Upcoming Events

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
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.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Bizarro-World of the Forever Maskers Sat Dec 20, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
A committed hardcore of forever maskers and Zero Covid fanatics continues to live as though it's 2020, refusing to share any air with other people lest they get sick. The Telegraph investigates this strange new cult.
The post The Bizarro-World of the Forever Maskers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Political Conjugations Sat Dec 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
Everyone assumes that words have straightforward meanings. Philosophers because they want them to and politicians because they need them to. But the first law of politics is that words are ambiguous, says James Alexander.
The post Political Conjugations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Dec 20, 2025 00:37 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Fumes at ?Banana Republic? Britain as Labour Prepares to Delay Local Council Elections ... Fri Dec 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?has said Britain is turning into a "banana republic" as?Labour?prepares to delay local council elections again until 2027 for millions of voters.
The post Nigel Farage Fumes at “Banana Republic” Britain as Labour Prepares to Delay Local Council Elections Again Until 2027 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Leading Scottish Teaching Union Defines Gender Critical Views as ?Far Right? Fri Dec 19, 2025 15:00 | Annemarie Ward
The leading Scottish teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, has released a briefing that defines gender critical views and Reform UK supporters as "far Right". Pupils deserve better, says Annemarie Ward.
The post Leading Scottish Teaching Union Defines Gender Critical Views as “Far Right” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

antrim / environment / other press Thursday December 28, 2006 21:55 by Richard Murphy
A few months after her resignation from the Bush administration when her department was linked to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff , former US Interior Secretary Gayle Norton has taken a new job with Royal Dutch Shell.
read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday December 27, 2006 16:39 by Shell To Hell   text 16 comments (last - friday february 02, 2007 19:30)   image 1 image
The following is an account of the fire and explosion of a pipeline in Nigeria.
Hundreds were consumed by a hell on earth
If this ever happens in Mayo, Bertie will have blood on his hands! read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday December 27, 2006 12:31 by joeboy   text 22 comments (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 19:56)   image 3 images
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

U2 singer Bono is to be awarded an honorary British knighthood for "his services to the music industry and for his humanitarian work", the British embassy has announced.

Bono will receive the award from the British ambassador to Ireland, David Reddaway, in a ceremony in Dublin in the coming weeks. A spokesman for the singer said he was "very flattered" to receive the award, particularly if it opens doors for his campaigning work against poverty in Africa. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 27, 2006 05:17 by budgie   text 11 comments (last - tuesday january 02, 2007 14:39)
The puppet judiciary of occupied Iraq today announced that Saddam Hussein would be hanged within 30 days. Saddam is presently being tried for the mass murder of Kurdish villagers but the judiciary insisted that he MUST be executed regardless of any other proceedings. This decision is a ‘just in time’ corporate-style decision – just in time for what the uninformed reader would ask? Just in time to save America from incrimination for supplying the chemical weapons and expertise required to kill the innocent Kurdish villagers – that is the REAL NEWS of the day! read full story / add a comment
rachel_corrie_1.jpg
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 26, 2006 21:08 by David K.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 27, 2006 15:00)   image 2 images
A play featuring the writings of the late American peace activist Rachel Corrie: “My Name is Rachel Corrie” has been cancelled at a Canadian Theatre in what can only be described as contemptible self censorship. The Canadian theatre company CanStage has done a three monkeys and pulled down the Iron Curtain of censorship down on it by announcing its cancelling plans to present the play in Toronto : Can stage, won't stage, exit stage. read full story / add a comment
A Good news cover: episode 10: Adoption
dublin / arts and media / other press Tuesday December 26, 2006 11:36 by François Beaune   image 5 images
The Good news or how to aprehend corporate media’s distorsions and lies

