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Fred Johnston
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 15:24 by Western Writers' Centre   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 16, 2009 14:09)   image 2 images
Writer, founder of the annual Cúirt literature festival and Director of The Western Writers' Centre (Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude) Fred Johnston will commence with his Creative Writing Classes at NUIGalway on Thursday, October 1st. This course is aimed at beginners with some experience of writing prose or poetry, for more mature participants who are interested in Creative Writing (prose and poetry) and for those who are interested in the processes involved in researching, writing and publishing their work in the future. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / eu / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 14:24 by Peter   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 03, 2009 20:17)   image 1 image
Launch of the Socialist Party Dublin City Branch campaign against Lisbon II with Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP, speaking. read full story / add a comment
Fianna Fail - Mink Coat Government
national / animal rights / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 12:52 by ALiberation   image 2 images
Protest at Fianna Fail HQ over their continued support of fur factory farms in Ireland.

When: Tuesday, 8th Sept 2009
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Where: Fianna Fail Headquarters, 65-66 Lower Mount St, Dublin 2
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=65-66+Lower+Mount+St,+Dub...num=1
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Fianna Fail - Mink Coat Government
national / animal rights / press release Thursday September 03, 2009 12:36 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 03, 2009 23:43)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In 1966 the Fianna Fail Government were labeled the “Mink Coat Government” by Deputy Sweetman in a Dail debate. Today they can as easily be labeled the “Mink Farm Government”.
Every other political party except Fianna Fail has called for a ban on fur factory farms. Without Fianna Fail’s support there would be no fur factory farms in Ireland.
There would be no fur factories in Ireland if Fianna Fail carried out the law
Protest Fianna Fail due to their support of fur factory farms. Organised by AFAR and ALiberation.
Photo opportunity; Press welcome. 6 ft high Mink on a mobile Ad trailor. Protesters dressed as Ministers in Fur.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 03, 2009 11:48 by James O'Brien   image 1 image
It’s the time of year where we plebs get a chance to rectify our impertinence in rejecting the Lisbon Treaty. In itself, rerunning the referendum is hardly an affront to democracy. After all, people are simply being asked to confirm the decision made read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 02, 2009 18:32 by Henry Silke   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2012 16:39)   image 1 image
Introduction

