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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 Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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offsite link Woman Recognised as ?First Black Briton? by BBC was Actually White Wed Dec 17, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
A woman who was recognised as the "first black Briton" by the BBC was actually white, a new genetic study has shown.
The post Woman Recognised as “First Black Briton” by BBC was Actually White appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Mandatory Masking Not Necessary ?Yet?, Says Streeting Wed Dec 17, 2025 16:00 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said there is no need to mandate mask-wearing for "everyone around the country" "at this stage" as "the time has not yet come for everyone to wear masks".
The post Mandatory Masking Not Necessary “Yet”, Says Streeting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Problem With ?Safeguarding? Wed Dec 17, 2025 13:56 | Mary Gilleece
'Safeguarding' is becoming a big problem, and not just because it's being weaponised against conservatives, says Mary Gilleece. Children are being put at risk as criminal conduct is tolerated under 'safeguarding' rules.
The post The Problem With ‘Safeguarding’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Migrant Families Cost ?5 Billion to Bring to Britain Wed Dec 17, 2025 11:37 | Will Jones
Reuniting migrant families is set to cost the British taxpayer ?5.6 billion over the course of their lifetimes, research by the Government's Migration Advisory Committee has found.
The post Migrant Families Cost ?5 Billion to Bring to Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shell Oil Sued Over ?Causing Typhoon? in Philippines in Major Test Case Wed Dec 17, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Shell Oil has been sued over a claim that it was partly responsible for a typhoon in the Philippines in 2021 in a major test case backed by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. What a pile of nonsense, says Chris Morrison.
The post Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” in Philippines in Major Test Case appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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carlow / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday October 07, 2012 19:33 by Saoirse   text 1 comment (last - friday october 12, 2012 15:27)   image 1 image
The Tony Ruane/Myles Shevlin Cumann of Republican Sinn Féin will be holding a picket in support of political status for Republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison, Co Antrim. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 05, 2012 20:42 by Costas Avramidis   text 3 comments (last - monday october 08, 2012 04:20)   image 3 images
That pat on the back to our "glorious leader Enda" in Time Magazine fails to come to terms BIG TIME with the reality on the ground here in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
Partition, Treaty and the Orange State 1920-22
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Friday October 05, 2012 19:55 by Ciarán   image 1 image
Harry Holland Lecture 2012
'Partition, Treaty and the Orange State 1920-22'

Friday 12th October, 7.30pm
Gort na Móna CLG
Springfield Road, Belfast read full story / add a comment
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antrim / miscellaneous / news report Friday October 05, 2012 15:28 by Jason Brannigan   image 1 image
On the 3rd and 4th of October the Co-operative Enterprise Hub was launched in Northern Ireland at two events in Derry and Belfast. Jason Brannigan of Just Books presented that organisation as a case study as part of the Belfast launch. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday October 03, 2012 17:15 by volunteer 13   text 3 comments (last - friday october 05, 2012 08:45)   image 2 images
October 3, 2012 By Dara Gantly

The first large-scale study to explore surgical outcomes across Europe has found that Irish patients have the highest risk of dying in Western Europe and the fourth-worst mortality rate among 28 European countries. Ireland is placed behind Poland, Latvia and Romania in the overall mortality table, published in a recent issue of the Lancet (2012;380:1059-65), but is worse off than Slovakia or Croatia. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 03, 2012 17:11 by IPSC   image 1 image
Dublin’s ‘Open House’ architectural festival has shamefully lent its name to an event sponsored by the Israeli Embassy in Ireland. This event, entitled ‘Postcards of our City’ is due to be launched on at 6.30pm Thursday 4th October in Dublin Civic Trust (4 Castle St, Dublin 2), is the latest attempt by the Israeli state to use ‘cultural propaganda’ to whitewash its human rights abuses and war crimes against the Palestinian people. Those attending will be invited by the Israeli Embassy to send postcards to “random” residents of Tel Aviv. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday October 03, 2012 16:08 by FUSION SUNDAYS   image 1 image
Fusion Sundays World Culture Market takes place every second Sunday of each month in the Dublin Food Co.op.
The market presents what the International community of Ireland has to offer...
On the 14th of October Fusion Sundays will host a special Indian Diwali celebration! read full story / add a comment
Hare Coursing....end this now.
waterford / animal rights / news report Wednesday October 03, 2012 15:25 by Bernie Wright   text 7 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2012 01:53)   image 5 images
Waterford LIVE HARE Coursing
EMAIL ALERT

