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offsite link Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff Wed Oct 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
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With energy bills heading skywards and renewable energy investment on the ropes, Ed Miliband's conference crowd-pleaser was to pledge a law to ban fracking 'forever' ? and sabotage a future Reform administration.
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday February 11, 2008 10:58 by Nora   text 32 comments (last - saturday february 16, 2008 20:17)   image 1 image
It's time that Islamic followers all over especially women, must demand radical progressive change to their religion and the so-called Sharia laws, especially in this very modern century. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 11, 2008 10:35 by ET   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 17, 2008 22:24)
Jose Ramos Horte was a frequent visitor to Ireland as an exiled activist. These days he is the President of East Timor. He was shot in the last 24 hours. Operated on by the Australian military in Dili, he has been flown to Darwin. See link.....

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday February 11, 2008 08:54 by Ciaron   text 14 comments (last - wednesday february 27, 2008 02:19)   image 5 images
BACKGROUND OF THE PINE GAP ACTION
In December 05, four Australian activists ("Christians Against ALL
Terrorism") were arrested while carrying out a citizen's inspection of
the U.S. NSA warfighting base, near isolated Alice Springs, in the
Northern Territory of Australia. www.pinegap6. org

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longford / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 10, 2008 03:12 by Over The Edge
Open-mic at National Writers Group Festival

in the Literature Louge, Clarke's Bar, Dublin Street, Longford Town

on Saturday, February 16th, from 10pm
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:30 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Friday 15, 7.30pm, Royal Dublin Hotel, O'Connell St., Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:25 by Pauline Hadaway
As part of the Belfast Salon’s series of discussions around race, identity and multiculturalism, sociologist Chris Gilligan explores the rise and rise of identity politics in contemporary Northern Ireland. Chris Gilligan is a sociologist based at Aston University, in Birmingham. He has been widely cited for his work on attitudes towards ethnic minorities http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update44.pdf in Northern Ireland and his work on conflict-related trauma http://www.epilogues.net/Perspectives.asp and the peace process

Please RSVP to paulinehadaway@btinternet.com read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Saturday February 09, 2008 19:14 by Jack Russell   text 30 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2008 18:26)   image 14 images
At today's special meeting of Labour Youth in Dublin the Lisbon Treaty is supported. read full story / add a comment
Some Women do need the cars to get the kids and oldies about...
international / consumer issues / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 18:00 by Care-Giver   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 10, 2008 13:46)   image 2 images
''Women in Saudi Arabia are willing to buy your cars. But you need first to to support the
campaign to allow women to drive cars. Write to your government officials make the non-
governmental organisations aware, inform the parliament members in your countries about the
status of women in Saudi Arabia' read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 16:36 by R.
Robert Fisk "interviewed from his home in Ireland" gives a brief interview on the USA's NPR (national public radio) program "Weekend Edition" of Saturday 9th February 2008. A biography of Saddam Hussein purportedly written by Robert Fisk has been circulating in Eqypt. Fisk describes his tracking down of the author and the amusing denouement that follows. Not very important, lightly interesting. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 16:12 by regularreadernotprcompany:)
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

16th Feb 2008 at 11:00 (98 mins) at the - Savoy
€10.00
http://dubliniff.ticketsolve.com/shows/2008/2/16 read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 15:03 by Ronan   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 20, 2008 12:03)   image 1 image
Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign fundraising Table Quiz

Wednesday, 20th of February at 8pm in Broker’s Pub on Dame Street, Dublin 1. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 13:13 by Fanny   text 5 comments (last - saturday june 07, 2008 22:55)
In his 28th Jan 2008, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger with withering outrage attacks the "ritual danse macabre" that is the US presidential election : Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan. Hillary Clinton, another bomber, is anti-feminist. John McCain’s one distinction is that he has personally bombed a country. They all believe the US is not subject to the rules of human behaviour ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday February 09, 2008 09:28 by Des Dalton   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 09, 2008 12:55)

Republican Sinn Fein Vice President describes the announcement by Bathcelor's that it is to close its Athy plant as " a dark day in the economic history of Athy". read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Friday February 08, 2008 20:12 by C Murray   image 1 image
This is a short piece in general response to queries received regarding the setting up of
sites on existing available free open software systems.

There are many women's groups currently developing tech and doing road shows for women
who wish to focus their community voices onto IMC type systems. This is in response to
a developing awareness of a need within women's political communities for 'a room of
one's own' to work on issues and themes that never quite make the radar.

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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday February 08, 2008 19:14 by Irish Basque Committees
These are hard times for the Basque Country. We are calling on international solidarity to mobilise, to denounce the denial of political and social rights and to support the right of the Basque Country to self-determination. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday February 08, 2008 18:38 by Cian Prendiville   text 14 comments (last - wednesday april 06, 2011 23:43)   image 4 images   1 attached file
In January’s Finance Bill VAT on condoms was lowered slightly from 21% to 13.5%. Any reduction should be welcomed, the crucial question is why, given the problems with STIs, is there VAT on condoms, or indeed why are they not free? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 16:24 by Miriam   text 2 comments (last - friday february 08, 2008 17:53)
Over a million dead Iraqis, several thousand US soldiers killed in action, several thousands more soldiers dead by suicide, an even great number of soldiers maimed and disabled. All those lives for non existent weapons of mass destruction and a false allegation of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda - yet George Bush thinks it is funny. read full story / add a comment
Patricia Mc Kenna (Green Party)
international / eu / news report Friday February 08, 2008 15:58 by Michael Gallagher   text 4 comments (last - wednesday february 13, 2008 01:30)   image 10 images
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 15:15 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 16, 2008 20:37)
Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran faced pro-war journalist Nick Cohen of The Observer in London’s Soho Theatre on January 29. There are links below to an artiocle about the debate and to an mp3 of the proceedings.

Yassamine said the peoples of Iran have no wish to be a pariah on the international scene and have a deep antipathy to the theocracy, they also do not want their country to be “humiliated - either by sanctions or air strikes”.
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galway / arts and media / press release Friday February 08, 2008 12:28 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing Competition:
€1,000 in prizes plus major reading opportunity

Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2008
sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Bank of Ireland, Kelly’s Office Supplies and Des & Mary Kavanagh read full story / add a comment
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