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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

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offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link ?Vigilante? Force to Begin Patrols in Crime-Hit Bournemouth Thu Aug 07, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
A 'vigilante' Safeguard Force of more than 200 volunteers, including ex-military personnel, security professionals and first aiders, is planning to carry out uniformed patrols in the crime-hit seaside town of Bournemouth.
The post ‘Vigilante’ Force to Begin Patrols in Crime-Hit Bournemouth appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Spanish Town Bans Muslim Religious Festivals After Nearby Town Was Rocked by Riots Thu Aug 07, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Spanish town has become the first in the country to ban Muslims from using public facilities to celebrate religious Eid festivals just weeks after a nearby area was rocked by anti-migrant riots.
The post Spanish Town Bans Muslim Religious Festivals After Nearby Town Was Rocked by Riots appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Even Lib Dems Back Brexit Now Thu Aug 07, 2025 13:00 | Gully Foyle
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offsite link Homelessness Minister Threw Out Her Tenants ? Then Increased Rent by ?700 a Month Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
Labour?Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for ?700 a month more in?rent, amid calls for her to resign.
The post Homelessness Minister Threw Out Her Tenants ? Then Increased Rent by ?700 a Month appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Coral on Great Barrier Reef at Fifth Highest Level Since Records Began ? but Mainstream Media Still ... Thu Aug 07, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has hit its fifth highest level since records began ? but somehow the BBC, Guardian and other mainstream media have spun it into an alarmist 'tipping point' narrative, says Chris Morrison.
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Garda aggression in Erris as Shell remove Tunnel Boring Machine

category mayo | environment | news report author Wednesday June 11, 2014 12:23author by Andrew - WSM Report this post to the editors

Almost two years after Shell smuggled their Tunnel Boring Machine out of Dublin port in the middle of the night, and then spent 3 days meeting resistance across the country before getting stuck in the bog, they removed it from Erris Monday night.

In a report received from Mayo local resident Micheal O Seighin described how "This morning after 1 A.M. Shell removed the tunnel boring machine in convoy. Some hours before that they notified McGrath's in the pub what was about to happen and told them there was no need to remove the traffic cones protecting the house as the road was wide enough.

Just before the convoy started out, an army of cops arrived at mcGrath's: pitched and kicked the cones everywhere: when Bridgie interfered to object that Shell had no problem with the cones they pushed her and dragged her, abused her and cursed at her. Then they surrounded the house and in general terrorised them."

The Irish Times had carried a photograph over the June bank holidays of Shell workers emerging from the far end of the tunnel at the Glengad compound, signalling the completion of the last link of the project they have been imposing on the community over the last ten years. Garda abuse of the local community has been routine over those years and is liable to continue into the future as they serve Shell's continued presence in the area.

It's unknown how soon (and indeed if) the refinery will go into production but its over a decade late and almost 3 billion euro over budget. Shell may yet impose their will on the community but it has literally taken billions of euro, the deployment of hundreds of Garda and even at points two Naval gunboats. Hundreds, indeed thousands of acts of resistance tell the story of the delay along with dozens of arrests, over a dozen campaigners jailed and hundreds injured.

All for what? It has become clear that its unlikely Shell will ever pay any tax on the gas the Irish state has handed over to them. The temporary construction and security jobs have now gone and millions of tonnes of CO2 will be added to the atmosphere. The community will exist under constant threat of a pipeline explosion and the likelihood that the release of pollutants will destroy the local water supply, touring, agriculture and fishing industries they depend on.

Related Link: http://www.wsm.ie/rossport
author by Ratatoskrpublication date Thu Jun 12, 2014 13:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sounds like more of the same from the for hire Irish police force, you'd think they would be drawing their horns given the spotlight on them at the moment. It's a long hard battle to create change in this country and the world in general and it's great that awareness is raised through websites like this. Corporations can't carry out their shady acts without the help of local compradors and hired muscle so the question is can these people be persuaded of a better way or will it always be an 'us against them' scenario. If you managed to create a society with social justice, healthy wealth distribution or even no money at all would these types of people still want to have more than everybody else and if so how would the rest of us deal with that?. Would it involve coercion of some kind or would it be a case of majority rules. It seems that the powers that be are just out of control at this stage whether it's austerity, engineering wars and 'uprisings' or just doing what they please to the earth without impunity, how do you fight a cabal of people who have so much technology and willing helpers to tow the line?.

author by Annepublication date Mon Jun 16, 2014 01:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors


'Shell may yet impose their will ...'

And then again they may not ...

Those who would throw in the towel in 2014 are no different to those who succumbed in 2001.

 
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