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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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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 12, 2007 13:18 by Strategic   text 8 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 21:48)   image 1 image
A short synopsis of ten Years of FF. Reaction Welcome.

http://www.savetara.com read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday August 11, 2007 15:42 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 26, 2013 20:07)   image 1 image
Brendan O'Donnell died in the central mental hospital a young man (~ 23) about 10 years ago. Whatever happened him the event set alarm bells ringing in my mind. Is it too late now (or too soon?) to seek a transparent public account of his death and how it came about? He was a triple murderer, physically strong and, as far as I know, suicide was not a factor. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 09, 2007 15:38 by C.
Having had our bags stolen in Belfast many years ago, we got invited to Anderstown social club by
some fellas who had tried to stop the snatchers and we went to the club. It is a memory etched
onto my brain and says something important about community memory and retaining those
places for the upcoming generations of this Our Island.

Politically naive southerners like myself did not know the North of Ireland, nor where it was 'safe'
to go , back in the nineties; but you learn quickly enough. our hiking trip coincided with some
appalling tragedies and personal dangers that are largely gone. The London type taxis
Which were 50p were operating and some drivers were being sniped on call-out. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 08, 2007 13:41 by Emer McGann   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 12:31)
Rooming in’ involves the care of a newborn infant in a cot near the mother’s bed instead of in a nursery during their hospital stay. This has very many positive advantages for the mother and baby in terms of bonding and getting to know the new baby’s routine in the early days of its life and also the instant availability of the mother for feeding, a recognised bonding time be it bottle or breast. Rooming in also has many advantages for maternity hospitals in terms reduction in requirements for nursery spaces in hospitals and therefore, reduction in numbers of staff required to supervise the nurseries and take care of the infants. Most Irish maternity hospitals operate a full rooming in policy but the question is - Do Irish Maternity Hospitals support rooming in? read full story / add a comment
On The Hill Of Tara
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday August 06, 2007 19:29 by Susan Repasky   text 20 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2007 22:02)   image 6 images
Moments of time, reflecting on the importance of Tara as the Spiritual Center of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday August 06, 2007 10:25 by I. Greene   text 10 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 17:57)
Not only are obstacles being placed in Michael McKevitt’s path depriving him of the right to defend himself in the Omagh Civil action, but a clear stitch-up is emerging read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday August 04, 2007 18:23 by Susan Repasky   text 51 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 02:28)   image 8 images
An open letter to the current Taoiseach of Ireland regarding the M-3 motorway scheme. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday August 04, 2007 18:21 by Cuban Libertarian Movement
* Interview by the Russian newspaper SITUATION from libertarian collective Autonomous Action www.avtonom.org regarding the current political picture in the island. A Spanish translation was published in El Libertario #50, Venezuela, 2007. For more info go to: www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve -cuban anarchist website- and www.nodo50.org/ellibertario read full story / add a comment
Minimalist Scales
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 31, 2007 19:47 by Time Elapsed...   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 15:35)   image 1 image

The Law Reform Commission has today in the height of the balmy Irish Summer
released a PDF doc. on the removing of conviction from personal record -after time lapse-
The time mentioned in the report http://www.lawreform.ie is seven years. The time
lapse being pertinent , but no mention of the the crime. Being Pernickety here but surely
the type of crime removed from record is important too. Some sexual offences, for instance
carry only six month sentences, such as custodial time for down-loading internet child
porn. The issue of paedophilia and its sentences does not come into the report but
constraints will be placed on the people who have been imprisoned for crime in sensitive
areas such as in 'The Care of Children' read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday July 30, 2007 14:55 by Catalan Solidarity   text 7 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 19:43)   image 5 images
Members of the Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee erected a mural in Derry’s Bogside following a week of events designed to create greater awareness of the continuing fight for self-determination and independence by the people of Catalonia from 300 years of Spanish and French occupation. read full story / add a comment
Disney land
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday July 28, 2007 11:05 by Caller   text 38 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 10:09)   image 2 images
The images of the assault of a young woman campaigner at one of the 38
archaelogical sites on the route of the Proposed M3 by members of a private company;
and the criminalisation of those campaigners who have given time and energy
to forwarding awareness of the ecological and heritage implications of the
bi-section of the Gabhra Valley necessitates inquiry.

