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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday September 03, 2009 - 19:06 by Shannonwatch
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Information provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs sheds disturbing new light on US military use of Shannon Airport. According to the Minister the troop and air force crews that pass through the airport are not the only US military there. There are also two US officers of military rank permanently based in the airport. Their official role is to assist with the transit of US Government and Government contracted flights. The arrangement has been in operation since 2003 and was done without Oireachtas approval. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 - 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin
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Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 - 18:38 by fotdmike
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Climate Campers protest at Shell in solidarity with the Rossport campaigners ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:45 by Gregor Kerr
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Several hundred protestors chanting ‘Scabs out. Dockers In’ engaged in a mass trespass on the premises of Marine Terminals Ltd. in Dublin’s docklands yesterday morning (24th August). ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday August 24, 2009 - 15:22 by TD
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Last Thursday, 20th August to an eager audience in an overbrimming room of the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, with contributions from Jenny Graham, Susan Johnson and Derek Graham, husband of Jenny gave harrowing eyewitness accounts of the Israeli/US/EU created hell on earth that is called Gaza, in the case of Derek Graham, he told his story about being kidnapped at gunpoint in Mediterranean international waters along with 20 other Free Gaza Movement human rights activists, on board the Spirit of Humanity on a voyage of mercy,, forced into the Israeli port of Ashdod and then in tune with the Kafkaesque perversion and inversion of morality and reality that is the hallmark of Zionism, bizarrely questioned for violating Israeli territorial waters. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 24, 2009 - 12:58 by Andrew
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The dispute at MTL is escalating with hundreds of people taking part in demonstrations organised by the Port Workers Support Group. SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. Below are updates coming in from this mornings actions, sent via Twitter by WSM members who are present. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday August 21, 2009 - 16:31 by Contaminated Crow
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Four masts, a windfarm, a climate camp, an airport, a piggery, powerlines, a helipad, turfcutting and prospecting for oil off Kerry ... read full story / add a comment 
offaly / environment / news report Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 00:17 by Climate Camper
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Climate campers of all ages at Shannonbridge took a direct action this morning Aug. 18th, on a nearby bog by filling in trenches that are used to drain the bog for cutting. The peaceful demonstrations lasted 2 hours with police curiously onlooking at the hard working activists. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / news report Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 22:05 by Michael Gallagher
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Today at UNITE Hall and Liberty Hall, the CAEUC held a press conference and official public launch of the No to Lisbon campaign. Same Treaty - Same Answer -NO to LISBON. Article to follow. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 17:27 by madam k
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Ireland has some of the world’s most important bogs. Peatlands comprise almost a fifth of Ireland’s land cover, and lock away a massive 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon. They are also home to around half our endangered bird species and around a quarter of endangered plant species. Peat bogs are amazingly efficient carbon sponges. A healthy bog typically stores 10 times more carbon per hectare than any other system, including forests. Peatland protection, according to the UN Environment Programme is “among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change”. Damage to peat bogs is now producing the equivalent of over a tenth of total global fossil-fuel emissions. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 15:30 by Optimist
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Shell has published a public notice as part of its application for a Foreshore Licence in respect of the revised Corrib Gas pipeline route in the Examiner 18th August 2009, p.33. Public submissions are allowable for a period of 2 months from this date. ... read full story / add a comment 
offaly / education / news report Monday August 17, 2009 - 18:32 by Bob Wilson
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Climate Camp is up and running at Shannonbridge, Co.Offaly - started Saturday 15th August and goes on til Sunday 23rd August. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday August 15, 2009 - 15:11 by Contaminated Crow
Ex-workers to protest at Corrib, four masts, two quarries, an incinerator, a power station, an ESB sub-station, powerlines and a pulp mill ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday August 13, 2009 - 23:20 by Angel
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Niall Harnett will appear at the High Court at Cloverhill in Dublin, Monday 17th August at 11.00am, in order to appeal the extremely restrictive bail terms which were applied to him at Belmullet Court on Thursday, 30th July. Niall is currently serving two consecutive four month jail terms at Castlerea Prison for his part in legitimate acts of civil disobedience and protest against the Corrib Gas Project. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 10, 2009 - 23:24 by Michael Gallagher
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A large crowd of 200-300, made up mainly of families and workers from North and South city dockland communities, showed their support for the sriking dockers today in Dublin. Marching from the East Wall/North Wall and Ringsend/Irishtown, the meeting point for the supporters was the Point Depot Bridge from where they marched united to the gates of the Marine Terminal Limited. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday August 10, 2009 - 21:26 by Edward Horgan
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13 peace activists attended the monthly Shannon peace vigil on 9 Aug 09. As usual we were outnumbered by uniformed and plainclothed Gardai. Peace activists travelled from Dublin, Cork, Mullingar, Galway, Ennis and Limerick to attend. The reaction of passing motorists is increasingly encouraging and positive. Since August 9 is the aniversary of the distruction of Hiroshima in 1945 by an Atomic bomb, a war crime committed by the US airforce, on the orders of the then US President, it was considered appropriate to commemorate this event. Within the airport about 200 armed US troops were passing through the airport on an Omni Air chartered troop-transporter. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday August 10, 2009 - 19:11 by Contaminated Crow
Two quarries, a landfill, a homeless hostel, a possible World Heritage site and claims of excess cancers ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 09, 2009 - 21:05 by TD
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CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings, "fully committed to human rights" and supporting "the principles as set out in the articles of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.crh.ie/crhcorp/about/employeescode/english_c...e.pdf is deeply complicit in war crimes in the occupied West Bank with the holding company, the Mashav Group - in which CRH has a 25% stake - through Nesher Cement supplying cement for Israel's Apartheid Wall, IOF checkpoints and illegal colonies. Transnational corporations like CRH are required by international law to comply with international rules governing corporate responsibility with respect to human rights and CRH seriously transgresses these. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 31, 2009 - 23:12 by Jen Debender
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In Bellmullet court on Thursday, five Shell to Sea protesters were up for hearings on charges ranging from last August 2008 to this June 2009. Judge Anderson dismissed several charges on technical points but was very harsh in serving two of the campaigners with four and eight month prison sentences. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / news report Friday July 31, 2009 - 18:03 by Fred Johnston
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AIB plans to knock part of the mediaeval structure in Galway are approved ... read full story / add a comment |
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