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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 22:16 by Niall Harnett
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For the past 10 days or so, members of the Bantry Concerned Action Group and their supporters have been blockading the ESB Networks crew and their digger contractors from entering their lands and farms which are marked out for this proposed overhead powerline route which stretches from the 'Murnane & O'Shea Glanta Windfarm Development' at Colomane to the Ballylickey sub-station 14km away. The ESB have been contracted by Murnane & O’Shea to construct this powerline to connect their wind farm development to the national grid. Murnane & O’Shea know that that the ESB have powers that they don’t have, namely the 1927 Electricity Supply Act which gives them ‘permission’ to enter and even break in through entrances to farms and lands etc “to do whatever we want and you can’t stop us” according to ESB’s Tim Flavin who‘s been described as ‘a pure tool’ by one member of the BCAG. Murnane & O’Shea are in the position where they can abuse the ESB powers to facilitate their private development under the guise of green energy production. It’s an abuse of the 1927 Act and a business arrangement designed to make more millions for Murnane & O’Shea. What Murnane & O’Shea and the ESB fail to comprehend is that they don’t have the permission of those who matter most in all this - the landowners - and until the BCAG give them their consent to come in on the land, the ESB will NOT do ‘whatever they want’ and they can and will be stopped. Meanwhile, Murnane & O’Shea who have remained tight lipped in the shadows until now, straining at their own leashes and letting the ESB do their dirty work for them, have revealed themselves in a recent ‘issue of legal proceedings’ seeking damages, costs and permanent injunctions against 23 of the landowners and ANYONE ELSE WHO INTERFERES OR EVEN WATCHES this ‘overland cable’ project! BCAG members Tadhg Coughlan and Susan Kingston face a separate ESB application for an injunction against them tomorrow Monday 9th at the high court in Dublin at 11.00am. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 21:39 by james
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Anti war protestors picketed a US warship in Cobh today. read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment / press release Sunday July 09, 2006 21:24 by Quentin Gargan & Clare Watson
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IMMINENT ARRESTS AND PRIVATE INJUNCTIONS Dispute escalates and West Cork Farmers maintain resolve to keep overhead pylons out ESB TO SEEK FURTHER HIGH COURT INJUNCTIONS MONDAY read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 14:24 by Political Hostage
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It is almost eight years since The Print Junction shop owned by Bernadette Sands-McKevitt was closed. It still remains closed to this day. A layer of dust a couple of millimeters deep covers every surface. T-Shirts bleached and worn-out looking by the sun and passage of time hang limply in the window. A pile of mail rests under a coat of soot-like dust inside the door, unopened, unread and unanswered. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 05:25 by Noise Hacker
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday July 09, 2006 02:14 by Paul MacGiolla Bán
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This week, the five Pit Stop Ploughshares are on trial in the Four Courts, charged with criminal damage of US$2.5 million to a US Navy war plane at Shannon airport three and a half years ago. At the outset of their trial, this article contains some thoughts on some of the other activities of the group, to put the action at Shannon in context. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 00:58 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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The International Federation of Journalists on Tuesday denounced countries including Denmark, the United States and the United Kingdom for “trying to intimidate and stifle independent journalism.” The IFJ says that a global crackdown on investigative journalism led by countries that are supposed to be models of democracy is repressive and is depriving people of their basic rights – “most importantly the right of citizens to know what their government is doing.” Meanwhile, one of Denmark's conservative daily papers, Berlingske Tidende, yesterday reported that the paper's editor-in-chief is now being indicted, along with two of his journalists, for publishing information obtained from classified military intelligence documents. In the documents, prepared before Denmark invaded Iraq in 2003, the Danish defence intelligence service advised the government that there was no sure evidence that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. These developments stand in stark contrast to the rosy picture of freedom of the press painted by the Danish government in association with the deliberately provocative publication of cartoons of Muhammad in another Danish newspaper last year. Please read excerpts from the IFJ's report plus an English translation of Berlingske Tidende's latest report, below. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday July 09, 2006 00:58 by Madam K
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday July 09, 2006 00:08 by Seán Ryan
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Chapter 9 of Book II. Been a while since I last published from Book II. This time I have a go at proving the existence of God, as was promised in an earlier chapter, in which the groundwork was laid. read full story / add a comment |
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