John Gormley has stated that his hands are tied and he can do nothing 'unless
something new comes up'. Well ,his hands may be tied but they have not been
placed in handcuffs for asserting the individuals right to protest. He has not been
jailed for conscientous objection.

I am calling on John Gormley to meet with the eight people who have been criminalised
and to speak to them about the brutal attacks that we have witnessed on this newswire.
The concerns of the campaigns regarding the liscensing of the 38 sites, the abuse of
mandate by Minister Roche and the failure of his Dept to engage with the issue.

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Our day will Come
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday July 27, 2007 14:00 by Mick Hall   text 6 comments (last - sunday june 15, 2008 20:14)   image 1 image
There are important lessons for the Irish Left to learn from the outcome of the recent General Election in the south of Ireland. Not least if the left is to build support and gain momentum at the Ballot box, it must offer its core electorate policies that give hope to Society and especially those within it who are less well off economically. The Left need to collectively draw up a program that advocates re-unification, greater freedom's and democratic accountability, full employment, fairness in the work place, a sustainable environment; affordable homes, and a re-distribution of wealth which brings to an end the massive chasm that has opened up between the wealthy and the majority of the Irish people during Bertie Ahearn's period in office. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday July 27, 2007 13:29 by MikW
Set in the DDR in 1984, actors, stasi, writers and politicians display some of the
best and worst vestiges of humanity against a backdrop of dimly lit deserted streets, grey buildings
and fenced in feelings. Stasi agent Wiesler a loyal servant of the party and the state believes
writer Georg Dreyman to be not so loyal, a crime in the stasi agents eyes.
Wiesler gets his chance to nail the writer when the corrupt and seedy Minister Of Culture decides he wants Dreyman to be found guilty of anything. The politicians motives have nothing to do with love of party or state. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 26, 2007 16:25 by Con Carroll   text 13 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2007 21:39)
first they came for the Jews, I didn't speak out I was not a Jew. then they came for the Communists. I didn't speak out. then they came for people with disabilities. I didn't speak out. then they came for me. no one spoke out for me. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 25, 2007 23:41 by Susan Repasky
The following has been sent to newspapers in Ireland and the US regarding the arrest and subsequent imposition of conditional bail agreement on seven protesters against the construction of the M-3. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday July 22, 2007 20:24 by Cutter   text 14 comments (last - saturday august 11, 2007 09:32)
The Six One News tonight was followed by a Consumer Soap Opera 'Docu' special
on the intimacies and murder of the O Reilly Marriage. Serious Reporters
discussed with alacrity the 'ins' and 'outs' of the case. This is because RTE
are consumer driven shite and incapable of Opinion and analysis.
-They like to give the public what it wants-

This kind of mentality drives US Consumer TV where Newsreaders burn
reports on Paris Hilton. When did RTE last analyse Geo- political movements
GM/ECO/. It has become popcorn TV for the Great brainwashed Irish Nation. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday July 19, 2007 15:54 by herself   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 19, 2007 21:07)
I have a problem with many activists- those who go on about social justice such as socialists often ignore environmental issues, likewise Greens and environmentalists tend to think social justice issues aren't that important- they are after all usually middle class..... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 19, 2007 13:30 by David Michael   text 13 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 12:15)
With four people now imprisoned and the bulldozers about to desecrate sacred land of Tara some say this might be the end-but it couold be the beginning. Where do we go from here? read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday July 19, 2007 12:41 by Ann-Marie   text 16 comments (last - friday august 03, 2007 16:23)   image 5 images
Public Meeting for Critical Mass held on tthe 18th July 2007 partially in response to recent discussions of Critcal Mass on Indymedia to highlight and discuss the criticisms and strengthen Critical Mass in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday July 19, 2007 08:37 by Undercover reporter   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 24, 2007 13:00)
Multiple well functioning A&E's to close across Ireland, why? read full story / add a comment
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