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dublin / racism & migration related issues / feature Sunday May 14, 2006 23:33 by IMC Editorial
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A group of twenty to thirty refugees (UPDATE: numbers are now known to be 41) occupied St. Patricks Cathedral after today’s Cathedral Service. At least three minors are believed to be among the group of men. The group are seeking refugee status in Ireland and decided to hungerstrike after some of their applications were turned down last Friday by the Office of the Refugee Appeals Commissioner. Geen Party TD, Ciarán Cuffe has met some of the men and believes them to be genuine. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 22:24 by richard whelan
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a&e protest easter week end. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 20:44 by Edward Horgan
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This aircraft was seen by Edward Horgan at Shannon airport on Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm. It took off about two hours later. Connor Cregan got some photos of the take off which will be published later. It has been seen regularly at Frankfurt in Germany. It is not yet clear whether it is controlled by the US Airforce or by the CIA. It is unusual for US Airforce to operate such unmaked planes. The Irish green white and gold colour scheme is a new innovation. It makes a change from World Airways flying in Aer Lingus colours. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 19:25 by Laure Akai
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For the second week in a row, Students’ Initiative organized protests across the country against the radical right. More protests planned. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 19:23 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The editor-in-chief of the conservative daily newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, is satisfied that he has now been charged with leaking classified intelligence documents in his newspaper in February 2004. The two journalists who wrote the articles about the leaked documents had already been charged at the end of April. Their editor expects all three to be acquitted if the case against them proceeds. In a series of articles in the newspaper from 22 February 2004, Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen published excerpts of reports which they had obtained from Major Frank Grevil of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE). Grevil, a secret agent who helped to write FE’s intelligence assessments of Iraq’s weapons capabilities for the Danish government, felt that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen had exaggerated existing information about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction in order to persuade the Danish parliament to participate in the ill-fated invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Grevil himself has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, but is appealing his sentence in the European Court of Human Rights, on the basis that evidence that might play a decisive part in his defence has been withheld. More detail about the most recent development, plus link to background article, below. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 18:28 by eoin
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"Steal what you will from the blueness of the sea and the sand of memory Take what pictures you will, so that you understand That which you never will: How a stone from our land builds the ceiling of our sky." -Mahomood Darwish 'Those who pass between fleeting words (Abiroon Abir) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 17:16 by sper
Joe Higgins demands for social housing Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers” read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 14:33 by Fintan Lane
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The following is a personal report of the third open anti-war meeting, which was held in the Teachers' Club, Parnell Square, Dublin, on Saturday, 13 May, between 2.30 and 5.30pm. This isn't a comprehensive report - and I'm sure I'll miss a few things - so I hope other participants will add to it in their comments. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 04:02 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
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In a letter to the Ombudsman of the Danish Parliament, staff at the Danish Prime Minister's Office have invoked "very wide powers of discretion" under the legislation, to defend Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's persistent refusal to be interviewed by prize-winning journalist Bo Elkjær. In response, Elkjær points out that Fogh promised to give him an interview when they met at the offices of the Danish Union of Journalists in Copenhagen in January 2004. On that occasion, Elkjær had just been awarded the prestigious Cavling Prize for his work in exposing the lies by which Fogh and his cabinet persuaded the parliament to support Denmark's invasion of Iraq. By Elkjær's account, staff at the Prime Minister's Office have made the excuse that Mr Fogh "did not have space in his calendar," even though Elkjær has given the Prime Minister's Office complete freedom to set the time and place for an interview. Fogh's staff have repeatedly failed to keep promises that they "would call back". One of Elkjær's intentions for an interview is to ask why, at a press conference on 21 March 2003, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen "emphasised a nuclear threat [from Iraq] that the government several days before, in an internal paper, had clearly and unequivocally rejected." "It is clear from the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the government had several days previously arrived at the definitive conclusion that Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons programme, or indeed any nuclear programme at all," says Elkjær. Please read Billy O'Shea's translation of the latest exchange below. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 23:42 by DF
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Critics of Hugo Chavez have renewed their charges of authoritarianism against the Venezuelan leader. How well do these claims stand up? read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 23:09 by James Reilly
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Susan McKay’s article in the Weekend Review section of the Irish Times (May 13 2006 - see link below) explains the background to the unionist sectarian killing of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena. In this DUP heartland over 90% of the sectarian attacks are unionist. The PSNI calls this sectarianism that is almost universally unionist a “two way thing”. Ian Paisley wants “all sides” to “pull back”. Instead of examining whether unionist ideology is in any way at fault, Paisley warns nationalists in an insulting and bullying manner not to turn the issue into a “political football”. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday May 13, 2006 13:53 by Magdalena from Dun Laoghaire
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This year -- as more and more mothers, in America, Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland as well as Iraq, mourn their fallen sons and daughters, lost to the insanity of organized violence -- Julia Ward Howe's call for women to not allow their men to constantly play at war is back in fashion, part of a growing awareness of the link between patriarchy and war. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 13, 2006 12:55 by Sean O'Neill
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Time and tide waits for no man or woman the organisors of River fest in Limerick learned when canoeists had to wade ashore read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 13, 2006 12:49 by Joe Lynch
Hundredss of families in the Mid West were disappointed at being turned away from visiting a French naval ship in the port of Limerick because of an insurance cock up read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 10:24 by Sean Crudden
Nowadays none of us want to believe that we are living - or struggling to live - in a "top-down" patriarchal society. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 10:14 by Manus O'Riordan
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Review: Eoin O’Duffy – A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2005, €35/£25 Fearghal McGarry first made his mark as a historian with Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999), described by me as “the definitive textbook on the subject” in the Fall 2003 issue of Irish Literary Supplement. This was in the context of a review of his second book, Frank Ryan (2002), a biography criticised as both disappointing and sensationalist, with little evidence of the depth of research and analysis required to do justice to its subject. The hope was nonetheless expressed that the author’s future work would demonstrate a return to the “high standards of scholarship, balanced presentation and conscientious evaluation” that he had previously shown. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 09:22 by Manus O'Riordan
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CORK COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS May Day commemorations by MANUS O’RIORDAN HEAD OF RESEARCH SIPTU Metropole Hotel, Cork MAY 2nd, 2006 James Connolly “Be Moderate”: “Some men faint-hearted ever seek Our Programme to retouch And will insist when e’er they speak That we demand too much. ‘Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements cause me mirth, For our demands most modest are: We only want the Earth! PHOTOGRAPH COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON JAMES CONNOLLY AND TERENCE McSWINEY BY MANUS O'RIORDAN ON EASTER SUNDAY 2006 AT THE FORTRESS OF CASTELL DE SANT FERNAN, FIGUERES, CATALONIA. (see linked story) read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday May 13, 2006 00:52 by Millie R.
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A snapshot at the fortunes of Ireland's top capitalist. Tony O'Reilly isn't going to be running out of money anytime soon. read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 12, 2006 22:43 by Ógra B
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Friday 5th May seen Omagh PSNI base as the scene of the latest leg of Sinn Féin's ‘End Political Policing’ campaign. Ógra Shinn Fein had organised the protest to call for an End to the political nature of policing in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 12, 2006 20:46 by Elaine
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Charlie McGlade Cumman in Drimnagh held a black flag vigil at the junction between Walkinstown Road and the Long Mile Road this evening between 5.30 and 6.30. read full story / add a comment |
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