Revisionists given a hammering by John Borgonovo . They are searching for an ouija board to contact Peter Hart for advice. Full text at link.

UCC historian John Borgonovo casts doubt on some claims made in the TV3 series ‘In The Name Of The Republic’
TV3’s TWO-PART documentary series, In the Name of the Republic has created a stir among historians, though perhaps not in the way the filmmakers intended. The programme illustrates the danger of accepting local folklore as historical fact, especially during this much-heralded “decade of centenaries”.

In the first episode, viewers met an aged Co Laois man who related his boyhood encounter with a neighbouring farmer, who claimed he had dug up a body while ploughing his field, one of three corpses supposedly buried there by the IRA. Series host Prof Eunan O’Halpin (of Trinity College Dublin) told the audience hisresearch had uncovered two civilians abducted by the Tipperary IRA and “never seen again”. The rest of the episode attempted to prove his theory that they were interred in this Laois field. The episode concluded with O’Halpin opening the sealed files, only to learn that both had survived the conflict. They were never killed by the IRA, much less secretly buried in Laois. The obvious lesson here is: Finish your research before you rent the JCB.

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Akbayan Partylist would like to express its extreme disappointment over the Supreme Court's decision to issue a status quo ante order against the Reproductive Health (RH) Law for a period of four months.
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Enda Kenny will be in waterford on Thursday the 28th of March to officially open the Medieval Museum in the city.
Is he welcome?

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The regular Thursday's Bakery in Seomra, from 5pm will be serving Pistachio Rosewater Cupcakes. It's all Vegan, it's all delicious and the relaxing atmosphere is a nice transition to move towards the end of the week.
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The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week - including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks. read full story / add a comment

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BELFAST Sat 13th, Mon 22nd, Tue 23rd, Wed 24th APRIL read full story / add a comment

Call to action of the Indonesian People's Movement Against Neocolonialism-Imperialism toward Bali WTO Ministerial meeting on 3-6 of December 2013
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From 'traitor' to Hero - whistleblower Bradley Manning is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize read full story / add a comment

Seomra Spraoi's Kitchen is hosting its second Vegan Bruch from 1 to 3 pm as part of a regular Sunday Brunch every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. The space is open for a relaxing, friendly and all ages time.
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GALWAY Fri 5th & Tue 9th APRIL - GORT Sun 7th APRIL read full story / add a comment

Protest on Thursday re “animal welfare" bill that protects...

Hare coursing and Fox hunting!

Peaceful protest: Location: Dail Eireann, Dublin. Date: Thursday, March 28th. Time. 12.30 to 2 pm.

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Free Walking Tour, visiting the main locations of the Easter Rising.
Meeting at Liberty Hall, 1pm on Good Friday.
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Tory Minister Ken Clarke is this week accused of lying to parliament, with disinformation to confuse British legislators, a few days ahead of the Tory government's plan, to introduce secret courts, before a backdoor critical vote in the House of Lords, to rubber stamp internment, without a proper trial. Currently with the internment of veteran Irish republicans, Marian Price and Martin Corey, the British have been conducting once again experiments, with Irish guinea pigs and the resulting public reaction , once again, in the backwater police state laboratory, that is British Occupied Ireland.
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A course for movement practitioners and community educators who want to deepen their own practice read full story / add a comment

The enthusiasm of people at a recent business offer presentation in the Dublin hotel was contagious. The queues for foreign jobs at a job fare was the opposite. A constant contagion of exploitation of those in need is evident in offers for opportunities offered. Job offers implied following training, the costs invested and the disappointment following discovering it to be not quite accurate have lead to increases in suffering and stress. The promise of cheap holidays and earnings from investing in this hope is growing tiresome. read full story / add a comment

Seomra Spraoi's kitchen is starting Sunday Brunch this Sunday at 12 - http://www.seomraspraoi.org/ 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1.
We'll get to share some Vegan food, once a month, in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. To get you in the mood, here is the menu :
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The political agenda regarding foreign policy,is to continue to spend American resources on what is still far too much for Israel’s objectives (such as war with Syria and Iran), ; as these goings-on continue to motivate more dismantlement of American Constitutional liberties here at home (in order to get away with their forms of betrayal (treason) to our founding fathers’ American Creed (which is not protecting the Holy Land) and to true interests of the American peoples. We now continue to live within a tyranny of corrupt betrayal. So to ban the personal right to own rapid-fire weapons here in the United States could happen within this significant context of an ever-evolving totalitarian reality that continues to wrap its dangerous tentacles around our quickly dying freedoms.
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The core of our proposal is the idea of adding value to agricultural production by conjugation with that of agro-industrial and industrial production, in order to increase farmers' income, the collection of taxes and return on investment of the national state, "deflating" major brazilian centers of all a well-known and extremely costly problem, from the perspective not only of public finances, but also from an emotional and humanitarian angle.
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