Yearly Archives: 2014

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[Feminist and peace activist, Margaretta D’Arcy]

Margaretta D’Arcy, who is 79 and undergoing cancer treatment, was arrested at her Galway home on Wednesday and subsequently jailed for three months in Limerick Prison over protests against the US military using Shannon Airport.

A three-month suspended sentence, which she received for illegal incursion of the runway at Shannon, was activated after she refused to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones in Shannon.

There will be a protest, against her imprisonment, outside the Department of Justice offices at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin at 1pm today.

There will also be a protest outside Labour TD, Derek Nolan’s office by the Harbour Hotel in Galway, also at 1pm.

More here

79-year-old Aosdana member jailed for three months over Shannon protest (Irish Times)

Previously: Here For The Duty Free

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Tara Perkins (above) of Canada’s Globe and Mail has packed a parachute.

More Power to her.

Housing market edges toward soft landing (Tara Perkins, The Globe and Mail)

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Pharmacist Shane O’Sullivan of Healthwave Pharmacy in Dundrum, Co Dublin this afternoon.

Mr O’Sullivan is promising to match cross-Border prices for generic medications through a €25 -a-year subscription service.

Where’s his fupping white coat?

Damn generic hipsters.

Interview: Any pharmacy could cut costs to rival Northern Ireland (Pat Kenny Show,Newstalk)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Did your kindly great grandfather/mother claim to be in the GPO?

Now you can unmask him/her as a LIAR and a FRAUD!

The Irish Military Archives have released a tranche of REAL veterans with recognised 1916 or Civil War service and their positions.

The spoofing stops here.

Anon writes:

Phase 1 of the Military Pensions Collection  includes details of 3,200 individual pension applicants, including 2,400 recipients of pensions in respect of the 1916 Easter Rising and supporting files such as Membership Rolls for July 1921 & 1922 of the 16 Divisions of the IRA, Cumann na MBan and Na Fianna Eireann, and the Brigade Activities files relating to 1916. There’s also a cool map of 1916 action sites here.

Not so ‘great’ now, Great Grandda/ma.

Family FIGHT!

Military Service Pensions Collection (MilitaryArcives.ie)

(Telegraph)