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dublin / politics / elections Thursday February 24, 2011 - 19:22 by Peter Geoghegan
 3 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2011 - 14:59)
Beyond the political and financial classes, Irish people’s response to the crisis has surprised many on the Left, especially in the UK. Looking to riots in Greece last year, and more tangentially, the revolts spreading like wildfire across the Middle East, why, they ask, has Ireland not been more restive? Why, with joblessness running at over 13% and 1,000 people emigrating every week, did it take two years, and the intervention of the IMF, for mass street protests to take place? Where is the anger, why has Yeats’s ‘passionate intensity’ been monopolized by Fine Gael, a party of the rural and middle classes? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 21, 2011 - 22:46 by AC
11 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2011 - 12:38)  2 images
What could we do with the €540 billion in oil and gas which according to the Irish government lies in Ireland’s Atlantic Margin area? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday February 19, 2011 - 16:54 by Diarmuid Breatnach
26 comments (last - friday february 25, 2011 - 09:50)
Despite the opportunities presented to the Irish radical and revolutionary Left by the current economic climate and people’s anger with the Government, financial establishment and other authorities, the electoral landscape for the Irish Left is bleak indeed. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Friday February 18, 2011 - 23:46 by Bernie Wright
2 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2011 - 21:11) 2 images
Please print AFAR's poster calling on all voters to make use of their vote to keep Fine Gael out of power. The majority of normal people do not want Stag hunting legalised again, even if the ban is not being enforced. Place this poster in a prominent place to let people know how cruel they intend to be , that is if they get into Government. They want STAG-HUNTING back!!! Its really unbelieveable. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday February 18, 2011 - 17:54 by T
3 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2011 - 12:58) 1 image
With the election coming up many people are planning to firmly boot Fianna Failure out and there is strong indications that people are not happy with any of the main parties. Therefore we should see the smaller parties and the independents having a real chance. But do they or can this unravel because of the way we pick our preference votes? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 18, 2011 - 10:31 by KSI
Statement of the International Initiative: 15 February 2011 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 18, 2011 - 02:39 by Astrid Essed
1 comment (last - friday april 01, 2011 - 19:04)
The US led smear and hatred campaign against Julian Assange and his close co workers also affects important adherents, like Israel Shamir As well by Domscheit-Berg, ex second Wikileaks man, as by newsmedia as the Guardian and the Dutch RTL News, Shamir is wrongly accused of Holocaust denial and anti-semitism ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / politics / elections Friday February 18, 2011 - 00:28 by FSB!
2 comments (last - friday may 06, 2011 - 12:02) 3 images
Dan Boyle, formerly Bertie Ahern's choice for senator, is running for election in Cork South Central once again. This means he has to present a justification of his and his party's record as part of this government we've suffered for getting on four years. One of the ways he has been doing this is through his election literature, some of which I received in the post only this morning. After reading it, I must say I was surprised at the level of grandiose self-delusion on display in this leaflet! ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday February 17, 2011 - 19:58 by Communist Republican
5 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2011 - 11:07)
A very timely and useful analysis of how Sinn Fein policy has moved significantly to the right in relation to the EU has appeared in the current edition of the Socialist Voice. It looks at how the party is now heading towards the right on the EU and that drift to the right is not an accident and will not end there. This has implications for republicans and socialists in this country and for all Irish people especially with the projected increases in SF support in the national elections next week. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday February 17, 2011 - 18:40 by ordinary citizen
6 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2011 - 17:10)
How practical in the short term is idea of an anarchist state? Does not voting not actually keep the right wing parties in power ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Thursday February 17, 2011 - 13:03 by Bakunin
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It might seem like a contradiction in terms, but this Anarchist explains his strategy for voting in the forthcoming general election in the Sligo North Leitrim Constituency. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Wednesday February 16, 2011 - 10:16 by Bernie Wright
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The Fine Gael party has pledged, in its 2011 election manifesto to reverse the ban on the horrific practice of carted stag hunting. This barbaric activity was banned by the outgoing government in June 2010 on both animal welfare and human safety grounds. This barbaric "sport" involved hounding a farmed or semi-tame deer for miles across Meath and North County Dublin until it was cornered by a pack of hounds and mounted hunters. Some stags got hit by traffic, got injured by colliding with fences or barbed wire or collapsed from exhaustion. Many of the stags that were chased died days after the hunt from captive myopathy caused by stress. NPWS reports reveal one Stag was drowned and another was choked. By the end of a days hunt, one, possibly two tame stags would be found with their tongues hanging out from exhaustion after a two to three hour chase. The hunted Stag is wrestled into a crate by about six men at the conclusion of the hunt or left out as an outlier to be hunted again. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday February 14, 2011 - 17:49 by RSC
Dear politician, Economically speaking we are being sold out by our elected representatives via the nationalisation of bank debt, while anything of value – such as our oil and gas resources - are given away via privatization. Socially we are losing a generation to emigration, most of whom will never return, nor will have any economic reason to do so without a reversal of how this nation is managed. Now in a state of desperation for employment, any environmental sacrifices dictated by private infrastructural projects will be justified by the offer of temporary construction jobs – crumbs off the plate while the corporations feast on our rich natural resources. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 13, 2011 - 15:25 by Paul Lynch
7 comments (last - friday march 04, 2011 - 16:53) 1 image
A former chief of the Corrib Gas Project proclaimed that “Corrib will pay no tax” owing to the billions already spent on the decade late project. Brian O’ Cathain - who was managing Director of Enterprise Energy Ireland before the company was bought out by Shell in 2002 - made the startling claim just before last December’s budget. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday February 13, 2011 - 14:01 by ordinary citizen
6 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2011 - 22:18)
These times we live in require people with initiative in positions of power. People who can come at a problem from different angles and don’t necessarily play by the rules. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday February 12, 2011 - 20:18 by El Libertario, Venezuela
* On November 2010, in the Spanish city of Cordoba, during the celebrations of the Centennial of the historical anarcho-syndicalist union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Round Table discussion about Latin America’s social movements took place. A representative of El Libertario was present and delivered the following report. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday February 11, 2011 - 13:30 by Celtic Warrior
9 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2011 - 23:35)
The Peoples movement calls for its supperters to vote for and to help 4 independent councillors to be elected in Dublin, Sligo, Donygal and Galway. This is vital in order to ensure that a number of politicans are elected with principled policies on the EU and leaving the Euro currency and on taking the Icelandic approach to solving our banking debt. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / animal rights Thursday February 10, 2011 - 10:44 by Bernie Wright
3 comments (last - friday february 11, 2011 - 13:25) 1 image
A new development in hunting circles has the obviously hard- up North Galway hunt touting for business on the website DONEDEAL. Punters are invited to hunt, terrify and dismember foxes in Galway for the day and to celebrate St. Valentines day at a hunt ball with the hunters on Saturday night for 250euro a person. They will have about 75 people out hunting that day. All monies will go to the North Galway hunt. Please boycott the Westwood Hotel in Galway. Also please send your thoughts on wildlife abuse to both the hunt and the Hotel. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday February 09, 2011 - 19:40 by john throne
6 comments (last - tuesday february 15, 2011 - 15:33)
Large numbers in polls show opposition to the IMF/EU bail out. Yet the ULA while doing well is not able to come close to this level of support . Why is this? We try and raise some questions in this regard here. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Sunday February 06, 2011 - 16:39 by troisc
7 comments (last - tuesday february 08, 2011 - 11:52) 2 images
This is some confusion around about Fis Nua and New Vision. ... read full story / add a comment |
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