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derry / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday August 11, 2006 17:52 by ali la pointe
 7 comments (last - friday august 11, 2006 22:38)
News just breaking that the judge at the Bail hearing at Belfast Crown court has granted bail to the 8 people who applied for it. The 9th, a former member of the Republican Socialist Movement and political prisoner who is out on license under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement had chosen to hold his bail application back so as not to jeopardise his comrades' chances. It is understood he will make a bail application on Monday. read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday August 11, 2006 12:46 by John McDermott
22 comments (last - sunday january 06, 2008 17:29)  1 image
The irish people will pay dearly through the bin taxes and other impositions for cleaning up the hundreds of illegal dumps operated by Cement Roadstone, and other Friends of Fianna Fail during the past two decades.This problem has not been touched upon by our current government-nor will it be- until after the coming election. read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday August 11, 2006 12:42 by Goretti Horgan
5 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 02:49)
As we wait to hear if the nine protestors are to get bail today or to be held until 7th Sept, here is yesterday's press release from the Derry Anti War Coalition in response to the jailing of its members. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday August 11, 2006 12:32 by Sean O'Neill
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Community activist and RSF secretary in Limerick Sean O'Neill was recovering last night after a brual attack by masked and hooded thugs in the Ballinacurra Weston area of the city. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 11, 2006 07:56 by sofia
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Favio Zanonato the mayor of Padova, Italy elected as a social democrat has astounded rights groups worldwide and provoked polemic indignation in his own city with what he terms a "temporary measure". A troublesome neighbourhood and its core complex of flats which are home to marginalised migrant groups and native Italian poor with high instances of drug use and sale has been walled. Construction workers arrived without prior warning and erected in one day a security fence of 4 milimetre thick steel fencing and 3 metres high around the flats. Only one entrance or exit has been left where residents and visitors alike must submit to searches by the police before passing through. read full story / add a comment |
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