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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 01, 2006 - 18:02 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 - 06:05)   image 6 images
The Pentagon pulls an Orwellian phrase out of its arse but its all just more CYA ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 31, 2006 - 10:06 by Sebastian Koch   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 - 20:12)
Radio-feature examining foreign national intergration in Dublins North Inner City. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice Wednesday May 31, 2006 - 00:28 by Rt. Hon. Dr. O as if   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 - 17:19)   image 2 images
As we all had better know by now, a child rapist known as "Mr A". was released from custody this afternoon as a result of a Supreme Court Judgement made last week which ruled that the Statutory Rape Act of 1935 is unconstitutional. At 38 years of age he plied a 12 year old with alcohol and received a 3 year sentance which would have been served in its entirety later this year.

Against that backdrop, the worst minister for Justice this state has ever endured, presented to the cabinet his proposals for new legislation on the age of consent and sexual offences relating to the underage, teenagers & mature persons. I really think the reader would do well to consider this news, and concern themselves with the issues which have emerged. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 22:19 by Chris Murray   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 09:35)


The publication of the Arts act 2003, by ex Minister for justice , Equality and Law reform , Mr John O Donoghue TD only received passing comment by corporate media at the time. The Irish Times referred to the Act in Terms of Dilution of the independence of the Arts Council by the new act which for the first time since the foundation of the State allowed a Minister or the Government to set the agenda for artistic expression in the State.
The full act is available at this Link:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2003/a2...3.pdf
or you can google Arts acts 2003.

In sections here printed;

(functions of the Council).

"(Shall) Assist the Minister in the performance of his or her functions under the act and in the implementation of Government policies and objectives in relation to the Arts. When so requested by the Minister" ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 17:03 by Pat Muldowney   text 74 comments (last - friday june 19, 2009 - 19:58)   image 2 images
Alan Stanley’s book describes the death of the Pearson brothers using a variety of sources:
(1) The contemporary (July 7 1921) account in the Unionist newspaper “The King’s County Chronicle, Parsonstown” (King’s County and Parsonstown are, respectively, Co. Offaly and Birr) which quotes their sister Matilda Pearson on her brothers’ death and the burning of their house;
(2) A 1983 description by a surviving Pearson brother David Pearson in Australia;
(3) A summary of descriptions of those events by William Stanley who was with the Pearson brothers when they were arrested and who subsequently lived in Carlow until his death in 1981;
(4) A number of comments gathered by Alan Stanley, mostly from Protestant neighbours and relatives of the Pearsons after 1981, and principally from Tom Mitchell of Kinnitty near Coolacrease.

The page numbers refer to the edition of Stanley's book published July 2005.
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leitrim / history and heritage Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 13:13 by woman   text 9 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 16:46)
Historic movies about ireland seem to always make it big on the big screen but at what costs? Whose authorisation is required ? What about the famine? The mass grave where 5000 poor of the district were buried near my house is also a story to tell! Why can't a fim maker make a movie about the great famine? So that Irish Americans can see what their forefathers lived through before emigrating to the USA. This is a story that needs to be told! From the fact that the people were to starve, food supplies they needed withdrawn from them, workhouses, emigration aboard coffun ships etc. The world needs to know!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 04:05 by Geof Bard   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 12:26)
American fiddle player Geof Bard, a generalist known to appear at an occasional Irish sessions on the US west coast, occasionally attacks a guitar, and has been blasting Blair on the airwaves with his fiddle and this adaptation of WIJ, a tune which is occasionally, erroneously known in the states as "Killkenny Mountain". Wildly popular with Americans, the tune lends itself well to satire. Use at will. First publication worldwide. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections Tuesday May 30, 2006 - 00:37 by the planter's daughter   text 9 comments (last - saturday may 26, 2007 - 16:47)   image 9 images
I am very concerned that too much attention is being given in Irish publick life and general discourse to small & confined groups of people. One lot use letters, Mr A., witness B., chid C., Fr D., ex-Fr E., on holidays now still Fr F., not yet heard victim G., not yet other heard victim H., seen on TV but not let in give testinomy victims I through to U, recently deceased person V, poor little case X,.............

need I go on?
Oh yes.
Then there's the Government & the news casters / readers / journalists, & the courts, & the really holy clergy, and Bono, who seem to get all the attention. ... read full story / add a comment
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