Is the spectre of mass unemployment a permanent feature in post-boom Ireland? Ireland’s economic boom was predicated on a policy of low tax entry to the European free market as well as an unsustainable housing boom. The Irish state’s response to the global crisis seems to be deflationary policies in a ‘race to the bottom’ between peripheral and semi-peripheral economies. The weakness of indigenous Irish capitalism and the living costs in debt ridden Ireland do not leave much room for growth in private sector employment. The private sector has never been able to provide sustainable full employment in the history of the state. This article explores this thesis and maintains that workers should not depend on the private sector and its political servants to provide decent employment for all.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin   image 1 image
Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:24 by Workers Solidarity   text 3 comments (last - sunday september 06, 2009 14:07)   image 1 image
The WSM is calling for a No vote in the 2nd Lisbon referendum on the grounds that people in Ireland can do a lot better than a choice between the clowns in the Dáil or those in Brussels. We oppose the EU's policies of privatisation, militarisation and attacks on workers' conditions but don’t insult people’s intelligence by saying that our current society in Ireland with its severe recession, diabolical public services and corruption is anything better. The major lack of democracy in our lives is not between us and the EU but between the Irish government and us. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:41 by Gregor Kerr   text 7 comments (last - monday october 12, 2009 20:52)   image 2 images
Invitation to meeting Saturday 3rd Oct read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:38 by fotdmike   text 14 comments (last - thursday september 03, 2009 21:34)   image 20 images
Climate Campers protest at Shell in solidarity with the Rossport campaigners read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 11:36 by Reel Thing   text 8 comments (last - friday september 04, 2009 18:30)   image 9 images
Coca-Cola likes to sponsor sport events to promote its brands. But with threatening to destroy 130 workplaces in distribution in Ireland, Coca-Cola Hellenic clearly has scored an own goal. SIPTU members visited the Irish Football Semi Finals Saturday August 30 to inform fans about the companies plan, threatening the livelihoods of the workers and their families amidst a deep recession. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Monday August 31, 2009 15:53 by Carmel Diviney   text 5 comments (last - monday october 12, 2009 11:36)   image 9 images
Ireland's second Feis Teamhra took place at the Hill of Tara yesterday. It is hoped that this event, a celebration of music and poetry will become an annual event. read full story / add a comment
One voice?
national / eu / event notice Monday August 31, 2009 08:19 by left wing individual   text 11 comments (last - thursday september 03, 2009 18:17)   image 2 images
This is a call-out to all anti-Lisbon groups and individuals to come to Dublin on September 12 to rally outside the GPO and to distribute information about the dreaded European Constitution or Lisbon treaty. read full story / add a comment
Obviously other Latin American leaders are made of stronger stuff.
international / summit mobilisations / news report Monday August 31, 2009 04:17 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - monday august 31, 2009 17:42)   image 1 image
Medical authorities in Colombia have confirmed that president Uribe is currently infected with AH1N1 (or the dreaded swine flu). Colombian state press officer César Mauricio Velásquez told press that on return from the emergency summit called in Argentina to discuss new US bases to Colombia, Uribe suffered an exceptionally high fever and all the usual symptoms at which point they did the tests (& one presumes brewed up some chicken broth and ordered in some tamiflu). The Colombian state medical officer Juan Gonzalo López confirmed to press that the president is receiving clinical care at the presidential palace rather than in hospital.
On a trivial point this of course makes him the second head of state in the world to contract Swine Flu. The first was the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias who caught the virus during his attempts to broker a settlement between the legitimate and usurpist regimes of Honduras earlier this summer. read full story / add a comment
poet Liz Gallagher
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday August 31, 2009 02:09 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, September 11th, 8pm. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Town House, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec & Maureen Ryan.
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Annual Eve of All-Ireland Rally , Saturday 19 September 2009 , Dublin.
national / history and heritage / event notice Sunday August 30, 2009 15:19 by Sharon.   text 10 comments (last - sunday september 20, 2009 23:42)   image 2 images
On Saturday , September 19 , 2009 , Republicans will hold a Rally in Dublin in support of republican prisoners . read full story / add a comment
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dublin / education / press release Sunday August 30, 2009 14:24 by Educate to be Free   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 02, 2009 23:47)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin's Saturday stall became the centre of a protest today against the latest attack by the Fianna Fail/Green Government against education. Over thirty activists gathered at the GPO to distribute leaflets explaining the cuts.

According to Dublin spokesperson, Marcas Ó Mhaoldomhnaigh, many parents have been hit with bills costing hundreds of euro for books and school uniforms.

"Many schools are set to lose special needs assistants and other vital resources. This government did not invest properly in the education system during the boom years and now we are seeing school children and their parents paying for their mistakes, it is completely unacceptable. Free primary education will truly be a thing of the past if we allow our schools to be further stripped of resources." read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday August 30, 2009 13:20 by Conor   text 20 comments (last - saturday september 26, 2009 18:47)   image 3 images
Meet at the gates of Stephans Green park/top of Grafton street, Friday 25 September at 6pm. read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / news report Sunday August 30, 2009 11:18 by Raymond Deane   text 41 comments (last - tuesday january 05, 2010 16:38)   image 8 images   video 4 video files
On Saturday 29th August, the indefatigable activist Tommy Donnellan of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) was arrested on the street in Galway while engaged in legitimate advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and against the Lisbon Treaty that will set in formaldehyde the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy that is so detrimental to that cause read full story / add a comment
buy cheap then sell high - the capitalist way.... how much do you think you're worth dead?
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday August 30, 2009 03:49 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 14:13)   image 1 image
An excellent piece of investigative journalism from the German "Spiegel" magazine Martina Keller and Markus Grill has just been translated into English. It examines a US owned company which through its German subsidiary harvests human body parts (termed tissue) from dead Ukrainians. The illegal global trade in organ and tissue harvesting for so long associated in the public mind with the Chinese penal system and to a lesser extent the theft of organs from Indian peasants has not ended. Rather it has moved out of the gulags and slums into Wall Street trading on the cutting edge of medical treatment providers. The other side of Obama's health care, if you like. Inspired by the article (linked to in this text) I'd like to raise awareness about how the rich cheat the dead (if not death) & perhaps provoke thought amongst the agnostics, humanists, atheists amongst us about the moral value we place (if any) on dead bodies. read full story / add a comment
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