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international / eu / news report Wednesday March 29, 2006 15:30 by Kathy Sinnott
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“Every minute from now on is never your own, girl” . With these words the midwife plonked my friend’s new born son on her stomach. My friend was 18. She had arrived at the delivery room alone, laboured for hours and she was exhausted. Though she was an independent type or at least tried to be, it was all too much for her. She had wanted the nurse to say “Congratulations you have a beautiful son, you did a great job”. Instead, all romance dispelled, she lifted her head, stared down her nose, past her chin at the splotchy purple being , sighed deeply and kind of squared her shoulders to the future. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 14:41 by Shannon
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As an American, I am completely fed up with the "war on terror" going on in Iraq and the constant screw-ups along made along the way. Yesterday, I read that Ayad Allawi, Iraq's former interim learder has consented that Iraq is involved in a Civil War, yet the US Idiot cannot seem to figure that out. Now today, I brouse through The Guardian, and discover a story relating tales of terror detainees barred from trials in the US courts, and awaiting judgement on their right to a trial. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:30 by Mick
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What are the causes? This is not scientific but I believe that a scientific study would probably identify these factors in order of significane. 1. Public ignorance and stupidity. 2. Speeding 3. Alcohol and drugs. 4. Poor driving tests and skills and lack of knowledge of the rules of the road. 5. Poor secondary roads. 6. Poor enforcement of road laws by police and lenient punishments for offenders. 7. Increased road usuge and congestion in urban areas. Most importantly - "What is the solution?" read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:29 by Miriam Cotton
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I don’t know the last time the Irish Examiner bothered to write about the subject of disability but it is a certainty that the issue is not a priority for the paper’s editors in the normal run of events and it has negligible coverage in its pages. For instance, if you compare its coverage of the subject of horseracing or business issues, disability trails well behind either despite its significance to huge numbers of people. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:26 by non-payer
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1pm Saturday 1st April outside Belfast City Hall read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:16 by Garrett Mullan
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This week the NCCRI (National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism) launched a handbook on Seeking Advice and Redress Against Racism in Ireland. However there are wild discrepancies in recording of racism in Ireland as compared to Britain. Show Racism the Red Card has a report form on its website and is hoping to gather research to illustrate the true extent of racism in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 29, 2006 12:43 by Garrett Mullan
As the Setanta Cup completes the group stages, some managers speak their mind about this cross border competition. Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez said: "Football has the power to build bridges, promote respect and bring communities together. We believe supporters are the lifeblood of the game and that sectarianism and racism should have no place in football or society. The Setanta cup is going some way to building bridges" read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 05:00 by John Aherne
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Can anyone tell me as to why it is so difficult to have a basic need catered to regarding accessibility in Ireland? In this day and age you would think firstly that pure and utter logic would prevail, but with my expieriences, and with the so called "Celtic Tiger" we are years away from being a society that open doors. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday March 29, 2006 01:17 by Spokesperson, Bernie Wright.
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600 litters of dogs on average are advertised weekly in newspapers, periodicals and free adds papers here in Ireland. 400 DOGS FOR SALE adds appear on average in one free adds paper alone, many of these for up to nine different breeds, the majority of which are being raised on PUPPY FARMS here in Ireland. Other adds appear on notice boards everywhere with photos of cute pups, obviously a little money spinner for people who breed their animals at home.Many people who buy a pup do not realise they are causing untold misery for the pups mother who lives her life virtually 'in pup' and many report buying the saddest, sickest pup just to save it.In reality this easy money prompts the breeder to continue. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 29, 2006 00:48 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The Liberal-Conservative Danish government refuses to give the Socialist People’s Party access to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ registers of correspondence concerning the controversial cartoons of the Prophet, which provoked demonstrations and attacks on Danish embassies in the Middle East in January. The chairman of the Socialist People’s Party, Villy Søvndal, accuses the government of "deliberately trying to keep secret things they don’t want people to know about” - particularly further documentation for the fact that Muslim organisations and ambassadors warned the government in advance that things could turn nasty if it did not engage in diplomatic initiatives to distance itself from the cartoons. The government will now have to explain its stance in the Foreign Policy Committee. Please read my translation of a recent article from the website of the Danish daily paper, Politiken. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Tuesday March 28, 2006 23:42 by Barry Finnegan
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It is being organised by the people who did the work to put on the 1st and 2nd Irish Social Forums in 2003 and 2004 and it’s called the Dublin Social Forum (DSF). If you’re into saving the environment, establishing gender equality, getting the debt dropped, facing down racism, dismantling/smashing capitalism, rebuilding our communities, ending war ... then I think you should come. In other words for those who oppose the violent racist sexist war-waging community-destroying public-service-selling ecocide of a neoliberalist capitalist system and its processes of globalisation, there must be some way that we can meet each other publicly, and this forum is one way to meet. [Scroll to the end for this months DSF title, venue, details, egroup, etc.] WHY SHOULD ONE GO? I firmly believe that politically and environmentally there is too much at stake for us not to engage each other, I firmly believe that one way to do this is through active participation in an open political forum and that in this forum we can create an atmosphere where we can learn what opposing neoliberalism means to others like us but not necessarily the same as us, in this forum we can learn from each other so as to better understand the world around us, and to build trust and action to co-ordinate and strengthen our various struggles for the betterment of all. Part of the demand for such a monthly antineoliberalist forum springs from the observation that sectors of the antineoliberalist movements, be they trade union, development, hard-left, environmentalist, libertarian, gender, human rights, community, etc, tend to meet just themselves at their own meetings, protests and conferences, and that one of the things we need collectively, is a challenging open space, a forum to learn from each other, to try to convince each other to support each others perspectives and campaigns, to build alliances for specific campaigns and issues, and to perhaps learn to work together better for the collective benefit of all our struggles ... or indeed to clarify the issues on which we disagree. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / news report Tuesday March 28, 2006 19:41 by Mark C
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Gay Byrne, it was announced today, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Road Safety Authority. Let’s see how a cynical and ‘benefit of the doubt’ approach could work to this “news”. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday March 28, 2006 18:17 by Dave Lordan
Red Tuesday in France and Britain read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday March 28, 2006 15:34 by Paula O'Neill
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A chairde/ Lagunok You can keep updated to news of the Basque struggle, discussions and debates and events organised by the Irish Basque Committees by checking our brand new blog at: www.irishbasquecommittees.blogspot.com read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 28, 2006 14:56 by pat c
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The fifth annual Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund meeting was held in London on 20 March despite the pulling out of the guest speaker, liberal Islamic theologian, Sheikh Dr Muhammad Yusuf due to death threats from Islamists. Instead the main speaker was the Iranian born secularist and feminist Maryam Namazie. She called for an end to “political Islam” and what she described as its inhuman treatment of women, children and members of the LGBT community. She criticised her home country Iran for policy of public executions, citing the law which states the size of the stones used to kill women who have committed adultery. “The stone can not be so small that it does not cause pain, but not to large that it hastens their death. It must be just the right size to cause a slow, painful death.” read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 28, 2006 14:19 by Friends of Kunle
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TODAY is the day that Nigerian Asylum Seeker Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo has been ordered to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau by Justice Minister Michael McDowell so that the deportation to Nigeria proceedings against him can be expedited. Let’s see a show of support for Kunle outside the GNIB today and more until he is allowed to stay in Ireland! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday March 28, 2006 14:12 by M
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A suspect package was delivered to McDowells office in the Post this morning. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday March 28, 2006 03:27 by Gearóid O Loingsigh
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The US is once again set to use the so called war on drugs as an excuse for direct US intervention in Colombia. read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Monday March 27, 2006 23:51 by Ógra B
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A member of Ógra Shinn Féin from west Tyrone had been jailed for 3 days in the past week. Danny Turnbull from Omagh was held in Maghaberry jail in Co. Antrim from Monday 20th until Thursday 23rd. He was jailed after he refused to pay a fine relating to the greening of a number of post-boxes in the Tyrone area. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / news report Monday March 27, 2006 23:43 by Con Connor
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The myth of the five roads to Tara comes alive and is found to be the truth and a treasure is returned to the Celtic World. The centre of Tara is found in the triangle where these five roads meet. The attached image shows the five ancient roads to Tara in red. The line of red dots on the photograph shows where there used to be a road to the east coast. This road to the east coast is clearly shown on the 1830's map inset in the circle - the map has been turned to align with the photo - see http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/809109 read full story / add a comment |
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