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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday May 13, 2007 09:08 by Brian
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This is just an attempt to see if some of the large social changes taking place in Ireland right now are the result of deliberate government policies, aimed at controlling dissent, rather than just random acts. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 12, 2007 00:55 by paul o toole
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New Law's of the land read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday May 11, 2007 19:09 by Keith Mothersson
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Thomas McLaughlin assures us that “no one actually tried to steal last Thursday’s ballot” (Glasgow Herald, Letters, 7 May 2007). But how do any of us know? If a team of e-fraudsters had succeeded in shifting one vote in ten from Party X to Party Y would they have left a calling card out of sheer bravado? read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday May 11, 2007 15:32 by Libertarian Infusion
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This is England is a masterful film: vibrant, uncompromising, complex, full of life, remarkably unsentimental and an unflinchingly honest account of how the rise of ring wing nationalism occurred in white working class communites under Thatcher read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday May 11, 2007 13:43 by lithium
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As the battle between the HSE and the nursing unions escalates, we can all do our bit to help them! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 09, 2007 21:04 by Alcjo
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Esperanto and the libertarian movement The purpose of this short article is, firstly, to inform readers of the benefits to be had learning the international language –Esperanto, secondly, to illustrate how the Esperanto movement, through the efforts of its world body SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmondo, or non-national world association of Esperanto) is strongly committed to the fight for workers’ rights worldwide, and against the rise of global capitalism, and finally to look ahead to the possibility of forming a Workers’ Esperantist Movement throughout Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 09, 2007 14:42 by Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien
4 comments (last - wednesday may 30, 2007 01:07)
The Inter-Faith Roundtable is a loose affiliation of people of different beliefs (from Christians, to Muslims, Hindus to Sikh etc) who seek to promote peace, tolerance, respect and understanding between the creeds and those of none. We believe that integration is an essential part of that process, as the lessons of Europe so starkly indicate. read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 09, 2007 00:15 by Joe King
100 years ago Belfast saw the first big battle between the working and employing classes in Ireland. The dockers' and carters' strike was the spark which lit a fire of working class militancy. Workers were flexing their muscle, Catholic and Protestant were uniting, 'Larkinism' was giving the bosses nightmares. Even the police got caught up in the new mood and mutinied. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 08, 2007 23:50 by Gregor Kerr
The nurses’ work-to-rule and their threat to escalate the action has been met with an outraged onslaught by Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. The sight of a group of workers standing up and demanding their rights has become so unusual that it seems as if the government cannot believe the temerity of the nurses in doing just that. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday May 06, 2007 17:59 by Well, Well
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Gerry Adams on RTE Radio 1 today - ditched practically the entire list of Sinn Fein tax proposals. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday May 06, 2007 15:18 by Seán Ryan
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The government is in a shambles. McDowell is ducking and diving. Tis the most interesting election ever in the emerald isle. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday May 06, 2007 08:01 by Shell to Sea Supporter
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The May and June AGM period of Shell Annual meetings in London and Amsterdam should be the specific annual period where the focus should be on giving the Irsh public factual and visual information on the record of Shell worldwide as it struggles to find its feet in Irish waters.This should be the goal in every activity during this period so that people come to know once again why there is opposition to Shell in Mayo, and Ireland is in union with other Shell- suffering comminities who will be making their voices heard at this time. At the very least lots of placard information and messages. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday May 05, 2007 14:41 by James Doyle
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Protesters outside. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday May 05, 2007 14:01 by C Murray
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The mainstream radio stations are covering the announcement by an t'Uachtaran of the referral of the Criminal Laws 2007 to the Council Of State, if agreement is not reached then the matter gets referred to the Supreme Court. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82244 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82176 The last act of the Present Minister for Justice was to appoint a number of new Judges. The Irish Times, surprisingly are leading with an exclusive with photo of Minister Mc Dowell stating that the PD's have secured further revelations of Taoiseach Ahern's finances and were reflecting on their position with regard to coalition. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday May 04, 2007 12:03 by Kevin T. Walsh
1 comment (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 00:10)
We need TV naturally to embrace news and what is happening around us. We also need radio but Liveline this week was a complete sham. Joe with the ego (Bottler)and Williams (the great man of fiction on Irish Gangland). We all know what happened when a prisoner phoned from a cell in Portlaoise. I personally believe RTE have broken the law on this occasion. How can we have a prisoner in Portlaoise taking the airways and making threats. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday May 04, 2007 11:35 by Shelagh Sutton
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You may well be chuckling to yourself at the notion that men could be victims of domestic violence at all but the ever-increasing incidence of abuse against men in the home and the media’s subconscious conspiracy to keep this very real issue hidden might well surprise you. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 01, 2007 11:07 by Sharon.
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Vote out Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats and vote in Fine Gael and Labour (or a 'different' combination) then , in a few years time , reverse the process .... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday April 30, 2007 20:21 by Kevin T. Walsh
3 comments (last - sunday december 23, 2007 21:28)
I always had an interest in Irish History and many summers ago I spent time travelling around Ireland viewing old graveyards. I recall being below in West Cork and old farmer brought me to view three unmarked graves on his land. They were three old IRA men shot by the Tans in 1921. The farmer had written their names on three pieces of wood. I walked through Letterfrack and I wondered if the rumours were true of the unmarked graves of little children. These children most likely died violently at the hands of Church and State. Some old men in small towns told me that if the secrets were unfolded, that Ireland was awash with babies left in bogs, and lakes. He said they not only drowned pups at that time, they drowned little children too. That men spoke to me in West Mayo. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday April 29, 2007 16:49 by Poodle
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The best speech in the house of eunuchs, otherwise known as the Dail was that given by Joe Higgins who alluded to the Poodles pissing against the lamp-posts in Dublin 6W upon which Minister Mc Dowell was hanging his posters. So we are into another election. therefore we can rest and enjoy the party. it is the only time when the TD's get down and dirty with the voters to justify a few more years lining the pockets and briefcases of their nearest and dearest. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 25, 2007 22:22 by Joe King
12 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 11:28)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. read full story / add a comment |
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