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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday April 24, 2006 20:03 by Gaz B -(A)-
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No-one should be surprised by the actions of our Guardians Of Privilege in Baldonnel last weekend. The grumpy authoritarian ego-trippers had to do something to justify their bank holiday overtime pay and the use of the copper-copter. Cuffing a young lad, forcing him to the ground and kneeling on him because he didn’t want to piss himself – that’s really guarding the peace. It seems as though the boys in blue haven’t quite moved on from the days of former blueshirt Garda Commissioner Eoin O’ Duffy. The "few rotten apples" thesis spouted by the Garda Representatives Association (ironically acronymed GRA) isn't credible. One only has to look at the cases of the Wheelock, Mulhall, Abbeylara, McBrearty families, RTS 2002 along with the Sallins train robbery, the 'Kerry Babies' case and Shercock cases in the past as evidence of a wider, institutional and generational malaise with the Gardai. Even, Henry Grattan called the police service" an abominable institution". read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday April 23, 2006 15:24 by Edward Horgan
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For the record, the group of four, Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Deirdre Morgan and Edward Horgan, who made a similar submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs on 20 Dec 2005, also offered to make a similar presentation to the EU Committee. The EU declined on cost grounds, and invited me only. However, I have received substantial help from a dedicated group of peace activists, mainly Irish, but with a few significant non-Irish contributers. Over the past month a Garda has confirmed to me in confidence that they have directed not to search US CIA aircraft or US military aircraft at Shannon airport, and that many of the Gardai disagree with this directive because it means “… turning a blind eye to the probability of wrongdoing, and we all know what terrible things such policies have led to in the past.” In my submission to the European Parliament I called a spade a spade, and referred several times to the unlawful killing of over 100,000 in Ir read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday April 21, 2006 14:52 by Edward Horgan
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I went to the European Parliament in Brussels to tell the Parliament what I knew of Ireland’s involvement in the unlawful rendition for torture process at Shannon airport. I insisted on linking the extraordinary rendition process with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the combined serial abuses of international law that these wars and the torture processe involved. To a large extent I was telling the EU parliamentary special committee what they did not want to hear – “don’t mention the wars” – I told them anyway, in the brief summary of my submission that the 15 minute time slot allowed me. My main submission was thirty-seven pages long, with 45 separate attachments and it became clear very quickly that very few had even read the executive summary of my submission, and some of those who did, read it only with the intention of trying to discredit it, and discredit me. The Irish Times report on Friday captured the tone of the parliamentarians response “the witness failed to present t read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / feature Wednesday April 19, 2006 00:06 by dolphins barn gardener
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Builders and machinery have moved in, trees and plants have been taken up and it looks like it might be the end for the Dolphins Barn Community Garden, which celebrated its first birthday on Wednesday the 12th of April. Presently the garden crew has 54 people on its mailing list and there have been at least twice that in the garden. After nearly a year of what turned out to be a really positive experiment in sustainable urban gardening, re-establishment of community, healthy use of derelict space and the creation of new friendships, things have taken a change for the worse… but it might not be the end. There is the possibility of revisiting the issue later in the year, but the gardening project has been put on hold for the moment after a number of meetings with the owners of the land where the garden is established. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday April 17, 2006 21:45 by Casement deserves better
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In the run up to the 90th anniversary of 1916 many wondered how best to mark the event. Some marched the day before, some a few hours after. But the teflon Taoiseach trod where few men dared. At 12.00 he was at the GPO to commemorate an insurrection against imperialism. At 15.00 he was sending the troops in against an anti-imperialist demonstration. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday April 15, 2006 00:41 by the other free market
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(Indymedia.ie, 2006) Under the terms of the casual trading act, 1995, thousands of towns will loose their market trading rights. However, if a town hold a market before the end of this month, the right will be held onto for another 10 years. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / feature Thursday April 13, 2006 18:35 by Andrew Flood
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An anarchist analysis of the 1916 insurrection and the war of independence / tan war in the context of the struggle for socialism in Ireland and internationally. Concentrates on the 'unknown' intense class struggle that ran alongside the war of independence and the role republicanism played in the suppression of that struggle in the interests of nationalist unity. Asks what is freedom and shows how anarchism originated amongst earlier European left republicans as an answer to the limitations of republicanism. read full story / add a comment 
cork / racism & migration related issues / feature Wednesday April 12, 2006 17:28 by Robbie Sinnott
