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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 19, 2006 11:49 by WS
 9 comments (last - thursday june 22, 2006 19:23)
The deaths of Terence Wheelock and John Moloney in Garda custody have again focused attention on the brutal nature of policing in this state. Brian Rossiter and John Carty are other names from a long list that have a public resonance. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 18, 2006 22:43 by Michelle Clarke
28 comments (last - monday april 20, 2009 20:52)
America, they refer to the Underclass. Medical Services in Ireland are harnassed by the divide - you pay or you don't.......therein is the obscurity as to how to have hope and get the best treatment..... I note Patient's Together are mobilising to challenge Professor Drumm and the HSE scandal of overcrowding in Accident and Emergency. I am hearing too much about suicide. I am encountering a degree of medical arrogance that I can no longer accept. I wonder have people experienced similar problems. We are not hearing about all the suicides.....i.e. those involving the Luas for example or the out of the ordinary number in Finglas at the moment. What is the system saying......Are they confining us to no Hope and the undersclass category. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 17:15 by paul o toole
The Contradictions ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 13:48 by Daithí
4 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 19:44)
Encouraging students to get involved in politics, representation, activism and campaigning is a funny business. In an ideal, perfect situation, you wouldn't have a division between encourager and encouragee; no-one should need to drum up interest among others or to have a position of 'managing' student involvement. But we don't live in that world, and it's perfectly usual to see students' unions, political 'youth wings', campaign groups and so on trying to encourage 'others' to get involved. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 10:27 by Sean Crudden
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We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lanthorn dimly burning. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 21:24 by Boadicea
9 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 10:02)
"This is the most dangerous legislation that has ever come before the House because it seeks to deprive people of the power to make observations and objections in regard to planning matters." (Deputy Michael Ring T.D.) "If local people cannot have an input into the planning process, they will see their local councillors as being irrelevant." (Deputy Jimmy Deenihan T.D.) read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 20:40 by Paddy Savage
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Some images of queer anarcho direct action/resistance and opinion all the way from the city of San Francisco,do all Dublin queers like kylie,hi-nrg trance and are in favour of Gay Marriage?Is Marriage just assimilation into the already cancerous system of capitalism,dont people have enough forms and things to sign and agree on already?,and already people find such things deviously challenging and needless? What does it mean to you to be LGBTQ in Dublin in 2006? All opinions welcomed! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 20:15 by West Papua
4 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 12:51)
MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 16:59 by mobfilms
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"Surveillance and social-classification are the mode through which one person engages with another. Log onto MySpace, check your friends' profiles, leave a comment or two, move people around your "Top 8" - this might be a typical session on the site. We will not stop posting personal information as long as these data holds social and interactive value. Surveillance and identity modulation has become the vehicle of these media, and, increasingly, our networked lives." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 15:52 by Semper Fi
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On Nov 19, 2005, a roadside bomb hit a patrol convoy of Marine humvees in Haditha, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. The twelve men in 1st Squad led by Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, proceeded to storm nearby buildings throwing grenades into rooms and gunning down the occupants, innocent Iraqi men, women and children in cold blood. What caused these men to kill innocents? Was it the heat of battle? No, I would suggest, it is directly linked to the ethos of the elite US Marine Corps. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 14:24 by Stardust
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While thosands will attend St Fintan’s cemetery in Sutton today for Mr Haughey's funeral there are the remains of 5 other northside Dubs that people should remember are buried there. The unidentified remains of five victims of the Stardust Fire. The government and Mr Ahern should pay for the DNA tests that is needed to identify these remains. The Stardust Committee say they are holding a protest in Dublin next Tuesday regarding it. Anyone know details? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 11:44 by proletarian
1 comment (last - saturday june 17, 2006 19:12)
Nurses look for a shorter working week, hopefully siptu and the other big unions will follow the lead given by the brave nurses. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday June 15, 2006 23:49 by Liam Mullen
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Industry insiders have indicated a significant shift within the Irish Construction Industry, an industry that has helped to fuel the Celtic Tiger phenomenon, and an industry which employs tens of thousands migrant workers. The effects have been felt particularly within the scaffolding end of the business with fewer contracts around than has previously been the case. read full story / add a comment 
international / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Thursday June 15, 2006 19:04 by Karla Healion
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A young Irish man is flying to Arizona today (June 15) to begin an amazingly difficult journey of recovery from arthritus that's had him on crutches for almost a decade. His ordeal is being documented, and the film, 'Walking', will completed in 2008. Nothing is more incredible, moving and noteworthy than a person's determination to show the world that he will never give up, will share every experience and- most of all-can recover one hundred per cent when the odds are against him. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 14, 2006 20:16 by eamonn
30 comments (last - monday august 21, 2006 11:48)
The manouverings of the SWP in Scotland are a significant factor in the general chaos within the Scottish Socialist Party. The manner in which this party are currently operating in Scotland should act as a warning to those on the Left in Ireland who believe that that party has anything to offer the struggle for socialism here. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 14, 2006 18:36 by Equaliszer777
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This is as good a time as any to recall to mind the shenanigans that were going on in Dublin in 1970, as the Haughey clique sought to insulate their 'kingdom' from the storm that was about to break in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 14, 2006 16:35 by Peter Magee
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Before I begin I must say I hate Bush and I hate this whole nihilistic Iraq war. The Americans, I think we can all agree are in a quagmire in Iraq. The country is ravaged by daily car bombings which have killed thousands of innocent civilians since 2003 while Sunni, Shia and Kurdish areas are at each others throats. Every day dozens of tortured and mutilated bodies have arrived at Iraqi hospitals after being dumped in the streets. The country is on the brink of all out tribal and sectarian civil war. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 14, 2006 14:20 by John McDermott
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Frank Fahy is a busy man.Wonder is he ever finds time to pick up his public representative remuneration from the taxpayers of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 13, 2006 12:16 by chris murray
A civil Servant on behalf of the Department of Education and Science, yesterday attended the Ryan commission on Child Abuse ,(previously the Laffoy Commisssion on Child Abuse- 1999-2003) to apologise to the victims of Church/State disregard for the health and well-being of generations of industrial school children. Whilst applauding the attempt to recitfy the deep wrongs of the Era through apology , it has come three years too late. The State continues to deny its role in the obstruction of the work of the Laffoy Committee, not has it exposed the machinations of the dept of education and Science headed up by Michael Woods that signed the Church/ State indemnity deal which absolved the Church from paying full compensation to victims. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday June 12, 2006 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 read full story / add a comment |
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