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REMEMBERING 1981: The women in Armagh Jail (Free article)
6 May 2010
ARMAGH JAIL, like Long Kesh, is closed. Unlike the Kesh, though, there are no plans to maintain any part of it for future posterity, which made it all the more important that some of the first republican political prisoners got a chance to visit the prison before the key was turned for the last time.
British Army recruiting by FÁS agency questioned in Dáil (Free article)
6 May 2010
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is under pressure from a Dáil question by Sinn Féin to explain why and how the state's FÁS jobs agency in Limerick became involved in advertising for the British Army through a jobs club in clear contravention of the Hague Convention on neutrality and the state's own Defence Act, which makes it a criminal offence to recruit…
INTERNATIONAL: Honduras's elite asserts its power (Free article)
6 May 2010
AND so the anti-democratic and reactionary politics of the Honduran elite have begun to bear their predictable fruit. Isolated within Latin America since the 2009 coup, the country is on a downward economic trajectory and social tensions are escalating.
Minimum wage defence launched (Free article)
6 May 2010
THE minimum wage is now in the Irish Government's firing line but last Thursday, ahead of events to mark International Workers' Day and in front of the Dáil, Sinn Féin TDs Martin Ferris and Aengus Ó Snodaigh launched Sinn Féin's national leafleting campaign to fight what they called "another disastrous governmental attack on the low-paid".
Timely tribute to a hunger striker (Free article)
6 May 2010
Book review The Unknown Commandant - The Life and Times of Denis Barry By Denis Barry Published by Collins Press. REVIEWED BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA
Right to Work rally next Tuesday (Free article)
6 May 2010
UNITE has thrown its support behind the Right to Work Campaign, a coalition of young unemployed, trade unions, workers, community groups and other parties looking to press for greater effort on jobs and services from the Irish Government.
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
6 May 2010
THÁINIG an imirce ón tír suas i gcomhrá againn anseo an tseachtain seo nó tá buíon daltaí scoile ar chuairt sa cheantar ón Bhriotáin ar thóir 'cultúr' na hÉireann. "Tá leabhar agam duit ón Bhriotáin" arsa duine de na múinteoirí, 'bronntanas a chuirfidh tú spéis ann, is dócha". Bhí leabhar aige a d'fhoilsigh Briotánach agus Éireannach, Alain le…
CRH's Dun Laoghaire AGM the focus of Israeli divestment campaign (Free article)
6 May 2010
AS we go to print, the AGM in Dun Laoghaire of Cement Roadstone Holdings, the Irish multinational building materials firm, was the focus of the campaign to have its shareholders demand that the company divest itself of any involvement in apartheid Israel.
Remembering the Past: The prison writings of Bobby Sands (Free article)
6 May 2010
BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. During his earlier term as a political prisoner, from 1973 until April 1976, Bobby…
New play about the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers (Free article)
6 May 2010
IN DUBLIN in 1984, the economy was failing, unemployment was rife and 10 young women and one young man were about to change the world. In July, a shop worker on Henry Street refused to sell South African fruit to a store customer as part of the anti-apartheid economic boycott and was suspended. Ten colleagues followed her out on strike; they…
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