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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday January 17, 2010 19:41 by donkylemore
Unless the muscle of the US and its government can be turned around and Obama starts listening to his emissary George Mitchell and to a lesser degree Ms Clinton there will be no real change either in Gaza , the border crossings or any hope of Israeli compliance with International Justice and humanity.
Neither can any advancement towards a 2 state solution be even conceived until the Israelis agree to Jerusalem being the Capital City for both Israel and Palestine. read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday January 17, 2010 11:51 by donkylemore   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 17, 2010 23:06)   image 1 image

Privileged officers of the State getting generous pensions, having taken an oath to the State or to their profession have chosen to go on strike in a wave of rolling industrial actions which set out to subvert some of the most essential services in the State.

In other circumstances this would be deemed sedition .
Should legal rather than disciplinary action be taken against members of both groups if is is suspected that they are in breach of their contracts? read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday January 14, 2010 15:05 by donkylemore
where to the Greens now . the party of probity and ethical standards in high places
will they seek to have Lowry removed or will they continue to linger on in power with FF with Lowry's guarantee to follow the govt. whip/ read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 13, 2010 20:14 by Ruairí Ó Conghaile   text 11 comments (last - monday january 18, 2010 16:35)
A brief look at Irelands lost history of genocide and slave trading. A call to re-engage the spirit of revolution that burns deep in the contemporary Irish psyche and use this common heritage to take serious consideration of once again uniting the Island of Ireland. Peace and unity within the borders of our own land. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 12, 2010 14:49 by Diego Connolly
Big Increases in Dole Payments for Ireland’s Wealthy read full story / add a comment
galway / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 12, 2010 01:02 by donkylemore
On the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - (UDHR)
I quote Oscar wilde more than all the others; he more than anyone would have appreciated

this charter . It is just that it is not binding .it is not a law. It is aspirational ; but it is

inspirational . You don’t need to read it through. The language is turgid in places. Its meant to

endure . After 60 years the wording may seem esoteric .but if you re read it , ask yourself ;

how else could this be written to relate to all society.
I believe it is written for all the children of the womb of the Universe .
But , I will confess that I quote Oscar not only because he is one of the most quoted people in

the history of English language .
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 11, 2010 11:48 by Amnesty International - Ireland   text 2 comments (last - monday january 11, 2010 20:56)
Marking the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay detention centre, Amnesty International Ireland has criticised the Government’s lack of progress in carrying out a promised review of the law on searching suspected renditions flights. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday January 10, 2010 21:34 by donkylemore
While we all agonise about whether our Industry , Agriculture , and all Human activity and endeavour may be responsible for Climate Change
there is a theory that cosmic radiation could be responsible for inordinate cloud cover - both Global warming and cooling may be explained by the formation of cloud cover due to solar wind particles which gather about them clouds.
Maybe its a cop out . But Maybe not read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday January 10, 2010 06:13 by Donkylemore
Cowen seems more beaten by the day. The easy clichéd sound bites gone. He appears hunched, shuffling; or frozen in fright like the deer in the head lamp, He has inherited a terrible legacy , but one which he contributed to its making in very substantial manner.The game is up Like Brown in the UK - he too is unlucky, unpopular, lingering in from day to day, never knowing the moment to go to the country. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday January 03, 2010 19:09 by john throne   text 26 comments (last - friday june 10, 2016 13:18)
These comments are from a number of Comrades mainly from a CWI and IMT background. But we think they will find an echo with Comrades from many other left backgrounds. We have concluded that the internal life of just about every left group is unhealthy, overly centralized, too top down, even we would go so far as saying to some extent undemocratic. We believe that the internal lives of these groups draw from the period when the Bolshevik party was degenerating and being taken over by Stalinism and along with that became negatively influenced by many decades when they were isolated from the mass workers movement. The recent crisis in the IMT is a reflection of these false methods of organizing which are common to just about all revolutionary left groups. We try to discuss this here. We look forward to hearing from Comrades. See our Learning From the Past link and our blog address. John Throne. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 30, 2009 06:17 by Conor. M   text 20 comments (last - wednesday january 06, 2010 15:41)   image 1 image
“Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right.”
Dr Martin Luther King Jr read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 30, 2009 00:50 by RedFlag32   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 03, 2010 17:52)
Don't get stuck into a fake discourse of humanitarian emergency - Slavoj Zizek. read full story / add a comment
The Celtic design on the Lewis chessmen
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Sunday December 27, 2009 23:38 by Brian   text 21 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2011 04:27)   image 6 images
Every secret of art, every subtlety of knowledge, and every diligence of healing that exists, from the Tuatha De Danann had their origin. And although the Faith came, these arts were not driven out, for they are good.(1) read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 23, 2009 11:44 by Brendan Butler   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 27, 2009 10:12)
Has the term 'religious ethos' any substance in fact .If it is claimed to be a major factor in the life of a school then let it be evaluated in terms of outcome just as we have league tables in terms of academic achievement. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday December 18, 2009 23:18 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
The first part of this full-length interview went out on http://www.thedigitalhubfm.com globally and on 94.3fm all over Dublin's inner city on December 18th 2009 read full story / add a comment
international / housing / opinion/analysis Monday December 14, 2009 00:26 by kraaker   text 4 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 08:37)
A pamflet about the new anit-squat law and what is expected to happen when it is passed. PDF file attached. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday December 10, 2009 15:47 by Brendan Guilfoyle   text 7 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 11:14)
That ICTU has singularly failed public sector workers is absolutely indisputable – the events of the last few weeks have only served to show in the most gruesome manner the appalling state of the current “leadership”. Every time our Union negotiators open their mouths they further discredit the public service, conceding ground, kicking to touch on industrial action and giving the government yet more ammunition to attack us with. read full story / add a comment
Israeli blood diamonds sponsor war crimes
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 09, 2009 17:48 by Sean Clinton   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 27, 2010 09:44)   image 1 image
Israeli blood diamonds will be forever ....on your conscience.

As the Christmas season approaches the Israeli government can look forward to another bumber inflow of revenue to its exchequer funded by consumers the world over who unwittingly purchase Israeli blood diamonds. Few people are aware that Israel is the world's largest producer of cut and polished diamonds. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 09, 2009 00:00 by Thomas Janak   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 00:12)   audio 2 audio files
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