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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 15, 2006 22:03 by o0o   image 3 images
Our numbers swelled by the near end of the NUI Galway Xmas exams, Galway, Shell to Sea picketed the Statoil Service Station, Newcastle Rd for 90 minutes this evening.. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday December 15, 2006 21:51 by Terry   text 33 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 20:39)   image 15 images
Garda Review is the magazine of the Garda Representative Association. The November issue gives extensive coverage to the Ballinaboy protests. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:43 by Irish Basque Commitee   text 2 comments (last - friday december 15, 2006 18:43)   image 1 image
Inaki de Juana, Basque political prisoner, has been on hunger strike for the last 39 days asking for his release and the end of all harasment against the 700 Basque political prisoners. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:20 by Alliance for Natural Health   text 57 comments (last - thursday july 05, 2007 23:28)   image 1 image
Jim Wright operated a small business selling natural products. He was raided in 2003,
then he was raided in 2005 by The MHRA- yes, the Medicines and amp;Healthcare
products Regulatory Authority. The stock was removed from his shop, the stock comprised
natural products .
the story is at link: http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsite...3.pdf read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 23:01 by Saoirse   text 21 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 03:52)   image 5 images
Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster house today demanding the release of IRA prisoners. The protest was made up of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin activists.

Some of Sinn Féin's TD's where also present showing their support for the campaign.

8 years following the GFA and 1 year following the IRA's decision to call an end to its armed campaign, there is no reason why IRA prisoners should still be in jail.
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international / housing / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 22:45 by Cablefish & Presz   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 17, 2006 23:30)
Coverage of Thursday’s events. The most recent news first. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 14, 2006 21:47 by Australians for David Hicks to come Home
On 9 December 2006, David Hicks marked 5 years in the American Concentration Camp at Guantanamo Bay without a trial. Abandoned by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and left to rot.
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The gap between Huntstown Wood & Clonee, where Madser was shot. About 100m from a primary school entrance.
national / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 14, 2006 14:36 by Libertarian Socialist   text 14 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 16:57)   image 1 image
Anthony Campbell, a 20-year-old apprentice plumber who lived in block F of the flats, at St Michan's House flats complex, near the Four Courts in Dublin was gunned down as he went about his work in a house at Scribblestown Park, Finglas, north Dublin yesterday morning.

As he left for work yesterday, he would have had no idea that he was about to become the latest victim of a violent feud in the criminal underworld he would only have read about in newspapers.

Such was the swift, indiscriminate and chilling nature of the attack that he probably never realised why he was being killed. The cruel twist of circumstance that led to his death saw him shot in the house of a relative of a major crime boss because he would have been a witness to the killing of that criminal. Gardaí said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Mike Allen Labour General Secretary and Liz Mc Manus deputy leader
national / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 13:51 by Labour Youth   text 15 comments (last - monday december 31, 2007 17:59)   image 2 images
History is been made to day with a Labour Party Bill which is proposing full equality for same sex couples. Today the Bill which has been launched by the Labour Party will pass its first stage in the Dáil - this will be the first bill ever published in Ireland removing all discrimination from same sex couples. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 22:48 by Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2007 18:41)   image 3 images
A Basque solidarity rally was hold in Dublin last Sunday.It lasted about 1.5 hours, near Stephen's Green end of Grafton St, Sunday 10th. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 13, 2006 22:23 by Michelle Clarke   text 16 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 18:09)
What needs to be done?

Game plan to combat crime for 2006......... read full story / add a comment
Eoin Ó Broin
dublin / politics / elections / press release Wednesday December 13, 2006 19:37 by Eoin Ó Broin   text 9 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 13:22)   image 2 images
Sinn Féin has selected Eoin Ó Broin to contest the Dún Laoghaire constituency in the forthcoming Leinster House election. Eoin Ó Broin, a native of Cabinteely and Blackrock, is the party's Director of European Affairs and a former member of Belfast City Council. The convention took place at the Kingston Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 12:37 by Vlad Putin   image 1 image
getting all that gas off Shell read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 12:33 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 18 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 21:25)   image 4 images
éirígí activists staged two successful pickets over the past number of days. The pickets were designed to show both solidarity with the community of Erris, Co Mayo as they battle against Shells plans to build an unsafe refinery and pipeline and also to focus public attention on those responsible for the entire Corrib gas debacle. The two éirígí protests were thus focused on the two main culprits; Shell and the head of the government responsible for the giveaway of Ireland's gas reserves, Bertie Ahern. read full story / add a comment
Residents acting against developer tree felling
limerick / environment / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 05:01 by Mark O'Connor   text 16 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 01:44)   image 27 images
Concerned Citizens of Highfield in Limerick turn out to defend their natural heritage. Locally known as Chicken tree 1 + 2, are the old Monterey Cypress trees, the Giant Redwood and Turkey oak tree face possibly being felled.

Felling of younger trees occurred Friday and Monday on site, an act which is understood to be directly in breach of condition 6 of this developments Bord Planala planning permission (see condition 6 in full below).

Following today's pressure from these local residents and subsequent mediation with the developer and the council, a commitment have been given by the developer that all felling will cease until documents are sent to council. The residents expect the developer to honour this commitment.

More updates to follow.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 12, 2006 20:25 by paul o toole   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 15:24)
Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 12, 2006 16:55 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 17:53)   image 3 images
Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland posted an operating loss of nearly fifty million euro last week.

With costs associated with their scheme to install a polluting refinery and experimental pipeline in North West Mayo spiralling, the troubled company was shown to be completely dependent on the goodwill and patience of its shareholders.

Among the figures making up the loss, it was noticed that SEPIL paid their 45 staff the amazing seven million, two hundred thousand euro.

This means that the company -which regularly claims it employs seven hundred people- pays it workers an AVERAGE of €160,000 per year (or €3,076 per week). Of course the company doesn’t divide up it wage bill equally, and some of the front men probably don’t get paid much more than the average indymedia reporter, which means someone in Corrib House is doing very well indeed out of losing €49.1 million.

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national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 12, 2006 14:51 by M Cotton   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 07, 2007 20:27)
Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy.

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Progressive my left eyeball
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 12, 2006 11:16 by fourth mary   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 11:52)   image 2 images

Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly,
as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that
problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously
jaundiced world view.

But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family
and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased
with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the
family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 22:40 by wsm   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 01:25)
A consortium of Shell, Statoil, and Marathon do a deal with the government allowing them exclusive exploitation rights to the Corrib gas field, off Mayo. Not only that, but they are allowed to write off their costs against taxes, meaning that the whole project is being funded by the PAYE taxpayer, who will receive nothing, not even lower gas prices. It may sound a bit iffy but there is no garda investigation into possible bribery or corruption.
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