The Waterford Hare Coursing club do not have their own field to hold events. [They currently use a temporary piece of land. ]They therefore are reliant on someone with land to rent or lend for their annual two days enclosed hare coursing event.
Notice:
WATERFORD & DISTRICT COURSING CLUB 88th ANNUAL MEETING
AT BALLYVALICAN PORTLAW CO.WATERFORD
by kind permission of the landowners .
MONDAY & TUESDAY 29th & 30th OCTOBER 2012

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 01, 2012 16:28 by Elric   image 1 image
Anti-Fascist Action Ireland will be hosting a weekend of events to mark our 21st birthday on the 6th to the 7th of October in Dublin City.

Sunday:

Walking Tour, Plaque Unveiling, Mural Unveiling & Trad/Ballad Session. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 01, 2012 16:23 by Elric   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 06, 2012 10:47)   image 1 image
Anti-Fascist Action Ireland will be hosting a weekend of events to mark our 21st birthday on the 6th to the 7th of October in Dublin City.

Saturday:

Public meeting on the future of militant anti-Fascism in Europe with speakers from England, Denmark, Ireland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Sweden. Main Hall, Teachers Club (36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1), 3 pm.

Concert with leading Irish, Scottish and English ska, reggae, punk and Oi! bands and DJs.
Venue: The Grand Social (35 Lower Liffey St, Dublin 1), 8 pm - 3 am.

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national / history and heritage / news report Saturday September 29, 2012 14:54 by Simon McGuinness   text 2 comments (last - monday october 01, 2012 19:52)   image 1 image
Che Guevara's daughter will be attending the All-Ireland final tomorrow supporting Galway. She is a descendant of both the Lynch and Blake tribes of Galway. read full story / add a comment
Labour Careerists
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 28, 2012 10:02 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 3 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2012 04:22)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
After Roisin Shortall's departure yesterday from Government with little or no support from her so called Labour colleagues, Roisin must wonder today, if she too is a prisoner of the island of Lilliput. Despite Ms Shortall's principled resignation, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny, his Labour Tanaiste Eamonn Gilmore and other so called former Labour comrades, all leapt instead to the defence of super capitalist Health Minister Dr James Reilly or perhaps more accurately, to the defence of their luxurious ministerial salaries, from the little Irish taxpayers. Then of course the Fine Gael Minister has always made no secret of his hatred for the short all, little people of Lilliputian Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday September 27, 2012 09:12 by youth worker   text 20 comments (last - monday october 28, 2013 16:44)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
From The Irish Times , September 24 2012

Twelve months ago I gave a presentation on the subject of youth drug and alcohol abuse to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children. I highlighted the huge pressures facing Ireland’s youth, including peer pressure, bullying, unemployment and emigration, all within a national atmosphere of despair over our collective future. I focused on the widespread culture of binge drinking in Ireland, which appears to be often ignored, accepted or normalised by many parents, publicans, politicians and law enforcers.
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Section of the march at the beginning, Frederick St. and Parnell Square.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 26, 2012 18:57 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 13, 2012 05:52)   image 3 images
Around a thousand marched on Saturday in Dublin on the 16th to demand the freeing of Marian Price, currently 18 months in in solitary confinement in British custody in the Six Counties. Tensions were high due to the recent Gardaí raids on republicans in parts of Dublin and Louth, including the arrests of the mother and two brother of a republican. In addition a heavy Garda presence at the start of the march, along with their taking names and addressses of some marchers, boded ill for the event. However, it passed peacefully.

