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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 16, 2013 - 20:04 by T
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In the last week or so it was announced by the government that they were seriously considering extending the current free Pre-School year to a second free pre-school year. The government has been giving it a positive spin but also on the table as part of the deal is the suggestion that child benefit would be reduced by €20 per month. A lot of figures have been bandied about but the real question is: are the government trying to pull a fast one yet again and how do the numbers stack up? We attempt to look at the figures here. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 18:35 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously undermined world of employment. It has become a well-worn cliché to declare that the robots are coming but it is necessary to consider seriously how the creeping technologisation of production and services is going to affect many areas of employment considered today to be relatively safe from the machines. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday April 27, 2013 - 13:49 by Against Cruelty to Irish Greyhounds
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Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 02:46 by fred
16 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 22:26) 8 images  2 video files  1 audio file
Today, for a brief moment, America knows how awful it feels to live in one of the states they have invaded or that they have helped reduce to sectarian nightmares with imported jihadist mercenaries, CIA advisors, funds and weaponry, such as Iraq, Syria or Libya, where explosions like this occur every other day
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday April 07, 2013 - 13:13 by Fidel Castro
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago. A virtually infinite number of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago. This introduction would be too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 - 18:07 by Gale Vogel
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John and Louise are a Dublin couple who weep each evening in a cold house, their frustration ever growing. John is visibly angry but resigns to the fate that is meted by our leaders to comply with international dictate. We are being watched, pummelled and slowly destroyed. The busiest events are international job fairs. This is a synopsis of lives less than they should be. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 - 16:01 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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CONTENTS 1. CAUSES FOR CONCERN: STOP EXTRADITION TO THE USA! GUANTANAMO HUNGER STRIKE 2. PEACE IN THE NORTH 3. 10 YEARS SINCE IRAQ AND ANOTHER MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE OFFING 4. I AM BRADLEY MANNING 5. MAKE WAR NOT LOVE 6. RTE – NOTHING BUT THE SAME OLD STORY 7. CHINA – THE BOGEYMAN ... read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 - 14:46 by Seamus Mc Goldrick
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The Yes Vote in last year's Children's Rights Referendum began proceedings to change Children's Rights in Ireland. However, a legal challenge to the referendum has suspended the referendum process and, for now, prevents the Irish president signing this amendment into the constitution. Ever wanted to know more about the Children's Rights Referendum and amendment 42a? Read on to find out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:29 by one of NFI
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Statement from participants in the No Fracking Ireland Network on the EPA ‘public consultation’ process with regard to ‘Proposed terms of reference for EPA/DCENR/NIEA Research Programme on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction (UGEE)’ ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:20 by One of NFI
This was originally published by Gluaiseacht in a publication released at the time of the 2012 Grassroots Gathering in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday February 24, 2013 - 10:52 by Luke Eastwood
Despite the continued 'green shoots' talk, recovery seems increasingly far away.
It does not take a genius or even an economist to realise that we are in fact in the depths of a major depression, which is continuing to worsen. The mainstream media, especially the USA media 90% of which is owned by just 6 corporations, continues to talk up a recovery but this is pure hyperbole that an intelligent person should be able to see through. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 16, 2013 - 18:32 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR FEBRUARY 2013 BULLETIN Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar Or https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/ CONTENTS 1. IRISH SOLIDERS TO TRAIN TROOPS INVOLVED IN OVERTHROW OF MALI’S DEMOCRATIC GOVT IN 2012 2. SHANNON’S BLOOD MONEY 3. OBAMA’S EMPTY PROMISES FROM THE “LAND OF THE FREE” 4. ON THE SCENT OF DEATH THREATS TO GAAW’S PRO 5. MING, GAAW’S COMPUTER & CORRUPTION IN THE GARDAÍ 6. UNEMPLOYED KILLER OF THE MONTH ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday February 10, 2013 - 23:12 by Ordinay Citizen
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How we are being made to like a bad Anglo deal and only long term solution is for us to have a government without FF or FG and what they could do if/ when they get into power. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Sunday February 10, 2013 - 09:37 by BrianClarke
2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 - 00:29) 8 images 1 video file
Unions, which organized the rallies, claimed more than 100,000 people attended, with 60,000 marching in Dublin. Demonstrators also protested in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford. "It would be fatal for people to believe this issue is now resolved and we can all move on," David Begg a supposed Union leader said. "At the onset of the crisis Ireland had one of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in Europe. The difference between then and now is due entirely to Ireland socializing bank debt at the behest of the ECB, to save the European banking system." ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday February 09, 2013 - 18:36 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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The recent bonds-for-notes overnight legislation ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 15, 2013 - 15:55 by Comyn
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Dublin 1913 to Dublin 2013 What have we learned? What changes can be made? Dublin 1913: It was before World War I, Ireland had negotiated a form of Home Rule/self government but there was inequality with extremes in wealth and poverty, nationalism and British Rule created the environment for dissent and rebellion. James Larkin "Big Jim" represented the low skilled workers and William Martin Murphy, a Catholic businessman represented the newly forming middle class. William Martin Murphy owned the Irish Independent newspaper, and the Dublin United Tramway Company and was making inroads against the power of the former elites. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 11, 2013 - 15:52 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR JANUARY 2013 BULLETIN CONTENTS 1. GAAW CALLS FOR ACTION ON GUANTANAMO 2. IS IT TIME TO OCCUPY SHANNON WARPORT? 3. STIFFING “BRITS”: The Media Hypocrites & The Continuity IRA 4. LATEST WAR NEWS FROM SHANNON’S WARPORT 5. GAAW & THE GARDAÍ ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 11, 2013 - 14:44 by Michael Gallagher
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To whom it may concern: The list of manufacturers here are just some of the business's in the south of Ireland that are connected with the machinery of imperialist wars. Can we get a discussion going leading to a widespread, coordinated and effective campaign, with the goal of ending the manufacturing of any military components or devices in Ireland for war? It was done in the north, we can do it in the south. See The Raytheon 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_9 and related links. Please Share This The best way to contact me is through email: libertypic@yahoo.ie or Facebook http://www.facebook.com/libertypics ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 12, 2012 - 20:10 by M
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Today Ireland's Justice Committee is to start hearings on prostitution legislation. You can watch online, they are taking place in Committee Room 2 from 2 p.m. G.M.T. onwards. All of the organisations invited are members of anti-sex work coalition Turn Off the Red Light (TORL). TORL initially announced the news of these hearings last month, saying they are hopeful the new law they are advocating for will be enacted before the new year. It was only yesterday in a press release the Justice Committee stated today's hearing will be the first, giving some hope that there may be further hearings at a later date which will include sex workers. Also today a letter written by a sex worker and sent to the Justice Committee last month has come to light. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday December 09, 2012 - 20:26 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Targeting young families, the elderly and the sick, as the government slashes child benefits, triples prescription charges and rubber-stamps controversial property tax. ... read full story / add a comment |
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