“Reading tabloids at work put me in such a state of distress I had to do something about it. So I took my scissors, rearranged the images and rewrote the issues so at least I could get a laugh out of them.” That’s how Jacques Dauphin decided to turn corporate media’s brain-washing newspapers into ridicule.
Tabloids are part of english and irish life, a complement and justification to the millions of CCTVs now hanging at every street corner. Fearful tragedies fuelled with drugs and poverty seem complementary with a fascination for the rich, powerful and famous.
In a humorous way, Jacques Dauphin denounces the state of alienation tabloid readers are kept in by pushing irrelevance and unprecedented rumors even further than tabloids dare to.
Jacques Dauphin’s Good news are strictly copyleft, can be sent on the internet without permission and printed as long as people ask him at: jacques.dauphin@gmail.com
read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 25, 2006 06:38 by finch
The arch-conservative Anglican Dean of Sydney's St. Andrews Cathedral, Phil Jensen, has delivered a Christmas message worthy of the most mindless, inane comment that the infamous neo-con war monger and lunatic Donald “uknown knowns” Rumsfeld could have delivered. The Dean stated that “Christmas is about God giving, that God gave the gift of God and the gift of God, is God," (!) Those Australians who imagined that mindless, unqualified statements only issued from American neo-cons be advised, conservative pro-American Evangelicals are alive and very ‘unwell’ in conservative Anglican Sydney. read full story / add a comment
The critics reply to Peter Hart 1 of 3 - click to read
cork / history and heritage / other press Sunday December 24, 2006 16:24 by Niall Meehan   text 8 comments (last - monday august 16, 2010 23:05)   image 9 images
As it is no longer availailable elsewhere online this History Ireland debate is reproduced here - either with a graphic (click to read) or with text. read full story / add a comment
Mayo TD Jerry Cowley using a Garda megaphone to tell protesters to let Shell trucks pass unhindered
national / politics / elections / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 16:50 by Listener   image 1 image
RTÉ Radio ONE - Just after 6PM on Saturday 23rd. A look at the General Election Constituency of Mayo.

This might interest some people from outside Mayo, since the protests against Shell have presumably had an impact on the political landscape. There's always a possibility that RTÉ might not mention the protests of course... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 09:41 by Paul Doran   text 6 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 23:48)
The following is a video made by US Marines and posted on the youtube video sharing website.
Parodying the US show "Extreme Makeover" the soldiers set about rigging the home of an innocent Iraqi family with explosives and razing it to the gound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVwNUzF5kU read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 22, 2006 08:45 by peptide
As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception? read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 22, 2006 03:00 by TJ
The New York Times is reporting that : Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, bought control of the world’s largest combined oil and natural gas development yesterday after a highly publicized campaign of pressure on its foreign operator, Royal Dutch Shell.
read full story / add a comment
leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:58 by Sylvia
The Al Jazeera website is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell is evacuating about 400 of the dependants of its expatriate staff from the Niger Delta to Lagos after fighters planted a car bomb in a residential compound earlier in the week. The stimulus to evacuate was engendered by another attack today when armed men stormed Total's Rivers state oil facility killing three police officers. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:26 by Dunlo   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 24, 2007 12:14)
The New York Times is currently reporting that the United States and Britain will soon move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. Senior U.S. officers told the paper that the increase in naval power should not be viewed as preparations for any offensive strike against Iran. But they acknowledged that the ability to hit Iran would be increased. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 16:20 by OZ
The killing of local aboriginal man Mulruniji by Snr. Sgt. Chris Hurley on Palm Island, Queensland, that resulted in a spontaneous riot and deployment of paramilitary police will not lead to the charging of the police officer concerned. In the history of the state of Queensland that has seen many aboriginal deaths in custody not one police officer has ever faced charges. This killing was captured in the watchhouse CCTV, the coroner put the cause of death squarely on Snr. Sgt. Hurley. The Queenlsland Labor Govt. has decided not to pursue charges. see link for more info http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134272.php read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 04:29 by barra
It’s Official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn? read full story / add a comment
armagh / politics / elections / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by Charlie Kerins   text 27 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 22:27)
Davy Hyland and Pat O'Rawe have both been de-selected from contesting the forthcoming assembly elections.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194757.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/619...9.stm read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by TJ   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 21, 2006 19:47)
Today's Guardian is reporting that : The state-owned Russian group,Gazprom, is close to taking control of Shell's Sakhalin-2 project with Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer making a third trip to Moscow in as many weeks to tie up the final details of the agreement.

read full story / add a comment
Irving in court today
clare / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 19:57 by Nora M.   image 2 images
Irving is set to leave Austria after winning an appeal today against a three-year prison sentence for denying the Holocaust,The Austrian judge who ruled in favor of his release is considered to be a supporter of Jorg Heider's rightist Austrian Freedom Party, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday.

When Haider's party was a coalition member, judge Ernest Mauer was appointed as member of the Austrian Broadcasting authority Osterriechischer Rudfunk.

read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Gaeilge

IMC network

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy