Upcoming Events

no events match your query!

New Events

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs Mon Jan 13, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Twenty one years ago, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Asian rape gangs in Bradford after coming under pressure from an 'anti-racist' group that included several senior members of the British establishment.
The post The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 13, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? Sun Jan 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
The post ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
The post ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
The post How Wokeism Is Destroying the West appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

If diagrams of female genitals (with or without clitoris) offend you don't look at this image.
international / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday June 28, 2007 20:31 by ribbid   text 7 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2014 02:21)   image 1 image
A 2005 UNICEF report suggested 97%of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 had undergone some type of genital mutilation or circumcision. Last week ago Bodur Ahmed Shaker an 11 year old girl died after undergoing the operation at a private clinic in Minya province in the south of the state. Doctors at the clinic had suggested her death was due to a a heavy dose of anaesthetic and her operation is believed to have been a result of her parents wish to preserve her chastity..,

Since then the Egyptian establishment has moved to close a final loop-hole in their legislation which had allowed a practise which has been common since Pharonic times to continue. The change to the law announced this afternoon followed statements on Islamic theology from the state mufti (supporting the end to this barbaric practice and reminding all it has no scriptural basis in either Quran or Talmud [old testament] ) read full story / add a comment
Julitta Clancy informing the committee
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday June 27, 2007 22:16 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 33 comments (last - thursday october 04, 2007 11:16)   image 14 images
Members of the EU petitions committee today visited the Hill of Tara and the new National Monument at Lismullin along with petitioners who had made submission.
read full story / add a comment
btown1.jpg
kildare / history and heritage / news report Tuesday June 26, 2007 15:32 by Connection Breaker   text 28 comments (last - saturday june 28, 2008 00:13)   image 6 images
Thousands of Republicans from, across Ireland and Internationally gathered in Bodenstown, County Kildare, on Sunday 24th June to honour the founding father of Irish Republicanism, Theobold Wolfetone.

As part of the crowd was a vibrant display of youth from Ógra Shinn Féin. read full story / add a comment
abujamal.jpg
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 25, 2007 23:00 by Gan Ainm   text 1 comment (last - monday june 25, 2007 23:08)   image 8 images
Well over a hundred people attended a video showing and music night to raise funds for Mumia Abu Jamal and Anarchist life prisoner and jailhouse lawyer Harold Thompson. read full story / add a comment
A 10 Thunderbolt war-planes at Shannon 23 June 07
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 22:51 by Edward Horgan   text 55 comments (last - wednesday july 04, 2007 14:11)   image 3 images
Protest at Shannon on Sat 23rd June, Galway airshow on Sunday 24th and the shocking attempts to indoctrinate GAA underage players into the myths of US military just wars read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 22:17 by Wandering Reporter
Last Thursday 14th June in Asturias, Northern Spain I was present at an action where a Zombie Collective came back from the dead to support La Campana Asturiana e Contra el Expolio de las Petroleras and other Spanish solidarity organisations by staging a series of die-ins in a garage forecourt and elsewhere around the city of Gijon. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 14:28 by Brendan Young   text 10 comments (last - tuesday june 26, 2007 16:25)
CAEUC to meet Saturday July 7 at 11.00 at the WP offices in Hill St

We are now in the run-up to either a referendum or Dáil decision on a revised version of the EU Constitution. The EU Heads of Government agreed on changes to the failed Constitution over the weekend and a full IGC will begin in July to finalise a new treaty / constitution. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 08:21 by Caoimhe Butterly
As the siege of Nahr al Bared continues reports of the systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees have emerged. read full story / add a comment
irg_logo_1.jpg
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday June 22, 2007 17:51 by éirígí - For a Socialist Republic   text 4 comments (last - monday july 02, 2007 14:18)   image 1 image
Defend the right to protest free from state violence read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday June 22, 2007 00:50 by Jolly Red Giant   text 69 comments (last - saturday august 04, 2007 00:30)
Classroom assistants across Northern Ireland are preparing for industrial action to defend their pay.

