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The Hillsborough Law is well-intentioned, but its effect will be to transfer yet more power from Parliament to unelected judges ? the opposite of what is needed to restore public trust and democratic accountability.
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Lockdowns could have been "avoided entirely" during Covid had ministers?more quickly?imposed "stringent restrictions" such as social distancing and face masks, the COVID-19 Inquiry has concluded.
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Labour?s new definition of Islamophobia is not wanted by the majority of the public in any form, with just a fifth backing it, a poll has found, amid a free speech backlash.
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offsite link Call Prostitutes ?Sexual Entrepreneurs?, Say Police Thu Nov 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Police chiefs have been accused of treating prostitution as a normal job and effectively decriminalising it by telling officers they should call prostitutes "sex workers" or "sexual entrepreneurs".
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's asylum 'crackdown' is not nearly enough to stop the flow, says Juliet Samuel in the Times. It still leaves Britain looking like a utopia for far too many.
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international / environment / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:14 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 14:31)   video 3 video files
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) stands accused of breaching EU law by recommending approval of GM crops, animal feed and food - based on risk assessments provided by the applicant companies. This week, Michael O'Callaghan of GM-free Ireland interviewed the agency's former boss, who speaks frankly about how EFSA can be reformed.

Watch the video interview: www.gmfreeireland.org/efsa/

Interview transcript: www.gmfreeireland.org/efsa/GMFI-PatrickWall-interview.pdf read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:06 by Maureen Gallagher
Launch of poetry collection by poet Maureen Gallagher. read full story / add a comment
Lenin (or is it Sparks?)
national / anti-capitalism / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:06 by Lenin12343   image 1 image
After analysing reports and leaks from the '21st Century Labour'
review of party structures headed up by Greg Sparks, the 'Labour
Leninists Faction' within the Party has strongly endorsed the
recommendations as a welcome return to sound organisational
principles.
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Jean-Marc Rouillan, "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
international / crime and justice / news report Friday December 05, 2008 11:55 by Vendeval   text 6 comments (last - monday december 15, 2008 16:35)   image 1 image
1987 saw the French state arrest four members of the former libertarian communist armed group Action Directe who were then charged & sentenced to life imprisonment for a career of terrorist assassinations mostly targetted against business individuals during the period of '79 to '87.

Last year Jean-Marc Rouillan was allowed "semi-liberty" probation status outside of prison. Then he gave an interview to the French "L'Express" newspaper exalting terrorism and armed struggle. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday December 05, 2008 11:54 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 17:02)
from RTE.ie
Ognir is offering via bittorrent... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 21:39 by Michael Murphy   text 46 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 14:37)
Proposals by the Socialist Party for a Local Election Socialist Alliance have been rejected by the Socialist Workers Party, People Before Profit Alliance and the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 04, 2008 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 18:52 by SeamusO'Rourke   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 11, 2010 12:26)
WE cannot Afford Incineration In Dublin or Ireland read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 04, 2008 18:27 by John Lannon   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 10, 2008 13:39)
The Congolese community in Limerick and their Irish Friends will hold a demonstration march on Thursday 11th December to highlight the ongoing war, violence against women, and involvement of children in armies/militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 04, 2008 17:09 by Skeff
Humanist Association of Ireland Meeting
7 December
4pm - 6pm
Buswell's Hotel,
Molesworth Street
Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 15:52 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 18:55)
Despite rightwing media attempts to portray Barack Obama as a covert Muslim during the U.S. Presidential election campaign, his appointment of pro-Israel hard-liner Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff indicates that there will be no change in American policy toward Israel/Palestine. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Thursday December 04, 2008 14:54 by .
Protestors have locked themselves into the TDs constituency offices in Dublin and Galway to protest against government cutbacks in education read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / news report Thursday December 04, 2008 13:50 by Jay   text 23 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 14:44)   image 5 images
Over 20 students from UCD have occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees.

The occupation is organised by the campaigning group, Free Education for Everyone (FEE), and is part of a national day of protest across the country against fees organised by FEE. Protests are also planned in Cork and Galway today. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 02:52 by John Fitzgerald   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 19:30)   image 1 image

My book Bad Hare Days is generating a lot of controversy, not unexpected given the long running debate on the ethics of live hare coursing in Ireland. I can accept criticism, but not the bullying and the blind unreasoning hatred that my legitimate opposition to this so called sport has elicited from some coursing fans read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 21:55 by .   text 2 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 00:03)
Speakers and Discussion
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 03, 2008 20:24 by Nixie Boran   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 18:29)   1 attached file
Why did Eamonn Gilmore’s New Labour pre-Christmas jolly in Kilkenny (Nov 29 – 30) blow up in his face?

Who is the shadowy eminence grise behind Gilmore's Twenty First Century Commission?

Why were the party faithful reduced to discussing leaked extracts from the Twenty First Century Commission report in Kilkenny?
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national / education / news report Wednesday December 03, 2008 17:37 by Mark C   text 4 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 20:00)
The recently launched "Doodle 4 Google" campaign is a slick method of promoting Google to school children, without their consent, and usually without the consent of their parents. It is a scheme that is heavy on Google brand recognition, but very low on curricular relevance; this is something that CCFE has come to expect from commercial schemes that are promoted in schools. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 16:38 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link.

IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty?

Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation .

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:19 by Laura Dowling
To mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Front Line would like to invite you to attend “Defending Life with Life”, an exhibition of photographs illustrating the lives of human right defenders on the frontline.

These stunning photographs were taken by photographer Mark Condren to illustrate a series of five special features in The Sunday Tribune documenting the lives of human rights defenders at risk in Honduras, Western Sahara, North East India, Serbia and Kenya.

The exhibition will run from December the 8th until December 23rd, 9am-5pm, in European Union House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
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