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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday April 30, 2006 23:39 by snobbiness is bad for your health
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Northern Ireland one of the poorest areas in the UK, suffering from poverty and social exclusion, with the HIGHEST unemployment and second highest number of Income support claimants in the UK read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday April 30, 2006 21:25 by Paula Geraghty
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national / arts and media / news report Sunday April 30, 2006 19:48 by Rastavidhead
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Each day when I wake up I think, In this world I assume, I’m a failure, no lies. But knowing that, each night, I can dream, Imagine being free, I project my self and observe, I fly far from your hellish world, Where there are eyes that penetrate. They look, they judge, criticising, censoring, punishing. Mirror, mirror what do you see? You are deaf, blind and mute, And what I say, you believe, Where are my mistakes? I’ve been looking for years. I’ve revised my past, my body floats through the present and in the future is my mind, Resolving problems. Existence is a dilemma, In my opinion, he who thinks the most, reaches the answer first. I see myself moving closer. How nice life is when there is no hassle, The landscape is still green and on high the clouds are stretching by. The air is clean and free flows the wind, Through the fields. I get up and stretch, I walk and sing, the birds follow me and I smile, hearing melodies in the chirp, chirp, chirp. Or the tranquillity of the music of a river instead of city trains, cars and screams. Aiee, its my paradise. There’s no need, and I have no fancy mobile, I have no motorcycle, I step on no accelerator, there is no requirement. I’m alive and the taste is so exquisite. For so many awaited and by not many appreciated, let’s not talk about them because they’re finished. We have to try again, be born again, love and see ourselves flourish, Mind the earth, because in the end, it’s going to be drained, it’s going to be drained. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday April 30, 2006 14:54 by Anomino-anarko
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Mayday street art-action City arts centre read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday April 30, 2006 03:58 by John McDermott
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Dick"s new fighting rubbish scourge personnel carrier.! A MOBILE clean-up squad has been handed €350,000 by Environment Minister Dick Roche,in January 2006, to end the scourge of illegal dumping in his constituency by bin tax dodging,ordinary citizens. The money is being spent on a special vehicle to remove rubbish illegally fly-tipped and to buy specialist equipment including CCTV with night vision. The Wicklow Uplands Council will carry out the project in the hilly parts of the county. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Saturday April 29, 2006 23:55 by ipsiphi
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All of the Peruvian commercial media regardless of their stance on the recent presidential elections have combined forces to condemn Hugo Chavez, "the Caudillo" who in his latest demonstration of megolomania has threatened to withdraw the Venezuelan diplomatic mission from Lima if Garcia is elected. indymedia peru are calling for a support of indefinite strikes and have not featured the election (*) Meanwhile the Peruvian state has appealed to all international bodies to safeguard the legitimacy of the second round of Presidential voting. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / press release Saturday April 29, 2006 23:16 by Ann K
From Monday or Tuesday May 1st-2nd, a patient information pack containing information about Parkinson's, about some of the complications that can occur and how they are best treated, and about the Parkinson's Association of Ireland, may b collected by every person with Parkinson's (or someone else on their behalf) from their local pharmacy. THis has been a huge project, and we hope to reach EVERY person with Parkinson's. There is no cost for this folder; it is free, and hopefully will be read from cover to cover! More than Meets the Eye - that's the campaign title - there is more than meets the eye to Parkinson's. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday April 29, 2006 17:55 by Jim
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There was a small enough turnout as per usual at this years May Day demonstration. Though suprisingly there was a very visible contingent of communists. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday April 29, 2006 16:07 by O. McCool
Implications of Minister For Justice' comments and actions around the February 25 riots; relationship of same to Minister's re-write of the criminal code currently under consideration by the Dail. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday April 29, 2006 13:48 by Ado
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Neville Chamberline returned from his final meeting with Adolf Hitler waving a piece of white paper claiming that Hitler had given him an assurances about Germanys expantionist intentions. We all know what happened next. read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Saturday April 29, 2006 09:50 by Sean Crudden
