Irish Ferries: ICTU Must Call a 24 Hour General Strike NOW!

The barricading of the control rooms of two ships by Irish Ferries workers should be fully supported by all working class people. This battle is not just about defending 543 trade union jobs. This is now the biggest issue in the country and is relevant to all workers. Other companies are watching and egging on…

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IIA PODCAST

The IIA podcast has been launched. You can hear the full proceedings of the Irish Internet Association & CheetahMail Net Visionary Awards Winners 2005 on the podcast. The feed for the podcast is at http://www.netvisionary.ie/rss.xml or you can listen to the MP3 here. The podcast was recorded and built by doop.ie and will also feature…

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Near 101.6 FM interview Brian Greene

I was interviewed live on Near FM yesterday re podcasting and the representative body we are setting up. The show is called ‘Majority World’ here is a link to the interview

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Met Warning Issued 23/11/2005 13:00:00

Severe Weather Warning for Snow: Frequent snow showers are likely togive accumulations of between 3 and 8 cm below 250 metres during theperiod 1200 hours Thursday to 2400 hours Friday in counties Donegal,Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and parts of Cavan. Strong to gale forceNortherly winds will occur during the same period, giving blizzardconditions at times and…

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Bob Marley is back with a new song

Bob Marley is back with a new song Slogans, It is believed Marley recorded the song in a Miami bedroom in 1979. The tapes were kept at Marley’s mother’s house and last year the reggae legend’s sons Stephen and Ziggy revisited the acoustic demo. In 2005, Stephen overdubbed the tracks with other instruments, including guitar…

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clever dicks in google

Colm Keena writes in the Irish Times The filings indicate the multinational’s effective tax rate has dropped from 39 per cent to 31 per cent, indicating it is saving approximately ?100 million a year in taxes via its Irish business. “This is primarily because proportionately more of our earnings in 2005 compared to 2004 are…

more podcasts than radio stations by Paddy’s day ’06

[BHG’s prediction addiction]as of today’s date (19/11/2005)25,000 Podcasts and counting on iTunes 19,921 are be tracked by PodNova.com 10,276 submitted to podcastalley.com numbers numbers, Im looking at a magic number 36,000, the number of radio stations worldwide (according to ‘I am an oil tanker‘ by Fi Glover). 5000 of these stations broadcast / stream on…