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national / housing / event notice Friday March 08, 2019 - 23:27 by nh
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Join the protest this Saturday at 2pm in Dublin. We can end the housing crisis - let's get feet on the street. Join us tomorrow #March9th at 3 locations for the Dublin Housing & Homeless Demonstrations. Meeting Points[[/bold]]: The Housing Agency, 53 Mount Street Upper, D2 The GPO/Spire, Dublin 1 City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2 ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 06, 2019 - 09:11 by Laurence Cox
Book talk, QUB Old Staff Common Room Part of the Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Tuesday March 05, 2019 - 17:49 by Justin Morahan
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Lay Litigant Kevin Tracey had a significant win in the Supreme Court when he succeeded in having a contempt of court order quashed after 12 years and 9 months. In the judgement delivered by O;Donnell J and supported by 3 colleagues including the Chief Justice it was found that he had not received fair procedures in the District Court. In his long struggle for justice there were many obstacles in his way. One of these was the Courts Service within whose walls someone backdated a Court order by nine months. This prevented him from appealing a High Court judgement within the permitted time limit. The long struggle for justice reminds me of the remark of a passing countryman to a mason called Mike who with my student brother was taking longer than expected to build build a hen shed: “Do you know, Mike, if every hen was as hard housed, a lot of them would shleep out”.
It’s not funny to recall in these days of homelessness, that many other lay litigants may be left literally sleeping out after the justice system in Ireland prolongs their agony in their efforts to obtain simple justice from that same justice system. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday March 04, 2019 - 21:52 by foie
FOREST BIOMASS CHALLENGE TO CO-FIRED PEAT PLANTS The inclusion of forest biomass as a renewable fuel fatally undermines the goals of the new European Renewable Energy Directive [RED II], according to Plaintiffs from six different countries in an action filed today in the European General Court in Luxembourg. Each has suffered, in diverse and particular ways, from the consequences of the Directive’s biomass energy policy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 28, 2019 - 23:04 by Julia Reda MP
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THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO OVERTURN THE EU COPYRIGHT REFORM In September 2018, MEPs voted for a version of the copyright Directive which will indirectly lead to implementing upload filters on most of the services you use online. The European Parliament’s (EP) Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee Rapporteur, MEP Axel Voss, then started the ‘trilogue negotiations’ – closed-door ‘informal’ negations with the representatives of the EU Member States (Council) and the European Commission (EC). These negotiations resulted in a trilogue agreement in Mid-February 2019. Despite massive criticism, the text has been made even worse than the EP’s proposal. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing / press release Thursday February 28, 2019 - 22:36 by Focus
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Focus Ireland has said that new figures reporting a total of 9,987 people homeless in January show the Government is still failing to do enough to ease the crisis. The figures show a rise of 2.3% (234 people) in one month alone from 9,753 in Dec to 9,987 in Jan 2019. The figures from the Department of the Environment also show that 3,624 of the number homeless are children (in 1,614 families) ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 27, 2019 - 23:55 by sw
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The context to this letter by Edward Hogan is to highlight the complicity of the Irish government in assisting the US who are directly involved in the murder and terrorizing of the Yemeni population through the provision of bombs, missiles, drones, training. The media have managed to more or less turn a blind eye to this year since it started in 2015. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 26, 2019 - 12:53 by séamas carraher
“…the best way to solve homelessness in Dublin would be to provide no beds.” Owen Keegan, Dublin City Council’s Chief Executive ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday February 22, 2019 - 21:11 by pana
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The Venezuela Ireland Network is holding a demonstration outside the US Embassy on Saturday 23 February at 1.00pm and PANA is giving it their full support and asking you to attend. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 22, 2019 - 20:44 by IPSC
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IAW is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people and build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. It now takes place in over 200 cities across the world, where events such as lectures, film screenings, direct action, cultural performances, postering, among many more help in grassroots organizing for effective solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / event notice Wednesday February 20, 2019 - 22:20 by FridaysForFuture
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In 2015, our governments committed in Paris to protecting our future by providing a safe pathway well below 2C with Social and Climate Justice.. Three years have passed, and our future looks bleaker than ever! The greedy guess that 3C warming is ok. Climate scientists have evidence that even 2C will cause massive starvation, drought, fire tornados, floods, wars and death. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 20, 2019 - 00:36 by wsm
