Everything Must Go!

Concerns about the safety of Shell’s pipeline in Rossport are well known. But that’s not all that’s at stake. Not by 400 billion euro. The oil companies exploiting Ireland’s west coast have got some of the sweetest deals in the world and that doesn’t happen by accident.

This article looks at how the Irish state has been busy rolling over for the last thirty years so the multinationals can grab the riches that should belong to us all.

Related Links: ICTU head calls ponders nuclear power | Eirigi Natural Resources | SP on climate change | Rossport: a community resisting the multinationals | Peak oil and Energy Resources |

Gerry McGeough

Arch-Catholic, novelist, ally of Justin Barrett, former I.R.A. volunteer, and failed gun runner Gerry McGeough is standing in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections on a traditional republican platform in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency.

This article (taken from the newswire) analyses the politics and ideology of Gerry McGeough, his Hibernian magazine and other conservative and right wing nationalists that identify themselves as republicans. It outlines the background of Gerry McGeough, his past involvement in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, his current activity as editor of the extreme right-wing The Hibernian and explores their ideas and interpretations of nationalism, republicanism, religion, mysticism, sex, immigration, Masonic conspiracy theories and secularism vs. theocracy. The article also provides some historical background on the right wing aspects that have featured in Irish republicanism.

Related Links on Indymedia: Fascist Ex-Provo Exposed — Justin Barrett’s cohort appears on Radio Free Eireann — McGeough Rants On — Craobh Gál Gréine commemoration — The Other Side of the Anti-EU Coin, Justin Barrett on Tour — Fascist Barrett Scores with the Great and Good of NUIG — Barrett’s Friends and Supporters — 'Statement regarding Justin Barrett debate at UCD on 13th October 2004 by the AFA' — Justin Barrett gets a hand from UCD's L&H to organise — Debate on EU: left wing or clerical-conservative — Youth Defence Prints 50,000 Anti-Gay Leaflets — Inside the World of Dissident Republicanism — Interview with Irish Pro-Choice Activist — Cork’s First Ever Pride Parade a Triumph! — USI says ban on gay marriage breaches human rights

Other Related Links: Neo-Nazis at Lit. and Deb. Forum in NUI Galway (UCDSU) — What Youth Defence Didn’t Mention (UCDSU) — “More debates:” The alternative republican strategy for a united Ireland? (Slugger O'Toole) — Architects of Resurrection Ride Again — RSF article on Aiséirí

Jim Travers claims that the match between the Republic of Ireland and San Marino has given us the space to reflect on our beliefs, that what we thought in the past has now come true. Ireland was terrible by any standards and deserved to walk away with nothing more than a loss.

So Do We Kiddo

An Indymedia contributor stumbles out of their weekend lethargy long enough to dust off a hangover and type up this report on a Tony Benn address entitled "Peace, Faith and Power" delivered over two weeks ago on January 23rd to Trinity's Hist. With the dazzling might of the Internet age at my disposal, contemporaneous reporting has never been so exciting…

First the platitudes, Tony Benn is one of Britain's most graceful statesmen, serving over half a century in the British parliament before famously leaving to “devote more time to politics” and declaring himself "free at last" of the parliamentary shackles delaying real struggle.

The Site of Another Drugs
Related Death in the Blanch last year

Anthony Campbell, a 20-year-old apprentice plumber who lived in block F of the flats, at St Michan's House flats complex, near the Four Courts in Dublin was gunned down as he went about his work in a house at Scribblestown Park, Finglas, north Dublin yesterday morning.

Such was the swift, indiscriminate and chilling nature of the attack that he probably never realised why he was being killed. The cruel twist of circumstance that led to his death saw him shot in the house of a relative of a major crime boss because he would have been a witness to the killing of that criminal. Gardaí said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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