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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday April 11, 2009 16:20 by Not Jimmy
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On Ocean FM's 'Paddy Clancy' show, (Saturday 11/04/09) , the Tánaiste informed listeners how everyone knows that shoppers are only going across the border for cheap booze. Appearently the €800million in vat revenues lost to cross border shopping is as a result of the legions of Irish people searching out bargain booze in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday April 10, 2009 23:14 by Kathleen Tiger
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Shell to Sea supporters on the annual Good Friday Walk, walked to Glengad beach this morning to take action in defence of their community and environment by removing nets over the cliff face in the Special Area of Conservation, despite a battle with Shell Security. read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday April 10, 2009 01:23 by Killian McLoughlin
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This is a copy of the press release sent out regarding the 'Save Sligos Cancer Services' (SCSS). The group are organising a huge protest in Sligo this good friday, they are marching on Sligo General and demanding that the management choose whether they are going to represent the people of the Northwest or the private interests and agenda of Mary Harney and the HSE. The SCSS have stated that their memmbers are sick and tired of teh duplicity and lies of both the management in Sligo and the HSE and are no longer willing to accept it. The people of the northwest are taking back their health services, starting with Sligo General Hospittal, this Good Friday 10/04/2009 read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Thursday April 09, 2009 23:33 by Rudiger
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Members of the public in a packed Belmullet District Courtroom clapped and cheered as applications to Judge Mary Devins to disqualify herself were made by Shell to Sea lay litigants Niall Harnett and Eoin O'Leidhin in person, and by solicitor Alan Gannon on behalf of a number of his clients which include Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell and Maura Harrington who all face charges relating to different incidents which happened late last summer in opposition to Shell's failed efforts to lay pipe at Glengad. Niall Harnett was physically removed by Gardai from the court when he interrupted Judge Devins to say that the 'allegations' against her were “well warranted and true”. “Vicious, Unprecedented, Personal & Unwarranted” is how Judge Mary Devins is quoted in media as having responded to “the attack” of applications against her. But Midwest Radio news reported that Judge Devins denied that she gave any instruction to have Mr Harnett evicted from the courtroom. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday April 09, 2009 21:54 by Éanna Dowling
Brian Lenihan’s emergency supplementary bludget brings the curtain down on Ireland’s pantomime of excess. The workforce in Ireland willingly accepted twelve years of wage slavery when the goodies compensated for the grind, and the illusion of perpetual growth became the powerful myth underpinning the new consumer religion. More unreckonable years of wage slavery or welfare dependence await, as the personal and public debts accumulated during the boom must be paid for. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday April 09, 2009 21:02 by Sparky
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Claims by the Nigerian ambassador that female genital mutilation (FGM) is a ‘non-existant’ issue in her country were denounced by a lively, lunchtime protest held today outside the embassy in Ballsbridge and attended by around 35 Nigerians. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday April 09, 2009 14:17 by Richard Walsh
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The announcement by the Dublin Administration that a false name for Derry can be listed as the county of birth on a Free State passport amounts to an assault on Irish national identity, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 09, 2009 08:43 by Michael Taft
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I want to argue that Fianna Fail has essentially cooked (and I mean boil rapidly) the books - insofar as their strategy to bring the deficit under control by 2013 rests on numbers that cannot work in the material world. This might seem a bit academic but this will show in a way that no one else has done that deflation cannot work at any level - not at the level of arresting economic decline, job losses, living standards; and not even the deficit. This is the real debate - can deflation work? Fianna Fail's own bookeeping shows it can't. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday April 08, 2009 23:51 by Belfast WSM
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Over 200 people marched today from Andersonstown to the factory in Finachy for a rally, which was addressed by Unite Shop Stewards Charlie Maxwell and John Maxwell, including representatives from the SDLP and Sinn Fein. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 08, 2009 19:14 by Éanna Dowling
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Irish workers will bail out the bankers and the speculators following a decisive emergency budget. All workers will have reduced spending power as a result of tax increases while a new agency has been established to buy up “bad assets” with Government bonds. The income levy introduced in September has been doubled as has the health levy and minimum wage workers have been brought into the income tax system. Take home pay will be reduced for all workers in May. The deficit between Government income and expenditure is massive due to the bursting of the property bubble, banking mismanagement and the policy of positioning the country as the most “open” economy in Europe. That policy ensured that Ireland would be the most vulnerable to fluctuations in the globalised economy. Government borrowing will be over 10% of national income this year, but the main source of income to fix the problem is the increase in direct personal taxation. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 08, 2009 11:08 by Gregor Kerr
