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Human Rights in Ireland
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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Sunday June 04, 2006 20:19 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 4 comments (last - monday june 05, 2006 21:45)
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made".

Very special & very short edition this one, if you're reading this in Ireland or are one of the Irish Diasporia -

Congratulations!

You are now one of the Establishment, in the period from the 23rd of May to the 2nd of June all the Irish people joined ranks & played their part to be the Regime. We are all Brainy. I am thus giving you all tips today - so you can go on being "Brainy".


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Some of the crowd at the Justice for Terence Wheelock Protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday June 04, 2006 19:42 by NMI   text 43 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 22:10)   image 9 images
One year on from the unexplained death of Terence Wheelock after his detention in Store Street Garda Station, his family, his community and the wider Irish public demand some meaningful answers. In that time, the gardaí have paid their respects by physically attacking the Wheelock family and continuing their harassement of youths from Dublin's east inner city.

Indymedia has videod and otherwise documented garda brutality in the past, only to see those caught red-handed, be exhonerated by the irish Justice System. However, the deaths of Brian Rossiter, 'Johnner' Moloney, and Terence Wheelock, and the lack of accountability regarding numerous garda usage of lethal force, point to something very sinister among the ranks of the Guardians of the Peace, and a willingness to cover up, if not sanction it, within the Department of Justice. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday June 04, 2006 17:54 by Charlie Donnelly   text 143 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 21:42)   image 14 images
Anti Fascist Action and members of Anarchist Youth routed a planned meeting of Nazi bonehead gang, the Celtic Wolves in Dublin city centre yesterday. What was planned as the first meeting in Dublin this year for these sad tossers ended in utter humiliation as anti-fascists first evicted them from their meeting point in a city centre pub and then proceeded to beat them up and down O'Connell Street.
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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday June 04, 2006 13:56 by Ulrich   text 12 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 20:44)
I went to see this move yesterday expecting a special effects laden epic and disgusting American jingoism and was violently slapped in the face and kicked in the guts for my complacency.

Instead I experienced a film such raw realism showing the utterly horrifying depravity of the hijackers such as Siad Jarrah, their utter contempt for human life especially the passengers of United 93 and their revolting sociopathic Islamic fundementalism.
The moving protrayl of how ordinary people such as Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, air hostess Sandy Bradshaw and others threw themselves upon the terrorists and saved hundreds perhaps thousands of other human beings from indiscriminate slaughter. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 04, 2006 12:41 by Bob   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 14, 2007 10:59)
How do most people classify sexual perversion?
And how justified are we in our attitudes toward sex?

