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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 14, 2009 23:30 by Edward Horgan
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The monthly peace vigil at shannon on Sunday 13 Sept took place on a beautiful Indian Summer's day when nature seemed to be at peace with itself. However, a closer look inside the airport fence showed very few civilian planes, with Aer Lingus cut backs on shannon services, Air France/CityJet about to abandon its shannon Paris route, and Ryanair also planning schedule cutbacks. There was plenty of military activity however, with four warplanes surrounded by Gardai and Airport Police. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday September 13, 2009 14:29 by Paula Geraghty
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Not everyone could get to the impressive shannon Peace conference organised by the IAWM and PANA. Go knock yourself out. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 07, 2009 10:00 by Edward Horgan
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A very successful peace conference was held at shannon airport on Sat 5 Sept 09 for the purpose of highlighting the interconnections between the establishment of a US forward airbase at shannon airport, the militarisation of Europe, the abuse of Irish neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty. The attendance of over 80 was mainly for Dublin, so it was great to get such a dedicated group of peace activists to shannon to show them very clearly to extent to which Irish neutrality has been abandoned at shannon airport and the extent to which Ireland is complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. read full story / add a comment
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday September 07, 2009 01:29 by John Lannon
Peaceful vigil - held every month - to protest against US use of shannon airport for renditions and transit of troops/munitions to their unjust wars. read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday September 06, 2009 14:28 by Vincent O'Malley
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The McCarthy or “Bord Snip Nua” report on public spending outlined a range of proposed cuts in government expenditure. Of the €5.3b in possible savings, it can be safely said that at least €4b of this (and probably more) targets the working class. Indeed, a full third of the cuts are aimed at pensioners and unemployed. In the private sector, attacks on our class continue in the form of pay cuts, short time and lay-offs. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday September 03, 2009 19:06 by Shannonwatch
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Information provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs sheds disturbing new light on US military use of shannon Airport. According to the Minister the troop and air force crews that pass through the airport are not the only US military there. There are also two US officers of military rank permanently based in the airport. Their official role is to assist with the transit of US Government and Government contracted flights. The arrangement has been in operation since 2003 and was done without Oireachtas approval. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday August 28, 2009 16:31 by Fiachra Ó Luain
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This Tuesday I rang Cape Cod Times journalist Karen Jefferies, who had done an article on my candidacy in the European elections with details regarding the investigations into the misapplication of 3000 of my first preference votes to Declan Ganley's quota. She told me that she had just returned from the Kennedy compound where Ted Kennedy looked to only have a couple of weeks left. It was with great sadness that I received the news the following day that indeed Ted Kennedy had passed away, so I decided to put together the details of my only dealings with the late Senator from Massachusetts. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday August 25, 2009 22:27 by Darren J. Prior
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See: www.slideshare.net/darrenjprior/presentations. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 25, 2009 11:58 by FSB!