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A phone interview with Madu Innocent Chuckwunyere (eye-witness), broadcast live on Near FM's Majority World on thurs April 6th. On march 29th, 2006, residents (inmates) of the Kinsale Road refugee hostel took to the streets to demand that they be treated with dignity and respect. Listen here (mp3 12min 128kbps)
Below is a transcript of the phone interview with Madu, an eye-witness and himself a resident. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday April 12, 2006 01:02 by Terry
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As we approach the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising this article looks at the world of anti-Agreement Republicanism by reviewing its press. The three main dissident republican political organisations are the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, and Republican Sinn Fein. This article reviews their publications, which are The Starry Plough, The Sovereign Nation, and Saoirse. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Monday April 10, 2006 22:10 by EC
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For the second Monday in a row Shell to Sea protesters have prevented Shell machinery from entering the Bellanaboy gas terminal construction site. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / feature Monday April 10, 2006 14:47 by kevin
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An interview with John and Sandra Moloney, the parents of "Johner" Moloney, who have joined up with the Wheelock family in their campaign in recent months. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / feature Sunday April 09, 2006 21:46 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group
Indymedia users highlight the lack of accessiblity for people with disabilities in Ireland today with their personal accounts. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday April 04, 2006 22:18 by W
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Wicklow based Basta youth collective, a radical non-profit youth group, are to find themselves homeless as Paddy’s Hall in Greystones has been boarded up. The group of self-organised teenagers have been using the hall for over a year to put on alcohol free, drugs free gigs as well as film showings and providing space for their Basta drama group. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 30, 2006 03:22 by Niall Meehan
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Implications for how historians, journalists and others confront media manipulation, historical and contemporary spin Reading Brian Murphy on how the British manipulated the truth in 1920 "made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck" said Danny Morrison. The parallels between events in that one year and British activities many years later in Ireland are striking, he said. The one time An Phoblacht editor and Sinn Fein Publicity Director, now author and playwright, launched Brian Murphy's 'The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920’ on March 24th in the Teachers’ Club in Dublin. The 100-page work was also launched by Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University and by the author, Brian Murphy. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday March 28, 2006 03:27 by Gearóid O Loingsigh
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The US is once again set to use the so called war on drugs as an excuse for direct US intervention in Colombia. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday March 27, 2006 19:09 by Nina
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St. Margaret’s Park is a 30 bay permanent halting site sandwiched between 2 busy roads on the outskirts of Ballymun. There are currently 63 families living in a space originally designed to accommodate 30 families. There is no playground and no safe pedestrian access to and from the site. Families on the site have been living without electricity on and off for three past 5 months. Travellers and workers, angry at the situation, called a meeting on Wed March the 22nd. Councillors and Dublin City Council (DCC) officials were invited to explain to a meeting on site how they proposed to resolve the situation. Earlier on in the day a group of Slovakians from the LEAP Project (Legal Education For All), along with members of the Irish Traveller Movement Accommodation Working Group visited the site. read full story / add a comment 
No way to celebrate your son's 21st - time for an independent inquiry into a death in Garda custody?
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 23, 2006 12:30 by kevin
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The Wheelock family protest outside the Dáil on what should have been Terence's birthday. An extended interview with Laurence Wheelock, brother of Terence Wheelock. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday March 23, 2006 00:50 by J.M. Collins
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"But, hark! a voice like thunder spake, The West's awake! the West's awake!" This is a first hand account of what is probably the first anti-war demonstration on the campus of Glenville State College since the Vietnam era protests. Students are fed up with President Bush and his illegal war in Iraq that is costing the lives of West Virginia's youth which are being exploited by the military in promise for scholarships. We have arisen from our slumber and shall no long stand idly by as Bush and his cronies are destroying not only our country but the world of which all of us live! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday March 22, 2006 12:16 by Vulture Capitalist
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As the lies about European restrictions on investment begin to unravel you don't have to be a socialist, to be concerned about the employees or even worried about transport links to feel that Aer Lingus should stay in state hands. This is not a sentimental or political debate. This is just a rip off. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Monday March 20, 2006 22:17 by Text: Terry, Photos: Aron + EC
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The saga of Shell's pollution into Carrowmore Lake, plus lots of photos and an interview with Terence Conway, Erris Shell to Sea activist. read full story / add a comment |
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