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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 25, 2009 22:57 by Shell to Sea   image 3 images
"The way we work is as important as the goals we reach," says Norwegian state company StatoilHydro's president, Helge Lund. "We want to be recognised as a company that combines high performance with high integrity," he says.

Naoise Ó Mongain, Maura Harrington's husband, is handing in a letter to the Norwegian ambassador on Thursday 26th March at 1.00PM at the Norwegian Embassy on Molesworth Street (just across the road from the passport office).

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday March 25, 2009 15:06 by Andrew   text 16 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 15:37)   image 2 images
That the very threat of a national strike was enough to force government and IBEC to change their position demonstrates the power the working class holds when we threaten to withdraw our labour. For all the media attempts to convince us we are powerless and that class struggle is a thing of the past when faced with the reality of the organised working class standing up both bosses and state were keen to avoid any confrontation that could illustrate and encourage our collective power. read full story / add a comment
Portrait of Biran Cowen, 2009, anonymours
dublin / arts and media / news report Wednesday March 25, 2009 10:14 by Walter Goren   text 57 comments (last - friday april 03, 2009 03:53)   image 10 images   video 1 video file
Last Saturday a man added his own original artwork to the walls of the National Gallery's portrait collection. He placed his 'Portait of Brian Cowen' on the wall next to a work depicting Maeve Binchy. It hung for forty minutes, before being removed. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 22:19 by Grupo Raíces   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 13:23)   image 1 image
Public talk, Saturday 28th of March, 14:00 o’clock, Hotel Premier Inn four corner, Donegall Pass, to let the public know of the current situation on Colombia, of the efforts and struggle of social organisations to defend their rights and of ways to support and show active solidarity with the Colombian people. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday March 24, 2009 18:20 by Michael Gallagher   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 06:47)   image 2 images
Former AIB internal auditor Eugene McErlean has said the Financial Regulator knew about overcharging by the bank in 2001, but had later given the false impression that it only became aware of it in 2004.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0324/aib.html
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 24, 2009 18:12 by Final Nail Party   text 8 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 17:56)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Exclusive pictures and footage from the head office of Irish Nationwide Building Society this morning, where Chief Executive, Michael Fingleton, was deciding how to spend the 1,000,000 euro bonus paid to him AFTER the hastily agreed government bank guarantee scheme was put in place last year. read full story / add a comment
Marx Meeting
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 17:12 by james o'toole   image 1 image
UCD sociology lecturer and activist Kieran Allen will give an introduction on the ideas of Karl Marx followed by a discussion of the relevence of Marx's ideas and the world today.
Hosted by the City Centre Branch of the Socialist Workers Party read full story / add a comment
Stop The Pylons!
donegal / environment / press release Tuesday March 24, 2009 16:08 by Alternatives to Pylons, Donegal   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 12:54)   image 1 image
An Bord Pleanála to hold Oral Hearing on controversial ESB Networks Planning Application
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 24, 2009 14:52 by Bazooka Joe   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 08:26)   image 1 image
Chinese Communist Police on patrol in Tibetan community following attacks on police and other Communist Government agents by Buddhist monks. read full story / add a comment
Megaphone Boy
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday March 24, 2009 11:03 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Merrion Square South, Dublin read full story / add a comment
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dublin / education / event notice Monday March 23, 2009 22:21 by Aileen   image 1 image
Stanley Aronowitz to speak on "Popular Education in a time of struggle" on March the 29th at 3 pm in
Seomra Spraoi (10 Belvedere Court) read full story / add a comment
Time for a general strike?
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday March 23, 2009 22:04 by 1 of imc   text 57 comments (last - friday march 27, 2009 14:02)   image 3 images
Potentially, thousands of workers will take to the streets of the country next Monday. Indymedia and DCTV are pooling resources to cover the day and are calling for you, the readership to contribute your reports, photographs and videos to compile an accurate grassroots account of what could be a significant date in this latest round of the struggle for workers’ rights and social justice. read full story / add a comment
Holylands needs shared future (but not too many taig students, please) - Henry McDonald Newsletter 23 March 2009
national / arts and media / other press Monday March 23, 2009 13:22 by Skibbereeen Eagle   text 17 comments (last - sunday april 19, 2009 13:28)   image 3 images
The man the Newsletter calls “the respected journalist Henry McDonald,” the Newsletter's Ireland correspondent - sorry, mistake, the Guardian's Ireland correspondent - calls students who drank a lot on St Patrick's Day 'Catholic/nationalist'. What's more, they are 'rural', shock horror. Ticks all the prejudicial boxes - cannot be allowed.