The marchers, led by the banner of the Dublin Free Marian Price Commitee, started from the Garden of Remembrance and as the lead banner and the Pride of Erin flute band from Portadown stepped on to O’Connell Bridge, the end of the march was just setting foot on to the far end of O’Connell Street.
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Adams Denial
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 26, 2012 17:41 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Irish writer Brendan Behan said that “other people have a nationality; the Irish and Jews have a psychosis”. The Neo-colonial free state and British Occupied Ireland are both run by liars telling obvious lies, still worse, almost everyone in Ireland chooses to believe them Israel too has similar problems with choosing corrupt leaders like Ireland. Bottom line this is insane and this form of insanity can best be summarized, as telling oneself lies and insanely choosing consciously to believe them. Perhaps, it was developed for survival in the face of the holocaust or abject adversity but both communities experienced it.The results today are Government liars portrayed in the heavily censored west-brit Irish media, as either behemoth buffoons like former Taoiseach Brian Cowen or as Blue blooded imported Brit leaders, above scrutiny or reproach, such as the contemporary Viceroyal Villiers.
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Rev. JB Armour
antrim / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 26, 2012 14:02 by J Keegan   text 9 comments (last - tuesday april 23, 2013 13:22)   image 1 image
The 28th September 2012 will be the centenary of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant against Home Rule.

Far less well known is the ‘Alternative Ulster Covenant’, signed in October 1913 by some twelve thousand Protestants from County Antrim in support of Home Rule and against partition.

The Alternative Covenant was written by Rev JB Armour and Roger Casement.

A Public Talk on the Alternative Covenant will be held on 3rd October in the Belvedere Hotel, Denmark Street, Dublin, at 7pm. Speakers to include Rev David Frazer and Bill O'Brien. All Welcome. (See http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102491 )

A historical pamphlet discussing not only the Alternative Covenant but also what James Connolly predicted would be a ‘carnival of reaction’, north and south, will be launched on the night. read full story / add a comment
Maya Nasser R.I.P.
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 26, 2012 13:26 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2012 23:58)   image 1 image
Where are the condemnations? Where is the outrage at the murder of a journalist? Silence from Washington. Full text at link.

Iran’s Press TV claimed its Damascus correspondent was killed Wednesday by a rebel sniper while reporting on bombings in the Syrian capital. Two car bombs struck the Syrian Army’s command headquarters, setting one of the buildings on fire. Maya Nasser, a 33 -year-old Syrian national, was killed while reporting from the scene, Press TV said. Hussein Murtada – Press TV’s Damascus bureau chief and head of the Arabic-language Al-Alam TV network – was also reportedly injured in the attack. read full story / add a comment
Rev. JB Armour
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday September 26, 2012 13:14 by J Keegan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 02, 2012 13:58)   image 1 image
Public Talk and launch of pamphlet on the significence of the 1913 Alternative Covenant and the role of progressive Protestantism

Speakers: Rev. David Frazer and Bill O'Brien.
When: Wednesday 3rd October, 7pm
Where: Belvedere Hotel, Denmark Street, Dublin.
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AIB - We Are The Incoming Missile
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 26, 2012 07:06 by Occupier   text 1 comment (last - monday october 01, 2012 23:27)   image 1 image
AIB - We Are The Incoming Missile
No Billion Euro BailOut
Take Action On October 1st
#YouAreNotaLoan
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national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday September 25, 2012 18:54 by éirígí PRO   text 4 comments (last - monday october 08, 2012 16:50)   image 3 images
“On Saturday, October 6th, éirígí will commemorate the ending of the 1981 Hunger Strike with a Black Flag Vigil at Dolphins Barn Bridge from 1pm to 2pm.” read full story / add a comment
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