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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday February 08, 2009 23:11 by Edward
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Business as usual at Shannon airport on 8 Feb 09, showed few commercial airlines landing but three OMNI Air chartered aircraft were being refuelled as they were transporting hundreds of armed US troops through Shannon airport. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday February 08, 2009 18:00 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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At a ceremony held in Copenhagen on 26 January, 2009, former Danish military intelligence officer Frank Grevil was given the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, in recognition of the role he played in exposing the falsehoods that led to Denmark's invasion of Iraq in 2003. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Sunday February 08, 2009 10:29 by Julian - UCD FEE
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This is a report from the February 4th national protest and the FEE breakaway that followed. read full story / add a comment 
national / education / news report Saturday February 07, 2009 21:38 by Paula Geraghty
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The day public servants discovered how much Cowan was taking from their take home pay to bail out the system , 25,000 students took to the streets of Dublin shouting 'No Cutbacks, No Fees, No Fianna Fáil TD's!' read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 05, 2009 15:40 by Educate to be Free
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Ógra Shinn Féin activists from across Ireland, students and workers alike, joined with thousands of people yesterday marching against the introduction of student fees by Minister Batt O Keefe and the Fianna Fáil led government. Ógra Shinn Féin held banners, and placards, distributed thousands of leaflets and Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty passionately addressed the thronged crowd of protestors at Leinster house to a very warm and enthusiastic reception. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday February 05, 2009 10:42 by t.a.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 04, 2009 22:19 by Kevin 1
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DEFEND BUS SERVICES: SUPPORT THE BUS WORKERS Dublin Bus drivers, members of the NBRU, are balloting over the next week for industrial action if the company press ahead with 160 threatened sackings. And Dublin North West People Before Profit is organising a protest meeting on the cuts plan in Ballymun Thursday 5th February 8pm Axis Centre read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 04, 2009 19:20 by Paula Geraghty
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international / animal rights / news report Wednesday February 04, 2009 18:14 by John Carmody
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Today a groundbreaking new documentary revealing the all too visible distress that lab primates face on a daily basis is revealed by Animal Defenders International (ADI). The Save The Primates investigation exposes every aspect of the global primate trade across three continents, including one of Europes largest testing facilities “ Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 03, 2009 17:54 by Blacbloc
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The extortionate pension levies imposed on public sector workers by Brian Cowen and IBEC this afternoon will further devastate the lives of the low and middle income earners. Nothing further was announced to curb the salaries of the highest paid public and private sector workers - the class of people the government is extending itself to protect above all others. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 03, 2009 09:35 by zaraz.org
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Today at 9:30 more than 300 workers occupied the administrative building of Kherson Engineering Plant. The workers demand payment of wages, nationalization of the plant without compensation to its owner and are decisively inclined to occupy the building until complete fulfillment of their demands. During occupation no worker has injured. Factory guards did not resist seriously. The situation is controlled by yesterday elected workers council. The police has not yet appeared near the building. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday February 03, 2009 00:45 by Teddy
On Saturday the 31st January approximately 80 concerned citizens demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their plight for justice. The group convened at Daunt Square at 1pm and commenced a tour of the city's shopping centres before marching for a mile past Turners Cross to Woodies DIY Store near the Kinsale Road Roundabout. The protest called on the people of Cork to join in the campaign to Boycott Israel and in particular for shoppers to be conscience of what they may be supporting in buying Israeli products namely the recent massacre in Gaza and the persistent violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian legal standards. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday February 02, 2009 23:12 by C.D. Stelzer
Press accounts published in Ireland over the past decade, however, have linked the company to an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the Irish political establishment during the 1990s. Moreover, the man at the center of the controversy has had past ties to Carlyle Group, an American equity investment firm that is stacked with high-ranking former U.S. government officials with checkered careers. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday February 02, 2009 22:29 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, an incinerator, pylons, a telemast, a sewage treatment plant, water extraction, a windfarm, two industrial parks and the return of animal health problems at Askeaton read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday February 02, 2009 19:43 by David L
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A hundred people assembled on Saturday afternoon, January 31 in Dublin city centre to mourn the dead of Gaza. The demonstrators marched around the central pedestrian zone on O Connell Bridge in a silent protest against the massacre that Israel perpetrated. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 02, 2009 18:56 by TD
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Last Saturday, members of the Galway Palestine Children's Appeal were "overwhelmed" by the public response to their appeal for humanitarian aid for the children and people of Gaza - expecting one 40ft container to be filled with medical supplies, household goods, non perishable food, clothes and toys, a further two had to be ordered and to ease the pressure, a request was broadcast by the local radio station, Galway Bay FM, for donors to procrastinate their visit to the drop-off point at the Black Box theatre until the delivery of the third container - this morning, at 7AM two of the stuffed containers started their journey of mercy and there is a large stockpile of aid awaiting the arrival of the third. Including an operating table from Letterkenny Hospital, medical staff in the west donated money and supplies and businesses such as the Galway Radisson Hotel gifted 100 duvets and pillows. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday February 01, 2009 12:38 by SHAC Ireland
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Friday, 30th January A wet and windy night saw lots of activists turn out at a Bayer / Schering Pharma meeting and dinner-dance in the Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 30, 2009 15:17 by gazasympathiser
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"Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 15:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
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After 60 years of one-sided reporting on Palestine, a major U.S. TV network finally shows the reality of life for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 01:46 by gota hope
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It was a very wet and windy saterday, in cork . but despite this people were keen to express there outrage at the carnage being inflicted on a unarmed population in Gaza. read full story / add a comment |
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