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donegal / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday March 29, 2008 02:59 by Patricia McCafferty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 02:20)
Bundoran has the most scenic views of the Donegal Bay, Dartry Mountains of Leitrim and a coastline accessible to everyone. We preserved our old historical buildings and respected our community atmosphere.

In the last twelve years Bundoran Town Council has allowed Planning corruption erode the very HEART of Bundoran and now the greedy developers and certain Corrupt Councillors want to destroy our Foreshore not or enhancement but to built apartment blocks on the most beautiful coastline in ireland. In the last twelve years the population of Bundoran has decreased now these greedy developers want to destroy Bundorans Sealife.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 21, 2008 13:07 by D. Rongbech
A New Yorker who was a witness at the scene of the World Trade Centre bombing in 1993 has filed documentation in the Supreme Court that the Ministry for Justice here suppressed evidence in her claim for asylum. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2008 19:34 by Brian   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 23, 2010 12:04)   image 1 image
This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church.
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national / environment / news report Sunday March 16, 2008 00:02 by eeekkk   text 41 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 01:13)   image 5 images
Have heard from two reliable sources that Squeek has left the tunnel at Rath Lugh. She left with Gardai and some of her family present. The Gardai have taken her away from the site as far as I am aware.

Here's hoping for 100 to take her place. Tara is THE symbol of dead-end corruption and anti-democratic government in ireland. The dictatorship of the developers. Pitting people against each other.

Well done Squeek. Takes a lot of nerve. read full story / add a comment
Patricia McKenna: critical of Eamon Ryan over gas giveaway
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday March 11, 2008 15:29 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 11 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 09:48)   image 1 image
The giveaway of ireland's natural gas is a far greater corruption than anything the Mahon Tribunal is likely to uncover, according to Patricia McKenna of the Green Party. The former MEP was also critical of her Green Party colleague, Minister Eamon Ryan. She is speaking at a public meeting in Dublin this Thursday, March 13th at 7pm at the ATGWU Hall in Middle Abbey St, organised by the Dublin Shell to Sea campaign. Other speakers include journalist Frank Connolly and Micheál Ó Seighin, one of the Rossport Five. Event notice: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86541 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 06, 2008 16:11 by larry sweeney
larry sweeneys land has been illegally embargoed for 6 yrs because of ill founded proceedings in cavan circuit court. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday March 01, 2008 19:04 by Darragh Aiken, Civil Engineer   text 7 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 15:21)   1 attached file
In the run up to the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, there is much that is unsaid as regards our electoral history and the behaviour of the EU towards its honest politicians. This article sets out to give voice to those Europen politicains that have been ignored by Irish media and provides perspective on the proposed referendum. Suggestions for future referendums and laws are proposed that would serve the common good. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / eu / news report Wednesday February 20, 2008 22:16 by Concerned Citizens Action Committee   text 210 comments (last - thursday august 28, 2008 10:28)   image 21 images
The giveaway of a public beach to developers while 6,000 objections ignored. Here corruption is exposed. Most people however get to confused to understand the corruption but do not be fooled. None of the usual 'campaigners' bothered to fight this corruption and when delegates from our group went to a public meeting in Co.Dublin and brought up what is happening in Greystones,they were not bothered listening. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday February 19, 2008 15:54 by Seamus Mac Lochlainn
A great Irish Republican patriot was buried today, Brendan Hughes. I was thinking and below are a few thoughts on what for me Republicanism is all about. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday January 29, 2008 10:51 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 8 comments (last - thursday january 31, 2008 22:17)
This past Saturday, a van load of pilgrims en route to the Festival of St Brigid in Kildare were stopped by the Irish Special Branch. We were questioned under Section 31 of the Offences Against the State Act and a detective accused me of being a terrorist. The paradigm shifts evident in this event are of concern and worth consideration.
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international / environment / other press Wednesday January 09, 2008 12:01 by staring at rats   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 07, 2008 09:33)   image 2 images
Really quite a miscellany of human interest stories this one.

