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cork / gender and sexuality / news report Friday February 11, 2011 15:07 by Paul McAndrew
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Telling people they should hide is a threat. This man, regularly standing on Patrick St Cork is making a political attack on the queer community and its allies and should be met with a political response. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Friday February 11, 2011 13:11 by Peter Sullivan
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Electoral Honesty Commission takes issue with Green Party's Dan Boyle Dan Boyle, the financial spokesperson for the Green Party, is running in this general election on the platform: ‘Dan Boyle – Honest And True’. But whatever about the veracity of this claim and, let’s face it, politicians are well known for their exaggerations, there appears to be a clear loss of memory by Dan when it comes to owning up to his famous ‘achievements’. Like, for example, bringing the IMF in. Or, like cutting the dole. Or, like consigning a generation of Irish people to a future of emigration. read full story / add a comment
cork / history and heritage / press release Wednesday February 09, 2011 21:02 by Seán Ó Murchú
Clonmult Martyrs Commemoration Committee, members of Republican Sinn Fein, relatives and friends met recently in Midleton to organise the 90th Annual Commemoration for Sunday 20th February 2010 at Midleton. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday December 09, 2010 23:33 by Ray
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600 Corkonians braved the cold weather on Wednesday night to participate in the anti-budget protest march and rally called by the Independent Workers Union. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Monday December 06, 2010 10:28 by Peter Sullivan
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A range of political organisations have come together in Cork under the umbrella of the Independent Workers Union to organise a mobilisation and march against the Budget this coming Wednesday. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 03, 2010 20:22 by TD
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In a series of rolling protests organised by the Union of Student in Ireland, over 2,000 students demonstrated in Cork City on 1-12-2010 against proposed hikes to the student registration fee. In a strong address to the protesters in Grand Parade , University College Cork students union president, Keith O'Brien said it was monstrous that education funds were being cut and students were being forced to pay increased registration fee hikes by a government guilty of gross mismanagement. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 23, 2010 06:55 by Hilary Quinn
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A vigil was organised to meet next to our national monument on Grand Parade, with a few hours notice, in honour of the loss of Irish sovereignty. As numbers grew, so did the need to march on the streets, the anger was palpable at yesterdays announcement that the IMF would now be loaning Ireland, under Brian Cowen's leadership, up to €90bn. read full story / add a comment
cork / arts and media / press release Thursday October 28, 2010 16:48 by moray bresnihan
The Trash Culture Revue is a DIY festival in Cork that is organised by online gift economy, mutantspace.ie. We held our first festival in June and proved that it is possible to run a festival with absolutely no money relying instead on mutual co-operation, active participation and the giving and sharing of skills and resources. This November’s revue will prove to be no different read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 00:09 by LATIF SERHILDAN
UK Delegation in Diyarbakir to observe the trial of 151 Kurdish political activists and human rights defenders. Press Statement as read out to the Turkish media - 19 October 2010 read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / news report Monday September 27, 2010 22:41 by anarkitty
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another successful chaos cabaret was held in cork on thursday 23rd september upstairs in spailpin fanac read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 16, 2010 00:36 by Latif Serhildan
Noting the results of Sunday's referendum, Kurds in Irealnd reiterates their position that Turkey's democratization ultimately requires a completely new, civilian constitution and, perhaps even more importantly, a democratic solution to the Kurdish issue. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 23:47 by Marie-Therese O' Loughlin
Re: Industrial Schools and the Legacy thereof. I have just signed a petition for survivors' of institutional child abuse to have Statutory Funding given to them directly; as opposed to bureaucratic handling of it by government agencies, et al. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 19, 2010 12:53 by Bryan Wall
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A number of weeks ago, an article has published in a local newspaper in Cork in which the 19 year old author describes her time volunteering with the IDF for 2 months over the summer. This article is a response to her initial article and a correction of the false claims and accusations she made in her initial article. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / press release Saturday June 19, 2010 10:27 by D O D
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The Independent Workers Union promotes left unity. In order to manifest this view, it is our intention to host Cork’s first “Left Unity Table Quiz”. The Official date for this momentous event shall be bonfire night, Wednesday 23rd June 2010, @9pm in 'An Spailpín Fánach Cork. read full story / add a comment 
cork / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday June 06, 2010 23:05 by Ray
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This is the 5th annual Cork Pride Parade, and it brought colour and smiles aplenty to Cork's streets this bank holiday Saturday. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday June 05, 2010 16:26 by John Jefferies
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A few hundred people turned up today in Cork city centre to voice their outrage at the murder of aid workers by Israeli commandos. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 01, 2010 23:05 by Ray
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Between 6p.m. and 8p.m. this evening a dozen or more of the city's Palestine solidarity activists held a vigil on Patrick St. To remember the people slain when Israeli commandos wantonly attacked the Freedom Flotilla on its way to Gaza to break the illegal blockade imposed by Israel and deliver much-needed humanitarian aid. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 31, 2010 18:36 by John Jefferies
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Some photos of today's lunchtime protest in Cork at the overnight Israeli commando attack on part of the Gaza aid flotilla. Among those who spoke was Jim Lane, himself a lifelong activist, who is the father of Dr. Fintan Lane. Over 100 people attended the protest at short notice and a group later marched to Cork City Hall, calling on the Lord Mayor to open a book of condolences and to demand the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 28, 2010 11:44 by Save the Orthopaedic!
More than 200 people attended the SAVE OUR ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL rally organised by patients, ex-patients and the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service at the hospital gates on Thursday, May 27. read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment / news report Tuesday May 25, 2010 13:20 by Ray
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Nearly thirty cyclists who had started off from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales the previous day arrived in Ringaskiddy on the ferry early on Monday 24th of May. They passed through Cork city on their way up the west coast to Rossport, Co. Mayo, and were joined by a dozen-strong cycle contingent from Spain, who had cycled all the way from Madrid, also linking struggles against fossil fuel extraction in Spain with those in Wales and here in Ireland. read full story / add a comment |
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