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Cedar LoungeFor lefties too stubborn to quitThat Fine Gael ?leftish? turn? 16:39 Mon Jan 25, 2016 | WorldbyStorm They?re potentially so awful and we?re so successful in this government we have to go back in with t... 12:50 Mon Jan 25, 2016 | WorldbyStorm Exhibition at The Fine Gael Ard Fheis 10:14 Mon Jan 25, 2016 | irishelectionliterature Make room! Make room! 07:21 Mon Jan 25, 2016 | WorldbyStorm Left Archive: Left Archive: Starry Plough Number 1 Vol 10, Eanair (December) 1976, Irish Republican ... 02:40 Mon Jan 25, 2016 | WorldbyStorm
Dublin OpinionLife should be full of strangeness, like a rich paintingThe Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? 19:58 Sat Aug 29, 2015 Money in 35,000 Words or Less 21:34 Sat Aug 22, 2015 THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER 09:32 Fri Jan 30, 2015 ALWAYS THE ARTISTS: WEEK THREE OF THE BANK INQUIRY 23:11 Thu Jan 22, 2015 FIANNA FÁIL AND THE BANK INQUIRY : SOME INITIAL OBSERVATIONS 21:04 Mon Jan 12, 2015
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national / consumer issues Friday February 20, 2015 16:29 by missing our buses already
Just three weeks ago the National Transport Authority (NTA) officially started the tendering for 2016 of initially 10% of Dublin Bus routes and a further 10% of all Bus Eireann routes with most of the routes in Waterford City, and a number of Dublin commuter routes are to be privatised. In the original plan a number of Cork City routes were to go but these will probably happen later. This process has been the culmination of a relentless effort by Fine Gael (FG) in the present government and their predecessors and fellow Neo-Liberal ideologists, Fianna Fáil (FF) in the last government where they have consistently pushed for the break up of both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann so that it can be handed over to their friends in the private sector to run on a profit basis. The NTA is used as a sort of cloak of respectability to give the impression that they will actually be a regulator with teeth of which we know very few regulators have any teeth, with the banking regulator during the Celtic Tiger coming to mind, plus many other examples and the function of NTA is really for propaganda value to convince the middle class. However this whole scheme is about ideology and is NOT about competition but about privatisation. Related Links: Prices rises are on the way for public transport users... | Joe Higgins TD seeks topical issue debate tomorrow in Dáil on Bus Eireann strike | Government to fund private bus companies! - Jobs, wages & services under threat | Rivermeade residents wage war to defend the 40B bus
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 29, 2014 17:45 by Shane Cassidy
This article examines the Transatlantic Free Trade agreement and it's potential repercussions. In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2].
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Wikileaks Publishes Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) |
Surround The European Business Summit! |
Peoples News issue No. 110 Date: 21 – 9 – 14 -See TTIP related articles |
PEOPLES NEWS ISSUE NO. 106 DATE: 22 – 6 – 14 -See
P 2. The world’s largest trade union demands a halt to TTIP negotiations |
PEOPLES NEWS Issue No. 103 -See P2. Could TTIP contain an Internet censorship plan? |
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Debate in Dublin – Weds 5 Nov |
Galway meeting highlights the insidious nature of TTIP |
Water Charges and TTIP! |
TTIP: Democracy on trial
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Sunday November 02, 2014 00:07 by T
Over 100 separate local demonstrations took place today (Sat Nov 1st) against the Water Charges and for the Right 2 Water. Organisers estimate conservatively that over 150,000 were out on the streets today to send a message to this government that they won't accept paying for water twice and having it privatised later.
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Water Charge FAQ - your questions answered |
Right2Water National Day of Local Protests - Sat Nov 1st |
Right2Water National Protest against Water charges - Sat Oct 11th @ 2pm |
No-one will be safe from water charges if we don't stand and fight | Why Irish Water Will Be Sold Off | The New Water Barons | Blockades of Water Meter installations in Cork and Dublin | The Irish water debacle: a timeline |
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national / environment Monday September 08, 2014 14:06 by Alan Hall
Corruption and incompetence rule in certain corridors of Dublin City Council. Coventa the company which somehow won the tender (despite not being a party to the bidding) and Dublin City Council have pushed the cost up to nearly €100 million for the land. Council Manager Owen Keegan said not one cent of the €96 million that has already been spent will be clawed back if the plan doesn't go ahead. Despite also as extra €36 million in extra costs many Councillors state that this whole thing has nothing to do with mad ideas from Bertie Ahern. Even if it does not go ahead it will still cost €600 million, and obviously this is the best interests of every else abroad who likes to sabotage Irish planning and make a few million doing so. Renewable energy is the future but not for the old school chums of yesteryear.
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update 02/10/2014: Stop The Poolbeg Incinerator - Protest March To Dail - Weds 22nd Oct |
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 28, 2014 20:16 by Justin Morahan
SUMMARY: I arrived in Ennis without pen or notebook to support the action of Margaretta D'Arcy and Niall Farrell who protested on the runway of Shannon against the US military use of the airport. The following is a colour story of happenings on the day relying on memory only. I hope that someone else may provide a fuller report and my apologies for any errors in this report which are entirely my responsibility.
