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mayo / environment Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 23:00 by R & S
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This morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 19:34 by getouttamyhead
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Hartstown residents block erection of 'flagpole' on petrol station ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 11:24 by Communities Aganist Cuts
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Lone Parents and People with Disabilities on Community Employment schemes fight for equality ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 07:09 by frentemusicalinternacionalista
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meeting music ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 01, 2010 - 23:27 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Last Monday I went to Conway Hall in downtown London to welcome Joe Glenton out of 4 months in a military prison in Colchester. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 22:52 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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Gormley was quite happy to not grant a foreshore licence for the Poolbeg incinerator in his own constituency, but seems set to allow Shell to put the health and safety of the community in Erris at risk and destroy a Special Area of Conservation. If Gormley is seeking to renegotiate on Poolbeg and withhold the granting of a foreshore licence, why can't he do the same with Shell? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 31, 2010 - 09:15 by Trade Union TV
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Watch the protest and picket here at Trade Union TV with Aonghus O'Snodaigh TD, Brendan Archbold, Unite, Freda Hughes and David Landy of the IPSC. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 17:35 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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10 people from the Rossport solidarity camp delayed Shell’s survey work for the dangerous and experimental Corrib gas pipeline yesterday. The campaigners waded out to one of the rigs drilling boreholes in the Sruwaddacon estuarythe rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occupied the space underneath it to prevent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 11:22 by Andrew
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Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 29, 2010 - 16:54 by Freda H
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Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:17 by Eleanor
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On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada
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Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent. The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality. ... read full story / add a comment 
donegal / miscellaneous Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 00:28 by KSI
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Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 18:30 by Cat
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Around 150 people came to Mayo's first street feast last weekend in Kilcommon Parish. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 17:04 by getouttamyhead
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Brave farming couple Michael & Claire Hussey of Ballydooley, Dunamon, Co. Roscommon, had to remain silent through two hearing of their case as barristers argued the merits of a zoning issue against An Bord Pleanala, the Irish planning authority which overrulled the decision of Roscommon Co. Council prohibiting a Tetra-bearing mast less than 30 metres from their farmhouse. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 24, 2010 - 17:56 by Madam K
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A lovely walk along the beautiful bay is enough to unnerve those recruited to steal our natural resourses. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday July 22, 2010 - 13:49 by Madam K
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Sruwaddacon estuary,the estuary is a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area ,National Heritage Area ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 22, 2010 - 00:51 by Eleanor
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Last Thursday evening news arrived that Derry City was victorious in its bid to be the UK's first City of Culture. The great and the good of the city lined up in front of the worlds media and to join in with the celebrations. ... read full story / add a comment |
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