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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday March 30, 2006 19:04 by Big Jim
 1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 19:12)
The Labour Party like other organisations operates a pension scheme for its employees, in Labour’s case it’s a defined benefit scheme which offers employees a pension based on a fixed percentage of their salary upon retirement. The staff pay in 5% of their salary each year and in return the party is supposed to cover the balance. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 30, 2006 18:38 by Arnold
3 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 17:22)
What is the justification for private property? What is the justification for collective property? I believe that the answer to two both questions is the same: There is none. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday March 30, 2006 12:39 by Paul Doyle
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Irish prisioner Aiden Hulme has been subject to shocking medical neglect since his inprisonment in England and will loose his leg if immidiate action is not taken. Sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/87bb92a/petition.html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 14:41 by Shannon
13 comments (last - saturday april 01, 2006 00:09)
As an American, I am completely fed up with the "war on terror" going on in Iraq and the constant screw-ups along made along the way. Yesterday, I read that Ayad Allawi, Iraq's former interim learder has consented that Iraq is involved in a Civil War, yet the US Idiot cannot seem to figure that out. Now today, I brouse through The Guardian, and discover a story relating tales of terror detainees barred from trials in the US courts, and awaiting judgement on their right to a trial. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:30 by Mick
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What are the causes? This is not scientific but I believe that a scientific study would probably identify these factors in order of significane. 1. Public ignorance and stupidity. 2. Speeding 3. Alcohol and drugs. 4. Poor driving tests and skills and lack of knowledge of the rules of the road. 5. Poor secondary roads. 6. Poor enforcement of road laws by police and lenient punishments for offenders. 7. Increased road usuge and congestion in urban areas. Most importantly - "What is the solution?" read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 13:29 by Miriam Cotton
5 comments (last - thursday march 30, 2006 17:27)
I don’t know the last time the Irish Examiner bothered to write about the subject of disability but it is a certainty that the issue is not a priority for the paper’s editors in the normal run of events and it has negligible coverage in its pages. For instance, if you compare its coverage of the subject of horseracing or business issues, disability trails well behind either despite its significance to huge numbers of people. read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 29, 2006 05:00 by John Aherne
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Can anyone tell me as to why it is so difficult to have a basic need catered to regarding accessibility in Ireland? In this day and age you would think firstly that pure and utter logic would prevail, but with my expieriences, and with the so called "Celtic Tiger" we are years away from being a society that open doors. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 28, 2006 14:19 by Friends of Kunle
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TODAY is the day that Nigerian Asylum Seeker Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo has been ordered to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau by Justice Minister Michael McDowell so that the deportation to Nigeria proceedings against him can be expedited. Let’s see a show of support for Kunle outside the GNIB today and more until he is allowed to stay in Ireland! read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 17:32 by WS
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Mary Harney has banned the sale of magic mushrooms!! In a decision taken in record-quick time, Harney and her government colleagues decided that they couldn’t have us all going around sampling mind-altering fungi and maybe even enjoying them. More importantly the decision was made that we couldn’t be trusted to decide for ourselves what was safe/unsafe for each of us to try. We need such decisions to be made for us because apparently we are incapable of deciding for ourselves. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 16:23 by Mick
1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 08:01)
The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast. The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe. Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul. Roll opening credits. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 13:56 by U McBride
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Most people find it hard to believe that the US and Britain could be planning another war - on Iran this time - after the disastars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Read on please. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 00:23 by Iosaf mac D .:. "the ipsiphi"
9 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 23:01) 3 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". Music will carry us through all tyranny. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 21:15 by Topper
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media has consistently failed to report the truth about Iraq. This article looks at some of the most striking failures, and asks why read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 14:36 by Seán Ryan
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Short article that examines murder in Ireland read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on. If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 25, 2006 00:33 by MLC
1 comment (last - sunday march 26, 2006 09:23)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 24, 2006 12:27 by PR
The victory of Evo Morales in the presidential elections in Bolivia in December has underlined once more that across Latin America there is a demand for change. The first significant victory came back in 2002 when Lulu, the leader of the Brazilian Workers Party was elected to power after a long and arduous campaign that stretched back almost two decade. It is claimed that Lulu’s victory and his pronouncements about making Brazil a fairer society sent ‘shivers’ through world stock markets. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 13:26 by WS
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Labour leader pat Rabbitte showed his opportunism when he called for a look at work visas for EU nationals. He raised the spectre of 40 million poles chasing “Irish Jobs”. It was a thoroughly disappointing turn by Labour but hardly surprising. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 13:23 by Ted Bagg
2 comments (last - sunday march 26, 2006 17:27)
Framing vs Money: Don't blame the public. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 03:30 by hackwatch
3 comments (last - monday march 27, 2006 22:34)
To see the ideological bias of the Irish media, the treatment of the trade unions by our tribe of opinion writers is probably as good a place as any to start. If one was so foolish as to believe that the national media's commentators presented a reasonably accurate range of the opinions held by the population then you would probably come to the conclusion that trade unions were some sort of masonic conspiracy, made up of "pampered dinosaurs" who regularly "hold the country to ransom" and never cease to threaten our poor down-trodden consumers with their refusal to "embrace change". read full story / add a comment |
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