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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 15, 2009 - 21:56 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima   image 1 image
For those people who dream and advocate a more radical solution, I let my suggestion: read "The five trillion that the "debt" have swallowed" and coolly examine the implementation of the budget over the past fifteen years. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 13, 2009 - 16:44 by Gavin Gleeson   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 27, 2009 - 13:42)
The Greens and Fianna Fáil have "negotiated" a deal whereby a €225 flat tax will be levied on every household, regardless of income. The levy is expected to generate nearly €300 million a year in revenue. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday October 12, 2009 - 22:59 by Philip O' Rourke   text 1 comment (last - monday october 19, 2009 - 12:18)
Music is a big influence on everybodys lives, weather we like it or not. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday October 12, 2009 - 12:48 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity
Early this year, members of Belfast WSM and ex Black Panther Ashanti Alston met representatives from Concerned Families against Drugs (CFAD) ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday October 10, 2009 - 13:49 by ud   text 6 comments (last - saturday october 17, 2009 - 11:14)
The Green Party which consists mostly of a parliamentary section and a grassroot will continue
to support FF through whatever budget cuts FF deem necessary to the Irish economy without
question until 2012. it really turns the spotlight onto FG's failure to capture anybody's imagination
save the uber-blonde professional politician types that hang out round Mr Kenny.
Yesterday 09/10/09 Minister Gormley believed that he had the media in thrall from 9am-9pm
with his crack negotiating team comprised of Boyle, White and Ryan. White is notable in that
in her first joint budget with FF she stood and applauded cuts to old people, she is thus
not very bright (low wattage).
... read full story / add a comment
a poisonous chalice of attitudes and presumptions laced with just too easy to formulate moral outrage............hmmmm............take note & don't let the far right do this.
international / arts and media Thursday October 08, 2009 - 20:12 by gossip monger   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 18:34)   image 2 images
European politics are no doubt scintilating for the average Irish citizen now Lisbon2 is behind us & our continuing place at the heart of Europe is assured. We expect the Dáil expense scandal which hints at as much outragous sociopathic graft & cheek as our rivals in the British parliament will keep us in the top rankings. We can read about Berlusconi unknowingly frolicking with prostitutes and cocaine traffickers and think it slightly pathetic that he imagined his pretty guests were up & gaggin for it. Now new scandal at the heart of Europe which alas, is in the process of being hijacked by the far right! Sarkozy's minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, who though son of the socialist president chose a rightwing career path, is at the heart of the EU. In the lead-up to a new set of agreements between France and Thailand to stem sex tourism, passages from the minister's 2005 biography describing the thrill of sex with young Thai boys are raising interest of both prurient and legitimate nature. ... read full story / add a comment
Sticker stating 'No Welcome' for Bertie on our campus
kildare / education Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 20:35 by W.Carney- FEE NUI Maynooth   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 09:11)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Reflections on the appointment of Bertie Ahern by the NUI Maynooth School of Business and Law. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 17:49 by Michelle Clarke   text 14 comments (last - tuesday september 18, 2012 - 14:19)
In the past, I have written about a treasure trove of information much under utilised for parents, for individuals, for children, for the elderly concerned about the future, and for students. It is the EU office in Dawson Street. This is adjacent to the Royal Irish Academy, and St. Anne's Church which is also a haven for people with time on their hands and a curious mind. They have a coffee centre and for over 50's they assist people in learning how to use the computer ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday October 05, 2009 - 12:24 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - monday october 05, 2009 - 19:50)
The call from the agents of the bourgeoisie for further cuts in the pay of public employees as a means of solving the economic crisis on the grounds that they receive better pensions, pay and working conditions than the private sector is not valid. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday October 04, 2009 - 09:10 by John C   text 11 comments (last - friday october 09, 2009 - 11:41)
When Michael O’Leary joined the yes campaign I thought to myself that this would actually be beneficial for the No side. For most Irish people, O’Leary’s arrogance and clown antics are irritating the best of times. He did not appear to be as knowledgeable as Declan Ganley on the overall text of the Lisbon treaty. O’Leary just kept repeating the same two points over and over again, the Commissioner and taxation. I thought that O’Leary’s support for the Yes side was a blessing in disguise. I believed that his personality alone would drive some people to vote No.
... read full story / add a comment
Even the anarchists are going to vote No to Lison, many for the first time in their lives.
national / history and heritage Thursday October 01, 2009 - 23:32 by o as if   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 - 00:51)   image 6 images
All good children are now washed and asleep in their cots and ought have little idea how their parents & elders intend to vote tomorrow in Ireland's 2nd referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Theirs is not the duty nor the concern to weigh local political and national debate with the long term consequences of a potential post-Lisbon European Union. For the most part they will have noticed the plethora of posters and the volume of bilge wash which the Irish voters have seen and been brought through since immediately after they voted No! in the first Lisbon referendum and which has continued unrelentlessly as a tsunami until this last evening of reflection.
... read full story / add a comment
foto Bruno Derenne  Action  in front  European parliament Brussels
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 01, 2009 - 23:26 by Valentine Julien   text 1 comment (last - friday october 16, 2009 - 16:12)   image 1 image
A message from Brussels to the Irish people! PLease VOTE NO for us! ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Monday September 28, 2009 - 18:20 by Terawrizt   text 5 comments (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 - 13:00)   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
New anti-Lisbon treaty music video i have released in aid of the No campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
A Wiki Bodleian Image co of Wikipedia
international / arts and media Saturday September 26, 2009 - 12:02 by ud   text 11 comments (last - monday october 12, 2009 - 11:14)   image 1 image
A few of us may be waking up with a headache this morning but nothing like the one
encountered yesterday by Google lawyers who thought that piracy by any other name
would be tolerated Vis the GBS (The Google Book Settlement).

