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Councillor Louise Minihan with one of the leathal bullets
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday September 08, 2009 13:09 by PRO   text 9 comments (last - tuesday september 15, 2009 19:06)   image 2 images
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson today [Tuesday] welcomed the decision of Ireland’s largest council to adopt a historic motion calling for the banning of the use of plastic bullets in the Six Counties.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 08, 2009 09:57 by big_ron   image 5 images
Shell to Sea banner drop on the N7 on Sunday morning, the day of the All Ireland Hurling Final read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday September 07, 2009 23:59 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Over 120 protested the treatment of MTL workers and show their support at Dublin City Council. read full story / add a comment
some folk think nazi porn media is ironic - the wrong people........... Vote NO!
international / politics / elections / other press Monday September 07, 2009 23:02 by scorchio   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 09, 2009 14:23)   image 2 images
Anyone contemplating voting No! for the first time in the upcoming Lisbon 2 referendum in Ireland really ought know the name of the candidates to be the first president of the EU. After all it's not a completely done thing that once the Irish get their answer "right", Tony Blair will sweep into the history books. The current chancillor of Germany, Angela Merckel is another leading candidate as are former prime ministers of Sweden and Luxembourg......"anyway"....... Germany is in the news globally at the moment for several reasons. First the fact that last Friday its army ordered an attack by the USAF on a fuel tanker in Afghanistan which resulted in the deaths of over 80 civilians. Second because it is running into elections. Third because its AIDS awareness people have presented a publicity image of Hitler shagging a girlie from behind with the caption "AIDS is a mass murderer". Here follows a miscellany of links in English so you can keep abreast. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Monday September 07, 2009 22:17 by fired_pet   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 17, 2009 19:07)   image 1 image
SHell was found in contempt of a District Court order last week. The company was found by the judge to have entered common land in Rossport despite having been prohibited from doing so by a 2007 court order. Presumably the judge, when she returns to sentence the company next week, will treat them as harshly as she has treated opponents of the project to install the experimental gas pipeline in North West Mayo. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Monday September 07, 2009 12:11 by Ray   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 12, 2009 03:35)   image 4 images
Benefit gig presented by the Cork Shell to Sea campaign,

with a cast of thousands (well dozens!). read full story / add a comment
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antrim / racism & migration related issues / news report Monday September 07, 2009 11:12 by Davy Carlin   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 13:21)   image 2 images
The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. This statement comes not long after more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes in South Belfast due to racist intimidation and attacks.

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday September 07, 2009 11:01 by Paul Bowman   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 14:07)   image 1 image
Today the word "communism" is most often associated with the totalitarian one-party states of Soviet Russia or China. Nothing could be further from the anarchist goal of a stateless, free society. So the association of anarchism with communism seems, at first sight, perverse. read full story / add a comment
Speakers at International Peace Conference, including Patricia McKenna, Joe Higgins and Mary Lou McDonald
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 07, 2009 10:00 by Edward Horgan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 02:26)   image 5 images
A very successful peace conference was held at Shannon airport on Sat 5 Sept 09 for the purpose of highlighting the interconnections between the establishment of a US forward airbase at Shannon airport, the militarisation of Europe, the abuse of Irish neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty. The attendance of over 80 was mainly for Dublin, so it was great to get such a dedicated group of peace activists to Shannon to show them very clearly to extent to which Irish neutrality has been abandoned at Shannon airport and the extent to which Ireland is complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. read full story / add a comment
Arts Council
galway / arts and media / press release Monday September 07, 2009 00:22 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
Over The Edge presents the launch by Galway City Council’s Arts Officer, James Harrold, of Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec & Maureen Ryan.

