|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday February 27, 2013 22:08 by T
 9 comments (last - thursday august 22, 2013 21:41)  2 images
In the recent elections in Italy the new movement M5S led by the former Italian comedian Beppo Grillo has gained 108 seats in the lower Chamber of Deputies and 54 in the Senate. It is hard to get an accurate picture of who he is and what he wants from the mainstream media since they see him as a challenge to the system and will gladly misrepresent him. In this article it reports on the account given at The Automatic Earth blog where Nicole Foss met Beppo Grillo in Italy and gives her view on him, his movement and what they are trying to achieve. "The internet is central to Grillo's ideas. Not only as a tool to reach out to people, but even more as a way to conduct direct democracy. Because that is what he seeks to create: a system where people can participate directly. Grillo wants to bring (back) democracy, the real thing, and he's long since understood that the internet is a brilliant tool with which to achieve that goal." read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday February 27, 2013 20:07 by Elric
1 image
LookLeft Magazine are pleased to invite you to the launch of our new issue, featuring a discussion on the topic of Realising a Left Alternative: Complementary Visions of Social Change. This discussion will be lead by Erik Olin Wright, the distinguished American Marxist scholar and author of books such as Envisioning Real Utopias, Gender Equality, Class Counts. Saturday 2 March, 2:00pm Teachers Club 36 Parnell sq 1, D1 Dublin, Ireland read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage / press release Tuesday February 26, 2013 18:01 by Slane Local Heroes
5 images  1 video file
Celebrating Slane as the home of St Patrick and the Lighting of the Pascal Flame in 432 AD is the central theme of The Flame of Slane Spectacular. This event was first run in 2012 on Easter Saturday and was a great success. It is fair to say that the audience of about 2000 people were astonished with the show. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday February 26, 2013 15:28 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland
3 images
On February 23rd and 24th, members of an anti blood sports campaign group attended part of the so-called “Irish Cup” live hare coursing event, which was held on Limerick racecourse and sponsored by multi millionaire businessman JP McManus. They managed, in spite of an official ban on “unauthorised photography” that apples to all hare coursing events, to film some of the action. read full story / add a comment 
waterford / animal rights / news report Tuesday February 26, 2013 10:51 by Bernie Wright
1 image
The Al Mahmoud vessel has now left Waterford loaded with Cattle to make the 10-day trip to Tripoli in Libya.We know they tried to avoid the media and our VIGIL held on TUESDAY resulted in the ship leaving early to ‘avoid trouble at the dock’. Five security manned the checkpoint and even RTE were refused access to the ship. Two Irish firms Murphy Hunter International and Quinn International are partnering with Syrian business Al Mahmoud to export the cattle to Libya. We want to stop this trade and we ASK your help . read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / event notice Monday February 25, 2013 23:00 by Saoirse
1 comment (last - tuesday february 26, 2013 03:57) 1 image
Republican Sinn Féin will be holding an Irish Anti-Imperialist Forum as a counter to the G8 Summit in June. The Anti-Imperialist Forum/Republican Alternative to the G8 will take place in Belfast on June 14 and 15. The forum will discuss all aspects of imperialism both in terms of British imperialism in Ireland as well as the new imperialism of the EU, ECB and IMF as experienced by the people of the 26 Counties. Delegates from international anti-imperialist organisations will provide a world perspective. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday February 24, 2013 17:34 by CDC
1 comment (last - monday february 25, 2013 19:02) 6 images
Today the CDC and residents in Tom Kelly Flats, Charlemont Street entered our second year of gardening in the area in our drive to reclaim idle land, and use it for the purposes of helping communities grow their own food. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / news report Sunday February 24, 2013 10:21 by Brian Clarke
1 comment (last - monday february 25, 2013 15:30) 2 images 1 video file
After her recent harassment by the resurrected heavy gang of the Gardai in the unfree southern Irish State, parliamentarian Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste or Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the steps he had taken in his dealings with the British occupiers to highlight the wide-spread concern, that exists in Ireland with regard to persons being in prison without knowing the charges against them and without an open transparent trial. Below is a summary of the article which hopefully the socialist Quill will permit without censorship. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday February 23, 2013 22:00 by Shelver
7 comments (last - thursday february 28, 2013 19:53) 5 images
After a week and a half in custody, Shell to Sea activist Izzy Ní Graidim left Mountjoy prison yesterday at 1.30pm on temporary release! We'd expect that to turn into full release in a week's time when she's due back in there. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday February 22, 2013 19:22 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
1 image
Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Friday February 22, 2013 03:22 by Ban Bloodsports in Ireland
1 comment (last - friday february 22, 2013 03:59) 4 images
Horrific stag hunting incident... Terrified stag chased into River Boyne in broad daylight as recovery team and volunteers search for drowning victim. Incident witnessed by dozens of people. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday February 21, 2013 15:31 by RSC
1 comment (last - saturday february 23, 2013 10:54) 1 image
There will be a protest in solidarity with Shell to Sea prisoner Izzy Ní Ghraidm who was jailed for 3 months for a minor public order offence while protesting the Corrib Gas Project. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday February 21, 2013 14:20 by John Cornford
1 image
Weekly Worker issue 950 - February 21 2013 Left organisation: Not another sinister sect The way the left organises is a nonsense, argues Nick Wrack. This is an edited version of his speech at the February 9 ‘Socialist Organisation and Democracy’ event in Manchester The nature of this onslaught against ordinary working class people, in this country and beyond, is forcing families, individuals, groups of friends - whether it is in the pub, the kitchen or around the TV when the news is on - to consider what they can do about the avalanche of attacks that is eroding everything they had come to expect in their life. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday February 21, 2013 01:39 by Michael O'Rourke
1 image
The Weaponising Speculation exhibition is an accompaniment to the conference of the same name organized by D.U.S.T (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought), an art/theory collective recently founded by Michael O'Rourke, Paul Ennis and Fintan Neylan. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday February 20, 2013 10:34 by Niall Meehan
1 image
PRESS STATEMENT Survivors of the Dublin's Protestant run Bethany Home today welcomed Taoiseach's apology to Magdalen survivors and the plan to institute a system of compensation and redress. They especially welcomed the government's decision to include Stanhope Street Magdalen laundry that had been excluded from consideration by the Martin McAleese enquiry into the laundries. Bethany Survivors Chairperson, Derek Leinster said he "hopes the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter will act on his long-expressed promise to TDs, senators and northern MLAs to give justice to Bethany survivors". Mr Leinster noted, "Alan Shatter's first response to publication of the McAleese Report was to apologise for the delay in recognising the injustice done to the Magdelen women. We now suffer the same delay. Now would not be too early to give Bethany survivors the same apology and consideration as the Magdalen women". read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Wednesday February 20, 2013 01:25 by Labor Party - Philippines
3 images
A change in mining policy and use of coal in power generation must be taken into consideration when government agencies conduct their investigations on the mining disaster that took place off Semirara island in the province of Antique, the labor group Partido ng Manggagawa (PM - Labor Party) said in a statement. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 18, 2013 19:40 by Elric
1 image
Last month, the De Silva report into the 1989 murder of Pat Finucane highlighted the scale of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and undercover units of the British Army in the late 1980s. A new report published today by Spinwatch and the Pat Finucane Centre traces the roots of this covert relationship to the earliest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. COUNTER-GANGS: A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976 shows how the application of colonial counter-insurgency theory led to the recruitment of paramilitaries by plain-clothes army units in the early 1970s read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Monday February 18, 2013 18:55 by rossport
1 comment (last - monday february 18, 2013 19:09) 9 images
Glengad compound invaded and work stopped for over 3 hours. Traffic control out of control. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday February 18, 2013 12:35 by Seomra Spraoi
1 image
Gentle Hatha yoga classes, suitable for all levels. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday February 18, 2013 10:49 by Seomra Spraoi
1 image
|
|
|
