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Green and Blue walk: Dublin's Metamorphosis... "Botanic Spine": Urban greenway and CPUL
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday August 09, 2008 16:11 by dunk   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 10, 2008 15:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file   audio 2 audio files
2.30 meet at CHQ (previously called Stack A) in Dublins Docklands, walk along a proposed urban greenway for Dublin city, along the Royal Canal, Botanic Gardens, visit urban food production zones, mountjoy linear park, Blessington basin, city green zones, finishing in Dublin Castle 7pm.

This is an EASA event and is open to all the public, we will walk and talk, imagine what Dublin as an eco city might look like and think about strategies to turn these BOLD eco ideas into tomorrows realities...
Bring decent walking boots, raingear and food to share. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday August 09, 2008 16:00 by shane mc loughlin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 12, 2008 02:47)
Michael Casey, a former chief economist today wrote an article in 'The Irish Times' entitled "Killing the myth that Ireland's wealth has poisoned its values" in which he attempting to dispel the 'myth' that wealth has poisoned Irish peoples values. In response, he is most certainly correct in believing that wealth cannot 'determine' a societies derision of values, but neglects to paint a clearer understanding of how wealth and values converge. In response, it could be argued that wealth opens the door to new 'negative' value thinking as it can close the door to others. Furthermore, as I will show, some of his own comments in the article require further careful consideration.
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(c ) Michael Gallagher all three images.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday August 09, 2008 11:07 by Michael Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 15:20)   image 3 images
I was on my way to the printers (to get photos printed for anti war exhibition) yesterday (Fri. Aug.8th) and came across this protest/vigil that was organised by the 'Burma Action Ireland' group.
I was surprised to see this, as I had heard or read nothing about it, I was even more surprised, given the important significance of the date, 8-8-88, that it wasn't advertised in the events section on indymedia.

I have my own ideas why this was, but would any of you care to comment?

While I am here, I will post some of the text from the press release. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday August 09, 2008 10:25 by Ciaron   text 9 comments (last - friday october 17, 2008 06:51)
Walking through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, after the Paul Kelly's gig http://www.paulkelly.com.au/ last night, I thought I should write this reflection. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Saturday August 09, 2008 01:03 by Bernie Wright
HUNT BREAKFAST WAS A DOG”S DINNER
Fox hunters get toasted as breakfast seminar loses keynote speaker and gets infiltrated.

A seminar organised by the Hunting Association of Ireland to address the ‘vegan agenda/animal rights threat’ has been described as ‘farcical and ill-informed’ by the Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR), one of the leading animal rights groups in Ireland.

The organiser of the event Mr Gavin Duffy was left with a large dose of egg on his face when Padraig Walsh, President of the IFA, who was billed as a keynote speaker at the event, vehemently distanced himself from the agenda of the Hunting Association of Ireland.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday August 09, 2008 00:49 by FactSeeker   text 32 comments (last - thursday august 14, 2008 17:58)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Amidst the fog of war, and lack of media on the ground, it's anybody's guess as to what is actually going on there at the minute. It is claimed that Russian aircraft attacked military and other targets in Georgia (Russia denies any such attacks happened, and Georgia claims to have shot down some of the aircraft) and a large number of Russian tanks has crossed the border. Each side claims the other fired the first shot. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / news report Friday August 08, 2008 21:57 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 11:33)
Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case saythat Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time. Kobra is a victim of domestic violence who was forced into prostitution by her abusive husband in order to support his heroin addiction. He was murdered by one of Kobra’s “clients” who sympathized with her plight. Kobra has already served 8 years in prison as an accessory to her husband’s murder. The man who murdered her husband also served 8 years in prison and was free after paying blood money and undergoing 100 lashes, while Kobra faces imminent stoning to death for adultery - the prostitution her husband forced upon her. Yet another example of Iranian justice. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Friday August 08, 2008 20:19 by Richard Walsh
RSF have suggested that the flying of the Union flag in the 26-Counties may be linked to M. Sarkozy's comments... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday August 08, 2008 19:02 by James R
An article on Argentina's assembly movement several years on from the perspective of someone there as a tourist of the pickets, published in Totally Dublin this month and available online at http://soundtracksforthem.com/blog/?cat=204 read full story / add a comment
SpunOut.ie
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday August 08, 2008 18:33 by Volunteer   image 1 image
SpunOut.ie, a leading National Youth Organisation, is calling on the young people of Ireland to 'take control and become active citizens'. The charity has undergone a major redevelopment and is today re-launching the website www.SpunOut.ie to the nation.

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derry / history and heritage / event notice Friday August 08, 2008 17:25 by The Lark   text 2 comments (last - monday august 18, 2008 22:59)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan has urged young republicans to mobilise for the annual Hunger Strike march, on Sunday 17th August and which is due to be held in Derry for the first time in 27 years.

Republican youth from throughout Ireland, will form up at Bishop’s Field Green, Creggan Shops, from 2pm on the day of the march.
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outside the hotel
national / animal rights / news report Friday August 08, 2008 13:44 by vegan agenda   text 28 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 01:00)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Animal Rights groups were tipped off that the Hunting Association of Ireland was going to be hosting a breakfast seminar this morning to unite groups and companies which have been the subject of protest for their treatment of animals.

The main speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Dennis Foster (US Army, ret'd) who was described as an ''expert on animal rights terrorists" .
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 07, 2008 23:41 by Mark C   text 10 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 18:23)   video 1 video file
The mainstream media continues to broadcast sanitised images from embedded reporters that have passed through the official channels in order to lessen the effects of the brutality of the so-called "War on Terror". Below is a collection of images gleaned from the web that show the reality of the "War on Terror", the human cost. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday August 07, 2008 23:03 by Candle in the Wind
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders.
But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday August 07, 2008 19:01 by Arnold Capp
Idealists and utopians would claim that this phenomenon is the beginning of the disentanglement of the public sphere and political debate from the traditional dominance of political parties, big business, corporate media and vested interests who dictate what can and cannot be discussed, what is relevant and what is news-worthy. The political participation of the ordinary citizen could eventually be conducted entirely through electronic means. Instead of representative government it is suggested in the future technology will enable all citizens to engage in the ongoing political debate. The pattern whereby citizens vote at the end of each government term with paper ballots could be replaced with a form of direct democracy. History would have turned full circle as a global village like the ancient Greek city states would decide its priorities bypassing the traditional power structure of wealth and power.

But is this realistic? read full story / add a comment
never one around when you want one... Gardaí at the Bellanaboy Shell site
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 07, 2008 18:01 by nuachtan   text 17 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 21:42)   image 3 images
It's been reported that the gardaí have spent 11,000,000 euro on policing the protests against the Shell scheme to install a production pipeline and refinery in Kilcommon County Mayo.

The amount is more than half of what is being spent on fighting organised crime (€20M) and the Irish Independent newspaper reports that Garda sources are concerned that policing the protests is draining overtime budgets.

In May this year the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission recommended that there should be a general review of the way public protests are policed, in the light of more than 70 complaints received about the Corrib protests. GSOC wrote to Minister for Justice proposing that it carry out an examination of management of crowd protests and civil disobedience. However, the minister turned down the proposal, as he “did not feel that it was appropriate at that time”.
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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday August 07, 2008 17:24 by Grace Walsh   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 14, 2008 22:03)
The Causeway project will bring together 4 groups of young people from the ROI, NI and Israel. The latter group are representative of both the Israeli Jewish community and the Palestinian community in Israel. All the young people involved are working, volunteering or active in peace building organisations connected to the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The participants have considerable experience in the various strands of this peace building work – peace organisations, NGOs, cross-community work, youth work, human advocacy work, dialogue work, etc… Those participants from the ROI and Northern Ireland, have a good working knowledge of the conflict in Israel / Palestine as well as practical experience in these various fields. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 07, 2008 11:56 by Denis Murphy   text 1 comment (last - friday august 08, 2008 16:18)
The Free the Old Head of Kinsale Campaign will be running a bus to the Old Head of Kinsale this Sunday, 10th August where the campaign will hold another of it's People's Picnics against the blocking off of public access from this beautiful West Cork headland.

BUS: Sunday, 10th Augst, 12.30pm sharp, departing outside Cork Opera House, Emmet Place. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 07, 2008 11:27 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 20, 2008 16:36)
This is not an accusation - but it is a question, and some Irish reporter should look into this.... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Thursday August 07, 2008 11:07 by Gombeen Man
European Commission acts on complaint by Irish woman. read full story / add a comment
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