It will take place at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, September 11th, 8pm. read full story / add a comment
Leaving aside Shannon, do you think the 7 strong Irish contingent to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan is making a difference?
international / eu / news report Sunday September 06, 2009 15:46 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 12:19)   image 3 images
According to the Swedish "Dagens Nyheter" newspaper's updates in the last two hours, the US military entered a hospital run by the Swedish Committe for Afghanistan this week in pursuit of a patient who according to them held valuable intelligence on the Taliban. This would constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions. This newsbreak follows coverage of the strongest statements critical of the NATO strategy so far by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at the meeting of EU foreign ministers held yesterday. Anyone who prizes Irish neutrality or perhaps those who sneer at such a thing, ought know that Sweden is a neutral state. It is unique amongst the neutral states of Europe in that it boasts a highly developed arms industry which indeed is also one of the oldest happily supplying military hardward to all and sundry since before Napoleon. The Swedish share the northern "Provincial Reconstruction Team" with the Finnish under German command. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday September 06, 2009 14:44 by Kevin Doyle   text 13 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 09:57)   image 1 image
The Workers Solidarity Movement is twenty-five years old this autumn. A quarter of a century ago anarchists in Ireland came together to establish an organisation to promote and fight for our ideas. read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday September 06, 2009 14:28 by Vincent O'Malley   image 1 image
The McCarthy or “Bord Snip Nua” report on public spending outlined a range of proposed cuts in government expenditure. Of the €5.3b in possible savings, it can be safely said that at least €4b of this (and probably more) targets the working class. Indeed, a full third of the cuts are aimed at pensioners and unemployed. In the private sector, attacks on our class continue in the form of pay cuts, short time and lay-offs. read full story / add a comment
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national / summit mobilisations / feature Friday September 04, 2009 23:39 by Chekov Feeney   text 38 comments (last - thursday october 15, 2009 10:06)   image 9 images   video 2 video files
One of the great problems that people encounter in making up their minds about the Lisbon treaty is that, depending on who you talk to, the treaty can appear to be an altogether different thing. According to those who are campaigning for a Yes vote, it merely serves to tidy up the existing European treaties, with a few changes to allow the EU to function more efficiently. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / feature Friday September 04, 2009 11:55 by Harry Browne   text 17 comments (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 12:34)   image 1 image
There are plenty of good reasons to vote No, again, on Lisbon – far more than there are reasons to vote Yes. We shouldn’t be ashamed of saying that the best of them are only partly to do with the specificities of the treaty itself.

On the other hand, we should be careful about some of the debating points we adopt.

Anti-imperialists, peace campaigners and workers’ rights advocates on the No side have the best set of arguments, to be sure. The writings of Kieran Allen and Andy Storey, among others, are the gold standard and I wouldn’t presume to add to them. But a few folks on ‘our side’ – and with that phrase I don’t include the right-wingers who happen to support the same vote but are otherwise alien politically – are wandering down some political dark alleys. read full story / add a comment
kildare / eu / news report Friday September 04, 2009 11:05 by Bazra B   text 5 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 18:26)   image 5 images
The People's Movement No2Lisbon Meeting in Newbridge, Co. Kildare on Wednesday, September 2nd. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 03, 2009 20:45 by éirígí PRO   text 4 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 23:25)   image 3 images
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has announced the details of an emergency motion
that was today [Tuesday] submitted to Dublin City Council by éirígí activist,
councillor Louise Minihan. read full story / add a comment
Planes like this US Hercules are regular visitors at Shannon Airport
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday September 03, 2009 19:06 by Shannonwatch   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 05, 2009 23:27)   image 1 image
Information provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs sheds disturbing new light on US military use of Shannon Airport. According to the Minister the troop and air force crews that pass through the airport are not the only US military there. There are also two US officers of military rank permanently based in the airport. Their official role is to assist with the transit of US Government and Government contracted flights. The arrangement has been in operation since 2003 and was done without Oireachtas approval. read full story / add a comment
Allison Croggon
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 16:38 by Fred Johnston   image 2 images
The Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude - Galway, and the Australian Poetry Centre are proud to present a reading by two of Australia's finest poets. Robert Gray and Alison Croggon, at Gort Public Library on Friday, October 23rd at 8pm. Admission is free. There will also be music.

"All our thanks to Teresa in Australia and Eileen at Gort Library,"says Fred Johnston, writer and the Western Writers' Centre's Director, " who facilitated these important readings. Gort is increasing event by event its literary reputation, and we still have the 'Forge at Gort festival in Spring.' " read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / news report Thursday September 03, 2009 15:32 by Sorcha Ní Bhéara   text 6 comments (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 20:55)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin activists and T.D's demonstrate at the Fianna Fáil 'Yes to Lisbon' launch. read full story / add a comment
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