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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 22:40 by wsm
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A consortium of Shell, Statoil, and Marathon do a deal with the government allowing them exclusive exploitation rights to the Corrib gas field, off Mayo. Not only that, but they are allowed to write off their costs against taxes, meaning that the whole project is being funded by the PAYE taxpayer, who will receive nothing, not even lower gas prices. It may sound a bit iffy but there is no garda investigation into possible bribery or corruption. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday December 11, 2006 22:29 by Aoife and Joe
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Like many other employers UCD has sought to save money in the last couple of decades by refusing to create permanent pensionable posts. Instead, a growing percentage of the workforce have been left on short-term contracts without any pension rights.. SIPTU estimates that almost a third of workers in UCD are ‘fixed term workers’. The university also made a number of them redundant over the summer, including one who had been working for the college since 1981. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 22:04 by John McDermott
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by Saoirse
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It is all to easy to get wound up in the festive cheer and hype in the run up to Christmas and while I do no advocate going ‘cold turkey’ (excuse the Pun) on Christmas altogether I do ask everyone as you sit around your table this Christmas spare a thought for republican prisoners who spend yet another Christmas away from home and loved ones. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by walter
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Coillte in breach of FSC certificate read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / press release Monday December 11, 2006 18:14 by Socialist
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SDLP Youth today protested against the DUP motion to deny gays and lesbians protection against discrimination. In the Assembly, the SDLP voted for equality and against a DUP motion. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 16:25 by Ian Greene
Upon reading one of the redtops (tabloids) on the weekend of 3rd Sept 2006 I came across an interesting article by journalist John Mooney. The article led me on to search for a website referred to in the article. The website itself was interesting and gave an indepth background into the case of Michael McKevitt. However, one thing was confirmed to me during my search, that one can be seriously misinformed and mislead by the print media and the redtops in particular. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Monday December 11, 2006 14:20 by Miriam Cotton
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There is a strong possibility that the judgment will be handed down in the High Court on Wednesday, December 13, 2006. This case is of huge significance to all people with a disability, their family and friends and the professionals who serve them. Such is the importance of this case that our government spared no expense to fight Sean O'Cuanachain who has autism and his parents. The State employed two full legal teams, one for the Minister of Education, Mary Hanafin and the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney and one for the HSE to win the right to deny Sean the education that was clearly benefiting him. The case was heard for an unprecedented 68 days from January to July 2006 at the expense of many million euros. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / news report Monday December 11, 2006 13:05 by Secretary
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Another very positive meeting of the Save Tara campaign was held on Sunday. Facilitating was an experienced community worker and facilitator from Galway, who has worked closely with the Zapatistas in Mexico and in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday December 11, 2006 10:53 by Irish Environmental & Social Stakeholders
An alliance of environmental and social groups from Ireland today sent a detailed and powerful rebuttal of the environmental certification of Coillte, Ireland's largest forestry company, to the Lord Peter Melchett and the Board of the Soil Association, who are responsible for the certificate. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 11, 2006 03:33 by JD
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Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, lecturer in contemporary Jewish history, Soviet history and the history of science at the University of Montreal since 1973 and practising Orthodox Jew, tonight laid bare the provenance of Zionism in Russia and voiced his opposition to it, full blown, in Israel When Zionism, we were told, began to take root at the turn of the 20th century, most rabbinic authorities saw it as a dangerous tool to tear the Jews away from Torah and its commandments. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 03:27 by Harry Wells
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The Mail on Sunday returns today to the story the Irish Times and Irish Independent don't want to touch with a forty-foot pole. It is ironic that an Irish edition of a Conservative English newspaper shows more gumption in exposing this scandal than Irish owned newspapers. See also: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80012 - for previous Mail coverage of this story and how the Times and Indo have effectively ignored it. Who are these newspapers protecting? The Fine Gael-Labour coalition of 1973-77, who ran scared from the bombs and instituted a reign of repression and terror against republicans and the (minority) of socialists who stood up to them, that's who. read full story / add a comment |
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