The controversy over the age of consent in Irish courts should be framed with in an honest examination of our general attitude.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday June 04, 2006 01:38 by Brian Mac Grath   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 04, 2006 01:45)
Day of action in support of the oppressed villages of Daechuri and Doduri in South Korea. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 03, 2006 23:41 by COT   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 18:47)
These days G is a busy man. Meeting him at his house, I see that he has converted his bedroom into a pseudo-office, full of computers and court documents, which he is currently transferring onto his newly launched website. He tells me that he has been working long hours recently on the website, but it seems clear that his enthusiasm and energy haven’t tired.
G is a man with a mission and seems about ready to pick up where he left off in his own personal campaign for justice against the state and county law makers of California.
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Gathering at the church on Sean McDermott Street
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 03, 2006 18:44 by kevin   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 20:47)   image 20 images
Selection of images from earlier today. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday June 03, 2006 14:20 by Sean Crudden   text 6 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 19:13)   image 1 image
Is a cosy consensus the same thing as the rule of law? How are politicians or judges prevented from mucking about with the law, introducing bad law, administering the law in a partial or unfair way? Does the system require more checks and balances? Is obscurity and obfuscation the order of the day? Are we taking the modh direach to a lawless and capricious Alice-In-Wonderland world? read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / press release Saturday June 03, 2006 03:06 by Con Connor   text 15 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 18:47)   image 2 images
On Saturday, the 13th of May 2006, the day of the Full Moon of Beltine, the Opus Dei Lismullin Institute charged E50 to hear an all day talk about Opus Dei's plans for our Celtic Heritage. Opus Dei's Lismullin Institute in the high valley of the Royal City of Celtic Tara (supported by the state funded Heritage Council) managed to keep everyone silent about the 'problem'. No one was allowed to mention the 'M' word (M3 dual toll road motorway) as there was a dictate (in their promotion) that - "The cut off at 2000 AD is chosen to exclude discussion of the proposed route of the M3 Motorway and to leave more time for learning about the history and traditions associated with the Valley". Those who force this toll road have an agenda that restricts free speech. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / press release Saturday June 03, 2006 02:58 by Con Connor   text 30 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 02:13)   image 3 images
Edain Echraidhe is her Gaelic name; her home is the high valley between the hills of Tara and Skryne in the Royal City of Celtic Ireland. This high valley holds a sacred stream called the Gabhra (pronounced gow-ra), which means the white mare. The Gabhra Valley was free range for the White Mare of our Celtic ancestors who came from northern Spain. In Cymru (Wales), she is called Rhiannon, and the Celts of Gaul (France) called her Epona and in a chalk hill in Oxford (England) many people today say that the giant image of the Uffington Horse is a Celtic Horse Goddess. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 03, 2006 00:14 by DF   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 03, 2006 21:41)
Yet again, the mainstream media gives a distorting image of Latin America's shift to the Left. But looking closely at the distortions shows what the real agenda is. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / feature Friday June 02, 2006 20:22 by Paul Baynes   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 14:21)   image 9 images
This article gives details of a new community garden that has been established in Finglas, in the north of Dublin city. A teacher in a primary school offered some land on the school grounds to activists from the Dolphin’s Barn Community Garden, so that they could set up a new community garden for the city. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Friday June 02, 2006 18:33 by Donnchadh   text 27 comments (last - sunday may 27, 2007 23:52)
How Irish revisionism follows what French psychoanalyst and intellectual Jacques Lacan describes as the "Discourse of the University." read full story / add a comment
gender equality debates in Europe 228 years after Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsoby ran away...
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 02, 2006 18:33 by Oliver Cromwell, the Lord High Protector   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 03, 2006 18:02)   image 1 image
30 years after the deaths of De Valera & Franco the difference between Spain & Ireland's social & gender debate could not be starker. Today as the Spanish Cabinet approved yet another of their election manifesto promises of 2004 to "enact equality of gender identification legislation", The Irish Legislature found itself discussing the legalities of a 60 year old man engaging in oral sex with a 15 year old boy. What was in one state simply another move at Cabinet Executive level to correct intolerable wrongs of the past counterpointed an Emergency Session of the Legislature in the other state to patch yet another hole in the 1937 constitution left to the majority of Irish people by De Valera.

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national / environment / press release Friday June 02, 2006 16:43 by Tony Lowes   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 22, 2008 15:44)
The European Commission has lodged proceedings against Ireland with the European Court of Justice for its failure to assess and control unauthorised quarrying and similar activities. The proceedings follow a Letter of Formal Notice and a Reasoned Opinion sent by the Commission to Ireland over the past three years.

The BBC’s Countryfile programme tomorrow is highlighting the importance of maintaining limestone pavement as a unique natural habitat. Speaking in an interview from the Burren on the programme, Friends of the Irish Environment’s Tony Lowes explained that ‘The European Commission has just entered a case against Ireland in the European Court of Justice for its failure to control quarrying. The developers are actually quarrying and then looking for permission and of course this is the wrong way, you're supposed to assess your impact before you start." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday June 02, 2006 14:38 by chris murray   text 32 comments (last - wednesday september 16, 2009 19:20)   image 2 images
Debate on Criminal Law(sexual offences ) Bill 2006.

Democracy -Lite. Three opposition parties welcomed Mc Dowell's Bill, with reservations. Enda didn't broach the subject of resignation, but told Michael that "he Knew what he should do".....
Section 5 is an absurdity, according to Labour as it is not gender neutral and is open to constituional challenge by young men, not to mention the ever increasing discussion on sexual positions that peppered the chamber, that led to the departure of the rather more faint-hearted TDs, including most of the Front Bench.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 02, 2006 03:34 by erqwnqr   text 36 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 22:15)   image 14 images
'Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.' UK/USA: Gary Mc Kinnon has lost his extradition case & will now be sent to the USA. A UK court recommended last wednesday that the 40 year old unemployed Gary Mc read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment / news report Friday June 02, 2006 01:59 by christina   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 23:46)
Limerick County Councils intimidation tactics reach new levels as injunction against additional supporters of the anti-Deel water campaign has been granted.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 02, 2006 01:57 by jim travers
The call for somebodys head to fall has always been the response of people to a national concern which seems to provide us with the satisfaction that we have rid ourselves of the cancer that caused the problem in the first place. Is it time as a nation we grew up and realised that we as the electorate are the ones responsible for the problems in society we see today? read full story / add a comment
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