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dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday April 03, 2008 11:39 by Bernie Wright
 21 comments (last - friday october 10, 2008 19:25)
Statement regarding Dublin Zoo Orangutan escape. The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is saddened by hearing of the Oranutan Maggie's bid to find freedom yesterday even to the point of leaving her baby ' The understandably frustrated animal has been confined in an enclosure for 24 years, more than the length of a sentence that would be imposed on a human for the crime of murder. Zoos are but Prisons to non human animals, yet they have not committed any crime. Those in captivity are driven insane, deprived of a natural life and are basically kept imprisoned for life so that our species can amuse themselves. read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 01, 2008 12:21 by C Murray
20 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 22:31)  5 images
It's amazing that an active politician, albeit of the right, has found himself in the privileged position of both funding and financing a hate crime movie. The man know the laws of his country and is an elected official thus we can all presume that the only reason that he made it was for ego-indulgence. Lots of politicos do that- its called abuse of office. How far we have come from being privileged to study the word and poetry of Islam? Sufism provided many international writers with an area of study and cross-cultural pollination that has benefited Western art and literature in the poetry of Hughes and the writing of Lessing , to name two. Westergaard got an injunction to have his image removed- it was opposed to fanaticism, not Islam. http://www.nrc.nl/international/article1032015.ece/Wild...ction http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7310439.stm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 01, 2008 10:30 by Jim
Last weeks visit by Sarkozy signals the end of France's rebellion against NATO and the US/UK Anglo-Saxon sphere. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday March 31, 2008 19:06 by Anne McShane
11 comments (last - sunday may 18, 2008 19:15)
A major and imminent threat to women’s rights looms in the amendments being put forward to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. ‘Pro-life’ MPs aim to reduce the time limit for abortion from 24 weeks to as little as 13 weeks. Although the Labour Party formally defends the current time limits, Gordon Brown like his predecessors will allow a free vote, so as to appease the significant and vocal anti-abortion section within the cabinet. From reports, it seems likely that there will be some reduction, probably to 20 weeks, given the current balance of forces, as there is strong support for such a move among Tory, Liberal Democrat and Labour MPs alike - all of whom will have a free vote. David Cameron has taken the lead by announcing that he will be using his vote to lower the limit. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday March 31, 2008 00:41 by Internationalist Group
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On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now! read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday March 30, 2008 13:07 by Mark C
3 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2011 13:17)
Below is a letter that I recently sent to about 120 newspapers. A small number have got back to me to say they are featurising the story. Others are publishing it as a letter. The Sunday Business Post got in contact to see if it was sent to anyone else (I haven't heard from them since I said it was; my personal thought it that if it's not their scoop, they're not interested). It has also been sent to Tesco (without a reply, yet!). Feel free to copy/distribute/send to Tesco. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday March 29, 2008 13:58 by Obit
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Maureen Kenny Has died, a true lover of education and books, many will have a memory of the Labyrinthe bookshop, the smell of the books and the friendly family who ran it. You could find yourself tripping into Mr Kenny's office and getting a lecture on dropping out of college, work; and where the bestest poetry books were kept. Many of us miss the old shop with the low ceilings and the carpetted stairs and Maureen always had a smile- did not matter if you were the Laureate or a small writer, everyone was united by love of knowledge and books. read full story / add a comment
donegal / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday March 29, 2008 02:59 by Patricia McCafferty
2 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 02:20)
Bundoran has the most scenic views of the Donegal Bay, Dartry Mountains of Leitrim and a coastline accessible to everyone. We preserved our old historical buildings and respected our community atmosphere. In the last twelve years Bundoran Town Council has allowed Planning Corruption erode the very HEART of Bundoran and now the greedy developers and certain Corrupt Councillors want to destroy our Foreshore not or enhancement but to built apartment blocks on the most beautiful coastline in Ireland. In the last twelve years the population of Bundoran has decreased now these greedy developers want to destroy Bundorans Sealife. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday March 27, 2008 12:04 by Dr. Spock
2 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 22:27)
When I first heard about this march a couple of weeks ago I began thinking about what people hoped to achieve. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 27, 2008 12:04 by paul o toole
6 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 19:36)
Well done to TG4 for breaking Media Silence read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 26, 2008 20:06 by José Antonio Gutiérrez
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This is a brief article on our position as Latin American Solidarity Centre regarding the "free trade" agreements of the EU with Asia, Africa and Latin America, disguised as Economic Partnership Agreements and Association Agreements. On the series of events organised for Latin America Week (April 7th-12th) we will bring some speakers from Italy, Holland, Colombia and Ecuador who will speak on the impact of such agreements over basic services such as water. To find more information on Latin America Week, you can go to our website www.lasc.ie or contact us directly. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 22:51 by Chekov Feeney
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Last year, the EU Constitution was defeated in referendums in France and the Netherlands. Europe’s governments quickly got together and rewrote the constitution as an incredibly complicated list of amendments to existing treaties. Together these amendments make up the “Treaty of Lisbon.” Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the president of the Convention on the Future of Europe which did much of the ground work in drafting the constitution, has concluded that “the difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content”. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 12:57 by P O'Brien
19 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 08:18)
The old adage ‘You can fool some people some times, but you can’t fool all the people all the time’ comes to mind when summing up Provisional Sinn Fein’s ‘grass roots’. At what point will they stop being fooled and maybe step back and question the honesty and integrity of their party leader Gerry Adams ? Having once been a supporter and admirer of Adams I now find it difficult to listen to him. He was interviewed by Ursula Halligan on TV3’s The Political Party on Sunday, March 2nd . I have not read any comments regarding this interview on any of the usual sites where this might be debated or discussed. The first part of the interview was taken up with how Sinn Fein got it so wrong in the 26 counties Elections and what direction they where now taking etc etc. Ursula then went on to ask Adams………… read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 10:21 by Jim
3 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 20:42)
Two intellectually lazy revisionist views have gained ground in the popular Irish historical mythology in relation to the Easter Rising. 1) That the Easter Rising was a a deliberate romantic blood sacrifice by rebels who knew in advance that they would fail. 2) That the Easter Rising was a terrorist act. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 24, 2008 16:29 by Ed W
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Right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia killed four more civilians this month. If the western media had done its job during the recent border confrontation between the government of Alvaro Uribe and its neighbours, the death squads might have thought twice before adding to their bloody hit-list read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 23, 2008 18:04 by Kevin T. Walsh
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As you read the posting below, I would suggest you check Inydymedia coverage on two topics: Brain Injury writtten Michelle Clarke and the posting of Mr. Justice Barr's Report and the shooting dead of John Carthy...... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 23, 2008 12:58 by Irish Basque Committees
1916 Dublin. Irish republicans rise up in arms against the British Empire and proclaim the Irish Republic. Young Basque nationalists send telegrams to congratulate the brave rebels. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 19:07 by Cael
26 comments (last - monday april 14, 2008 22:11)
In Athens, election of officials was not practiced because it was thought to favor the wealthy and powerful. Giving decision-making power to elected officials was thought to take away the power of the people and effectively make the state an oligarchy, that is government by an elite group read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 15:23 by Cael
20 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 22:48)
It seems to me that we have well and truly returned to the days of Michael Davitt and the Land League. Where huge numbers of people are being bled dry by a small group of Landlords. And what do these latterday Landlords do with their ill gotten gains? Like the Landlords of old, they take the money out of the country. The Landlord class in Ireland have bought overseas land and buildings to the sum of 1.2 trillion euro - that right 1200 billion euro. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 15:01 by Cael
1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 20:08)
ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. read full story / add a comment |
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