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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday October 11, 2010 - 13:56 by Kev
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today welcomed the government’s refusal to grant Israel Military Industries the contract to supply 10 million bullets to the Irish Defence Forces. The contract for the 5.56 x 45mm rounds, to be bought over a five-year period, has instead gone to Belgian and Brazilian arms manufacturers. Over the past seven months the IPSC had been running a campaign (http://www.ipsc.ie/bullets) against the granting of the contract to any Israeli company, which saw the organisation and its supporters lobbied the government, undertook a letter writing campaign and protested outside the Defence Minister Tony Killeen’s constituency office in Co. Clare - see: http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRe...D=336 ... read full story / add a comment
tipperary / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday September 28, 2010 - 18:18 by Cllr Seamus Healy
Cllr. Seamus Healy, Chairperson Save Our Acute Hospital Services Committee, has called on Minister Martin Mansergh T.D. to publicly support South Tipperary General Hospital and to publicly call on the Minister for Health and the Health Service Executive to stop the so-called reconfiguration process. Minister Mansergah’s Fianna Fáil colleague, Wexford Minister Sean Connick T.D. has already publicly called, on Monday’s Morning Ireland programme, for the reconfiguration of Wexford General Hospital to be parked. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday September 14, 2010 - 17:34 by Cancer Campaigner
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Brian Cowen is visiting Sligo on Friday next the 17th to attend a Chamber dinner. A vigil is being organised to meet him and to demonstarte against the continued attack on our health services and health workers. If you are nearby come and join us for an hour of silent dignified protest. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday September 03, 2010 - 23:19 by Fís Nua
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Ireland's newest, and only federated political party, Fís Nua (New Vision), is to hold its inaugural convention and first public meeting on September 11th in the Teacher's Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin, starting a 12 noon for the convention and open to the public from 3 p.m. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 - 00:55 by Charlie Williams
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We're pleased to inform you that a new political party in Ireland is on its way. Fís Nua or New Vision. We see ourselves as a federation of socialy and ecologicaly engaged persons and groups/organisations that want to enter the parliaments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday July 25, 2010 - 15:56 by Akai
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In response to the article entitled "Polish Anarchist Linked to Corrib Gas Pipeline Protest", published in the Irish newspaper the Independent, we state that the information contained in the article is false. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Friday July 23, 2010 - 03:52 by Eam
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Pipeline Explosion in Dalian China, 165 sq miles stretch of the Yellow Sea, off the Northeastern city. This oil was refined so it FLOATS on top, Not like the BP oil spill in the Gulf, IT was not refined so most of the oil stays under under the water. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday July 22, 2010 - 12:29 by Cleo de Vito
A unique opportunity is presented by visiting specialist & co-editor of The Automatic Earth – Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh - to discuss Community Solutions to the Global Crises. This inaugural event of the Mayo Sustainability Forum will take place on Monday 2nd August with keynote speaker, Nicole Foss, presenting her talk ‘Making Sense of the Global Financial Crises in the Era of Peak Oil’ - to date this is her only engagement in the West of Ireland. The venue will be the Linenhall Theatre in Castlebar, & will begin at 7pm. Admission is free. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday June 13, 2010 - 18:40 by Enid
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Campaigners for St Luke's Cancer Hospital in Rathgar thought that the decision not to make it the southside Centre of Excellence in 2005 which meant closure and a move to St James Hospital had been indefinitely suspended due to the local and national opposition. But no, Minister Harney who always knows best ,has a Bill before the Dail at the moment with the innocent title Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 which will dissolve the board of St Luke's and transfer the valuable 18 acre site and the other assets to the dysfunctional HSE who might well sell the land at a bargain price to balance their books. Anyone who cares about this great hospital needs to get onto TDs immediately especially John Gormley and Chris Andrews. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday June 06, 2010 - 19:21 by Freda & Kev
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will be hosting a press conference at 3pm tomorrow, Monday 7th June, in the Central Hotel with the five Irish prisoners from the MV Rachel Corrie. The Rachel Corrie was hijacked at sea yesterday by Israeli forces, and all her passengers are due to be deported from Israel tomorrow morning, and the Irish deportees are due to arrive in Dublin airport at 11.20am tomorrow morning. There will be a welcoming committee to meet them and press conference to follow at 3pm in The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2. Also today, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign issued a statement refuting various Israeli accusations and propaganda talking points that have been circulating over the past two days. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday June 06, 2010 - 14:53 by Freda H
