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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'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

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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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Potential safety issues with solar panels were known to a council for more than a year before a fire broke out at a primary school this month, following a similar fire at a community centre in June 2024.
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Professor James Alexander, who once played in a Heavy Metal band, pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne as a pioneer of the genre that for many young men supplies an identity and lifestyle. Yes, it's weird. But it has its place.
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The Republicans have finally done it ? they've cut funding to NPR, the public broadcaster so biased every single one of its 87 editorial staff are Democrats. If only the BBC were next, says Professor James Allan.
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offsite link Is the US Losing the World to China? Sat Jul 26, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Two major cross-national surveys published this year show that China is now perceived more positively than the US?by a sizeable margin. Is the US losing the world to China?
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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National Gallery Hides Art: RTE Hides News: Artist Hits Nail On Head: Guards Involved

category dublin | arts and media | news report author Wednesday March 25, 2009 10:14author by Walter Goren Report this post to the editors

Last Saturday a man added his own original artwork to the walls of the National Gallery's portrait collection. He placed his 'Portait of Brian Cowen' on the wall next to a work depicting Maeve Binchy. It hung for forty minutes, before being removed.
Portrait of Biran Cowen, 2009, anonymours
Portrait of Biran Cowen, 2009, anonymours

The management proceeded to contact the Gardai. The officers photographed it, and it was subsequently consigned to temporary storage. The CCTV still frames of the man are currently displayed in both cloakrooms, as one would pin up images of dangerous criminals.

Accounts suggest that the wooden frame was expensive. The quality of the painting itself is high, and indicates that the painter is a full-time artist, and probably a trained one too.

Being a conservative institution, it is beyond the scope of this organisation to promote anti-establishment art. However this piece represents a step forward in the development of Irish art. By all rights, the work must be handed over to a commercial gallery, or to a private dealer before it is lost to history.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Photographer     Michael Gallagher    Wed Mar 25, 2009 14:08 
   Kittensoft     Fat Cat.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 14:25 
   Brazen and hilarious     Jim    Wed Mar 25, 2009 14:55 
   National Treasure     Albatrot    Wed Mar 25, 2009 15:08 
   Agreed     Michael Gallagher    Wed Mar 25, 2009 15:46 
   Apology to Brian Cowen? - RTE Lost the plot     rose of mooncoin    Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:21 
   Soft-n-Gentle 3-ply.     Soft-n-Gentle 3-ply.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:28 
   Jeezis, Biffo !!     TYS    Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:37 
   Defeat Censorship     Tack    Wed Mar 25, 2009 16:44 
 10   What kind of Vision does this artist wish to portray     Michelle Clarke    Wed Mar 25, 2009 19:15 
 11   Hook, line and     Albatrot    Wed Mar 25, 2009 19:48 
 12   appalling how this reads in far far away land.     shrek    Wed Mar 25, 2009 20:39 
 13   Making the petrified condition dance ...     noyourefuckingboring    Wed Mar 25, 2009 20:41 
 14   What do art critics think?     Art buff    Thu Mar 26, 2009 00:33 
 15   Lenins Country     The Man    Thu Mar 26, 2009 01:04 
 16   The over-reaction is beyond absurd     Jim    Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:42 
 17   The medium is the message . . . .     Fred Johnston    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:43 
 18   Sexxxy Brian - on and then off RTE     southern comfort    Thu Mar 26, 2009 17:57 
 19   1985 Chicago painting of mayor in lingerie     Muir Linn    Thu Mar 26, 2009 18:32 
 20   Further to Fred J's points.     Michael Gallagher    Thu Mar 26, 2009 18:46 
 21   Artist of the decade     Dave Lordan    Thu Mar 26, 2009 19:52 
 22   Art should not descend to abuse     Justin Morahan    Fri Mar 27, 2009 13:25 
 23   Is There An Emperor In The House?     Michael Gallagher    Fri Mar 27, 2009 14:34 
 24   Roll Up Roll Up     Michael Gallagher    Fri Mar 27, 2009 15:06 
 25   Laughable.     Tagger    Sat Mar 28, 2009 00:12 
 26   Complain to RTE re apology re Biffo     Jessie    Sat Mar 28, 2009 00:59 
 27   Art, free speech, bullying and abuse     Justin Morahan    Sat Mar 28, 2009 03:21 
 28   Bullying?     Michael Gallagher    Sat Mar 28, 2009 15:00 
 29   Bullying Hmm? Rather Deceipt.     Arm-a-Gedden.    Sat Mar 28, 2009 17:51 
 30   Nationwide     Not important    Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:40 
 31   Why is this taoiseach to be afforded a "dignity" which no other comparative leader gets?     iosaf    Sun Mar 29, 2009 21:34 
 32   Brown Cowen     'portantfella    Sun Mar 29, 2009 21:36 
 33   A bully is usually someone who takes advantage of a power imbalance to make somebody's life hard     ArtEnthusiast    Mon Mar 30, 2009 00:31 
 34   Bertie     artlover    Mon Mar 30, 2009 09:05 
 35   Fleece.     P-Artist.    Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:22 
 36   Yuk     Depressed    Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:45 
 37   who likes art?     Art buff    Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:02 
 38   F-art.     Philistine    Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:41 
 39   Is it Art?, Well, yes it is.     Fred Johnston    Mon Mar 30, 2009 13:00 
 40   names     Art buff    Mon Mar 30, 2009 13:13 
 41   Puffed Up.     Philistine    Mon Mar 30, 2009 13:20 
 42   Philistine     McGahern    Mon Mar 30, 2009 14:29 
 43   Flattery.     Philistine    Mon Mar 30, 2009 20:38 
 44   Im a big fat BIFFO get me out of here     Big Fat BIFFO    Mon Mar 30, 2009 21:32 
 45   Amen.     Mindless Philistine    Mon Mar 30, 2009 22:39 
 46   The Casby pictures are art.     Fred Johnston    Tue Mar 31, 2009 17:08 
 47   Non admiratio     Michelangelo    Wed Apr 01, 2009 09:58 
 48   art appreciation     Art buff    Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:51 
 49   On the Night Watch.     Rembrandt    Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:42 
 50   Good ol' Andy     Fred Johnston    Wed Apr 01, 2009 14:07 
 51   Warhol's collection     Art buff    Wed Apr 01, 2009 14:55 
 52   Masterpiece.     Tracy    Wed Apr 01, 2009 16:16 
 53   Bertie ahearn the real architect of our current economic crisis avoids a similar moobgate scandal     ArtEnthusiast    Wed Apr 01, 2009 18:18 
 54   Last Supper.     Leonardo da Vinci    Wed Apr 01, 2009 20:15 
 55   New Masterpiece.     Prematurely Old Master.    Thu Apr 02, 2009 08:14 
 56   April Fool, lads     Fred Johnston    Thu Apr 02, 2009 14:12 
 57   The Emperor's New Clothes     Teeshock    Fri Apr 03, 2009 03:53 


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