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national / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday March 04, 2009 14:48 by Eanna Dowling
A new report based on 2 and a half years of academic study has found that Ireland suffers high levels of “legal corruption”. The Transparency International (TI) report found that: “While no laws may be broken, personal relationships, patronage and political donations are believed to influence political decisions and policy to a considerable degree in Ireland.” read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / news report Wednesday March 04, 2009 14:04 by TD
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 04, 2009 11:35 by seomra spraoi cinema
One reason graffiti is such a volatile issue is because it touches on many fundamental questions of urban life. What constitutes public space? Who gets to decide how it will be used? Is advertising in public spaces a form of pollution? Jon Reiss’s 2008 documentary Bomb present a wide sampling of graffiti art from around the world, and a variety of viewpoints relating to graffiti. He includes interviews with everyone from first-generation graffiti artists to academic theorists: segments shot in South Africa, Brazil, Europe and Japan are particularly useful in broadening the discussion. read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / event notice Wednesday March 04, 2009 11:14 by seomra spraoi cinema
La Zona is a contemporary satirical thriller by director Rodrigo Plá, contrasting the poverty of modern Mexico with heavily fortified, gated communities for the wealthy overclass and their families. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_community read full story / add a comment
meath / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 04, 2009 10:31 by Peter Fitzsimons Publicity Officer
Peter Fitzsimons Local Election Fund Raiser read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday March 04, 2009 02:57 by zola
Sarkozy; his former minister of Justice (& ex girlfriend) Rachida Dati, whose recent baby had been rumoured to have been fathered by the former Spanish prime minister Aznar, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Christine Albanel and former leader of the Spanish "labour" opposition Alain Juppé got death threats today in the forms of nasty letters accompanied with 9mm bullets. & then to top it off two lesser well known french parliamentarians of the right wing UMP Frédéric Lefebvre and Christian Vanneste also got some lead high velocity alloy. That leave's 2 in the cartridge. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 04, 2009 00:28 by Kev
On Tuesday 3rd March members and supporters of the Irish Anti War Movement and Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign staged a symbolic hour long protest at the Eircom HQ on Military Road in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday March 03, 2009 22:49 by Edward Horgan
Over ONE MILLION people have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Ireland has participated in and been complicit in these wars. These Iraqi and Afghan people are our brothers, sisters and our children, not, "some others" in a "them and us" war of resources. Show your solidarity with the victims of a war that used Ireland as one of its principle launching pads. Over ONE MILLION armed US troops and thousands of tons of munitions, passed through Shannon airport. Over 1,000 CIA related flights were refuelled at Shannon airport, many of them associated with the US Torture rendition programme. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday March 03, 2009 14:49 by Susana Lee
THE 11th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems will begin at 3:00 p.m. today, March 2, at the International Convention Center, and its first session is to feature Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, who will give a master lecture on "Required Adjustments to Globalization." read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Tuesday March 03, 2009 14:06 by Climate Camp Ireland
The next meeting to organise preparations for a Camp for Climate Action in Ireland this summer will be held on Saturday the 14th March. 11am to 4pm. Lunch will be provided. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday March 02, 2009 23:03 by Kev
On Tuesday 10th March there will be a table quiz in aid of the Free Gaza Movement in Ireland who will be setting from Cyprus sail to break the siege of Gaza on March 14th. Please see the URGENT APPEAL below for more information on what they are doing. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday March 02, 2009 20:35 by John Carmody
Year after year, ARAN and caring people around the world have urged the Canadian government to end the annual seal hunt. Last year, more than 205,000 seals were killed in the annual seal slaughter and in a few short weeks this devastating slaughter of seals for their skins will begin. As the world turns its attention to Canada which will host the 2010 Winter Olympics, we have an excellent opportunity to shine the spotlight on the barbaric seal slaughter. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Monday March 02, 2009 16:27 by dunk
Discussion chaired by Frank McDonald, journalist with The Irish Times, on a broad range of architectural and developmental issues that have become apparent in Celtic Tiger Dublin. Contributors include Dr. Gary Boyd, Ciarán Cuffe TD, Robert Ballagh and Siobhain Ní Éanaigh. The majority of the speakers were very critical of Celtic Tiger Ireland, a change from previous "architectural discussion". The talk happened in Docklands "white elephant", CHQ, aka: Stack A. Sunday August 10 2008 was the day of the discussion, day after the worst rainfall that Ireland had ever seen in the month of august, a wake up call if ever there was one of how we have to adress climate chaos...http://radio.indymedia.org/es/node/17169 read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / news report Monday March 02, 2009 14:59 by amnesty1
8,000 girls are mutilated every single day around the world. You can help make it stop. Log on to http://www.amnesty.ie/endfgm read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / press release Monday March 02, 2009 14:17 by S2S
The fact that five Mayo Gardaí earned €325,111 in overtime payments last year, once again illustrates how the current Government thinking still seems to be, that throwing money at the Corrib Gas debacle will make it go away. One Mayo Garda earned €80,990 in overtime last year, which was the highest of any of the Garda claims in the country. While 3 of the top 5 overtime earners in the country came from Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday March 02, 2009 12:03 by Andrew Flood & Ashanti Alston
US Anarchist Ashanti Alston who is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Dublin this March 7th has spent that last few days speaking at meetings in Cork and Galway and hanging out with anarchists in Dublin. In this interview recorded last night in Kilmainham he talks about his visit to Ireland, the post Seattle anarchist wave in the USA, the formation of Anarchist People Of Color (APOC) the current capitalist crisis and the need to seize the moment. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 22:11 by ALiberation
Behind The Mask ALiberation is pleased to announce the 3rd part of three Animal Rights movie events for March! read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 22:00 by ALiberation
Peaceable Kingdom ALiberation is pleased to announce the 2nd part of 3 Animal Rights movie events for March! read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 21:27 by ALiberation
ALiberation is pleased to announce 3 upcoming Animal Rights movie events for March! read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 01, 2009 20:02 by TD
Yesterday, activists with Galway, Free Palestine Campaign in solidarity with Israeli Apartheid Week (1st to 8th March) and in harmony with the "chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign" manned an informaton table in Shop Street dispensing flyers on what Israeli goods/foodstuffs and their purveyors to boycott and gathering signatures for a petition calling on the Board of Eircom "To exclude from consideration the IBM consortium , which includes the Israeli based company Amdocs, for the soon to be awarded contract to provide your company with a new computer billing system." read full story / add a comment |
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