But how does Henry know?

It's easy: 'judging from the Gaelic football and Glasgow Celtic shirts, as well as the names of those the PSNI decided to arrest'.

Would the Guardian publish this type of drivel about the Notting Hill carnival? No because in that case it would be racist. In this case it is merely sectarian, while claiming not to be. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday March 23, 2009 12:09 by Joanne   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 19:48)   image 5 images
Dublin Shell to Sea demonstration in solidarity with Maura Harrington this Wed 25th March from 7.30PM at Mountjoy. All support welcome, bring banners, placards etc. Shell Out. read full story / add a comment
will the authorities turn a blind eye?
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 23, 2009 11:22 by Conor. M   text 13 comments (last - tuesday march 31, 2009 00:38)   image 1 image
The Obama administration signaled it was ready to repudiate the prohibition and ''war on drugs'' approach of previous presidents, and steer policy towards prevention and ''harm reduction'' strategies favoured by Europe. read full story / add a comment
Dublin Bus Workers
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday March 23, 2009 07:51 by A.R   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 23:26)   image 1 image
Workers in Dublin bus rejected the Labour Relation Commission's proposals on Thursday 19th March. They are now planning an all out strike from March 30th. This article firstly deals with the background to the current standoff in Dublin Bus, then examines the initial proposed 'cost effectiveness plans' issued by Dublin bus management on the 16th January 2009, subsequently it will review the LRC proposal and conclude with some reflections on how the situation will unfold over the coming months. It is based upon detailed discussions with a driver with who has been working for Dublin Bus for 35 years. read full story / add a comment
Peace vigil at Shannon airport for victims of TORTURE
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday March 22, 2009 17:30 by Shannonwatch   text 11 comments (last - sunday march 29, 2009 17:31)   image 7 images
A Peace Forum was held at the Park Inn hotel at Shannon airport on saturday 21 March in solidarity the victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the 6 aniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
Contributers included peace activists from Leipsiz in Germany, whose local airport is also being used to refuel US military planes and chartered troop carriers. We also had peace collegues from Derry, Galway, Cork, Westmeath, Kildare and even some from Dublin.
Meanwhile there were at least three OMNI air chartered troop carriers at the airport transporting hundreds of armed US troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 20, 2009 21:41 by Joanne   text 8 comments (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 11:53)   image 14 images   1 attached file
St Patricks Day saw Shell to Sea activists from around Ireland descend on Dublin for a day of protest against the Corrib Gas Project. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / news report Friday March 20, 2009 18:49 by Paula Geraghty   image 1 image
Leading a group of dairy farmers from all over Ireland in a protest/occupation of the EU Commission's offices in Dawson Street, the President of ICMSA, Jackie Cahill, said that the dairy policy being operated by the EU has actually reduced Europe's to producing milk below the cost of production and left farmers with no income at precisely the same time as they are having to re-pay loans taken out to comply with the massive demands made by EU Nitrates Regulations. Mr Cahill said that the EU dairy policy was now inflicting long term, structural damage on Ireland's dairy industry and the wider agri-food sector so vital in any co-ordinated attempt to re-build our exporting sector.

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Marck Beggs
clare / arts and media / event notice Friday March 20, 2009 17:34 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
Salmon Poetry

presents a poetry reading

at Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, County Clare read full story / add a comment
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