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dublin / animal rights / news report Wednesday July 19, 2006 23:23 by Stephan Wymore
Wednesday 19th July at noon, outside the Lush store in Dublin, a giant rabbit from ARAN was encouraging members of the public to ‘Vote Against Animal Testing in Europe’ and to place their voting card in a ballot box. The completed cards will then be sent to MEPs and relevant government authorities. On the windows of every LUSH store in Ireland are posters reading ‘VOTE AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING IN EUROPE’ read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Wednesday July 19, 2006 22:38 by Dave Donnellan
In 2005 two Iranian teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari (16) and Ayaz Marhoni (18), were both sentenced to death for what some human rights groups claimed was "consensual gay sex". Today, on the first anniversary of the executions a protest meeting was held outside the Central Bank in Dame to commemorate the event. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday July 19, 2006 18:52 by Terry
An overview of what Rossport Solidarity Camp is up to at the moment and has planned for the month of August. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday July 19, 2006 17:55 by Feirsteach
Beidh Máire Nic an Bhaird, ball de Na Gaeil Óga i mBéal Feirste, os comhair na cúirte sa chathair Dé Céadaoin 19ú Iúil. A coir – gur labhair sí as Gaeilge leis na póilíní. Arsa Ciarán Ó Brolcháin, Rúnaí Ghaeil Óga Bhéal Feirste, "Is seafóid amach is amach é gur gabhadh an bhean óg seo de bhrí gur labhair sí leis na péas ina teanga dhúchais. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday July 19, 2006 14:31 by Ógra B
Up to 70 young people attended the Coiste na nIarchimí fourth Annual Youth Camp on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 June. Organised under the republican ex-prisoners Processes of Nation Building Programme and funded under European Peace Funding, Campa Náisiúnta Óige took place in Sliabh Beagh Tourism Centre in County Monaghan. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / feature Wednesday July 19, 2006 01:02 by Pinhead
There’s a long standing tradition of music festivals in Ireland, from the Fleadh’s of yore with their bizarre intersection of trad and hippy folk revivalists, to the self organised beauty of the anti-nuclear festivals at Carnsore or the hilarity of a Dylan gig at Slane that broke out in a riot. The most romanticised of recent Irish festivals is the Semple Stadium Feiles, when sprawling night time chaos descended across a quite Irish town leading to jammed Liveline phonelines for about a week after and infuriated auld ones tearing the nation’s youth a new arsehole with verbal condemnation.
The tightening of planning legislation around festivals as a result of the chaotic nature of the Feiles led to a tragic respite from the multi-day festival from 1997 onwards. With a generation lacking any similar major rites of passage, the massive Slane one day events reigned supreme and there was always some fucker of a mate’s older brother to regale you with boastful tales of pissing, shitting and shaggin all over Thurles in contrast to the placid state of Slane. But lets see these thirty something suckers dance now cos we've been pissing on ourselves and getting our stomachs pumped at our own Feile - OXEGEN! Or so Denis Desmond's main man Brian ‘Biggie' Spollen would have us believe. But I'll see ye at the next boutique festival, yeah? |
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