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international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 03, 2006 00:14 by DF
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Yet again, the mainstream media gives a distorting image of Latin America's shift to the Left. But looking closely at the distortions shows what the real agenda is. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Friday June 02, 2006 18:33 by Donnchadh
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How Irish revisionism follows what French psychoanalyst and intellectual Jacques Lacan describes as the "Discourse of the University." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 02, 2006 01:57 by jim travers
The call for somebodys head to fall has always been the response of people to a national concern which seems to provide us with the satisfaction that we have rid ourselves of the cancer that caused the problem in the first place. Is it time as a nation we grew up and realised that we as the electorate are the ones responsible for the problems in society we see today? read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 01, 2006 18:02 by redjade
5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 06:05)  6 images
The Pentagon pulls an Orwellian phrase out of its arse but its all just more CYA read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 31, 2006 10:06 by Sebastian Koch
1 comment (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 20:12)
Radio-feature examining foreign national intergration in Dublins North Inner City. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 31, 2006 00:28 by Rt. Hon. Dr. O as if
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As we all had better know by now, a child rapist known as "Mr A". was released from custody this afternoon as a result of a Supreme Court Judgement made last week which ruled that the Statutory Rape Act of 1935 is unconstitutional. At 38 years of age he plied a 12 year old with alcohol and received a 3 year sentance which would have been served in its entirety later this year. Against that backdrop, the worst minister for Justice this state has ever endured, presented to the cabinet his proposals for new legislation on the age of consent and sexual offences relating to the underage, teenagers & mature persons. I really think the reader would do well to consider this news, and concern themselves with the issues which have emerged. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 22:19 by Chris Murray
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The publication of the Arts act 2003, by ex Minister for justice , Equality and Law reform , Mr John O Donoghue TD only received passing comment by corporate media at the time. The Irish Times referred to the Act in Terms of Dilution of the independence of the Arts Council by the new act which for the first time since the foundation of the State allowed a Minister or the Government to set the agenda for artistic expression in the State. The full act is available at this Link: http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2003/a2...3.pdf or you can google Arts acts 2003. In sections here printed; (functions of the Council). "(Shall) Assist the Minister in the performance of his or her functions under the act and in the implementation of Government policies and objectives in relation to the Arts. When so requested by the Minister" read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 17:03 by Pat Muldowney
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Alan Stanley’s book describes the death of the Pearson brothers using a variety of sources: (1) The contemporary (July 7 1921) account in the Unionist newspaper “The King’s County Chronicle, Parsonstown” (King’s County and Parsonstown are, respectively, Co. Offaly and Birr) which quotes their sister Matilda Pearson on her brothers’ death and the burning of their house; (2) A 1983 description by a surviving Pearson brother David Pearson in Australia; (3) A summary of descriptions of those events by William Stanley who was with the Pearson brothers when they were arrested and who subsequently lived in Carlow until his death in 1981; (4) A number of comments gathered by Alan Stanley, mostly from Protestant neighbours and relatives of the Pearsons after 1981, and principally from Tom Mitchell of Kinnitty near Coolacrease. The page numbers refer to the edition of Stanley's book published July 2005. read full story / add a comment
leitrim / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 13:13 by woman
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Historic movies about ireland seem to always make it big on the big screen but at what costs? Whose authorisation is required ? What about the famine? The mass grave where 5000 poor of the district were buried near my house is also a story to tell! Why can't a fim maker make a movie about the great famine? So that Irish Americans can see what their forefathers lived through before emigrating to the USA. This is a story that needs to be told! From the fact that the people were to starve, food supplies they needed withdrawn from them, workhouses, emigration aboard coffun ships etc. The world needs to know!!! read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 04:05 by Geof Bard
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American fiddle player Geof Bard, a generalist known to appear at an occasional Irish sessions on the US west coast, occasionally attacks a guitar, and has been blasting Blair on the airwaves with his fiddle and this adaptation of WIJ, a tune which is occasionally, erroneously known in the states as "Killkenny Mountain". Wildly popular with Americans, the tune lends itself well to satire. Use at will. First publication worldwide. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 00:37 by the planter's daughter
