Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan joined the Green Team, a group of Green Party activists at the Electric Picnic recently to hand out postcards advertising the party.

They also gave thousands of nuts to raise awareness about the upcoming local and European elections. read full story / add a comment

A review of the pro-choice struggle from a libertarian perspective read full story / add a comment

Four Republicans captured in Newry and South Armagh have been released without charge. read full story / add a comment

Remember the 3rd of September. That is the day the economic conservative consensus died, when all the certainties propagated by our one-party state were shredded. Fiona Fail has panicked in the face of rapid economic deterioration, brought forward the budget by a few weeks, and in that simple, technical act has unintentionally composed a dirge. No one day heralds the end of something as complex and layered as an economic cycle. But they can serve up symbols. September 3rd is such a symbol – of a coffin, and the Ministers polishing it. read full story / add a comment

RSF hit out and the seizure of two of their members in Newry and South Armagh. read full story / add a comment

This year we are holding our biggest event for the animals in our ten year history and we want you to be there with us. World Animal Week is celebrated during October 1st to the 7th and during this important week here in Ireland Animal Rights Action Network are coordinating our largest peaceful rally ever and we’re expecting hundreds of people and many respected groups to turn out in force for the animals and be a united voice, so please mark your diaries for our most important event of ever! Wherever you live in Ireland - north or south we’ll need you with us on October 5th in Dublin. read full story / add a comment

Victory in Mayo, defeats in Tipperary and conflicts in Offaly and Roscommon read full story / add a comment

Preparation get under way to resist unwelcame and destrucutive activities by Shell and Allseas Ltd read full story / add a comment

The TEEU Has Reliased That They Have Pushed The Boat Out Too Far and The Cosy Cartel They Have Spent Years Building Up Is About To Fall Down With A Bang. read full story / add a comment

Dublin Shell to Sea in cooperation with other Shell to Sea groups and supporting organisations are mobilising for an exodus to Erris when the Solitaire begins its journey from Killybegs -
The people of Erris and Ireland need our support and solidarity to resist this latest stage of the theft of our natural resources and the siege of a community.
Coordinated travel from Dublin will be taking place.
Call 0872242731 to offer/request transport. read full story / add a comment

The 'phones are in and the old number - 091.533594 - prevails! read full story / add a comment

A UK-based human rights organisation have asked the Irish government for information on two specific rendition flights that stopped in Shannon. The first was a flight on July 22nd, 2002 which rendered Binyam Mohamed to torture in Morocco. The second stopped in Shannon on September 17th, 2004, en route to rendering Mr Mohammed from Rabat, Morocco to Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Over the past number of weeks, Ógra Shinn Féin have initiated a campaign to paint northern post boxes back to their rightful shade of green.

Over 100 postboxes are now 'greened', with the youth movement claiming that many nationally minded young people have joined the campaign since it was launched. read full story / add a comment

The Oireachtas voted the Commission over €5 million to enable it do its job of informing citizens what the Lisbon referendum was about. Rarely can public money have been spent to such ill effect. The Commission spent €2.7 on media advertising. It paid An Post €1 million to deliver 2.2 million information handbooks to households. In the circumstances it was a democratic miracle that the majority of Irish voters rejected the proposal to amend the Irish Constitution. If the Commission had done the job it was statutorily required to do, the No-side majority would almost certainly have been much larger, for people would have learned of the constitutional revolution which Lisbon proposed, instead of being kept in ignorance of it. read full story / add a comment

This week: five dumps and three quarries read full story / add a comment

Action Alert - Please urge Minister John Gormley to refuse a hare coursing licence read full story / add a comment

CEARTAIS held a successful seminar on August 26th in the Felon's Club on the Andersontown Road in Belfast.

The conference was well attended by dozens of former Long Kesh Prisoners and relatives. Who were shown new photos of the battle and brutality that took place on October 16th, 1974.
They were also given a comprehensive update of our Campaign and how we intend proceeding in the future.

Our Committee would like to thank the Felon's, Coiste Na Iarchimi, Tar Isteach, The Andersontown News and everyone who attended our first Seminar.
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In the past two hours a mass of State and Shell security has assembled in Broadhaven bay including a heavily armed navy vessel.
This is to protect the first attempt at laying the offshore section of pipe. read full story / add a comment

Her short stories are published in several anthologies of Irish Writing. Her film 'Gypsies' was screened in Ireland, UK, New York, San Francisco and at International Children's Film Festival, Hyderabad, India. read full story / add a comment

éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has warned Belfast City Council that any attempt to parade British soldiers through the streets of the city
would not go unopposed.

The Council is set to meet on Monday (September 1) to discuss proposals to have a homecoming ceremony for the Royal Irish Regiment when they return from the war in Afghanistan in November.

The Royal Irish Regiment, and their predecessors in the Ulster Defence Regiment, were notorious for terrorising nationalist communities and working hand-in-hand with their colleagues in the unionist death squads. read full story / add a comment