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The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign has just recieved word that the five Irish prisoners from the MV Rachel Corrie, which was hijacked yesterday by Israeli forces, are due to arrive in Dublin airport at 11.20am tomorrow morning. There will be a welcoming committee to meet them and press conference to follow at 3pm in The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dulin 2. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 - 14:33 by Sarah C
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SpunOut.ie a national web based youth organisation, is going to run a pilot project youth activist training programme this summer. The organisation has long held the view that younger people are often treated like 'people in waiting' rather that citizens with a right to partcipate in Irish Society. We hope that through efforts, such as this course and some other longer term projects that we are brewing up here in SpunOut.ie that we can help to facilitate younger people to get active about changing the things that bother them .We think this is really urgent at the moment due to the levels of youth unemployment and disengagement from the political or civic sphere here. We are seeking your input and suggestions for the content of our short courses. We seek input from activists young old or inbetween- details below for how you can share your ideas with us. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday May 26, 2010 - 16:36 by PRO WSM
Kicking off on Friday night with a launch party for new magazine ‘Irish Anarchist Review’ in Seomra Spraoi, Dublin’s autonomous social centre (http://www.seomraspraoi.org:8080/Plone) and finishing on Sunday with a Radical Walking Tour of Dublin, this weekend’s Dublin Anarchist Bookfair will have something for every radical with discussions and debates on a huge variety of topics likely to appeal to every radical – from those with a worked out view of how society can be improved to those who have a niggling feeling that capitalism just isn’t working and that there must be a better way of ordering society. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday May 25, 2010 - 16:17 by Malachy Steenson
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Thanasis Vlontzos, one of those most centrally involved in organising the huge protests against EU and IMF enforced austerity measures in Greece will attend a Press Conference in Dublin this Thursday (27 May) organised by the Workers Party. Mr. Vlontzos is in Ireland where he will be guest of honour at the Workers’ Party Ard Fheis which is being held in the Marriot Hotel, Ashbourne on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 24, 2010 - 10:34 by Derek Leinster
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A Dublin Cemetery has been discovered as the gravesite of forgotten children from the Bethany Home Dublin. Bethany Home was associated with the Church of Ireland and Church of Ireland missionary society, the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics. It operated in Blackhall Place, Dublin, from 1921-34 and in Orwell Road, Rathgar, until it closed in 1972. The Bethany Home was a combined maternity home, children’s home and place of detention for women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide and birth concealment. The home and the religious ethos that sustained and ran it was part of what James Smith of Boston College in his book, ‘Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment’ (2007), termed an Irish ‘containment culture’ that focused on single women and effectively criminalised childbirth out of wedlock. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Saturday May 22, 2010 - 09:07 by Velorution
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Today, a 50-strong international bike ride begins the 400 mile journey from a community resisting Britain’s largest open cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to County Mayo, Ireland, where local people have spent the last ten years fighting a Shell-led gas development. We aim to offer direct support to these two local campaigns resisting the fossil fuel industry. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 08, 2010 - 22:00 by Shell to Sea
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A Shell to Sea protest took place this afternoon at the 'North-West Development Forum', held in Belmullet Co Mayo. While previous protests have highlighted that the narrow terms of reference of the forum exclude real debate on the Corrib Gas Project, today’s message was one of solidarity with imprisoned campaigners Pat O’Donnell and Niall Harnett. This was the first such forum since An Bord Pleanála deemed that over half of Shell’s proposed Corrib Gas Pipeline was unacceptable on health and safety grounds in February. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 06, 2010 - 20:58 by IPSC
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To commemorate the 62nd Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic for 'catastrophe') - which saw the forcible explusion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes to faciliate the creation of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948 - the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign(IPSC) will be hosting a series of Nakba Week events from 8th - 15th May 2010. The events include protests, a pamphlet launch, a day of discussion, film and skill-sharing and and a social evening with food and music. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 29, 2010 - 11:54 by Fintan Lane
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 12:37 by Amnesty1
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Amnesty International has warned of a ‘potential nightmare scenario’ in eastern Chad. Almost 500,000 people are at serious risk if the number of UN peacekeepers is reduced and they are no longer able to protect civilians. Amnesty International members across Europe are logging on to www.amnesty.org/actforchad to demand the French Government ensures the peacekeepers stay. ... read full story / add a comment |
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