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Anti-Austerity Alliance writes:

The Connell family from Blanchardstown, Dublin, have been made homeless through a combination of rent allowance cuts and rack-renting by their landlord. Fingal County Council have no houses. The family cannot get any alternative rented accommodation within rent allowance limits. They are split up…the family are staging a protest at Joan Burton’s Department of Social Protection on Store Street in Dublin tomorrow at 11am, asking ‘Where is the social protection’? They will be supported by their family and members of the local Anti-Austerity Alliance.

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Justice Minister Alan Shatter will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions today in relation to the GSOC bugging affair at 4pm.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson, who created the placards above, is organising a protest outside the Dáil at this time.

He says:

“It’s to support GSOC’s Simon O’Brien, Kieran Fitzgerald and to express a total lack of confidence and trust in Alan Shatter and Martin Callinan. It’s also to highlight the abuse of numerous people by certain gardaí.”

Earlier: Putting It On Rits

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On Sunday the 2nd of February LGBT Noise will host an event for the LGBT community and supporters to respond to the recent controversy over comments made by LGBT rights advocate, Rory O’Neill, on the RTE’s Saturday Night Show on January 11th. 

The protest will take place at 2pm on South King Street, Dublin outside the Gaiety Theatre

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There’s Nell now.

Supporters of Margaretta D’Arcy [including Independent TDs Mick and Clare Daly and journalist Nell McCafferty] gather outside the Department of Justice, at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin within the last hour.

They’re protesting over the jailing of Margaretta, who was convicted of unlawfully entering Shannon Airport in October 2012 during a protest against the US military using Shannon Airport.

Margaretta, 79, was given a three-month suspended sentence but it was activated after she refused to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones in Shannon.

Previously: Free At Lunchtime?

Via Paula Geraghty, Seán Ó Sé and James O’Toole

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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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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Hannah writes:

“The group ‘we’re not leaving’ had a protest against cuts to social welfare for young people. It’s impossible to survive on €100 a week. They’re giving us no other option but to emigrate.”

Previously: “You’ve Targeted A Group Of People Based On Age”

Pics: (From top) Hannah, Páraic Gallagher and Brian O’Donovan

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