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Lenihan’s budget has continued the political strategy of defending the wealthy. Where is the reaction? Where is the anger? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday April 08, 2009 10:15 by Malachy Steenson
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The Workers’ Party has condemned today’s emergency budget as a miserable failure which only exacerbates the damage to the Irish economy caused by a golden circle who continue to gravitate around Government Buildings and hobnob with senior figures in Fianna Fáil. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday April 07, 2009 21:52 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Sometime during the second decade of the sorrowful mysteries, I had a sense we were not alone. Martin, Katrina and I were sat alone in a small East London park facing the Excel Centre where the G20 of the most powerful government leaders were gathered to rearrange deckchairs on their sinking ship. Thousands of police had been deployed around the Excel Centre keeping the few hundreds of protesters who gathered a quarter of a mile from the site. A case of overcatering evidently. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 21:51 by Eugene Mc Cartan
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Dracula budget sucks blood from workers The Communist Party of Ireland in a statement on the budget presented by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, described it as a Dracula budget, designed to suck the blood from workers so as to give a transfusion to bankers, stockbrokers, tax-avoiders, and property speculators. These parasites will all sleep well and will be celebrating the fact that their interests have been well looked after by “their government.” read full story / add a comment
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 07, 2009 21:16 by no provo
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East Tyrone Republicans are finished with Adams and McGuinness read full story / add a comment
meath / politics / elections / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 18:49 by Peter Fitzsimons Local Election Candidate Kells Town Council
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The Budget announced today the 07/04/2009 by finance minister Brian Lenihan is an absolute disgrace and it is nothing more than the administration in Leinster house looking after its own interests". read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 18:23 by Dublin Basque
Dublin saw a mini-Korrika run through the city centre last Saturday. Thousands of Basques participate in the Korrika which totals thousands of kilometres every two years on different routes through their homeland. This year's finished on Saturday with, according the organisers, the highest ever participation since 1981. The Basque and Irish participants in Dublin were running in solidarity and to raise funds for the promotion of the Basque language. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 17:34 by Clare Quinlan
Oxfam Ireland deplores today’s cut in Ireland's aid budget “Oxfam Ireland deplores today’s €100 million cut in Ireland's aid budget and calls for an immediate reversal of this decision. With this cut, our government's promise to the world’s poorest people rings hollow. This is the fourth cut in 10 months – demonstrating that the Irish Government sees the aid budget as a soft target. This cut will have a devastating impact on vulnerable people who are already struggling to cope with the crushing impacts of the global financial crisis, the food crisis and climate change. These are difficult times for us all but it is not the time to abandon our commitment to tackling poverty and injustice. Ireland's international standing will be damaged even further by this decision to turn its back on the world’s poorest when they need our assistance most” said Jim Clarken, Chief Executive of Oxfam Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 17:28 by Dublin Shell To Sea
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Shell to Sea campaigner, Maura Harrington was released from Mountjoy Women’s Prison this morning after serving 28 days. Maura had been imprisoned for allegedly slapping a member of Garda Siochana, a charge which she denies. Maura proceeded from Mountjoy Women’s Prison to Dail Eireann, where she was accompanied into the Dail by Aengus O Snodaigh TD and Martin Ferris TD. Maura met with press outside Dail Eireann where an impromptu press conference had been called. Maura called for an end to the gas give away: “Our pension fund was given to bail out the banks, and we now stand to gain nothing from our own natural gas and oil resources. The government is putting pressure on the people of Ireland today with this new Budget, but the oil and gas companies are feeling no pressure.” read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 12:38 by Irish Republican Youth
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In this the 93rd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Ógra Shinn Féin remembers proudly all those who died for the freedom of Ireland. We send fraternal greetings to our imprisoned comrades, their families and the families of Ireland’s patriot dead. We also extend solidarity greetings to our international comrades, in particular, pledging our ongoing support for the oppressed people of Palestine who have stood steadfast in the face of a brutal massacre. read full story / add a comment |
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