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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 14, 2010 - 09:57 by Shannonwatch
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U.S. military traffic through Shannon was down significantly in April due to the spread of the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. The ongoing presence of this ash in and around Irish airspace has now resulted in the re-routing of all troop and military cargo flights through different bases worldwide. Since early May there have been no U.S. Air Force cargo or troop carriers at Shannon. Clearly the U.S. military leaders are not prepared to risk having cargo or soldiers that are essential to their wars of occupation sitting on the ground in the west of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday May 10, 2010 - 22:53 by INTO Vote NO
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Members of the ‘INTO Vote No’ Campaign gathered outside Croke Park today ) to call on members of their union, the Irish National Teachers Organisation, and other public sector unions to reject the Croke Park deal in the ballot currently underway. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 07, 2010 - 23:29 by Patricia McKenna
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As the Trilateral Commission meet in Ireland this weekend political campaigners have made a call on for the media report on the issue and let us the public know what is going on there - and most of all who is attending this behind closed doors meeting which is being kept secret and protected at taxpayers expense. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:26 by Eoin O L
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On the 21st April in Ballina Circuit Court, Shell to Sea campaigner Niall Harnett was sentenced to 6 months in jail, for an assault on Garda Hugh Egan on Glengad beach. Defence barrister Leo Mulrooney summed it up, without correction from the judge, that the incident was “as close to a technical offence as possible”. Essentially Niall Harnett was found guilty of assault of a Garda for putting his hand on Garda Egan while Garda Egan was pulling out of a fellow protestor (myself), whose leg was caught on Shell’s illegally constructed fencing. At a previous appeal sitting of the Circuit Court, Mr Harnett had been given 240 hours community service in lieu of the 6 month jail sentence, however he refused to do the community service, and so received the 6 months. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:09 by Fintan Lane
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Palestine Dominates CRH AGM at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire Today, Wednesday 5th May, a large number of Palestine solidarity activists staged a demonstration outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious and pointed questions about the role of the Irish cement company in supplying construction materials being used in the building of Israel’s apartheid Separation Wall and in illegal settlements in Palestine. CRH has a 25% stake in the Israeli Mashav group, which acts as a holding company for Israel’s sole cement producer, Nesher. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 20:48 by Paula Geraghty
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Hundreds marched in support of a better and fairer way for workers and society from Parnell Square to Liberty Hall. Speakers included Hilda Regaspi from the Domestic Workers Action Group, Arthur Scargill, Phil McFadden (President, Dublin Trades Council), Sam Nolan (Secretary, Dublin Trades Council and Louise O'Reily, Siptu. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 - 16:38 by Andrew N Flood
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On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 - 16:22 by Iyad Burnat
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April 30, 2010 Today’s demonstration began with speeches in honor of International Workers’ Day by the Union of Palestine Workers, after which the crowd processed to the Wall. After several minutes, soldiers fired the first rounds of tear gas into the crowd, and continued to launch tear gas deep into the protestors’ route. Soldiers aggressively entered the village in waves in an effort to make arrests. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 30, 2010 - 16:46 by Kev
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Irish activist and documentarian Tommy Donnelan, 63, was this afternoon wounded and detained for two hours by the Israeli Military in the West Bank. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 29, 2010 - 15:04 by LASC
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The two individuals whose deaths have been confirmed are Beatríz Alberta Cariño, the director of CACTUS and member of the Southeast Mexican Indigenous Community Radios Network, and Jyri Jaakkola, an international solidarity observer from Finland. Four people have been confirmed disappeared: David Venegas Reyes and Noe Bautista Jimenez, from VOCAL, and Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters from Contralínea. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday April 19, 2010 - 12:55 by Paula Geraghty
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Trade Union TV presents the Restaurant Workers Action Group protest at Supermac's Eyre Square Galway to defend restaurant workers minimum wages (16/04/2010) Start you week with a little bit of resistance! ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 06, 2010 - 23:08 by Maura Harrington
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Shell to Sea activists from Galway and Mayo have spent a productive two days at both the INTO and ASTI conferences which are taking place in Galway this week. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Sunday March 21, 2010 - 15:11 by Rudiger
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Next week 27 people will face hearing in court in relation to protesting against the Shell's inland refinery and experimental pipeline. A week has been put aside in Belmullet District as a Shell to Sea "special sitting" but as Judge Devins said when putting some in some people for hearing dates, “no preduice can be seen because of its being put into the special sitting”. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday March 12, 2010 - 01:10 by Paula Geraghty
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Video of taxi drivers outside the Taxi regulator's office at the end of the occupation. A number of taxi drivers are interviewed including the 71 year old who describes how he was assaulted. Filmed tuesday 9th March. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Thursday February 25, 2010 - 09:32 by Dave Donnellan
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A recent interview with Eoin O'Leidhin who was jailed yesterday for non-payment of a fine incurred during a protest in Rossport, Co. Mayo. Eoin is one of a number of local residents who have been targeted by the authorities for expressing their concern over safety aspects of the controversial Shell gas pipeline in Mayo. The decision to lay the high pressure production gas pipeline by Shell close to human dwellings was made without any consultation with local residents and has no planning permission. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / news report Sunday January 24, 2010 - 14:11 by Save Newgrange
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A campaign to save Brú na Bóinne from the Slane Bypass has been launched online over the weekend. It is being initiated by members of the National Monuments Forum, which includes Professor George Eogan, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at University College Dublin. The National Roads Authority has chosen the most damaging route for archaeology and heritage, and Meath County Council has gone ahead and issued CPO orders for the route, without even waiting for the An Bord Pleanala oral hearing. A petition will be launched shortly, calling on Minister Gormley to deliver on his promise of a new National Monuments Act, and calling on UNESCO to place Brú na Bóinne on their List of World Heritage in Danger. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday January 12, 2010 - 17:55 by Contaminated Crow
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Proposed power distribution projects have faced strong opposition over the last year and a half. Proposed high-voltage powerlines have been opposed in counties Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Meath, Monaghan, Sligo and Tyrone, while electricity substations have been opposed in counties Galway, Laois and Sligo. This article takes a brief glance at this opposition, concentrating on the regional opposition in counties Cavan, meath and Monaghan against the proposed North-South Electricity InterConnector. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 11, 2010 - 11:18 by TD
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Every Saturday afternoon, Israeli colonists some tooled up with M-16's venture forth from their fortified "settlements" to swagger through the souk in Hebron's Old City for a so called "heritage tour", heavily guarded by Israeli Occupation Forces, some as snipers on the roof tops, they strut through the narrow market spitting at, abusing and threatening all who meet their displeasure which in their virulently paranoid view of things, means just about everyone on this planet and such was the case last Saturday where one souk trader; Nawal, was spat at and threatened. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday December 17, 2009 - 12:03 by Cork WSM
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A new, alternative meeting space and bookshop has just opened on Douglas Street, Cork. This is early days but we want to get the word out that his new initiative needs you and your support! ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 14:32 by damh
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Justice in erris. Is clean water and fresh air and a safe enironment to live in now considered a passionate belief ? One would wonder how to interprate judge Haughton's concluding words in court on thurs, last before he sent Maura Harrington to jail for 9 months. ... read full story / add a comment |
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