drug dealers?has won his human rights battle against deportation after the UN Refugee Agency intervened and judges rejected a Home Office appeal.
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dublin / education / news report Saturday November 22, 2008 01:16 by Paul   text 5 comments (last - tuesday december 02, 2008 20:46)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In the first Free Education for Everyone protest in Trinity, around 150 students turned up to send a clear message of opposition to fees to Batt O’Keeffe, the Minister for Education. However, in the second SU leader betrayal of the week, the Students’ Union President, Cathal Reilly welcomed O’Keeffe to the college with a handshake and a smile. read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday November 21, 2008 21:06 by GAAW   text 10 comments (last - sunday may 31, 2009 13:37)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
The Galway Alliance Against War marked the 7th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan yesterday, Thursday 20th November and called on the Irish government to withdraw Irish troops from this occupied country. Ireland’s involvement in this conflict does not stop at Shannon airport. Irish officers are presently working alongside NATO forces in Kabul and some of those soldiers are known to come from Galway’s Liam Mellows barracks. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday November 21, 2008 18:25 by Emilio de Lima (Ed.)   image 1 image
He criticized the conduction of economic policy by Brazilian Central Bank. "The CB is throwing money in the market without taking a specific concern with the change in the economic model, with public investment." Our concern is to analyze the crisis from the perspective of individuals, of the nation, and not from the perspective of the market, because the market heralds want to read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Friday November 21, 2008 16:20 by Moilligh Síos   text 5 comments (last - tuesday november 25, 2008 14:46)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan has called upon young people in particular to take caution on the roads in the run up and over the Christmas period.

According to Mr. McColgan the Christmas and New Year period are peak times for road traffic collisions.
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Concern's Stop Child Labour Youth Campaigners
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday November 21, 2008 14:17 by Volunteer   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 29, 2008 03:30)   image 1 image
Christmas shoppers in Galway are being urged to 'look behind the label' when doing their Christmas shopping in the coming weeks. The National Youth Campaigners from Concern's 'Stop Child Labour' campaign met in Galway recently and declared their commitment to encouraging awareness and action on this issue.

The campaigners, hosted by the SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation, are highlighting that up to 218 million children worldwide are involved in the manufacture of products such as chocolate, clothing and toys.

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cork / miscellaneous / press release Thursday November 20, 2008 18:23 by Fianna   text 2 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 19:34)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams will address young Republicans as they converge in the Rebel County this December for Ogra Shinn Fein´s Comhdhail Naisiunta.

The Comhdhail Naisiunta will take place in the UCC Campus, Cork City from the 5 – 7 December and will also include debate and discussion, attendance from international guests, workshops, a campaign launch, the premier screening of new DVD, a massive Rebel Night and much more.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday November 20, 2008 15:40 by db spraoi   image 1 image
Seomra Spraoi benefit gig read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday November 19, 2008 19:49 by Medusa   text 11 comments (last - sunday november 23, 2008 08:46)   image 5 images
A Shell to Sea meeting in Galway adopted a new initiative, a nationwide petition for the renegotiation of the State's terms of agreement with the oil & gas corporations. Photos T.D. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday November 19, 2008 18:03 by Emma Beckett   text 44 comments (last - friday december 05, 2008 16:24)   image 3 images
"He blocks access to our education, we block his access to the opening. - Pa O' Brien ULSU President, advocate of a graduate tax and Fianna Fail member.

Minister Martin Cullen attended the opening of the newly built Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) building on University of Limerick campus last Monday evening. Ahead of the scheduled event, ULSU issued a press release headlined "UL Students to block Minister from ICO opening". What actually transpired was an entirely different set of events.

At about 1pm, ULSU officers led an impressive turnout of about 400 students towards the Thomond Bridge on campus to block vehicular access to the ICO. The only other access to the building was via the Living way pedestrian bridge, which ULSU president Pa O'Brien ensured us was being monitored by a fellow SU officer. The fact that the location chosen for the blockade was not the building Cullen intended on attending was originally put down to he assumed tactical naivety of the union officers, but the motives for the location chosen later became apparent. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday November 18, 2008 08:45 by FDC   image 1 image
Manila, Philippines – A thousand protesters marched to the United States Embassy today to denounce the formal opening of the G-20 summit called by US President George W. Bush in Washington D.C to supposedly resolve the ongoing global financial crisis. The big demonstration, which is part of the Global Day of Action against the G-20 Summit, branded the gathering as an “elite jamboree” that has the sole objective of “resurrecting a dead and flawed development paradigm.”

