Harold's Cross Park celebrated it's centenary in 1994. A plaque commemorates the endowment of the Victorian Park to the people of the Rathmines/Harold's Cross townland. Cllr Mary Frehill performed the dedication ceremony. The park is a protected structure in its whole integrity including the original railings, the promenade ring, the hankerchief tree which commerorates the Women's Laundry strike and the view of the chapel and cemetry at Mount Jerome.
Today at 11am, I walked to the park with my daughter to find the park be-ribboned and works ongoing which are dedicated to the removal of the Victorian (or Edwardian ) railings, for 'safety reasons'.
There has been no planning notice to this effect on the railings or access points to the park. There has been no public consultation with the residents of the area as to the plans undertaken by Dublin City Council. When I started to take photographs I was threatened by a council worker that he would take a photo of me and that he would call the gardai, thus I confined my mobile camera to the pretty ribbons, until braver people came along. I asked a park keeper if this work would not affect the visual integrity of the park and if planning permission had been sought. He replied that as it was a safety excerise, that he did not believe that permissions were required. The protected structures within the park: two red-brick out-buildings are protected but the park itself was under the jurisdiction of the council. Councillor Frehill, when contacted stated that the works were going to be stopped pending a site visit this evening and a look at the plans for works. There has been in effect a complete stoppage of works until the reason for works and plans are inspected, under enforcement regulations.
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For the second Monday in a row Shell to Sea protesters have prevented Shell machinery from entering the Bellanaboy gas terminal construction site. read full story / add a comment

Congress highlights ‘falling wages in a booming economy’ (ICTU press release)
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There are 3 main ways to get to Baldonnel Warport on the day, chose one, have fun, stay safe! read full story / add a comment

April 7th, 6,000 riot police and 700 hired thugs attacked the
Autonomous Peace Village of Daechuri. They succeeded in destroying the irrigation system, making farming a near impossibility. 40 protesters were arrested, 30 were injured, 5 of those seriously. read full story / add a comment

The Dublin City Council are enforcing an illegal poster ban which silences all small non-profit, non-corporate groups - political or otherwise. read full story / add a comment

Or else bring a bodyguard. read full story / add a comment

An experimental short based around a recreated snippet of dialogue from the Guantanamo Bay Tribunals. Found on 'Kafka in Gitmo' thread on http://www.moonofalabama.org/. It's here: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2006/03/kafka_in_gitmo.html

Visuals include a photo of a guy in Fallujah being retina scanned by a US soldier, cctv footage of accidents in a tunnel in Moscow, footage from a US helicopter in Iraq wiping out some farmers and excerpts from a sniper eye view in the game 'State of Emergency'.

It's downloadable as a DivX file from here: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/327.shtml read full story / add a comment

Our Streets > Their Disposable Worlds.

Mixes a dystopian sci-fi narrative with a journalistic account of US military use of their own videogame technology as a combination of recriutment tool, virtual weapons testing site and information gathering mechanism.

Div-X file available here
https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/326.shtml

Noisehacker uploaded the grafitti overlays used in the video to indymedia.ie

The Halo footage was found in the trash of a public computer in Belfast read full story / add a comment

Sinn Fein staged a protest on Saturday 8 April at the Airport Roundabout against the Privatisation of Aer Lingus. The protest was attended by Gerry Adams MP, Bairbre De Brun MEP as well as Cllr Dessie Ellis and Cllr Felix Gallagher. read full story / add a comment

An interview with John and Sandra Moloney, the parents of "Johner" Moloney, who have joined up with the Wheelock family in their campaign in recent months. read full story / add a comment

With many having been ‘burned’ by the coverage of earlier revolutions in ex-Soviet satellite states, the recent mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the Belarusian election and the situation in the country appeared to be, to put it lightly, more than a little simplistic and one-sided.... read full story / add a comment

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has claimed that ‘the proclamation of the Republic on Easter Monday was a cry of radical idealism that shook the world in 1916 and still challenges us today’.
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Dear ARAN Friend!

Good news from Scotland. Just recently the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, confirmed his intention to introduce a ban on the use of wild animals in traveling circuses in secondary legislation following the implementation of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. This follows a successful campaign by the Born Free Foundation, Advocates for Animals and other animal welfare organizations to ensure that the complex needs of wild animals are not overlooked in national legislation. This is extremely encouraging news as days before that announcement we heard about similar plans from the UK government to ban ‘wild’ or ‘certain’ animals in circuses in the UK.

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