Their employers, the Education and Library Boards acting under the direction of Education Minister Catriona Ruane, are proposing to cut their pay by as much as 79p an hour. The insulting move comes at the end of years of negotiation by the main trade unions representing Classroom Assistants, NIPSA and UNISON.
read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Thursday June 21, 2007 20:17 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - friday june 22, 2007 11:19)
ThePirateBay is best known for hosting trackers for distributed file-sharing and getting raided recently by the Swedish police at the behest of the US MPAA. They've been making noises about a couple of new ventures, and one of them has gone live: a completely uncensored image hosting service. read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections / news report Wednesday June 20, 2007 19:03 by Jake E Lee   text 67 comments (last - thursday june 26, 2008 08:59)
Former Labour Cllr Declan Bree has continued with supporting the Labour/FF pact on Sligo Borough and County Council despite leaving the Labour party recently read full story / add a comment
Click to enlarge for a view of relevant forms.
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday June 19, 2007 23:06 by NIall Harnett   text 31 comments (last - friday july 06, 2007 09:27)   image 1 image
On Thur 3rd May 2007 at Westport District Court, I successfully applied for summonses and initiated prosecutions against 3 members of An Garda Síochána, Belmullet, Co Mayo, who were then summonsed to appear to answer charges of assault, criminal damage and theft at Belmullet District Court on 13th June.

On Wed 13th June 2007 at Belmullet District Court, I failed to bring the case to a full hearing, because of a number of avoidable mistakes that I made, one of which proved to my undoing, whereby the judge put a stop to me proceeding any further with these summonses.

This article is an account of my days in court, including the procedures I went through to initiate the prosecutions and the mistakes I made in failing, at this stage, to bring the proceedings to the proper conclusion of a trial. I hope others can learn from my experience, avoid the pitfalls, and be encouraged to bring their own prosecutions against criminal Gardaí, in order to stop their violence and the cowardly abuse of their power. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 19, 2007 21:25 by william considine   text 21 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 12:54)
A couple of months ago the story of Thomas Kennedy's unlawful imprisonment was carried on Indymedia. In the meantime he remains in prison being periodically brought back to Judge Olive Buttimers Court. He believes he is unjustly imprisoned and Judge Buttimer states she will keep him in prison until he changes his mind. Justice, the Kennedy family and the tax payer is the loser in Olive Buttimers merry-go-round. This is todays episode. read full story / add a comment
Greek police torturers!
international / crime and justice / news report Monday June 18, 2007 17:48 by IMC Athens   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 21:22)   image 1 image
http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/asfal...s.avi
On the 24th of June 2006, at least four policemen tortured two migrants in the police station of Omonia in central Athens. They forced them to beat each other, beat them both and captured the torturing on a mobile phone camera. For nearly a year, that footage was circulated amongst policemen via mobile phones. On the early hours of the 16th of June 2007 the video was uploaded to a commercial video sharing service and from there, to Athens Indymedia. A few hours later it featured as breaking news in Greece's major media outlets, forcing prime minister Karamanlis to issue a statement condemning the incident. read full story / add a comment
galwayipsc4.jpg
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday June 17, 2007 18:36 by TD   text 41 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 09:01)   image 6 images
Yesterday, Galway IPSC activists did their customary seven hour stint outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street gathering signatures for the Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and, generally, bearing witness to that torn country, read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Sunday June 17, 2007 14:31 by John McDermott
Various goings on, re the Soldiers of Destiny and their new Broccoli Brotherhood. read full story / add a comment
poster_1_health_1.jpg
limerick / miscellaneous / news report Saturday June 16, 2007 18:22 by Limerick Socialist Party   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 21, 2007 22:33)   image 4 images   1 attached file
The new government is set to continue the old policies; underfunding healthcare and creating a US-style, for-profit health system. This will only worsen the crisis and must be resisted. The current scandal here in Limerick of people having to travel long distances for dialysis underlines this.

For years now the government and HSE have been aware that the dialysis machine in Limerick Regional Hospital is over worked and that one or more new macines are desperately needed. They refused to act, putting costs before service. Now people are forced to travel to Tullamore, Kilkenny or Tralee a few times a week to recieve vital dialysis.
read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday June 13, 2007 13:05 by Red and Black   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 17:51)
Confidential letter shows 'belt tightening' ordered in Cork hospital. read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Gaeilge

IMC network

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy