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When I was young I remember my father and mother discussing someone in fairly heated terms. The epithet used to some up the discussion was that this person (I do not remember who it was) was a "dog in the manger." I was all ears and later I got my mother to explain to me what a "dog in the manger" meant. "The dog cannot eat the hay," my mother elaborated, "But he won't let the horse eat it." ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 04, 2011 - 01:01 by Ronoc
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I have watched the recent BBC3 documentary about Cannabis consumption in the UK. There's interviews with people who say they are addicted and then people who are not, and in the latest episode, it was about drug smuggling and illegal immigrants who work in the house where the weed is grown. The customs manage to stop alot of weed getting into the UK but its only a fraction, and the money involved is quite alot. Its shows all the negative sides of the illegal trade and trys to make smokers feel guilty. But I wonder if it was legal how much money could be made from this crop and how much crime would be cut... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday January 31, 2011 - 23:52 by Luke Eastwood
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Our society is changing for the worse and it is no accident... here's why ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2011 - 21:54 by Fathi Tobail
The continues and rapid developments in Egypt requires a through analysis and objective understanding of this situation away from hasty judgments and emotional feelings that an ordinary Arab man who is fed up with regimes that did not fulfill his aspirations for a better life. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday January 29, 2011 - 16:39 by ordinary citizen
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Our political system is shifting towards being more in line with the common decency of our humanity. The possible coalitions formed after the election ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 27, 2011 - 21:23 by jp
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A short song about what the IMF is all about. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday January 26, 2011 - 21:07 by former Green voter
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Gerry Adams made a big contribution to politics with his statement on the EU and IMF and has shown the way out of the mess that the political establishment and their EU and IMF overlords have saddled the Irish People with for the next 20 to 50 years. As well as defaulting we need to free ourselves from the IMF shackles and to leave the EU as soon as we can. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 25, 2011 - 18:59 by Paddy Hackett
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Given that without modern symbolic logic, a product of analytical philosophy, there would have been no computer technology in existence today we see the significance of analytical philosophy. The same cannot be said for the non-analytical continental philosophy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 22, 2011 - 22:09 by Richard Irvine
Ex-British Prime Minister and peace envoy Tony Blair uses the Iraq War Inquiry to beat the drums for more war in the Middle East. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Friday January 21, 2011 - 11:13 by Bernie Wright
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The WARD UNION stag hunt is now banned. Mounted Fox hunting , hare hunting, beagling and the shooting of many of our native birds and wildlife continues to be legal. To enable us to monitor these activities we need more ordinary people living especially in County Meath and County Dublin to photograph hunters on public roads. This is perfectly legal and enables us to know the extent of hunting that is now taking place. We also require information on the whereabouts of any Red deer seen in the fields. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 19, 2011 - 15:50 by AIMS Ireland
One midwife, one woman, one birth Childbirth groups and midwives’ associations across the country are united in their opposition to Sections 24 and 40 of this Bill. Deputy Caoimhghin O Caolain's amendments to these Sections are our amendments: they must be supported. Other amendments that have been proposed are a distraction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday January 18, 2011 - 14:10 by All Power Corrupts
The analysis contained in the UK suppressed article 'The View From The Grassy Knoll' contains analysis that deserves to be read and considered, not censored. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 17, 2011 - 13:27 by Paddy Healy
Accepting the second and third level implementation means agreeing to the Croke Park Deal as a whole. These proposed implementations are now available on TUI website. I will circulate a detailed analysis shortly. But firstly, I deal with the consequences of agreeing to the Deal as a whole below. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 15, 2011 - 18:43 by Rebels YELL
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A few years ago a debate in New York brought together some of the world's leading journalists including John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass, for a debate called 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'.John Pilger's address was, 'War by Media' something a lot of people at the receiving end of British brutality, here in Occupied Ireland, have come to be very aware of over the course of the last forty year phase, of Britain's war on Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Thursday January 13, 2011 - 16:33 by Rebels YELL
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For traditional Irish republican socialists there are certain realities and difficult choices facing us in the very near future. With the reality of the EU being with us for the foreseeable future and an impending general election in the southern scum state, there are some very difficult choices to be made by committed activists. We can continue with our old policy of boycotting elections, which frankly if we are honest with ourselves, has not been progressive. One of the options that will have to be considered, with a major shift in the re-alignment of political forces, probable after the next election, is tactical voting or voting for the lesser of the evils, who are genuine contenders to be part of Government after the next election. Obviously the two right wing parties of failed Fianna Fail and fascist blue shirt Fine Gael are not an option for any socialist republican, which leaves lackey Labour and provisional Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 11, 2011 - 21:36 by Rebels Yell
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The British secret service MI5 has displayed nothing but contempt for democracy in Ireland, indeed its own agents are on record as describing it as Nazi like body, particularly when it comes to the Irish people throughout its history. During all its years in Ireland its agenda has involved, wholesale slaughter of Irish citizens, in directing and co-ordinating the Dublin and Monaghan no warning car bombs, that murdered 33 people.Aside from co-ordinating several such bombings against innocent Irish people, it was identifying, targeting and killing Irish people they considered a threat or challenge to their control over all of Ireland, north and south. MI5still continues to this day to frame innocent Irish people all over the island, into lengthy prison sentences, among them the innocent brother-in-law of dead hunger striker Bobby Sands for twenty years, simply on the basis of vindictiveness and his ties to the Sands family. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday January 10, 2011 - 19:47 by Rebels YELL
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Slavery was abolished in the West after Roger Casement an Irish republican of good dissident stock, kicked up about it. Generally it only continues in third world places such as Africa, South-east Asia and parts of the middle-east. However bonded Labour which is reality another form of slavery, is more common than you think and has been re-introduce into Ireland, which has un-officially become a third world country again. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday January 10, 2011 - 16:23 by V for vendetta
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An emerging guitar talent who might go all the way. Here he plays an old tune from Eurythmics in his unique style that has impressed many famous guitarists and gained him a following on youtube in a short time. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Saturday January 08, 2011 - 17:15 by Tracy Donegan
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As the baby boom continues in the Irish maternity hospitals are literally bursting at the seams. With more Mums labouring in corridors on trolleys is there anything you can do to stack the odds in your favour of having a healthy baby and a positive birth? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 07, 2011 - 22:48 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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On New Year's Day 1991, I was arrested with Moana Cole, Sue Frankel and Bill Streit, "the ANZUS Plowshares" on Griffiss Air Force Base, upstate New York. We had closed the runway and disabled a scramble alert B52 Bomber putting it out of action for the length of the Gulf War. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98569 On January 15th., the war commenced at 7 pm with B52 Bombers dleivering air launched cruise missiles at high priority targets. The attack was timed for prime time televion. Bill and I were in a county jail in Catskill, Moana and Sue were in a county jail in Syracuse. ... read full story / add a comment |
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