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If Britain keeps sidelining its history, my generation will inherit a country stripped of meaning, identity and pride, warns 16 year-old Jack Watson.
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The Royal Borough of Greenwich has banned staff from using the terms 'husband' and 'wife' in case it offends gender non-conforming couples.
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Closing asylum hotels and housing illegal migrants in HMOs won't quell public anger about the current level of illegal migration. On the contrary, it will just make things worse, warns Steven Tucker.
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Easter Sunday 2014 (20th April) : RSF Easter Commemoration , Deansgrange, 12.45pm.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2014 23:21 by Sharon.   image 1 image
Easter Sunday 2014 (20th April), Deansgrange, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / feature Wednesday March 19, 2014 21:53 by T   text 16 comments (last - saturday february 05, 2022 17:10)   image 24 images   video 1 video file   3 attached files
It was three years on March 11th since the triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima plant in Japan in 2011. This article attempts to try and give an picture of the situation today and to show that the accident is still an active event that will take many decades to cleanup and it is anything but over.
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cork / environment / press release Wednesday March 19, 2014 21:05 by Friends of Irish Environment
Ahead of tomorrow’s opening of the An Bord Pleanala hearing into the plans for the clean up of the old steel plant’s toxic dump on Haulbowline Island, Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] has called for the work to be extended to the site of the steel plant itself.

The current proposal is limited to the 9 hectare waste dump on the island.

FIE says numerous reports show that the contamination on the island includes not just the 9 hectare East Tip which is the subject of the license hearing but the 12 hectare site of the steel plant itself which is being ignored. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Wednesday March 19, 2014 01:46 by Dublin 32CSM
Media censorship of an attempt made by the 32CSM to hand the UN document on the violation of Ireland's national sovereignty to the EPP. read full story / add a comment
The Siege of the Four Courts
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday March 18, 2014 21:24 by Stoneybatter & Smithfield People's History Project   image 1 image
Our next public talk takes place on Saturday 29th March at 4.30pm in The Cobblestone, Smithfield.

This month's topic is The Siege of the Four Courts with guest speaker Liz Gillis, author of the Fall of Dublin, the story of the attack on the Four Courts. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 18, 2014 17:44 by 0   image 1 image
Patrick MacGill was born in 1889 in County Donegal Ireland. The same county as myself. He became known as the "Navvy Poet."This was after his work for a time as a "navvy", this term comes from working with a shovel building roads, the shovel was called a navvy shovel, something to do with navigating and the roads. Before he worked as a navvy he worked as a farm laborer, a ditch digger and a quarryman. He later fought as a young man in Flanders in the First World War. He became a poet and writer. Below are two of his poems. The first on his work as a navvy and how he saw society with its brutal class divide. The second on his experience in the trenches in Flanders in the imperialist war. read full story / add a comment
sligo / education / event notice Monday March 17, 2014 19:54 by robert
Depth of investigation combined with the atmosphere of an informal meeting. More enjoyable than academic conferences - more productive than aimless small-talk.

Open communication in school:
If communication happens between members of different status groups: how does their position impinge on the communication?
How do hierarchies, formal and informal, influence communication?
How does the institutionalisation of education influence the communication that goes on in schools?
How does the professionalisation of education in schools influence communication?
How do different cultural backgrounds influence communication in schools?
What does all that mean for a concept of open communication? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2014 11:29 by John O'Shea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 18, 2014 21:16)   image 3 images
All over Ireland, leprechauns are being found in front of banks and cultural venues in suspected protest over banking crisis or perhaps a protest against St Particks 'plastic paddy' sterotypes? read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday March 17, 2014 10:07 by Sara   image 1 image
Philippines, March 2014 -- With less than four months remaining before the upcoming “death” of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)’s land distribution component on June 30 2014, 300 farmers from the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) today trooped to Malacanang Presidential Palace, calling for a drastic acceleration and overhaul of the implementation of the land reform effort.
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sligo / environment / press release Sunday March 16, 2014 21:19 by Anti-fracking   image 2 images
For the third year running North West Network will be entering a horse drawn float into the Sligo St. Patrick's Day Parade, with a "frack free Ireland" theme. The 2014 parade, however, will see their attempt to set a world record for the most people dressed as W.B. Yeats in one place at one time! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday March 16, 2014 14:26 by KM
They don't just look like like fascists, they don't just trample on Democracy and suppress National Minorities. No! The Ukrainian fascists are also intent on driving Jews from the Ukraine. RT reports on the growing number of incidents. There is also a video at the link. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Saturday March 15, 2014 15:05 by HBC
Friday 14 March 2014 marks the one year anniversary of the kidnapping and imprisonment of five Palestinian teenagers (at the time aged 15-17) for alleged stone-throwing, following a settler car accident that took place close to their village of Hares in Salfit district (West Bank), Palestine. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 15, 2014 13:57 by KM   text 7 comments (last - thursday march 20, 2014 23:00)   video 1 video file
The situation in the Ukraine is worsening with fascist bands on the advance everywhere but in the East they are being repulsed. We live in a Looking Glass world where truth is inverted and Russia and Ethnic Russians in the Ukraine are portrayed as he aggressors.Here is a round up of recent stories. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report Friday March 14, 2014 10:54 by v for vendetta   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2014 13:25)   image 1 image
Sadly, Tony Benn has died aged 88
"After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?"
-Tony Benn (1925-2014): read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Thursday March 13, 2014 18:04 by Seán Ó Murchú   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 20, 2014 16:25)
Republican Sinn Féin Annual Easter 1916 Commemoration - Cork

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday March 13, 2014 16:06 by Cat Shumway   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 01, 2014 11:16)
Launch of Attac Ireland with a public talk by Esther Jeffers (University of Paris VIII and European Attac Network)

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cork / education / news report Wednesday March 12, 2014 00:03 by Corkonian   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2014 16:39)   image 2 images   2 attached files
On midday on Friday 7th March the Institute of Chemical Engineers - and their corporate sponsors, Shell - had organised for an engineer from Shell's Corrib Gas Project to give a talk and workshop for staff and students of the Engineering College at UCC. A cork group formed and mobilsed to attend the lecture, distribute independent information on Corrib and challenge any Shell spin.

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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 11, 2014 23:37 by D_D   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 12, 2014 09:24)
Fund raising pub table quiz read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 11, 2014 23:08 by William Wraithwrite
Once you are born a creature (and irrespective of your personal circumstances which can vary greatly) that is as you were forced into existence (not by any choice on your part but according to European religious dogma originating in the Middle East) not just for a lifetime on earth but also forever after by some notion of an immortal soul, so then you are also forced into an immortality (almost like a vampire who too can never truly die in literature) and irrespective of however terrifying such an immortality might present itself. “What kind of God (or Yahweh) would put a soul, any soul (no matter how supposedly evil in human terms) into an eternal length of torture—and never having to contemplate acquiescence—what kind of compassion is that? This is as extreme of cruelty and barbarity as one could espouse. Such cosmic outcome, supposedly as Divine Justice, doesn’t even reach the categories of mere human ideas to justice. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Tuesday March 11, 2014 15:01 by CalaisMigrantSolidarity   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2016 16:11)
In the week of the 3rd to the 7th of March four houses were squatted in Calais. One of these has already been evicted once and reoccupied. The remaining three are legally secure (in France exists a law which stipulates that houses which have been squatted for more than 48 hours cannot be evicted without a legal procedure) but despite this remain as before under threat. In the past in Calais there have been countless illegal evictions by police, predominately those of living quarters of refugees.

Many of the initial squatters have now traveled further on and so there is the need for support from activists who can secure these future safe spaces, document police violence as well as any eviction attempts and help make the houses livable.

The current situation is a key moment in the story of squats in Calais. It is the first time that there is the possibility to keep many houses at the same time --- a chance which we shouldn't pass up! It will pay off in the future to fight for these houses and the struggle begins now! We have lots of room for creativity and the energy of people who want to support us in this struggle! read full story / add a comment
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