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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2010 23:10 by Kerry Worker
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Notably absent from the media analysis of the recent SIPTU scandal has been the conclusion that Irish trade unions were corrupted by government hand-outs under the guise of “partnership”. That during the “Celtic tiger years” Irish trade union leaders’ interests diverged strongly from that of the ordinary membership. That “partnership” and “benchmarking” significantly advanced the interests of the managerial class within the trade unions, while yielding miniscule cost-of-living pay increases for ordinary members in a time of rapid inflation. That these same union bosses need removal every bit as urgently as do the current crop of Irish political and financial leaders. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-capitalism / press release Saturday October 23, 2010 20:27 by IRSP
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Dozens of IRSP members gathered in Belfast and stood in solidarity with the working class in opposing Tory/Lib Dem/Stormont imposed cuts. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday October 23, 2010 17:00 by francisco
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We are fast approaching the next NATO summit, which will gather in Lisbon, from the 19th to the 21st of November, Barack Obama and the leaders of the other member-countries. Their goal is to adopt the new “strategic concept” of the organization. And we can already notice the growing bustle. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2010 16:18 by SQ
It may come as a surprise to union members but the government and the trade union general secretaries have now revealed that further pay cuts are in fact provided for under the provisions of the Croke Park agreement. The Irish Independent of 23rd October reported that the department of finance "is strongly considering reducing wage levels for all new recruits to the public sector by a flat 10pc in the Budget". See this link: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/budget-plan-to-....html read full story / add a comment
tipperary / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 22, 2010 13:33 by Paddy Healy
About 100 people attended a meeting sponsored by Workers and Unemployed Action Group (South Tipperary) in Clonmel last night to discuss the alternative budget measures contained in “4Steps 2 Recovery” The meeting was chaired by Cllr Seamus Healy. Five WUAG councillors were also in attendance. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday October 22, 2010 12:07 by A
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On Saturday the 16th, RPS Group's offices in Glasgow had its locks and signage destroyed by people who are outraged in their involvement with the Corrib Gas Pipeline in Co. Mayo, Ireland and the Open Cast Coal mines of the Douglas Valley, south Lanarkshire, Scotland. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday October 22, 2010 03:27 by Helper
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama will visit Ireland next year to take part in a series of events being planned by three Irish based NGO’s. Children in Crossfire, Afri, and SpunOut.ie, will host The Dalai Lama in his visit to Ireland and organisers say the visit comes at an important time when Ireland, North and South, is looking at important questions of identity, peace and progress. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 21, 2010 21:57 by Gerry C
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) have congratulated and paid tribute to all the activists on the Viva Palestina Gaza Convoy who today entered Gaza - breaking the siege imposed by Israel - and delivered more than $5 million in much needed humanitarian aid to the population living there. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Thursday October 21, 2010 10:09 by Sean Mallory
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RTE's Joe Duffy for once and unknowingly had his finger on the pulse when he accidentally illustrated the differing effects of the recession in a 7 minute clip read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday October 21, 2010 01:25 by Martuki
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BOOK REVIEW: FERNANDO LUGO, EL SATIRO DE SAN PEDRO read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 19:45 by Kevin Quinn
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Every step this government takes drags us further towards the economic abyss. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 17:18 by Gregor Kerr
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Zombie developers….. Vampire bankers….. Ghost estate creators….. Black holes that swallow tens of billions of Euros….. They sound like characters from a particularly eerie Hallowe’en tale of horrors. However while they might be spooky, there’s nothing fictional about this array of characters read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 16:05 by Paddy Hackett
"Why not freeze all mortgage payments for two years? Nobody makes any payment on their mortgage until November 2012. If we assume a conservative multiplier of only 1.4, Ireland would get € 20 bn worth of stimulus without upsetting our EU leaders rules at all."
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national / crime and justice / news report Wednesday October 20, 2010 10:01 by Ardoyne Republican
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CFAD Safely Dispose of £40,000 Worth of Dangerous Drugs read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 00:09 by LATIF SERHILDAN
UK Delegation in Diyarbakir to observe the trial of 151 Kurdish political activists and human rights defenders. Press Statement as read out to the Turkish media - 19 October 2010 read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 19, 2010 19:16 by Freda H
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To celebrate the launch of William Parry's book "Against the Wall", street artists gathered to create new works of solidarity, inspired by the book, in Dublin and Cork. Street Art events took place at The Bernard Shaw pub in Dublin and Fionn Barra's pub in Cork throughout the weekend with the slogan "To Exist is to Resist" forming the basis of their work. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 16:03 by Robert Long
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Artficialy Flouridating water a peoples supply was first propsed in the Soviet gulags as way to induce a docile state and eventually kill of the prisoners it was then usedin Nazi concentration camps. Its effects are extremly damaging and it is considered a medince under EU law. Therefore the Irish government is practicing medicine without a license and without the consent of the Irish people at their expenense ! This is also a breach of our constitutional as well as human rights ! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 12:08 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Like millions of others, I was absolutely delighted to see the trapped miners in the San José mine in Chile getting out alive from their stressful, claustrophobic confinement which they'd been in for almost 70 days as a result of negligence on the part of the mining companies. I could only be thrilled to see this terrible story of grief and suffering come to a happy ending and see tears exchanged for bursts of laughter. But at the same time, mixed with my joy at seeing these 33 condemned men return to life, I still had a feeling that was a mixture of revulsion and anger at the show put on by the very people who had dug what could have been these men's graves. I have no wish to be a killjoy, but when the natural euphoria that has engulfed the country calms down, a great many questions will need to be asked. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 18:36 by Anne Mc Shane
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Working class people throughout Ireland are suffering deep anxiety. With poverty, homelessness and unemployment escalating, the feeling is that we are on the edge of a phenomenal disaster. That sense of dread has been exploited by a government bent on even more savage attacks on public spending. We had been told previously that we were facing €3 billion in cuts this December. Now it is certain to be much more. A new four year economic plan is to be imposed aimed at reducing the economic deficit to 3% by 2014. So there could be up to €7 billion in cuts this December, with more to follow. This will mean increases in taxes, in particular the introduction of taxes on the low-paid. It will also mean unprecedented attacks on health-care, social welfare, child benefit, pensions, education and just about every area of social provision. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 01:26 by donkylemore
Having written 6 times to sen o brolochan and not having had one response i wrote this letter and had it published in a local paper read full story / add a comment |
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