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Butcher’s dozen: The crimes of Bloody Sunday 47 years on
Shock and disbelief is the reaction to the decision of the Northern Ireland Prosecution Service to charge only one British Paratrooper in connection with the murder of 14 innocent civil rights marchers on Derry’s “Bloody Sunday,” January 30, 1972
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Ireland: “Cute Hoors” Homeless wasters playing their cards right?
“…the best way to solve homelessness in Dublin would be to provide no beds.” Owen Keegan, Dublin City Council’s Chief Executive
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IRELAND: Death of Séan Garland “Letter to international comrades”
It is with deep sadness and regret that the Workers Party of Ireland announces the death of our esteemed comrade, Seán Garland,
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IRELAND: National Demonstration On The Housing Crisis
The National Homeless and Housing Coalition have called a national demonstration on the housing crisis to take place on Saturday December 1st at 2pm. After the massive success of the #RaiseTheRoof rally, on October 3rd – when we had 12,000
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IRELAND: POLICING “Maurice McCabe and the rot inside the state”
Whistleblower Maurice McCabe’s efforts to expose corruption in the local Garda force in Cavan was met with vicious reprisals from the national leadership of An Garda Síochána
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Report says unification of Ireland can prevent Brexit economic crash
A new international research study has concluded the reunification of Ireland would lead to a massive economic windfall for the whole island, while Brexit will have disastrous consequences
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Health Apartheid in Ireland
Ireland has just been identified as one of the most unequal countries in the EU regarding access to healthcare
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Ireland: Death and Rising of Emma Mhic Mhathúna
So far, due to a variety of ignoble reasons, not least public healthcare being farmed out to private laboratories, 221 women have now been identified whose smear tests had been read incorrectly with tragic consequences
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IRELAND: CIVIL RIGHTS? OR CIVIL WRONGS?
Cause for concern should grow following the violence witnessed on September 11 at North Frederick Street in inner city Dublin
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DUBLIN, Ireland “Masked Garda threaten housing campaigners with batons”
Pepper spray, dogs and batons were deployed, there were 5 or 6 arrests and four housing campaigners required hosptial visits from injuries received in the course of the eviction of the Frederick St occupation
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Ireland “Summer of the Vultures”
“The tsunami that I warned about has been delayed and outsourced, but it is coming.”
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Ireland: No Longer Homes – Only (Bank) Assets Now?
Thus “vulture” funds have come to be recognised (despised?) as a relatively recent feature in the ongoing capitalist ‘revolution’ that has replaced the 20th century
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Ireland: Constitutional Ban on Abortion Defeated
Many of the civil liberties enjoyed elsewhere in Europe (contraception, divorce, abortion) were, for a long time, denied in Ireland, largely on the grounds of the Roman Catholic faith
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Women, the Church & the Irish State: A history of misogyny & repression
The power of the Catholic Church in Ireland was cemented even before the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922
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LOS IRLANDESES DECIDEN EN REFERENDUM SOBRE EL DERECHO AL ABORTO
Este viernes, 25 de Mayo, Irlanda celebra un referendum histórico relativo al derecho al aborto
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How Irish anti-abortion activists are drawing on Brexit and Trump campaigns to influence referendum
Backlash against Irish abortion rights enlists some of the same technologies, companies, and individuals involved in controversial Trump and Brexit campaigns
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Protests across Ireland against Israeli massacre
Thousands protested in cities across the country this evening following a horrific mass murder by Israel of some 60 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza on Monday
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Ireland: Is Property Theft? Irish Landlords in Power
Ireland, with its punishing history of colonisation, has a no less traumatic ‘memory’ of property, its possession and, more importantly, its dispossession or lack
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IRELAND: Why is Theresa May protecting the DUP’s dirty little (Brexit) secret?
Theresa May’s Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is going to try to sneak a big favour to the DUP, the small party now propping up May’s government in parliament
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IRELAND: New Head Arrives – Same Old Reactionary Politics?
Ireland now inherits a new Taoiseach and the Fine Gael party a new head on boring-old-shoulders, existing Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar
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