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I am very concerned that too much attention is being given in Irish publick life and general discourse to small & confined groups of people. One lot use letters, Mr A., witness B., chid C., Fr D., ex-Fr E., on holidays now still Fr F., not yet heard victim G., not yet other heard victim H., seen on TV but not let in give testinomy victims I through to U, recently deceased person V, poor little case X,............. need I go on? Oh yes. Then there's the Government & the news casters / readers / journalists, & the courts, & the really holy clergy, and Bono, who seem to get all the attention. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday May 29, 2006 11:06 by W.Finnerty
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For future reference purposes, a copy of the e-mail to several well known leaders reproduced below has now been placed at the following address: http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.co...l.htm Some may be interested to know that the version at the above address shows Yahoo message identification and tracking information. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday May 29, 2006 07:30 by alyn ap gruffydd
Veteran English Radical Film Director Ken Loach`s Film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" gives a new historical interpretation to the Irish Civil War and Engliah Imperialism. Scottish Scriptwriter Paul Laverty is no less radical, this 8` radio interview treats the political messages in the film and offers a critique of modern day Ireland since it became the neo liberal Celtic Tiger. Music by Dead Can`t Dance and Dick Gaughan read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday May 28, 2006 04:01 by Seán Ryan
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Top Marine General flew to Iraq last Thursday to tell the Marines not to commit War-Crimes. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday May 26, 2006 14:48 by we are led by nasty rich snobs who waste our lives
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The punk band Zounds sang 'subvert, subvert' about anarchists/working class people infiltrating the middle class domain of work, to change and subvert it. MI5/6/Special branch have been doing the same in reverse for decades, placing operatives within working class communities and trade unions in order to destroy and subvert whole communities and organisations. Many of these operatives like Denis Donaldson etc, have blended into and become established within working class commuities for many decades. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday May 26, 2006 01:39 by king Herod
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Pope Benedict XVI the supreme moral authority for most citizens of the Irish Republic has begun his 4 day visit to Poland, during which he will speak against feminism, gay marriage, abortion, liberalism, contraception, & sex education. For those of you who don't know who pope Benedict XVI is, or why he is newsworthy.... A long time ago the archangel Gabriel appeared to a teenage girl in Palestine commonly called Mary, she was most probably aged between 14 and 16 based on customs of the time. The archangel told her that she was pregnant but wasn't to get too uptight about it.... It wasn't going to be a crime.... Because she'd have a virgin birth without DNA samples and her baby would be called Emanuel / Jesus / Brian & he'd be really famous and end up starring in the first Good Friday Agreement, and Michael Mc Dowell the sinful capitalist liberal hadn't been accounted for in the divine plan. Of course all the frothy stuff got removed over the centuries, and now we know better. Pope Benedict, the German Shepherd, Papa Ratzi, has been well prepared for by his hosts the former communist & bolshevik, Poland. The Polish government has banned adverts for items which might upset him or the memory of Mary the virgin teenager. 1) tampons.(+) 2) condoms. 3) beer. 4) lingerie (what Mary Harney wears underneath her suits) read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday May 25, 2006 14:38 by Liam Mullen
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Although FAS JobsIreland have been in the news a lot lately regarding their proposed move under decentralisation, many of their job advertisements in recent months seem designed to promote illegal immigration. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday May 25, 2006 14:01 by chekov
In the Sunday Independent of May 21st, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth. Unfortunately, the editor seems happy to continue the tradition, as evidenced by the front page of the edition in which Kerrigan’s article appeared. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 24, 2006 01:50 by jim travers
The Celtic tiger in the Republic of Ireland has shown that Protestants and Catholics on the island of Ireland can work and live in peace and harmony with one another, once the society they live in accommodates that need. See also: Opinion/analysis- Dublin-Miscellaneous.....jim travers read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 24, 2006 01:13 by jim travers
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Commodity is one of the basic fundamental requirements that enable the capitalist system to operate in a world of varied political, religious and multi-racial societies. read full story / add a comment |
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