Uncertain Future for our Public Health system

Fine Gael’s UnFairCare policy demands more scrutiny. At a time when support for the Dutch model is declining in its country of origin, Fine Gael proposes to import this charter for privateers into Ireland. Marie O'Connor looks at Dominic Haugh's study, which reveals an unaffordable three-tier system, growing waiting lists, cancelled operations, out of control budgets, bankrupt hospitals, professional gravy trains and spawning bureaucracies, all encouraged by pro market think-tanks.

Related Links: Nurses call for Health system based on social solidarity not private profit | Thousands March to Defend health Services in Letterkenny | Over 15,000 protest health cuts in Clonmel | HSE Cuts Mental Health Funding Even Further | Plenty of money for the Bailouts. Very little for Health and the People | ‘The Great Gas Giveaway; How the Elites Have Gambled Our Health And Wealth’ | Free marketeering in health | Beacon's Co-location' hospital in Cork draws nearer. See Anger as Cork health workers fight on two fronts ...

Work Restarts in Mayo - Opposition Goes On!

Come up straight away or join us for the Days of Action this Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd April. Accomodation & food provided, donations welcome. email or txt 0851141170 for details.

The injustice faced by the community here is symbolic of the corruption and problems faced by people all over Ireland.

Related Links:
Work restarts in Mayo | 22 TDs gather at gates of Dail to demand reversal of Corrib pipeline consents | Camp Work Weekend and Walk the pipe tour | shells Work Stopped for 4 hours | Rossport Solidarity Camp is Up! | Enda -prove you are for the people of Mayo | shells Work Stopped twice in two days | shell to Sea encourages people to enter Statoil competition | Questions for Politicians | Non Violent Direct Action Training 5-6th March | shell granted planning permission in mayo | shell To sea Solidarity Action Ghent ( Belgium). | Review of the Corrib Gas Project Oral Hearing | Joe higgins interviewed on RT. By contrast, Vincent brown sneers at him and screws shell to sea | Budget Day drama on Kildare Street | People's Alliance march in Tullamore | Four years since baton charge on peaceful protestors

Shell to Sea - Official Website
Rossport Solidarity Camp - Official Website

Our Oil & Gas is worth €540 billion.
Our govt is giving it away to corporations.

Twenty-two TDs gathered at the gates of Leinster House in a sunny Dublin today to back Dublin Shell to Sea’s call for the new Government to overturn the consents granted by former minister Pat Carey to Shell E&P Ireland on the day of the recent general election.

Related Links:
Camp Work Weekend and Walk the pipe tour | shells Work Stopped for 4 hours | Rossport Solidarity Camp is Up! | Enda -prove you are for the people of Mayo | shells Work Stopped twice in two days | shell to Sea encourages people to enter Statoil competition | Questions for Politicians | Non Violent Direct Action Training 5-6th March | shell granted planning permission in mayo | shell To sea Solidarity Action Ghent ( Belgium). | Review of the Corrib Gas Project Oral Hearing | Joe higgins interviewed on RT. By contrast, Vincent brown sneers at him and screws shell to sea | Budget Day drama on Kildare Street | People's Alliance march in Tullamore | Four years since baton charge on peaceful protestors

Shell to Sea - Official Website
Rossport Solidarity Camp - Official Website

Gaddafi

Tonight at 22.45 GMT the United Nations passed resolution 1973/211, which imposes a no-fly zone across Libya, as well as restricting the asset movements from Libyan national companies. Amid celebratory scenes in Benghazi with lots of fireworks and lots of automatic weapons fire , China, India, Russia and Brazil (sometimes as a block called BRIC) all abstained along with Germany. (Thank to @pettybooshwah for clarifyfing this)

Related Links: Towards Left Unity (of sorts): Thinking About Reactions to libya and Each Other | Military actions against libya/ libyan Resistance must rely on own strength | IRSCNA: Hands Off libya! | UN Resolution passed on libyan No Fly Zone | libya, Wisconsin, wikileaks. Imperialism and its stooges at bay. | Solidarity with libya 21st Feb in Dublin |

Soundmigration's Blog
Ongoing protests in Dublin in solidarity with the Egyptian people

CACI - Providing Software for the Irish Cencus
(and lots of other "defence software")

The people of Ireland should consider a Boycott in relation the upcoming Census in April 2011. The reason I say this is that the company contracted to carry out the Census is CACI UK who are a subsidiary of CACI international which through its various outsourcing has been accused of contributing to the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq, something I myself am not happy about, and it will be one of the reason's why I will not be completing the Census form this time.

Related Links:
CACI's website
Graphic Video Displaying CACI Crimes (Irish Census Contractors)
Cencus Alerts - UK
This Lockheed Martin contract tarnishes the census - from The Guardian
Lockheed Martin Awarded £150M Contract to Support 2011 Census for England and Wales, and Northern Ireland

Apologies the related links are to stories about the English census (and Lockheed Martin), but the Irish media seem to have missed the relevance of CACI in getting the contract to develop the software for the Irish cencus