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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday October 26, 2007 20:50 by jim travers   text 5 comments (last - friday july 04, 2008 11:34)
Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 25, 2007 13:53 by El Libertario, Venezuela   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 27, 2007 15:36)
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 24, 2007 19:27 by Michelle Clarke   text 21 comments (last - saturday january 17, 2009 13:01)   image 1 image
We the plain people

Aaron Russell documentary is well worth watching..........

The presentation alerts people involved in financial, markets, transactions to review history before consolidating on present day financial transactions..

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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 24, 2007 11:41 by P'd off customer   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 12:05)
I signed up to BT broadband over two months ago. Not only did the hook up the wrong house, but they billed me for it, insisted nothing wrong happened, and are dawdling over my
What's worse, their call centre takes ages to do anything, not surprising, given that one of their agents admitted to me that there were only 10 people working there the day I spoke to her, when the staffing level is supposed to be 60. Anyhow, sick of waiting for the always promised call back, I went hunting for the bigger fish. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 22, 2007 18:44 by Anne O'Connor   text 43 comments (last - saturday april 16, 2011 18:25)
Ireland granted residency to about 17,000 parents of Irish born Children mostly women and then decided that these category of Irish Citizen Children do not have any entitlement to family unification and so we have a situation where the fathers of these children are being turned away. What we risk creating for our future generation is what I dread because this policy if not reversed will only polarise the community and we will have the "us" and "them" divide. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday October 22, 2007 11:51 by Tim Hourigan   text 25 comments (last - sunday october 28, 2007 08:52)
A look at the similarities and differences between two routes out of Shannon.
The Aer Lingus route SNN - LHR and the US military flights to Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Sunday October 21, 2007 22:49 by Seosamh an Chnoic   text 2 comments (last - monday october 22, 2007 09:57)   image 1 image
How an irish middle class person's ideological beliefs led him to a life of poverty, and how he found his way out of that dark wood. read full story / add a comment
Polish Hug
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 21, 2007 12:41 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 16:25)   image 3 images
The leaders are in Lisbon putting little finishing touches to a Treaty to replace Nice II
which the Dutch and French "Scuppered', the last round of negotiations had seen the
Polish and the British Objecting to aspects of the Treaty, Blair was Brown's man in
Europe and was sent back to re-negotiatate.

