GAMA workers call on company to make realistic proposals to resolve outstanding issues of overtime and fixed wage workers

Issue of funds hidden in Finansbank Holland largely resolved for Turkish workers still in Ireland

GAMA has committed to paying the proper trade union rates for operatives and trades read full story / add a comment

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Reclaim the Streets
Monday 2nd May 2005
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Coca Cola have repaid Siptu's loyalty on the boycott issue by closing down the one plant where an anti-boycott campaign was launched. read full story / add a comment

The latest drama from Erris, Co.Mayo, work halted on Shell's refinery due to accidents. read full story / add a comment

From the newswire (our correspondents are everywhere)!:

April 27th 2005 (Indymedia.ie) Yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Carroll Moran was the guest speaker at a public talk hosted by the University of Limerick Law Society. Two local people with an interest in judicial standards heard about it and decided to attend. The judge gave a one hour talk on “A judge’s perspectives on Circuit Court Practices” in which he outlined his insightful views on the jury system. He was not comfortable with some of the questions at the end which related his own conduct while presiding over the trial of Mary Kelly (see previous indymedia.ie coverage).

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I stared this piece intending it to be little more than an ad for this Maydays anarchist picnic in the Phoenix park (details follow) with perhaps a little bit of context thrown in. But suddenly I found myself carried away by the political geography of this park which was after all originally built as a Deer park for a discarded mistress of Charles II (hence the high wall). If you know even a little of that history the park becomes a different place and suddenly the events of Mayday 2004 fall into a greater context of political protest and the control of space. read full story / add a comment

From The Newswire: The emergence of a number of independent republican candidates in this years northern council elections has highlighted a growing discontent within the traditional republican base vote which Sinn Fein could previously have taken for granted.

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Update on plans for large dams in southeast Turkey. New report published by NUI Galway and the Kurdish Human Rights Centre. read full story / add a comment

Short Films "Lucky Dip"/Best of VideoActive: This Saturday at Filmbase, Curved Street, Dublin

From the Convergence Website: "Family, home, school, work, neighbourhood, town, city and country - our lives are filled with communities of one sort or another. These are the building blocks of our society. Doesn't it make sense that healthy communities lead to healthy societies?

For the inaugural festival of 2005, Sustainable Ireland is proud to present Convergence Seven - Building Healthy Communities : A challenging programme of events designed to educate and expand our understanding of community, and what it means to build healthy, sustainable environments. Opening with a keynote lecture by Swedish social planner and economist Torbjorn Lahti, and continuing over a four-day festival, attendees can choose from over 30 lectures, conferences, workshops, films, exhibitions, discussions and initiatives."

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Day Five of Hostel Hunger Strike in Dublin read full story / add a comment

While planespotting OUTSIDE Shannon Warport in broad daylight last Sunday, some planespotters found themselves on the receiving end of a fit of madness from one of the APOs who decided somehow that he had jurisdiction outside his patch.

Besides manhandling a young lady and her camera, Airport Police Inspector Mike Hogan tried to pass himself off as a member of An Garda Siochana, which is a criminal offence.

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The Irish Recorded Music Association is to start legal action against 17 Irish people whom they accuse of sharing copywrighted music. read full story / add a comment

A photoessay and account of the GAMA Workers Protest at the Dáil
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Latest news in Shell in Mayo Saga read full story / add a comment

The EYFA (European Youth For Action) Wintermeeting and Gluaiseacht Anti-War Meeting is taking place at the moment in Co. Clare. Here are some impressions of the week so far… read full story / add a comment

FROM: Padhraig Campbell, Campaign for Protection of Resources, Freeport, Barna, Co Galway
Majella McCarron, Ogoni Solidarity Ireland

TO: His Excellency the Norwegian Ambassador, Mr Truls Hanevold, Norwegian Embassy, Molesworth St, Dublin 2

Your Excellency,
We are writing to you in support of the landowners and stake-holders affected by the operational activities of the Corrib North Consortium of Shell, Statoil and Marathon. As the Norwegian government currently owns 70% of Statoil, we call on your government to instruct the board of Statoil to stop the coercive intrusion on the lands of families who are being hauled before the High Court in Dublin by Shell on behalf of the consortium of which Statoil is a member. read full story / add a comment

(Large parts of this story are adopted from an e-mail recieved by Indymedia Ireland which was sent by members of the UK Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu and for a Nuclear-Free Middle East and the US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu) read full story / add a comment

Historian Brian Murphy will give a talk in Cork on April 15th to address the accusations that Tom Barry was a "serial killer" who lied about the infamous British false surrender at the Kilmichael Ambush of November 1920, and part of an IRA strategy aimed at targeting Protestants during the War of Independence.
This article attempts to explain some of the background behind this ongoing historical debate.
UPDATE: Audio of talks added on Apr 25th 2005 read full story / add a comment