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national / miscellaneous Saturday October 27, 2007 - 18:38 by Jolly Red Giant
The recent untimely death of Susie Long was widely covered in the media in the South. Susie made a powerful impression in January of this year when she spoke on RTE radio of how she had developed terminal cancer of the colon. It was a tragic and shocking story. By Joe Higgins ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday October 26, 2007 - 20:50 by jim travers
Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday October 25, 2007 - 13:53 by El Libertario, Venezuela
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 19:27 by Michelle Clarke
We the plain people Aaron Russell documentary is well worth watching.......... The presentation alerts people involved in financial, markets, transactions to review history before consolidating on present day financial transactions.. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 11:41 by P'd off customer
I signed up to BT broadband over two months ago. Not only did the hook up the wrong house, but they billed me for it, insisted nothing wrong happened, and are dawdling over my What's worse, their call centre takes ages to do anything, not surprising, given that one of their agents admitted to me that there were only 10 people working there the day I spoke to her, when the staffing level is supposed to be 60. Anyhow, sick of waiting for the always promised call back, I went hunting for the bigger fish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 22, 2007 - 18:44 by Anne O'Connor
Ireland granted residency to about 17,000 parents of Irish born Children mostly women and then decided that these category of Irish Citizen Children do not have any entitlement to family unification and so we have a situation where the fathers of these children are being turned away. What we risk creating for our future generation is what I dread because this policy if not reversed will only polarise the community and we will have the "us" and "them" divide. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 22, 2007 - 11:51 by Tim Hourigan
A look at the similarities and differences between two routes out of Shannon. The Aer Lingus route SNN - LHR and the US military flights to Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment |
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