Newspaper opinion pieces are naturally partisan in content and often aim for controversialism, but such is the display of imposture in one from Tony Kinsella in the Irish Times of the 24th of August 2009 that it takes a whole plateful of biscuits. 'I don't have to imagine myself back in some dark age in order to be subjected to fact-free arguments. Tony Kinsella is doing it to people right here and now in the early 21st Century. He's wrong if he thinks it's going to go unchallenged or be accepted unquestioningly, though.' read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / event notice Monday August 24, 2009 14:41 by Carmel Diviney
Poets and Musicians at Tara 30th Aug 2009 3-5pm Hill of Tara The line up for the Second Feis Teamhra next Sunday on the Hill of Tara has been announced in a Press Release today by Grammy Award winning Singer/Songwriter Susan McKeown read full story / add a comment 
offaly / environment / feature Sunday August 23, 2009 23:31 by Paula Geraghty
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Hundreds participated in Climate Camp at Shannonbridge, which was held under the shadow of the peat burning powerstation. The Climate Camp organised three events to create better awareness around the industrial use of peat in powerstations. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 23, 2009 08:14 by H-Block Martyrs Committee
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Annual H-Block Hunger Strike Commemoration Bundoran, County Donegal Saturday, August 29, 2009 Assemble: East End, 3pm read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 20, 2009 22:52 by iosaf
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This third part of my current series on Latin America will detail the current bases operated in Latin America and takes at least part of its title from a wonderful article published this afternoon by Fidel Castro on the subject of the new push by USA to open up more bases or what it terms "forward operating locations". Fidel writes a letter to Granma the official newspaper of the Cuban revolution named after the boat which left Mexico in 1956 carrying himself, his little brother Raul, the immortal Che and the much overlooked anarchist Camilo Cienfuegos to start a revolution. The rest is history, so they say. Courtously the editorial folk at Granma print Fidel's letter every week regardless of its quality but somehow this afternoon's started a "buzz" in Latin American solidarity and analyst circles worldwide for its wonderful byline & prediction : "US global domination and robots by 2020". Here follows a historical over-view, summary of Fidel's article & a guide to the current US bases in South America. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Wednesday August 19, 2009 12:04 by Climate Camp Person
Come join us at the camp for a day of actions and workshops! Climate Camp Ireland continues at Shannonbridge until August 22nd with the main day of action. We call on everyone to come join us on a day of peaceful civil disobedience to stop peat burning at the Shannonbridge Power Station. read full story / add a comment 
offaly / environment / news report Wednesday August 19, 2009 00:17 by Climate Camper
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Climate campers of all ages at Shannonbridge took a direct action this morning Aug. 18th, on a nearby bog by filling in trenches that are used to drain the bog for cutting. The peaceful demonstrations lasted 2 hours with police curiously onlooking at the hard working activists. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday August 18, 2009 17:27 by madam k
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Ireland has some of the world’s most important bogs. Peatlands comprise almost a fifth of Ireland’s land cover, and lock away a massive 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon. They are also home to around half our endangered bird species and around a quarter of endangered plant species. Peat bogs are amazingly efficient carbon sponges. A healthy bog typically stores 10 times more carbon per hectare than any other system, including forests. Peatland protection, according to the UN Environment Programme is “among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change”. Damage to peat bogs is now producing the equivalent of over a tenth of total global fossil-fuel emissions. read full story / add a comment 
offaly / education / news report Monday August 17, 2009 18:32 by Bob Wilson
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Climate Camp is up and running at Shannonbridge, Co.Offaly - started Saturday 15th August and goes on til Sunday 23rd August. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Wednesday August 12, 2009 15:59 by Climatecamp
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Ireland's first ever Climate Camp will start this Saturday the 15th of August in Shannonbridge, County Offaly. The gathering of activists from all over Ireland will continue for nine days and culminate in a day of action against peat burning on the 22nd of August. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday August 10, 2009 21:26 by Edward Horgan
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13 peace activists attended the monthly shannon peace vigil on 9 Aug 09. As usual we were outnumbered by uniformed and plainclothed Gardai. Peace activists travelled from Dublin, Cork, Mullingar, Galway, Ennis and Limerick to attend. The reaction of passing motorists is increasingly encouraging and positive. Since August 9 is the aniversary of the distruction of Hiroshima in 1945 by an Atomic bomb, a war crime committed by the US airforce, on the orders of the then US President, it was considered appropriate to commemorate this event. Within the airport about 200 armed US troops were passing through the airport on an Omni Air chartered troop-transporter. read full story / add a comment 
limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:34 by Cian Prendiville
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Element Six/De Beers’ plan to shut their shannon plant, sacking 370 workers, and move production elsewhere is a disgusting stab in the back of the workers whose hard work has made them billions in profits over the years. After huge sacrifices, including working part time on the promise that this would save jobs, the company now want to pack up and jump ship, with only a pittance of a redundancy. The entire cost of the redundancy scheme to the company is only €6.6m, about one week’s turnover for the factory, according to the Irish Independent! Note: This article was written before management started discussing an "alternative" proposal saving "some" jobs, probably only a stay of execution, and demanding much reduced wages and terms and conditions. Therefore, the need for a fight still very much stands. read full story / add a comment |
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