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national / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday February 10, 2013 23:12 by Ordinay Citizen   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 19:35)
How we are being made to like a bad Anglo deal and only long term solution is for us to have a government without FF or FG and what they could do if/ when they get into power. read full story / add a comment
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international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Sunday February 10, 2013 09:37 by BrianClarke   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 00:29)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
Unions, which organized the rallies, claimed more than 100,000 people attended, with 60,000 marching in Dublin. Demonstrators also protested in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford.

"It would be fatal for people to believe this issue is now resolved and we can all move on," David Begg a supposed Union leader said. "At the onset of the crisis Ireland had one of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in Europe. The difference between then and now is due entirely to Ireland socializing bank debt at the behest of the ECB, to save the European banking system."

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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday February 10, 2013 04:57 by hj foley   text 1 comment (last - friday may 29, 2015 11:05)   1 attached file
Digicel and the countries it operates in. The story also details the level of corruption in these countries read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday February 09, 2013 18:36 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 15 comments (last - saturday march 09, 2013 07:11)
The recent bonds-for-notes overnight legislation read full story / add a comment
Farmers at Kilkenny Circuit Court after winning defamation case against hunt supremo
international / environment / press release Saturday February 09, 2013 14:34 by Farmers Against Hunting and Trespass   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 09, 2013 16:31)   image 2 images
Farmers against Fox Hunting and Trespass (FAFT) welcomes the outcome of the defamation case brought by two County Kilkenny farmers against a senior hunt official.

On February 4th, Hubert and Norman Daniels were awarded in excess of 30,000 Euro against Mr. Edward Norris of the Kilkenny Hunt in Kilkenny Circuit.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 07, 2013 23:49 by T   text 1 comment (last - friday february 08, 2013 13:02)   image 1 image
The government inter-departmental committee setup to establish the facts into State involvement of the Magdalen Laundries was published on Tues 5th Feb in an attempt to deal with the issue for once and for all. What the findings show is that there was significant involvement and the laundries seem to have been used by a variety of state institutions for dealing for young women in terms of the justice system and social services that the state was unable or unwilling to deal with and the interface with reformatories and industrial schools.

In the aftermath the government has only offered a partial apology to the victims and they feel this is not good enough read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday February 07, 2013 13:26 by anon   text 8 comments (last - friday february 08, 2013 21:07)
SPANISH chef lost his sense of taste and had his skull reinforced with screws after being struck with a golf club and wooden samurai sword in a savage street assault.

Jorge Roca (40), from Valencia in Spain, insisted he still loves Ireland and Cork despite the unprovoked attack that left him fighting for his life.
Shane Cotter (20) of Annmount Cross, Friars Walk, Cork, who has 49 previous convictions, was jailed for three years for assault causing serious harm.

''Danny O'Brien (20) of Brandon Court, Dillons Cross, Cork, who produced the golf club used by Cotter to attack Mr Roca and who has 84 previous convictions, was jailed for 18 months for violent disorder.

The Spaniard told the Irish Independent he was disappointed with the sentences. "I am not a judge. I am a chef. But that was not really very good," he said.

Cotter later told Gardai: "I wanted to do damage. I was in a temper. I wanted to kill him."
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 07, 2013 11:19 by scott huminski
Catholic torture of a political activist now before U.S. high court. Huminski v. Mercy Gilbert Mecical Center. Court papers reveal an unholy alliance between Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, Federal Judge Frederick Martone (both life-long Catholics) and a Catholic Church hospital network, Dignity Health, and their efforts to silence a critic of the racist sheriff with an attempted murder and torture at a Catholic hospital, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona.
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"They're Only the Little People"
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 06, 2013 19:32 by BrianClarke   text 7 comments (last - saturday february 09, 2013 15:43)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
State 'can't afford' disability costs - Irish Times read full story / add a comment
Is big the brother that's watching us?
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 06, 2013 18:16 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima   text 2 comments (last - friday april 05, 2013 15:08)   image 1 image
True bastions of freedom are Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, UK, Ireland and the United States, with inevitable emphasis to New York, Washington, LA, Boston, and many others and to the Irish and British flawless performance , which supports a variety of wonderful sites.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 05, 2013 20:13 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 06, 2013 16:28)
As the Irish Council for Civil Liberties have abrogated their role in defending democratic civil rights, at least with regard to the right to protest, can the Left in the Dail step into the breach and play an important progressive role? Or will it allow political sectarianism and self-interest to narrow its vision? read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday February 05, 2013 16:28 by S2S   text 4 comments (last - wednesday february 06, 2013 17:26)   image 2 images
After 30 meters the Tunnel Boring Machine got bored read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday February 04, 2013 11:13 by Volunteer   image 1 image   video 1 video file
VIDEO VERSION:
http://youtu.be/3gQkDTYbmG8

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has recently recorded a special video message of support for Afri - action from Ireland - the justice and peace group of which he is patron. In his 4 minute message the acclaimed campaigner and spiritual leader celebrates Afri's 37 years of activism and says 'independent voices like Afri's are more essential than ever in our world today'. He also refers to the importance of Afri's approach of linking the global with the local including their anti-apartheid campaigns as well as solidarity work with Philippines, East Timor, Latin America, the Niger Delta and the people of Rossport in Co. Mayo and what he calls their 'admirable struggle against Shell'. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Monday February 04, 2013 11:03 by Anti Eviction Taskforce   text 4 comments (last - friday march 01, 2013 17:23)
The Anti Eviction Taskforce (AET) have written to all Government Ministers across all political parties on behalf of all distressed mortgage holders in Ireland today, delivering a mandate to bring a motion before the Dáil to ban eviction in Ireland. This letter will arrive on the desks of all Ministers on February 4th 2013.

To explain the logic behind this mandate: The Government and Financial institutions continue to ignore the issue of distressed mortgages, which is resulting in much family distress, family break-up and, in some cases, suicide. While, as yet, eviction is not an everyday occurrence, it is only a matter of time before eviction becomes common place. This threat, along with the inaction by both the Government and Financial Institutions to devise credible resolution is disabling distressed mortgage holders and resulting in impasse. read full story / add a comment
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