It's a fine idea to digitise every single book ever published if that is what you claim
you were instigated for; but to get up the noses of the writers and libraries whose
commitment to truth, to their art and to their poverties in the process of digitising
7,000,000 books- of which 5,000,000 were in copyright its another tale altogether.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tec....html ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday September 22, 2009 - 13:42 by mhawk   text 3 comments (last - monday september 28, 2009 - 09:27)

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland are very keen to ensure that none of their clients are involved in conflict of interest situations. Indeed they have stated that even the appearance of a theoretical conflict of interest must be avoided at all costs, and transparency ensured through thorough external auditing. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday September 19, 2009 - 16:51 by Fred Johnston   text 13 comments (last - sunday october 11, 2009 - 15:14)
University presidents in the Republic grieving over challenge to rather large purses . . . So where are the student protests? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 18, 2009 - 01:33 by Marc Spring   text 20 comments (last - saturday march 27, 2010 - 13:18)
Jack O'Connor and SIPTU leaders are making some noises about the outrageous treatment of Irish Coca Cola workers these days, but does anyone remember that they vitriolically attacked a campaign of solidarity with Colombian Coca Cola workers whose lives were threatened, a short few years ago? ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday September 14, 2009 - 13:25 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Women and the European Union
Paper presented by Deirdre Uí Bhrógáin,
National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland,
to Desmond Greaves Summer School, 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
They are a nation & their language is spoken by ten million. But this referenda was only supposed to include a few thousands.
international / eu Saturday September 12, 2009 - 19:55 by susan Boyle   text 6 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 - 01:14)   image 3 images
In what could have seemed like a typical storm in a tea-cup about a fortnight ago & in my opinion didn't merit comment or reporting then, a village consultation in Catalonia has evinced EU parliament cross party condemnation of the Spanish state. The leaders of the EU conservatives, socialists, greens and liberals have expressed their concern at the continued operation of the Spanish Falange party. Manfred Weber leads the conservative block in the EU parliament he has said "this demonstration celebrates a brutal and inhuman totalitarian system in which thousands of European died and it must be stopped" or Bernhard Rapkay leader of the German socialists in the EU "we must punish any European who uses fascist symbols".

What could have caused that?

The story really is extraordinarily interesting, ironic, though provoking & of interest to Welsh, Scot or any referendum voter. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday September 10, 2009 - 16:24 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity   image 1 image
A few years ago a comrade from Leeds introduced me to the life and times of this colourful figure, Dr John Creaghe who helped spread the flames of anarchism across three continents. In the words of the famous Italian anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti this pamphlet is dedicated to the ‘nameless in the vast crowd of nameless ones.’ ... read full story / add a comment
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