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RTE have given coverage to a housing demonstration in Galway this evening that aimed to highlight a common problem around the country which is the shortage of housing. The protest is demanding that the government start building public housing instead of relying on the private sector which are preying on people. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Sunday May 08, 2011 - 02:48 by FYI
The Galway Advertiser - a free paper - has undoubtedly the biggest readership in the county. Every week in its Grassroots column anonymous authors comment on the local political scene. This week a hard-hitting article has contrasted the Reagan visit to Galway with recent political developments. It is worth a read. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 31, 2010 - 15:30 by TD
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Instead of being "cannon fodder for the Russian masses on the German plains," Queen's shilling Irishmen can now engage in imperial conquest in Afghanistan. Happily, they are "not stepping off to Afghanistan with the words of the prime minister ringing in their ears.” Ovinely, “they are going because the guy next to them is going.” ... read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues Sunday July 18, 2010 - 14:31 by gníomhaí
If you're based in Galway come and get good local food from the veg garden in Woodlands, Renmore (beside Brothers of Charity and Gaelscoil Dara) ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 27, 2010 - 15:27 by Nora
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the increasing American war front across the world: from Afghanistan to Africa and Latin America. This is the Third World War in all but name, waged by the only aggressive "ism" that denies it is an ideology and threatened not by introverted tribesmen in faraway places but by the anti-war instincts of its own citizens. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / miscellaneous Friday November 06, 2009 - 18:30 by SpunOut.ie Youth Volunteer
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Vibrant rallies were held today in Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Tullamore and Waterford to protest against the treatment of workers and the vulnerable in Irish society. It is estimated that over 20,000 marched in Dublin, up to 15,000 marched in Cork and up to 5,000 or more in other cities and towns around Ireland. This is undoubtedly a powerful collective message to our government. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 17:30 by TD
In a powerful Counterpunch article, human rights activist, Caoimhe Butterly, working in Jabaliya and Gaza City as a volunteer with ambulance services and as co-coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement vividly describes the abattoir and war crime scene that is now Gaza: The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, chest cavities exposed, heads blown off, skulls crushed in. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 12, 2009 - 17:59 by TD
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Al Jazeera is reporting that: A resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in Gaza has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. The non-binding resolution said the assault, which has now entered its third week and killed more than 900 Palestinians, had "resulted in massive violations of human rights of the Palestinian people".Fewer states than expected supported Monday's resolution, which passed by 33 votes to one, with 13 abstentions.The UN rights body, meeting in Geneva, accused Israel of systematically destroying the Palestinian infrastructure and of targeting civilians as well as medical facilities. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 13, 2008 - 19:37 by Dunlo Tom
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In the scoop of the millenium, today's edition of the New York Times announced the sudden and totally unexpected reversal of the American war machine: "Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom were brought to an unceremonious close today with a quiet announcement by the Department of Defense that troops would be home within weeks". “This is the best face we can put on the most unfortunate adventure in modern American history,” Defense spokesman Kevin Sites said at a special joint session of Congress. “Today, we can finally enjoy peace — not the peace of the brave, perhaps, but at least peace.” ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 13:46 by TD
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Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 27, 2008 - 02:20 by anti-war activist
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This story seems to suggest a split between Amnesty and Galway Alliance Against War... ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 17:58 by TD
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John Pilger and the Democracy Now website are reporting that the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the 24 year old Palestinian journalist and photographer from Gaza, Mohammed Omer, was strip searched, beaten by 8 armed Shin Bet officials and hospitalized for a week after being detained at the Allenby Bridge crossing. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Friday May 30, 2008 - 08:33 by Seracle 1 attached file
Galway writer and poet, Maureen Gallagher, has been awarded first prize in the Wicklow Writers’ Poetry Competition 2008 for her poem 'December Rain', about clerical child abuse . Her winning poem can be read on wicklowwriters.blogspot.com . She also came second in the short story category. Maureen is a widely published poet and a regular reader at Crannog events in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 20, 2008 - 13:14 by TD
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In today's UK, Independent on Sunday, Donald Macintyre illuminates the routine brutality, thievery and knavery of the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, but, thanks to the lord bejaysus, some of them have conscience and regrets and speak out: "In a confessional interview with the Israeli Channel Two investigative programme Uvda, Gigi, who had previously been in many ways a model soldier, talked of "losing the human condition" in Hebron. Asked what he meant, he replied: "To lose the human condition is to become an animal" ... read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 12:28 by Sarah OWC
The finals of the Galway Fair-trade Committee’s JUST DESSERTS desert making competition attracted over Two Hundred and Fifty people to the Galway City Museum last Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 05, 2007 - 13:58 by TD
Tariq Ali in his Counterpunch article illumines the provenance of Pakistan's latest coup and , surprise, surprise, the US is the Svengali in the parlour: "The two institutions targeted by the Emergency are the judiciary and the lively network of independent TV stations, many of whose correspondents supply information that can never be gleaned from politicians. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism Saturday October 27, 2007 - 16:00 by Mick
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In today's Guardian, John Pilger flagellates the hypocrisy of the West when it comes to Burma : Condoleezza Rice comes to mind. "The United States," she said, "is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place in Burma." What she is less keen to keep a focus on is that the huge American company, Chevron, on whose board of directors she sat, is part of a consortium with the junta and the French company, Total, that operates in Burma's offshore oilfields. The gas from these fields is exported through a pipeline that was built with forced labour and whose construction involved Halliburton, of which Vice-President Cheney was chief executive". ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:39 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge 'New Writer of The Year' - winning story published ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 09, 2007 - 12:43 by Pulchra Dooley
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In a Counterpunch article, Alexander Cockburn probes the liklihood of a US attack on Iran and yup, looks like, its on? : ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 13, 2007 - 12:02 by TD
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The highest ranking UN official in Israel, Alvaro de Soto, has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report . ... read full story / add a comment |
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