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In the aftermath of the huge march (Sat 9th Feb 2019) in support of the nurses on Saturday the government suddenly found a pay deal it could put on the table, leading to the INMO suspending the strike until that deal is discussed and voted on. ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / news report Tuesday February 19, 2019 - 23:07 by RB
Ireland is going to be one of the first countries to have 5g rolled out. This an extremly important issue that every person needs to know about. Authorities are making health decisions for mass populations without telling us. My aim of this campaign is to raise money in order to get the word out about the issues that come with a 5g rollout. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Tuesday February 19, 2019 - 22:14 by sf-lng
The challenge by Irish environmentalists has proven that the 'New Fortress Energy' Shannon LNG consent process will take years and may now never come to fruition. 'Safety Before LNG' stated that today's decision was to be expected and does not come as any surprise and thanks the 'Friends of the Irish Environment' for fighting to prevent climate chaos from the environmental madness that is the US fracked gas industry. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday February 14, 2019 - 20:57 by W
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The Workers’ Party have accused Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney of prioritising Donald Trump’s foreign policy ahead of Irish neutrality. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, the Workers’ Party candidate in May’s European Parliament elections, said: “Simon Coveney has, for the first time in our history, given formal backing to United States overseas aggression. Successive governments under Fianna Fáil, Labour and the Green Party have facilitated US overseas aggression by allowing the use of Shannon Airport, but this move marks a new departure, leaving behind even the facade of neutrality. “It flies in the face of the values of anti-colonialism and sovereignty which Irish people are so rightly proud of.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 12, 2019 - 22:10 by Gemma rays
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Investigative Journalist and ex presidential candidate Gemma O'Doherty has become the subject of a campaign of google censorship like many others recently who dissent from the status quo. Gemma, however did not take this lying down. She took it straight to google HQ Support Gemma in her fight against google censorship. And support independent non corporate media platforms where this control cannot so easily be exercised over free speech! ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Tuesday February 05, 2019 - 21:30 by pbp
Housing Agency “talking nonsense about affordable housing” – private developers completely incapable of providing real affordability. People Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, says “only way to deliver affordable housing is for state to build on public land.” ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday February 01, 2019 - 22:49 by wp
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We firmly condemn the escalation of interference and blackmail by the European Union against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, aligned and concerted with the coup operation of «self-proclamation» of a puppet president, orchestrated and commanded by the Trump Administration who, in an arrogant violation of International Law, seeks to overthrow the legitimate President, Nicolás Maduro, elected by popular vote, and subvert the Venezuelan constitutional order. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday January 31, 2019 - 22:31 by 1 of indy
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#FridaysForFuture is hashtag for the global “FridaysForFuture” Climate Strike started by Greta Thunberg last year and is aimed at trying to get people and government to act to do something in the face of the impending climate disaster bearing down on us all. It is ironic that when it comes to climate change we are willing to risk of 1 in 2 chance off disaster, but ask anyone to step on a plane with a one in a thousand chance of crashing and you will get absolutely no takers. In recent days Lorna Gold who wrote the book: Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children's Future appeared on the Ryan Turbidity radio show to bring attention to the protests happening every Friday in Dublin outside Leinster House ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 30, 2019 - 22:23 by 1 of indy
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Rightwing "President" Bolsonaro who was appointed president of Brazil by arranging for a stich-up of former president Lula da Silva and getting him sent to jail but for whom polls show he would have won the election, rose to power on a rethoric of fighting corruption.It was clear all along that this concern as well as himself was bogus. However he was backed by the Western media at all stages and looked on lovingly from Washington. It been cleared all along he was their man. Now thankfully it looks like this could all unravel, because he and his family have been embroiled in a huge scandal in Brazil involving money laundering, corruption and murder through his connections to right wing mafia type dead squads composed of former police and military officials. During his fake campaign he rallied endlessly against a particular law in Brazil allowing federal officials immunity from prosecution and investigation and has now eaten his own hat as it were by invoking the use of the very same law to protect himself. ... read full story / add a comment |
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