The 'Lisbon Treaty 'agreed by the EU members seeks to create a new Foreign Policy head
and reduce the cumbersome issue of the rotating presidency, interestingly according to
AFP Tony Blair has been one of the names for mooted a more 'permanent presidential position'.
That being a diplomatic role, he would have to leave off those dinner parties he attends
and those remarks he has made about Islamo-Facsim. read full story / add a comment
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meath / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Sunday October 21, 2007 05:04 by viajft   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 21, 2007 20:07)   image 9 images
It’s a little darker under the trees than the last time I was here and the colors of Autumn have started there march through the leaves at Rath Lugh. This hill here was never put on an ordnance survey map and the name has shifted and been shifted until it now means only a small monument which may soon disappear. It can be seen from everywhere in the valley, it has been here throughout all of Tara’s history yet details about it are sketchy and it appears only briefly in ancients writings. One of the monuments on its roof has been temporary preserved but which one is unsure. This is after years of planning a road around it, destroying a part of it and then trying to protect it. Due to the advance of the M3 everything in the valley has been documented, mapped and numbered except this hill and now its woods, monuments, graves and spring are snared and encircled by a speculator driven, badly planned and unwanted road.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday October 20, 2007 11:46 by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent   text 11 comments (last - tuesday january 01, 2008 16:30)
''Voters in five EU countries want treaty referendum,'' was the result of a poll published by Thomson and the Financial Times in London, a scoop-like item which was also reprinted in the bible of the money makers, Forbes: "A substantial majority of voters in five large European Union countries want a referendum on the bloc's new reform treaty, according to a poll published Thursday. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 18, 2007 04:01 by jim travers
Back in February of this year (09-02-2007) I wrote an article in Indymedia about the Ireland, San Mario match and what I though was Ireland’s darkest day, until tonight or is it today going into tonight. Is it possible that Irish soccer could plunge to such a debt where the playing of such, was in itself an insult to the standard required in order for one to play on a pitch as fine as that which is in Croker. The Cyprus match has given us food for thought, not about Staunton but about the FAI itself. read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday October 18, 2007 01:17 by Philip   text 11 comments (last - monday october 22, 2007 11:58)   image 5 images
The October 31st holiday that we today know as Halloween has strong roots in paganism and is closely connected with worship of the Enemy of this world, Satan. It is a holiday that generally glorifies the dark things of this world, rather than the light of Jesus Christ, The Truth.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 16, 2007 19:43 by Jolly wally   text 2 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 15:14)
Hugh Orde of the PSNI hit the nail on the head today in comments on dissident republicans. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 15, 2007 11:15 by Left Eye Lopez   text 15 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 11:37)
The Campaign for an Independent Left seems to have reached the end of the road as its members join the Socialist Workers Party in setting up a Dublin Central branch of People Before Profit
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 14, 2007 20:35 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 15:23)   image 1 image
A story appeared in the Irish Mail On Sunday today and it prompted this article. Not a single plane has been searched in Shannon despite Green promises that state otherwise. read full story / add a comment
back in '77 they had B&W telly. No-one got the significance of the tree.
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Friday October 12, 2007 22:19 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - friday may 03, 2019 16:18)   image 1 image
Yesterday night the switch was flicked on one of the largest satellite arrays on the planet. Named after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the system brings together his dilletentism or whims as a mega-geek & the anglo-saxon culture industrially vital world of SETI and the very murky US involvement in deep Space radio telescope exploration in one project with one stated aim :-

The search for intelligent Alien life.

I'm going to treat today's "system booting" as a piece of tech-news & come at it from the ever reliable anti-trust angle. Thus I hope to raise awareness of the capitalist & philosophical elements of the project rather than spurn the "tinfoil hat" brigade onto anything sillier than they've achieved mostly not by being too suspicious or paranoid but rather by not putting their theories in social or historical context. To that end I'll mix news with a bit of analysis & bit of opinion. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2007 22:51 by Hevallo Azad
Turkish Special Forces recently carried out a covert killing of Kurdish Village Guards, state sponsored miltias. This was blamed on the Kurdish Freedom Fighters of the PKK and publicised worldwide. But the truth is that this massacre was carried out by the Turkish authorities, as a pre text to a full scale planned invasion of Kurdistan that is being discussed by Turkish authorities tonight and will be presented to the Turkish parliament tomorrow. read full story / add a comment
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louth / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2007 16:43 by Sean Crudden   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 17, 2007 20:42)   image 1 image
It is scarcely enough to make a gesture towards mental patients and the mentally ill on one day of the year only. However, to mark World Mental Health Day (10 October 2007) I am posting an article which I wrote quite a few weeks ago to suggest to indymedia readers the extent of real globalisation in establishment efforts to overcome the problem of mental illness. However, as with globalisation in other areas, the question arises of how far we are on the right track? read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2007 12:00 by Tracy Donegan   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 27, 2011 17:05)
Having a birth plan in Ireland is a necessity if you want to have a normal low intervention birth.

Learn about what's on offer in your hospital and prepare for the kind of birth you want. read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday October 07, 2007 16:05 by Ciaran Carroll   text 11 comments (last - sunday april 18, 2010 20:33)   image 1 image
this started as a letter to my philosophy lecturers expressing my disatisfaction about the passiveness of acadmic philosophy. Then i got carried away and started to spew my frustrations about youth orientated consumerism. I never hear this subject, that i believe is the root to most of the flaws in society today, debated in the media. I sent it to the major newspapers but got no response. Maybe some of you could give me your views. read full story / add a comment
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