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Magaretta D'Arcy jailed |
Statement from Margaretta D'Arcy on her Release from Mountjoy Prison |
FREE Margaretta D'Arcy, US Out Of Shannon / National Demonstration |
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Mon 25 Jan, 23:52 Open Letter to US Ambassador in Dublin 18:21 Thu 21 Jan 7 comments Mary-Anne Grady Flores a grandmother from upper State New York was jailed for six months and started her sentence on Tuesday last for taking pictures of an anti-drone protest. The letter below has been sent to the US Ambassador along with the Democracy Now account of the jailing Brazil: Censorship on internet 22:55 Tue 12 Jan 0 comments Brazilian blogger accuses senator of commanding the invasion of his computing systems and of harassment. Mindanao, Philippines: Stop ‘Lumad’ killings, harassment - UN 06:26 Sun 10 Jan 0 comments Killings and harassment of the Lumad, or the indigenous people (IP), should stop and those accountable should be brought to justice, according to Ola Almgren, the UN country representative and humanitarian coordinator. LISTEN Irish school girl stuns music world with brilliant charity song Freedom Day 18:32 Tue 05 Jan 0 comments A 16-year-old girl has stunned the music industry in Ireland with a brilliant song called Freedom Day, which highlights the suffering of thousands of children facing poverty and oppression across the world. Portrait of an Irish Republican 00:51 Sun 20 Dec 0 comments The author's account of his visit to the North of Ireland in 1985, on the occasion of its 3oth anniversary; Philippines: Climate Focus - Time to act is now on energy transformation 04:59 Thu 10 Dec 0 comments What could possibly be so urgent and life-threatening to drive leaders of people from a small and barely reachable island off the coast of Mindoro to leave their homes and travel 285 kilometers by land and sea over the period of five days just to reach Metro Manila? On November 27, a day before the biggest climate justice march in the country, they have reach the Presidential Palace. The Empire scores two victories in South America - Venezuela and Argentina 01:00 Wed 09 Dec 1 comments In the recent elections in Venezuela the right wing opposition long backed by Washington has secured a majority by winning 107 out of 167 seats. This is the first time since the early days of deceased former president Chavez rose to power that the right has had control of the parliament. Indymedia UK Servers Down 16:29 Sun 06 Dec 0 comments ADMINS: - Indymedia UK has been offline since yesterday. Irish government wastes over 1 million euro on pointless and biased study of fracking 07:37 Thu 03 Dec 0 comments Irish government wastes over 1 million euro on biased fracking study Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Extra Judicial Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa & all the Ogoni 9 00:13 Fri 13 Nov 0 comments Shell to Sea Activists and AFRI commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the deaths of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine outside “Corrib House:” Shell’s Irish Headquarters in Dublin. The activists carried crosses bearing the names of each of the men executed by the corrupt Nigerian Government on 10 November 1995. Many sources believe that these executions were done at the behest of Shell. Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people, had been actively leading successful civil society actions and demonstrations thwarting Shell’s development of oil on the land of these indigenous farmers and fishermen. Even though it hasn’t been explicitly proven that Shell ordered the killing… they did benefit from the outcome and later paid reparations to the families. (In 2009 Shell settled out of court to the tune of 15.5 million dollars to the families of the victims to avoid going to court in the USA.) more >>Utilitarianism and Irish Left Jan 22 4 comments Utilitarianism is the hidden basis for the moral and philosophical basis of much of the Irish Left Be warned – 'The Revolution Papers' is an all-male baby! Jan 18 0 comments The level of involvement by women in the 1916 Rising is historically unprecedented. This is recognised and welcomed in the Proclamation. The Rising, and the Proclamation which attempted to explain it, is of international significance. Electoral Contempt Jan 13 2 comments Fine Gael canvas through the letterbox for an election they have not even announced. Marx And Morality Jan 11 3 comments Society determines the character of culture. Marx and Morality Jan 10 1 comments Marx's morality is not materialist more >>Prominent foxhunt supporter pleads guilty to assaulting two Kilkenny farmers… Jan 25 0 comments High Profile foxhunter caught redhanded assaulting two farmers...dramatic video footage exposes bullying and thuggery! Urging a high turnout at Saturday’s Right2Water protests, Campaign says household Water Charges are ... Jan 20 Right2Water 0 comments The Right2Water campaign said today (Wednesday January 20th) that water charges are being used to give tax breaks to corporations and the wealthiest in our society. Pointing out that households only use 10 percent of water but are now expected to pay up to 78 percent of all costs while corporations and agriculture use 90 percent of all water but will only pay 22 percent of the costs, Right2Water said that water charges amount to a ‘transfer of wealth’. Flood Insurance for Commercial Fish Farms but not Peoples' Homes? Jan 12 0 comments STATE QUESTIONED OVER INSURING FISH NOT PEOPLE IPRT welcomes commencement of fines legislation Jan 11 Irish Penal Reform Trust 0 comments IPRT welcomes commencement of legislation to address “damaging and wasteful” practice of imprisonment for fines default Road carnage and arts activism Dec 30 Anois Art 0 comments An open art project that welcomes participation from anyone affected by a fatality (or injury) on Irish roads. No art skills are required. more >> |