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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday August 24, 2011 23:51 by No. 35
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According to an article in the Daily Mail the Allied Irish Bank gave "loans, guarantees and lines of credit" to the catholic church to enable them to pay more than $400m of compensation to victims of sexual abuse by catholic priests. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday August 24, 2011 11:00 by No to the Poll Taxes
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The €100 household charge annouced by the government comes into effect on 1st January 2012. It will be the first step in the governments plans to implement a fully fledged property and water tax by 2014 that could be around €1,200 according to one government economic advisor. read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday August 24, 2011 09:14 by Liam Ó Culbáird
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N.G.A. hunger striker commemoration, Belfast, September 25th. read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 24, 2011 08:04 by Frank
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Today 25 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp sustained a barrage of actions against the site Shell is preparing for its tunnel boring machine. Despite 80 security and three vans of gardaí they were unable to keeps the protesters out. In the chaos that ensued one person got through the lines to d-lock themselves to one of the diggers and remained up there stopping work for 4 hours. Elsewhere other diggers had to stop working as protestors approached. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday August 24, 2011 08:00 by T
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The situation in Libya is not what it seems as reported by the mainstream press -the same press that has promoted all the previous wars with some lame excuse or another. The MSM media likes to teach the public to think only in black in white. So if you oppose NATO, you love Gadaffi. Actually it possible to see both as bad. But the long and short of it all is that it really all just amounts to a modern form of the Class War. Notice how our liberties in the West are disappearing along with the social gains achieved over the last century of labor struggles. The Libya things is mainly an oil grab. It is also because Gadaffi was not an obedient dictator and it is also because it had the highest standard of living in Africa and very generous welfare and last but not least it was not adhering to the NeoLiberal agenda and the free market. The same ideology that has ruined all our economies and is being used as the excuse to take away all our gains and make us worker far longer and for less.
So the purpose of this feature is to present the alternative and to provide some background analysis to what is going on and happened so far read full story / add a comment![]()
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday August 23, 2011 23:43 by j debender
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Monday 22nd August at 6am, two people locked their arms into concrete barrels in the road between Shell's Ballinaboy refinery and the tunneling compound in Aughoose. The lock-on lasted for 7 hours, stopping all deliveries to the compound during that time. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 22:00 by Tony Fitzsimons
Video Journalists in Burma film life under a brutal regime. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 20:32 by anti-cuts
Residents from South Belfast campaigning against the closure of Belfast City Hospital A&E will be protesting outside Parliament Buildings Stormont on the first day the Assembly meets to present the Minister for Health with thousands of petitions. The Stop the Cuts Campaign is calling on all groups, communities and workers affected by cuts to join them on 12th September to send a message to the Assembly Executive that we do not support cut to jobs and services. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 19:40 by June K
AVID ROVICS CONCERT IN DUBLIN Singer/Songwriter David Rovics in Dublin for Concert. One night only at the Pearse Centre, The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, (next door to Trinity Capital Hotel) read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday August 23, 2011 14:56 by No Borders Ireland
![]() ![]() On Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of August, Seomra Spraoi will be host to the first gathering of the No Borders network to take place in Ireland. No Borders campaigns struggle alongside those effected for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This gathering is working towards establishing a network of individuals and grassroots organisations within Ireland and abroad who are working on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 11:57 by Choice Ireland
Choice Ireland is holding the latest in our series of protests against the rogue crisis pregnancy agency, the WRC. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 23, 2011 10:57 by indyjourno
Contrary to Reports coming from the International Criminal Court Col Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam was not arrested on Sunday. read full story / add a comment![]()
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 23, 2011 04:01 by Colin Platt
![]() ![]() Nonprofit network is being developed with a focus on local news from locally-based independent reporters and citizen journalists. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 00:52 by LASC
Workshop: Traveling and Volunteering in Latin America From 1:30 to 2:30pm Thursday 25th August Venue: EC House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 00:29 by No Borders Ireland
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On Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of August, Seomra Spraoi will be host to the first gathering of the No Borders network to take place in Ireland. No Borders campaigns struggle alongside those effected for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This gathering is working towards establishing a network of individuals and grassroots organisations within Ireland and abroad who are working on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 00:20 by LASC
Food Sovereignty Workshop Thursday 25th August 11:00-12:00: Venue: EC House, 18 Dawson Street read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 23, 2011 00:11 by LASC
From 2.30 to 3.30pm Wednesday 24th August Venue: EC House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 21, 2011 23:44 by Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland
Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international communty and media. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday August 21, 2011 20:11 by Seán Ó Murchú
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AFTER 40 years, internment without charge or trial has returned to the occupied North of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday August 21, 2011 19:29 by A World to Win News Service.
This article from A World to Win News Service, analyzes the increasing divisions within the Iranian Theocracy. Full text at url below. Further fissures and cracks have appeared among Iran’s top rulers, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of the Islamic regime, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his close circle in charge of the government. Given the love affair between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad over the last six years and specially Khamenei’s support for Ahmadinejad during the 2009 election that sparked an uprising, this difference between the two factions was not taken very seriously by masses at the beginning. read full story / add a comment |
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