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kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 21:11 by sean moraghan
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Charlie McGreevy having introduced Medical Cards as an automatic right for the over 70s in 2001 in an attempt by Fianna Fail to win support at the upcoming General Election, another Fianna Fail Minister for Finance, Brian Lenehan, then proposed taking away this automatic right and reintroducing a means test. Anyone with an income in access of e241.00 per week was to lose their Medical Card. That meant people over seventy who had worked and paid taxes all their lives and may have had a small occupational pension would have lost their medical cards. It was a disgrace. All this is in an effort to save e100 million! Yet the same Minister for finance had no problem providing a guarantee to the banks of almost e500 billion! Northern Ireland, which experienced nothing like the wealth that occurred in the Republic of Ireland during the years of the Celtic Tiger, is about to introduce free medical prescriptions for all, but then, they enjoy universal free health care. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges" read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 21, 2008 17:59 by Gregor Kerr
Below is the text of a leaflet currently being distributed among INTO members.
Please feel free to download, print off, copy and distribute. While it's written specifically for INTO members, the arguments in it are obviously applicable across all unions so feel free to adapt as necessary. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. read full story / add a comment ![]()
offaly / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 16:34 by Pat Muldowney
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The Aubane Historical Society Cordially invites you to the launch by Senator Pat Moylan of Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions By Paddy Heaney, Pat Muldowney, Philip O’Connor, Dr Brian P Murphy, and others On Thursday, 6th November, at 8pm, in Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore read full story / add a comment ![]()
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 16:24 by Fred Johnston
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Does a pilot of a rescue helicopter have nine lives? Author of 'Nine Lives,' the recent book of his time in a Search and Rescue helicopter, David Courtney will read from his work for the Western Writers' Centre at The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, on Thursday, November 6th at 8pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday October 21, 2008 15:52 by RSF-Vín/An Ostair
The revelation that eight SAS operatives are to give evidence against three men accused of engaging in Republican activity in North Armagh shows that sinister British elements remain active in Ireland, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said. read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 13:58 by Miriam Cotton
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The partial climbdown on medical cards for the elderly is deceptive: the clawback by Harney and her circling privatising vultures is to be the introduction of legislation to end automatic entitlement to medical cards for the over 70s - the means by which she will secure the same outcome as she did last week. She'll just have to go a bit more slowly at it than she at first thought. If you live in the Clonakilty area come to the march tonight and register your feelings - speakers will include representatives from across the political spectrum - the march is not politically aligned in any way. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday October 21, 2008 13:20 by CÓB 1 attached file
Belfast's Famous Fancy Dress Extravagance The Ugly Bugs Ball in aid of Palestine's Child returns this year to Conway Mill on Saturday 25th October 2008 read full story / add a comment ![]()
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday October 21, 2008 12:34 by Airport Worker
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SIPTU members at Galway Airport have voted decisively for industrial action because of the airport management’s decision to impose cuts to workers's hours rather than work through the normal industrial relations process. read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 21, 2008 10:17 by Stuart Williams
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A World Poverty Commemorative Stone, crafted by Irish artist Stuart McGrath, was unveiled on Custom House Quay during this year’s commemoration to mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The work is a collaborative effort undertaken by The 17th October Group, (a coalition of over 25 anti-poverty community groups and NGOs) and Dublin City Council and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. This year events also took place in Arklow, Thurles, Shannon, Westport, Tipperary Town, Rosmuc, Letterkenny, Blanchardstown, and Belfast. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 20:26 by seomraspraoi
It’s the return of the All singing all dancing Seomra Spraoi fundraiser quiz… Lower Deck Friday 24th Oct 8pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 20, 2008 19:19 by Polly tix
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Students have occupied part of the Smurfit business school as Lenihan visits read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 20, 2008 18:50 by Paula Geraghty
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People before profit organised a picket of Michael Mulcahy's constituency clinic in the Liberties from which he was absent. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'. Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." read full story / add a comment
cork / arts and media / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 17:14 by Gaelle Croisier
For the first time in Ireland, the CYCLE CHIC Fashion Show will present how cycling can be fashionable and stylish. European and local designers will show you their latest innovations of trendy bikes, smart clothes and funky accessories. The event will take place on Saturday 1st of November 2008, from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm in the Millennium Hall. The venue is situated in the heart of the city. The event is free and open to the public. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Monday October 20, 2008 16:47 by Fred Johnston
Short Story Competition - Closing Date November 30th read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / environment / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 15:59 by Shell to Sea
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Shell to Sea are holding a party for Maura Harrington and the fishermen - Pat, Johnathan & Kevin - who stood up to Shell. It will take place in McGraths, Pollathomais on Saturday 25th of October from around 10pm. Music will be by Tony Cawley and Chantelle Padden All welcome for a great night of craic agus ceol. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 14:50 by Over The Edge
Irish Times critic for October Over The Edge: Open Reading The October Over The Edge: Open Reading will take place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, October 30th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Noel Harrington, John Kenny & Eamonn Harrigan. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday October 20, 2008 12:25 by Vince
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On the afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by a sniper as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. That infamous weekend was the beginning of 24 hour saturation television news coverage, the moment when the post-war generation of baby boomers received their first initiation of the brutal underbelly beneath the American dream, it was the beginning of the political drama of the 1960’s that almost tore the US apart as the lid was lifted on America’s unease with its superpower status, the divide between rich and poor and the cancer of racial injustice. It is a drama that is unresolved and still poisons American society today. As a new young energetic African-American President appears to have the White House within his reach, it appears there is a chance that the festering wound opened in 1963 may finally be closed. Or maybe not. read full story / add a comment |
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