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 18, 2008 01:05 by Andrew Gilchrist   text 17 comments (last - thursday april 14, 2011 11:02)   image 12 images   1 attached file
Richard Behal was a candidate for Sinn Fein in 1984 European Election in Munster. This was an international election. He was prevented from appearing on RTE, due to a Ministerial Order under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act. His policies were misrepresented by RTE on a special Munster constituency programme, which gave the other eight candidates extended airtime.

At the end the programme purported to give the audience a very brief summary of Behal’s platform, but misrepresented it. He was never contacted by RTE. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday November 17, 2008 21:46 by PBPA   text 12 comments (last - thursday november 20, 2008 19:52)   image 1 image
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 17, 2008 19:26 by TD   text 19 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 12:53)   image 10 images
Last Saturday's information stall in Shop Street was again focused on EU complicity with Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, particularly Gazans; it's almost a year ago now since Commissioner-General for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Karen Koning AbuZayd, warned: “Gaza is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution,” citing the EU and international community as accomplices in the barbaric siege of Gaza . Despite the fact that the Fourth Geneva Convention defines collective punishment as a war crime, the EU runs empathetically with the hare in condemning such a crime whilst, at the same time hunting, cheek by jowl, with the hounds who perpetrate such criminality. read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media / news report Monday November 17, 2008 18:30 by sheelaghnagig   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 13:20)   image 2 images


Last Saturday, Baltimore-based artist, Sheelagh Broderick, teamed up with lighting designer, Chantelle Stewart, and a band of volunteer torchbearers, photographers and videographers to light an abandoned fishing boat at Church Strand. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 17, 2008 14:51 by tomeile   text 16 comments (last - thursday july 08, 2010 15:06)   image 1 image
On Nov 11 the Irish Anti War Movement’s website posted a statement under its news section expressing delight at the victory of Barack Obama in the recent US Presidential elections. The IAWM statement , a reprint of one issued the day previously by the UK’s Stop the War Coalition, notes Obama’s “ forthright opposition” to the Iraq war and advises the British government to work urgently with him to end the occupation .
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday November 16, 2008 20:08 by Andrew   text 12 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 20:11)   image 25 images   audio 2 audio files
What was probably the 12th Grassroots Gathering took place in Cork this weekend with sessions covering everything from the crisis of capitalism and our response to Energy & food politics. through to Islam and feminism. read full story / add a comment
Elisa O'Donovan, one of the organisers
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday November 16, 2008 19:08 by Paula Geraghty   image 5 images
The Feminist Open Forum called yesterday's Public Rally to defend women's health services and demand that the goverment immediately abandon its decision to cancel the cervical vaccination programme for young girls. read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday November 15, 2008 21:16 by Margaretta D'arcy   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 16, 2008 20:21)   image 5 images
It was great gas in Galway on Friday 14th Nov, exposing the Great Gas Giveaway of 1992, when Bertie Ahern and Ray Burke handed over not only the Corrib Gasfield to Shell Oil but the Erris Peninsula as well. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday November 15, 2008 19:59 by Edward Horgan   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 02:38)   image 6 images
Today at Shannon peace activists flew in from Dublin and Germany, drove from Cork and L:imerick to attend a peace vigil at Shannon in solidarity with a European day of action against European complicity with unlawful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the US torture rendition programme. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / press release Saturday November 15, 2008 13:00 by Ploughshares   text 33 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 13:42)   image 3 images   video 1 video file   audio 2 audio files
Hammers employed in the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmament of a U.S. Navy War Plane in Feb 03 at Shannon Airport www.peaceontrial.com go on display at Project Gallery, Temple Bar/Dublin, from Nov 15-Dec 19. The exhibit by Dublin artist Seamus Nolan is part of a broader exhibition by the Goethe Institute "If you Could Change the Wolrd at Last 1968-2008" read full story / add a comment
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