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The points system for entry into university is a token of what was a fascination in Ireland with selection processes. Is it time to relax? read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Saturday April 29, 2006 09:05 by Michael Gallagher
New Song read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday April 29, 2006 03:59 by Patrique
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Uncivil Servant stand accused of playing politics at General Council. Uncivil Servant does not have anyone on General Council. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 29, 2006 02:07 by Shell to Sea
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Erris drinking water comes from Carrowmore Lake. The lake is becoming heavily contaminated with aluminium as a by-product of the removal of peat from the site of the giant gas refinery that Shell seek to construct at Beal an Átha Buí (known in English as Ballinaboy or Bellinaboy). As a part of Shell's scheme the company's contractors have had to transfer tons of peat from Beal an Átha Buí to a facility owned and operated by Bord na Móna at Srahmore. Underneath the top layer of peat is a substance called dobe, which has a very high aluminium content. Rain causes pools of aluminium contaminated water on the site to overflow and run into nearby Carrowmore Lake. Carrowmore Lake is the source of Mayo County Council's drinking water supply for the Erris area. Controversy has raged about the condition of the drinking water in Erris, since it was found that the water treatment machinery that Shell's contractors are using has never worked to its full capacity. Shell to Sea observers have recorded that the machinery meant to purify the water has rarely worked at all. The local authority has claimed that there is no problem with the water in Carrowmore Lake. The Council's own testing regime has detected high aluminium content in the drinking water, but instead of properly investigating, they have claimed that this is a consequence of human error in the laboratory. Campaigners from Shell to Sea set up a table on Friday at lunchtime at the pedestrian entrance to the the Customs House and offered glasses of water from the Erris drinking water supply to staff of the Department of the Environment and Local Government as they leave for lunch. An invitation to attend the water tasting event was sent to Environment Minister Dick Roche, but no reply was received, and of course he didn't appear. Unsurprisingly, no one accepted the offer of a glass of water, nor did anyone from the Department come out to speak to the protesters. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / news report Saturday April 29, 2006 00:19 by Edward Horgan
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In spite of efforts by Euro MEP Sean O'Neachtain and others to discredit the facts that the CIA has been using Shannon airport for its torture rendition programme, the truth is gradually leaking out. It may take several years for so-called "concrete evidence" such as lists of tortured prisoners who were "rendered" through Shannon, and details of Irish government ministers knowledge and approval of these crimes, to become public, but this will come too. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 28, 2006 23:26 by John Kelly
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The right of free speech has been limited. We will not be told to shut up and we're taking this message to the Mayor of Dublin next Thursday. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / news report Friday April 28, 2006 22:44 by Noise Hacker
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Dublin's Critical Mass Bike Ride 28th April 2006 6.30pm-8.00pm Dublin City Graffiti images are from Dublin City (Images taken on a low end camera, hence the quality!) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 28, 2006 19:44 by Erin McGann
Foreigners in Angola left high and dry as passports are detained. The situation is the result of restructuring the passport office in Luanda. This all comes at a time of inceasing unease in Angola's political climate. There have been reports of passports having been detained for up to two months now and still no sign of them being returned. Hundreds of foreigners, wishing to return to Europe and other destinations have had to cancel flights as a result of the confusion. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday April 28, 2006 18:41 by Jim
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A large protest took place outside the offices of the Health and Safety Authority to mark international workers commemoration day. The protest was supported by BATU and SIPTU as well as local T.D. Ruairi Quinn and Sean Ryan T.D. of Labour. There was a considerable amount of corporate press photographers and tv cameras as well. The family of Justin Foley were also present and they laid flowers for Justin at the doorstep of the HSA in Hogan place. There was a minutes silence at 12. Building workers held 23 crosses one - each to represent each worker killed in work related accidents during 2005. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday April 28, 2006 15:10 by average joe
A recent medialens alert highlighted the cartoon nature of a news report/one-sided smear on Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. John Pilger described it as “one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen” - in which, Channel 4’s Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman smeared Chavez in "a piece seemingly written by the US State Department". read full story / add a comment |
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