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Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
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offsite link Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has claimed that Brexit created the small boats crisis and the migrant boats should be called 'Farage boats'. This is nonsense, says David Barrett, and even Oxford University's Migration Observatory agrees.
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Kevin Higgins
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday November 14, 2007 00:09 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The Friday Lunchtime Reading Series in Galway City Museum

Poetry in the Right Place

presents

Kevin Higgins

introduced by Mags Treanor

on Friday November 16th at 1 pm.

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Film projected on to wall of Shell HQ
international / environment / feature Tuesday November 13, 2007 23:50 by Tadhg McGrath   text 12 comments (last - wednesday november 28, 2007 16:14)   image 7 images
A large crowd braved the cold evening weather to attend the first Irish screening of the documentary on the trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight - "Don't Let Shell Kill Again" , which was appropriately projected onto the outside wall of the Shell headquarters building at 52 Lower Leeson Street in Dublin, on the 12th anniversary of the executions.

Sister Majella McCarron, in what will probably be her last public appearance, made a short speech to provide a context for the film, remembering Saro-Wiwa and the others who were executed at the behest of Shell, after a series of events which shocked the world in 1995.

Sister Majella gave us an insight into the situation in Ogoniland today, and Senator David Norris read an excerpt from Saro-Wiwa's speech at his sentencing hearing in Port Harcourt, when he and his co-defendants heard that the special military tribunal had decreed that they were to be hanged.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 22:00 by Screening group   image 1 image
Venue: Seomra Spraoi

4, Mary's Abbey D1

Suggested Donation: Waged/Unwaged 2.50/2.00

Directions: Coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel Street, large grey-blue building (blue door) on your right, old Melody Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant. It is on the Luas track.

time: 7.30

If you want to screen a feature/short/documentary/music video..........

e-mail

screeninggroup@hushmail.com

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Front Cover
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 21:16 by RBR   text 5 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 09:15)   image 1 image
The Autumn 2007 issue of Red & Black Revolution is back from the printers and can be bought from any WSM member for €1. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 20:09 by Democracy and Policing   text 12 comments (last - thursday november 29, 2007 16:59)   image 1 image
How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people read full story / add a comment
tyrone / crime and justice / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 19:36 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin (RSF) has condemned those responsible for the arrest operation carried out in County Tyrone this morning (13th November). read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 18:56 by I.W.U. Dublin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 16:52)
The I.W.U. extends its support and solidarity to the Dublin Bus workers on the picket line at Harristown depot. The action of the workers is just, and commands the support of the working people. read full story / add a comment
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offaly / arts and media / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 17:57 by John Molloy   image 1 image
Bass-baritone John Molloy returns to his native Birr following a successful year touring Egypt, China, UK and Switzerland and here in Ireland with the RTE Concert Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra. He recently completed an Irish tour in the title role of Opera Theatre Company’s The Marriage of Figaro. John is joined by Lynda O’Connor, one of Ireland’s finest virtuosic violinists and Camerata Ireland Musician of the Year. Accompanied by acclaimed pianist Mairéad Hurley, the programme includes the haunting Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Monti’s riveting Czardas, Arias by Verdi and the popular show-tunes of Alan Jay Lerner. The songs of James Lynam Molloy will also feature to mark the forthcoming anniversary of the Offaly born Composers death. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 13, 2007 16:55 by Aragon   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 20:20)
'Particiaptory democracy' is not something we have heard much of from Labour over the last decade or two. Interesting therefore that the term should fetch up in arch pragmatist and moderniser Fergus Finlay's Irish Examiner column today. The piece was a kind of starting shot for the Labour Party conference taking place this coming weekend. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 16:42 by Grace Walsh
A special information evening and discussion is taking place on Wednesday 21st of November at 7.30pm in Seomra Spraoi on recent and past events in Burma. The event is organised jointly by Voluntary Service International and Burma Action Ireland and will higlight the need to maintain focus on Burma and current events there.
€3 entrance will be collected at the door and divided between Seomra Spraoi, VSI and Burma Action Ireland. read full story / add a comment
Domestic Visits Room, Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, July 2006
antrim / racism & migration related issues / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:24 by Rachael Wilson   image 2 images   2 attached files
Belfast Exposed’s latest exhibition, Border Country by Melanie Friend opens this Thursday evening in the gallery in Donegall Street.

Melanie Friend spent four years documenting the physical structures of UK Immigrant Removal Centres (IRC), while recording the voices of detainees. She will make a short presentation about her work at the opening on Thursday evening: "By August 2003 I had negotiated access with the Home Office and the Governor of Dover… over three years I interviewed nine detainees… however transfers from and to IRCs across the country can happen suddenly as can removals….."
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Delaram Ali
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:06 by Dorothy Gale   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 13:20)   image 1 image
Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights.

Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested.

There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. read full story / add a comment
Health issues for women
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:06 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 12:40)   image 2 images

This morning the DOHC [Department of Health and Children] press released on the OECD
report on Healthcare. The report is set in a time period that ends at 2005. The DOHC decided
not to add the link onto their website so I am publishing it here.

Apparently we are doing quite well on Health, a bit of critical underspend and the necessity for
the department to juggle the figures. Of course the 2007 Breast Cancer Crisis is not mentioned
on this file,but directly under the link there can be found the statement by Ms Harney on
the issue (dated last week- the scandal broke on the 4th of September). read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday November 13, 2007 13:45 by Harristown Bus Driver   text 31 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 19:47)
Bus Drivers from Harristown Garage in North County Dublin will be marching on Dublin Bus Head Office In O'Connell Street tomorrow morning to highlght our grievances. March starts at 11am at the Garden of Remberance, Parnell Square. We are not specifically asking asking drivers from other Dublin Bus Garages to support, but if they wish to support us tomorrow morning we would be delighted to have a big show of solidarity. The more drivers support us tomorrow the better. it would be great to have support from the public as well. A detailed report on the cause of the Harristown dispute will be posted later. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 12:32 by Sarah Galway One World Centre
Emergency Aid in Post Tsunamini Sri Lanka
Helping or Hindering?

Public Interview 22 November @ 7.30 in The Harbour Hotel Galway.
Admission Free read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 13, 2007 11:24 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 22 comments (last - monday november 19, 2007 13:09)
Questions must be asked about the State's attitude to the use of a security firm at Shell's Bellanaboy site. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday November 13, 2007 10:16 by Aragon   text 5 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 16:47)
Is anyone else outraged at the governments' behaviour over bank link cards? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 09:47 by Kieran O'Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 17:25)
An open discussion will be held in the teachers club this Thursday 15th @ 8pm on the future actions of the Irish Anti-War Movement. All members of the Irish Anti-War Movement are entitled to attend (a good opportunity to join or renew your membership if it has lapsed) and have an input to the meeting. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 08:03 by Global Women's Strike Ireland   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 23:35)
Students and staff call others to join them to protest the visit of the US ambassador to NUI Galway read full story / add a comment
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