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mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 09:16 by Kevin 9 attached files
The tunnel boring machine(TBM) planned to tunnel under Sruwadducon Bay has been named ‘Fionnuala’
after one of the children of Lir. In the story the 4 children of Lir are turned into swans for 900 years by their jealous step-mother.
They spend their last 300 years in the seas off North Mayo. ‘Fionnuala the TBM’ is 140 m long and weighs almost 500 tonnes.
It is painted with the Mayo colours and is to be transported to Erris for early next summer.
Shell plan to bore a 4.5 m diameter 4.9 km tunnel up Sruwadducon bay.
This is Shell’s gift to Sruwadducon - ‘bod nimhneach an ghaill dhaill’ (the poisonous penis of the bitter and the blind ). read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 18, 2011 04:58 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Eamonn McCann was born in Derry on the small island of Ireland. He was one of the organizers of the Civil Rights Association (NICRA) at the start of the present troubles. McCann's politics are based on class analysis. He personally participated in many of the critical events in Ireland including the Battle of the Bogside in 1969 and Bloody Sunday in 1972. He writes for the Belfast Telegraph and the Derry Journal, and Hot Press magazine. He is a regular political commentator on the BBC, RTÉ and other broadcast media. He is also Trotskyist and a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party in Ireland. He is Chairperson of his branch of the National Union of Journalists and Vice-Chairperosn of Derry Trades Council. Being a Trotskyist, i'm sure he won't mind a citizen journalist 'lifting' his following article from the Derry Journal. McCann has been a key part of the solidarity between the Irish civil rights movement and the Black civil rights movement in the U.S. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday December 17, 2011 01:14 by Jolly Red Giant
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Today, at Kazakhstan’s independence day, more than 3000 people assembled peacefully in Zhanaozen, to promote the demands of the oil workers who have been on strike since May. Police and special forces attacked the meeting and opened fire on the strikers and their families. By around 10 a.m., London time, 50 had already been killed, with at least 500 more wounded. read full story / add a comment
leitrim / housing / opinion/analysis Friday December 16, 2011 23:03 by John O'Neill
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There are over 600 ghost estates in Ireland. This equates to nearly 20.000 properties which are incomplete or empty. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Thursday December 15, 2011 10:09 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
6 comments (last - sunday december 25, 2011 23:42)
I fully support Independent TD Thomas Pringle's call on people to support a campaign not to pay this hideous Household Charge (Poll Tax!!!). Mr Pringle says he will not register for the tax, nor will he pay it. Well done Thomas Pringle :-) At last we have we have some principled TDs in An Dáil Éireann who are prepared to suffer personally for their beliefs they know are in Our Country's And People's best interests. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 13, 2011 21:37 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
As an Activist Campaigning And Protesting Against Injustice Everywhere I'm thrilled to find myself joined by people all over the country and the world in a new movement--the Occupy Movement -- with a common message that we must focus our resources on jobs, health care, education and other vital human needs rather than war and corporate greed. read full story / add a comment
kildare / education / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 13, 2011 20:19 by skippy
Offered a place on a postgrad course unable to continue due to budget 2012. no job no hope and no independant money to do the masters. Also I have family dependants, so it really feels like a sentence in regards to my future or rather the undermining of career to be financially independent, alas its not going to happen. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 13, 2011 01:09 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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The Spectacle of Hope of Hope and Defiance on December 10th was visually and audibly wonderful but the exclusion of political parties was ultimately in the interests only of the social democrats, who sponsored the event. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday December 11, 2011 23:51 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
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If the Blueshists try to deny Us Our Right to vote on the Direct Attack on Our Sovereignty in that EU Budget 'Deal' we should engage in Mass Civil Disobedience till we bring them to heel and force them to listen to us! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday December 11, 2011 23:02 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
It's outrageous. The average tax break from the Bush tax cuts enjoyed by the top 1 percent of Americans is larger than the average income of the rest of the 99 percent. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday December 10, 2011 16:40 by john throne
2 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 00:11)
Is is justifiable to be a member of the catholic church with its history of child abuse cover up, anti women ideology, pro capitalist policies? All those who supported McQuaid and opposed the mother and child scheme have to condemned. They slunk away before the catholic church with their tails between their legs. They "proved" that Paisley and his ilk were correct that the South was a catholic state. they have blood on their hands. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2011 00:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalaígh
A Chara,
Our 'leaders' are trying to wave through a terrifying Merkel/Sarkozy plan that would abolish our right to choose sane economic policies and that would permanently ban vital public spending - all to appease big banks. But we live in a democracy and we should have the right to vote on any permanent changes to how Europe operates, and together, we can stop our leaders trashing our democracy and our jobs. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2011 03:42 by Nestor Makhno
Remember, remember, the second of November -- and all the many things we can improve on next time around... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 05, 2011 19:46 by Wannabe Postgrad
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The piece below describes how Budget 2012 has hit me. I hope that you will share your own reactions to the budget and how it will impact upon you. Let's hear the human stories behind the headlines read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 03, 2011 16:54 by uji
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Marxists have been predicting the disintegration of capitalism for so long that most people - including most Marxists - stopped believing it would ever happen. But today anyone who reads the financial press knows that the system is in an unprecedented crisis with no clear way out. The following articles offer a variety of ways of understanding the crisis so we can begin to create a world beyond capitalism: read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2011 16:39 by MPG
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Its hard to keep up with all the devious moves going on in the great game. Here's a roundup, some links and some analysis for anyone interested. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2011 04:52 by Reinarto Hadipriono
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In the evolutionary journey of a living creature, a condition or a movement that occurs continuously from generation to generation, e.g. as when it “moves forward”, will have an impact on the shape of its body read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 30, 2011 13:53 by pat c
10 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2011 16:03)
1. Wars have been the most terrifying phenomena people have confronted since the istant past. In our society, millions of Iranians have been living under the ominous shadow of the eight-year war with Iraq. The reminiscences of air raid sirens, damp shelters, overnight power cuts, nameless bodies, severed limbs, mothers who lost their children, children who lost their fathers, famine and hunger, homeless refugees and dozens of other frightening pictures at the back or forefront of our minds, vividly or vaguely, whether like a nightmare or a constant fear, is weighing down on everyone of us.
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Monday November 28, 2011 14:19 by Declan Cullen
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Listen folks, do your homework. Goldman Sachs has taken over Ireland and the Irish Government. Research the people they have put in place around the EU to manage the takeover of other countries. Peter Sutherland ...........
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday November 25, 2011 22:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D. & David Landy
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Cartoons have become explosive, underlining deep political fault lines in the new world order and more often than not, concealing bigotry and diverting debate from racism and imperialism to the much abused concept of “freedom of expression”. The latest episode was started by a cartoon published in Ha’aretz in which the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defence Ehud Barak, say farewell to troops on the way to bomb Iran, while asking them to bomb the UNESCO offices in Ramallah on the way back. read full story / add a comment |
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