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Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
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The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
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Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
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Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
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mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 13, 2007 11:24 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 22 comments (last - monday november 19, 2007 13:09)
Questions must be asked about the State's attitude to the use of a security firm at Shell's Bellanaboy site. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 11, 2007 20:04 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 11 comments (last - monday march 23, 2009 17:50)
Today's papers suggest 'Bertie it is time to go' and would Mary Harney go with him. Also included is Professor Drumm and the bureaucrats in the HSE.

Many years ago, women of Ireland marched in their thousands, outraged against the inequality they endured of not having the right of freedom to choose Abortion, Contraceptives, to work when married. I ask where are the liberals now.

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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 22:28 by Marty McK   text 9 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 15:40)
Should everyone return to the classroom and learn to count? Add up numbers published in press releases, is 7,000 classroom assistants a rounded up or down figure? Not by any stretch of the imagination are all classroom assistants members of a trade union.

I am disappointed this is not an election year. Can you imagine the squirming and questions left hanging in the air by the "can we have your vote" and move the earth for you campaigners. Imagine an election turnout like GMB ballot figures signify anyone notice how did the GPA fair in comparison to GMB? (footballers). I missed out not seeing ballot returns. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 15:36 by solidarity seeker   text 1 comment (last - friday november 09, 2007 16:06)
Life is full of disappointments, Ms Ruane is "Disappointed" classroom assistants are returning to strike action. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 01:59 by Nick Folley   text 11 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 07:25)   image 1 image
Those following the debate on the Hidden History programme about the shooting of the Pearson Brothers in Co.Offaly may find this transcript of Joe Duffy's Liveline programme broadcast on 5 November 2007 of interest . read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 06, 2007 18:39 by C Murray   text 63 comments (last - monday march 31, 2008 13:00)   image 3 images
On the 04/09/07 there was a press release detailing a possible mis-diagnosis problem in relation to the mammogram service at Portlaoise Hospital, the press release said that there were possibly 5,000 women effected and there was no press release from Mary Harney's Department. The Hospital board and the HSE managed the timed release of materials including the fact that many of the patients had been on the Treatment Purchase Fund Scheme. This info emanated in the direct aftermath of Ms Harney's travelling to Barrington's Hospital in Cork where up to 1,000 women were similarly effected. Today there is a press release from DOHC which is written in response to emergent details of 8 women with a diagnosis of cancer who had been cleared and 19 awaiting second opinions.

http://www.dodc.ie/press/releaes/2007/200711102b.html read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 06, 2007 13:32 by solidarity seeker   text 15 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 16:04)
GMB have had the best response ever to their ballot on the classroom assistants dispute. This may seem to be a possitive thing. However some important questions need to be answered and if anyone from the GMB read this I would love to hear their replies.
1) How many classroom assistants do you represent?
2) Why were ballot papers sent to cleaners, and caretakers? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 06, 2007 08:56 by Watcher   text 19 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 19:45)
With Iraq in ruins and the oil resources secured, the neo-cons that run the west have now turned their malign attention to Iran. All media is now saturated with propaganda putting Iran in the role of aggressor and a threat to world peace.Others day and daily place stories in the media portraying the internal position as one of oppression and brutality in which the Iranian people are supposedly yearning to be liberated by the west. Nothing could be further from the truth. Iranians want noting to do with western style "democracy"
Medialens has collated a number of examples of how the media is being manipulated by the neo-cons as they whip up support for an attack on Iran We should take great care of what and who we give credance to in this very dangerous game in which Iran and it's perople are targeted and placed in deadly danger. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday November 01, 2007 22:03 by Sean   text 3 comments (last - monday november 05, 2007 17:35)
In response to a number of comments in relation to the Communist Party of Ireland's celebration of the Ninetieth anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution both on the internet and in the print media on what we might or might not say about events pertaining to the revolution and subsequent developments we have poster the speech delivered by Eugene Mc Cartan, to a packed meeting in Liberty Hall on Friday 26th October read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 01, 2007 20:43 by Cathal McCarthy
On 1 October 2007, the Weston Gardens Residents' Association, of which I am Cathaoirleach, sent a letter by registered post to Brendan Kenny (CEO Limerick Regeneration Agencies). When Mr. Kenny did not respond after 3 weeks, we decided to go public. On 24 October 2007, we bought a full page in the Limerick Leader and published a shortened version . The reaction of Mr. Kenny & co. was predictable; spin and deny. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday November 01, 2007 09:51 by Domhain Sceadaman   text 25 comments (last - friday november 30, 2007 01:47)
I cam across this tale whilst having coffee in leafy D4, in the Baggot Street area and this tied in with something that I had heard a few weeks ago in that Palace of Epicurian Delights the Embassy Grill in Ballsbridge.

The story is about corporate greed, arogance and "murky stuff" which links back to the rendition flights out of Shannon. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 30, 2007 16:54 by paul o toole   text 7 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 02:02)
Hypocracy all across the board. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 30, 2007 14:38 by Ender Yılmaz & José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   image 1 image
An member of the WSM and the Turkish anarchist organization AKI look at the crisis in Turkey, a crisis pushed further into the spotlight since this article was written by the threats to invade Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish politics are full of contradictions and paradoxical situations. But the bottom line is that both the “democratic” political Islam as well as the “authoritarian” army are elite alternatives opposed to the basic interests of workers, that have agreed on the fundamentals and will likely keep agreeing in maintaining the repressive political structures of the Kemalist state, read full story / add a comment
result of the Irish Times Head2Head poll on the Corrib Gas project
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Monday October 29, 2007 01:03 by JM   text 19 comments (last - tuesday october 30, 2007 13:56)   image 10 images
The latest Irish Times online Head2Head poll concerned itself with the Corrib gas controversy in North Mayo, and asked the following question:

Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community?

The result came in as a resounding NO, with 84% believing the project as proposed is bad for the local community, with less than 1 in 6 agreeing it was good for the area. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 27, 2007 18:38 by Jolly Red Giant   text 43 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 17:59)
The recent untimely death of Susie Long was widely covered in the media in the South. Susie made a powerful impression in January of this year when she spoke on RTE radio of how she had developed terminal cancer of the colon. It was a tragic and shocking story.

By Joe Higgins read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday October 26, 2007 20:50 by jim travers   text 5 comments (last - friday july 04, 2008 11:34)
Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 25, 2007 13:53 by El Libertario, Venezuela   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 27, 2007 15:36)
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 24, 2007 19:27 by Michelle Clarke   text 21 comments (last - saturday january 17, 2009 13:01)   image 1 image
We the plain people

Aaron Russell documentary is well worth watching..........

The presentation alerts people involved in financial, markets, transactions to review history before consolidating on present day financial transactions..

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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 24, 2007 11:41 by P'd off customer   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 12:05)
I signed up to BT broadband over two months ago. Not only did the hook up the wrong house, but they billed me for it, insisted nothing wrong happened, and are dawdling over my
What's worse, their call centre takes ages to do anything, not surprising, given that one of their agents admitted to me that there were only 10 people working there the day I spoke to her, when the staffing level is supposed to be 60. Anyhow, sick of waiting for the always promised call back, I went hunting for the bigger fish. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 22, 2007 18:44 by Anne O'Connor   text 43 comments (last - saturday april 16, 2011 18:25)
Ireland granted residency to about 17,000 parents of Irish born Children mostly women and then decided that these category of Irish Citizen Children do not have any entitlement to family unification and so we have a situation where the fathers of these children are being turned away. What we risk creating for our future generation is what I dread because this policy if not reversed will only polarise the community and we will have the "us" and "them" divide. read full story / add a comment
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