Naples is notorious throughout Europe for its rubbish problem, which for many is blamed on the intransigence of the Comora or Napolitan mafia who sabotage every attempt to provide the city with incineration facilities. Over the Christmas the Italian military were sent into the city to clean up mountains of household waste which quite simply has nowhere to go. Today the Italian state has appointed a "garbage czar" to sort it out. Meanwhile the Peoples' Republic of China is to ban plastic bags in an attempt to stop pollution in its land. Very thought provoking. & there is a spat in Italy between a bishop and family members over plans to exhume & display the body of Padre Pio the patron saint of "January blues". read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 07, 2008 10:25 by Gary MacLennan   text 24 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 00:09)   image 1 image
**Accessing "Route Irish" on the net

If you have a high speed connection, I'd suggest that you ight-click (pc) or ctrl-lick (mac) on this link and download to your desktop
http://www.archive.org/download/RouteIrish/Route.Irish....X.avi

Or you can go to
http://www.archive.org/details/RouteIrish
and watch online.
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 02, 2008 11:36 by Geoffrey Cooling   text 13 comments (last - friday april 18, 2008 18:59)
Behind the current drugs problem is an underlying moral social issue. read full story / add a comment
The Henge Site is In the Ownership of the NRA since 26-12-07
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday December 28, 2007 19:42 by Tara Support   text 11 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 00:47)   image 8 images
It is not so easy to build a time line on the issue of Tara and all that this entails.

For starters the issue began many years ago and the campaigns have largely evolved
with new people coming on to help as was necessitated, however, the General Election of
2007 provided a useful focus and of course saw a corrupt Minister for Environment
replaced by one who is morally inept and constitutionally Hamstrung.. but I will give it a go.
http://www.savetara.com/articles/2007/122707_contractor....html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 02, 2007 23:14 by David Morrison   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 15:08)
The reality is that ireland is now firmly in the imperialist camp in world affairs alongside the US/UK. In four crucial areas of foreign policy – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Palestine – ireland is fully behind the US/UK in their aggressive behaviour towards the Muslim world. You will search in vain in the Programme for Government for any mention of actual policy – past, present or future – on Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Palestine. But it is a racing certainty that, despite the presence of the Green Party, the new government will continue to support

(a) the US/UK wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;
(b) the US/UK punishment of Iran for enriching uranium, which is Iran’s right as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); and
(c) the US/UK backing for the Israeli occupation and colonisation of Arab lands.
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limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday November 18, 2007 21:24 by Workers Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 18, 2007 21:36)   1 attached file
We all enjoy the Sunday papers - war, occupation, terror, spending cuts, corruption and climate change. What they fail to present us with is a meaningful alternative, a response to the bad news, a project we can all get stuck into - one which can liberate us both as individuals and as a society. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday September 14, 2007 07:54 by Brian   text 24 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 13:22)   image 1 image
An attempt to answer some of the criticisms of 'conspiracy theorists', to show that factors in modern society make it all too possible for conspiracies to exist, and difficult for them to be exposed. read full story / add a comment
WSM image of Dear Dick...
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 08, 2007 14:58 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 10:11)   image 2 images
The Irish Times this Morning 08/09/09 features headlines regarding Eamon Ryan's
'Signal' that the Green Party may be supporting the Referendum on the EU proposed for
this country in 2008. The paper's Front page states that Minister Ryan believes that the
'accrued benefits' of EU membership signal a change in attitude by the Greens toward
their EU policy. This is media manipulation of the highest order which accomplishes two
things:-

1. It assures investors in Corporate Europe that the Greens are 'onside'.
2.It is part of a campaign instigated by Dick Roche TD, who assumes responsibility for
both selling the public and manistream media the benefits of EU expansion and
corporatism.

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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday September 03, 2007 10:11 by Brian   text 1 comment (last - friday august 08, 2008 11:11)
This is a theory which attempts to shed light on the obscure origins of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday August 22, 2007 16:26 by A Green Man   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2007 16:40)
Cultural Conservationists stop work on Tara valley, Irelands heart of ancient heritage,by M3 Climate Criminals.
International Climate Concern actions start early for frontline Earth defence activists.

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