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The Saker 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.
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national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Thursday September 07, 2006 13:53 by Miriam Cotton
 3 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 17:43)
We're all aware of the contempt with which people with disability and their families are regarded by the state. And as if the present government were not already unpopular enough among this community of people, they have decided arbitrarily to slash the Carers Allowance which mothers of children with disability are entitled to. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 06, 2006 23:34 by John Donovan
John Donovan, a long term shareholder and critic of Royal Dutch Shell Plc management, provides an overview of a board room culture which has allowed a series of scandals to damage Shell’s once proud reputation. A culture where directors have been prepared to cook the books and have whistleblowers (Dr John Huong) and campaigners (the “Rossport Five”), terrorised and thrown in jail. Shell's reputation has been ruined due to the rapacious greed, arrogance and aggressive tactics of some Shell executives. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 06, 2006 21:37 by dynamoshels
Meningitis rates in Ireland are among the highest in Europe, this is just one persons story of the impact of the disease read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 06, 2006 15:00 by Hal Brognola
Nobody really knows how many people have died in Darfur over the last few years - certainly the number is in 100,000's. The end of this month the AU, African Union forces will withdraw and the Sudanese government promise it will replace them with its own troops - the same troops who have bombed and strafed and murdered their way through the region already - this time of course with a former rebel group who recently turned on their comrades to get concessions from Al-Bashir's regime. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 04, 2006 18:53 by gníomhaí
This is a belated e-mail-only just recently started writing on Indymedia.... On parts of the continent and in the UK, garden allotments are popular- if you live in a flat or don't have access to a garden it's a great way to grow your own veggies, get more self- sufficient and keep money out of the pockets of big supermarkets. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday September 04, 2006 18:03 by Pearl Finn
1 comment (last - wednesday september 06, 2006 18:27)
Opinion on why Europe's spacecraft crashed into the Moon yesterday and got abandoned. read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday September 03, 2006 21:26 by sofia
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Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen is not only a judger but also our splendid Irish republic's Inspector of Prisons. He is thus one of the few chaps who not only bangs people up but goes & has a look at them later. A pillar of the establishment. For those in the loop of Irish civil, human & other rights this last year, the recommendation by Dermot Kinlen to allow inmates in Ireland's penal community conjugal visits & rights was seen as sort of a promising thing read full story / add a comment
international / housing / opinion/analysis Sunday September 03, 2006 19:30 by Michael Scølardt
The acquisition of Ungdomshuset was part of a large and radical squatting movement that challenged property rights and developed a vibrant culture based around these squatted houses. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday September 03, 2006 16:58 by sofia
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Professional sexual services for the disabled are well established in several EU states including Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark & Sweden. Their development as part of a long-term full recovery strategy & therapy for adults who had lost mobility due to accidents soon expanded to addressing questions of "how do parents of disabled children be that disability mental or physical facilitate full sexual development & maturity?" The UK first saw co-habitation of young adults with Downes Syndrome with minimal input by either parents or social services in the early 90's. And now the Swiss group "FABS" has started the ball rolling in the Alpine country to provide a "full service" which goes beyond "erotic touching" to full sexual intercourse. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday September 02, 2006 21:48 by Jack Russell
7 comments (last - friday march 29, 2013 14:10)
Republican Sinn Fein (Saoirse) articles on Indymedia promts to examine the site further. It is is interesting reading but serious challenges lies ahead of the November deadline date. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday September 01, 2006 18:24 by watchman
6 comments (last - saturday september 02, 2006 21:06) 1 image
Members of the British SWP have surprisingly come out in support of yesterdays direct action to shut down the "Drax" coal power station in England. The action was the culmination of a week of environmental workshops held on a squatted common under heavy police surveillance with around 600 people attending. The SWP of course had nothing to do with the camp or the action but it seems they may be looking to hijack the growing libertarian-environmental movement in the UK. The support for this action and the raytheon action show how the SWP, who are currently desperate for membership after seriously discrediting themselves several times over the past few years with GR, IAWM and Mayday04, are contradicting their long running opposition to direct action. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Friday September 01, 2006 16:07 by gníomhaí
12 comments (last - friday november 19, 2010 12:54)  1 video file
Tired of supermarkets in Galway (and everywhere else) taking over? Here's what you can do: read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday September 01, 2006 14:03 by Observer 3
TESCO Mortgage Life Insurance 'As you'd expect from TESCO, our morgage life insurance product [ugh!] is one of the most affordable forms of cover currently available in Ireland.' God help us all. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 30, 2006 17:55 by Donal O'Kelly / Liam O'Maonlai
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(c) Donal O'Kelly read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 30, 2006 14:57 by Margaretta D'Arcy & John Arden
2 comments (last - sunday september 03, 2006 16:06)
On August 7th a group of actors and musicians went to Inis Meain, Aran Islands, to give a reading of "The Life & Times of James Connolly" from "The Non-Stop Connolly Show" by Margaretta D'Arcy & John Arden. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 30, 2006 14:17 by The Sun Burst
11 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 22:22)
Socialism as a concept cannot be summed up as easily as its opposite, capitalism. Capitalism is quite simply the pursuit of wealth by many individuals; the strongest will succeed while the weakest fall by the wayside. At present, this is the dominant social, economic and political ideology in global politics. We, of course, recognise that the basing of a society on such a negative human condition as greed is inherently wrong. We look to build a better system, one where all are cherished equally. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday August 28, 2006 16:35 by Donnchadh
10 comments (last - wednesday march 21, 2007 22:27)
Irish Holocaust denial, or genocide denial, which refers to itself as revisionism, has evolved over three decades of propagandising as an important "cutting edge" ideological weapon in the ideological war against the IRA after 1969. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday August 27, 2006 23:55 by jim travers
3 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 17:12)
After publishing an article called "Waste who's problem is it" on the Rathdown/Dunlaoghaire web site , I have looked at what has changed since I first published my views back in 2003. Has the Luas system contributed to traffic congestion and has local authorities made it easier for everybody to become environmnetally concious without having to pay for the privlidge of helping them secure yet another stealt tax without doing anything for it. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday August 25, 2006 14:10 by Political Hostage
3 comments (last - friday november 26, 2010 06:54)
On 27th July 2006 after a trial lasting almost a month the jury in the case of Det. Sgt. John White took just under one hour to throw out the case against Mr. White. For five years Garda Sgt. White had an accusation hanging over him that he planted a sawn-off shotgun at a Travellers encampment. Charged on June 20th 2001 he had always denied the claim. As White left the courthouse in Letterkenny he told waiting reporters that many of his former colleagues let him down and the only ones who had helped were some of the uniformed members of the force. This assertion from White would seem to suggest that the Garda organisation contains an inner core, namely the Special Branch. Many within the Special Branch of the Gardai have been involved in controversy for decades. There exists within the Special Branch a culture that are prepared to lie and perjure themselves to secure convictions against any individual that they want out of the way. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday August 24, 2006 19:56 by +
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Suicide by dousing oneself in petrol is a relatively recent option. Logically since refined petroleum has only been available to the mass population for a relatively short time. Just as long as Irish people have enjoyed the institution of the christian brothers they have been able to purchase parafin and diesel. The first newspaper headline grabbing suicide with petrol was on October 5th 1963 in Saigon, a buddhist monk Quang Duc had had enough of the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem. His action was copied more times than anyone cares to remember. In May 1966, 5 such suicides were recorded in just one week. a 17 year old girl followed a 19 year old girl who herself followed another monk. The South Vietnamese government was unpopular, so the USA went in to sort it out. read full story / add a comment |
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