Ireland

Ireland’s Vote To Divest From Fossil Fuels Latest In A Global Campaign For Climate

July 14, 2018 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Electoral Politics, Fossil Fuels, Ireland

Ireland is on its way to becoming the first country to fully divest all public funds from fossil fuel companies after a key vote in its parliament on Thursday. It's a major milestone in an international push by environmental organizations to shut off the flow of investor cash into coal, oil and gas companies. Over the past six years, the divestment campaign has generated public pressure on countries, cities and universities around the world to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry. Nearly 900 institutions worldwide representing more than $6 trillion in assets have so far committed to some level of divestment, according to the activist group 350.org. But the campaign also has highlighted a conflict between two different approaches to forcing changes in the name of protecting the climate: those who believe total divestment is the only option, and activist investors who believe they can more successfully persuade companies to change policies by working from the inside as shareholders with a stake and a voice.

Government Approves Ban On The Cultivation Of GMOs In Ireland

July 13, 2018 Staff, Sustainablepulse.com Create! Ban, GMOs, Ireland

The Government approved the transposition of an EU Directive, which will enable Ireland to opt out of cultivation of GMO crops approved for cultivation elsewhere in the EU. This will happen on a much wider range of policy grounds than had previously been the case. These grounds include where such cultivation would be contrary to environmental policy objectives, town and country planning, land use, socio-economic impacts, avoidance of GMO presence in other products, agricultural policy objectives and public policy. Announcing the Cabinet’s decision today, The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Denis Naughten said it was a very significant development.

Ireland To Pass Bill Boycotting Israeli Goods

July 12, 2018 Staff, Maannews.com Resist! BDS, Ireland, Israel, Legislation

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Irish parliament is expected to pass a landmark bill prohibiting the importation and sale of goods and services originating in illegal Israeli settlements on Wednesday. This bill could potentially set a new precedent within the European Union. The Control of Economic Activities (occupied territories) Bill 2018 seeks to prohibit the import and sale of goods, services and natural resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied Palestine. The proposed bill was slammed as being “immoral” by the Embassy of Israel in Dublin. The Embassy of Israel posted on their Facebook page, entitled as "Israel in Ireland", saying that a bill that promotes any type of boycott should be rejected since it "rather empowers the Hamas 'terrorists' as well as those Palestinians who refuse to come to the negotiating table."

‘We’ve Made History’: Ireland Joins France, Germany And Bulgaria In Banning Fracking

July 4, 2017 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Create! Bulgaria, Europe, Fracking, France, Germany, Ireland

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - McLoughlin also issued a statement that mentioned the impact of fracking in the U.S.: This law will mean communities in the West and North West of Ireland will be safeguarded from the negative effects of hydraulic fracking. Counties such as Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan and Clare will no longer face negative effects like those seen in cities and towns in the United States, where many areas have now decided to implement similar bans to the one before us. If fracking was allowed to take place in Ireland and Northern Ireland it would pose significant threats to the air, water and the health and safety of individuals and communities here. Fracking must be seen as a serious public health and environmental concern for Ireland. Environmental group Friends of the Earth Ireland celebrated the bill's passage. "A day to celebrate. A day for #ClimatePride. The Irish parliament has passed a law to #BanFracking.

Thousands Shut Down Ireland’s Streets In Legal Abortion Protests

March 9, 2017 Lydia O’Connor, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Abortion, Ireland, Protests

By Lydia O’Connor for The Huffington Post - International Women’s Day marchers are optimistic, but change in a Roman Catholic country doesn’t come so easily. International Women’s Day Wednesday, thousands of vanguards went on strike to urge the repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which broadly outlaws abortion unless the woman’s life is at risk. The strike is the first of its kind, says Abortion Rights Campaign volunteer Cathie Doherty, 31, of Dublin. Around 4,500 people gathered at Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge and proceeded to march in the streets, while sister strikes took off in other Irish cities, according to local media reports and strike organizers. The protesters, many donning thunderbolts as a solidarity symbol...

Ireland Jails Three Top Bankers Over 2008 Meltdown

July 31, 2016 Conor Humphries and Mark Heinrich, www.reuters.com Create! 2008 crash, Accountability, Banking, Criminal Justice, Ireland

By Conor Humphries and Mark Heinrich for Reuters. Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy. The trio will be among the first senior bankers globally to be jailed for their role in the collapse of a bank during the crisis. The lack of convictions until now has angered Irish taxpayers, who had to stump up 64 billion euros - almost 40 percent of annual economic output - after a property collapse forced the biggest state bank rescue in the euro zone. The crash thrust Ireland into a three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 and the finance ministry said last month that it could take another 15 years to recover the funds pumped into the banks still operating.

From South Africa To Ireland, #BlackLivesMatter Finds Solidarity Worldwide

July 13, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ireland, South Africa

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - As the U.S. reels from multiple shootings that made international headlines last week, the country's grassroots movement for racial justice and against police brutality has been met with solidarity around the world. Denouncing the recent fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, people marched and rallied over the weekend and through Tuesday for the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

Northern Irish Women Ask To Be Prosecuted For Taking Abortion Pills

May 24, 2016 Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com Resist! Abortion, health, Ireland, Women

By Amelia Gentleman for The Guardian - Three women have handed themselves into a police station in Derry, stating they have procured and taken illegal abortion pills and requesting that they be prosecuted, in protest at Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws. Dozens of pro-choice campaigners gathered at Derry police station in support of the women as they handed themselves in for questioning. The women hope to trigger a trial to showcase the archaic nature of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act – the legislation which makes abortion in Northern Ireland illegal except in extremely rare circumstances.

[Dublin] Squat City Has Been Liberated!

February 22, 2016 The Free Org, www.thefreeonline.wordpress.com Resist! Housing, Ireland

By The Free Org for The Free - Spread the word friends. The warehouse will soon be full of words; the garden has begun regrowing community; music and paint about to burst across the city. At the lower end of Grangegorman and where the block continues along North Brunswick Street, acres of warehouses and yards and houses and space space spaces have been laying vacant far too long, once again. Fromdevelopers to NAMA to developers to judge’s friendsand back to developers for more and more money while people and places rot.

Tens Of Thousands Protest In Ireland Against Water Charges

September 1, 2015 RT, www.rt.com Resist! Ireland, Water

By RT - Tens of thousands of people took part in the anti-water charges protest in Ireland on Saturday, marching through the capital of Dublin to show their dissatisfaction with the government’s policy. It was the first mass rally in the last six months to protest the water charges imposed by the government. Organized by the Right2Water campaign group, it was the fifth major demonstration since the controversial utility fee was levied. The protesters gathered at two meeting points located near the train stations of Heuston in the western part of the city, and Connoly in the city’s east. The demonstration began at 2 pm local time, as crowds of people marched through Dublin’s quays to Spire on O’Connel Street in the city center.

Ireland Showed We Can Get By Without Banks

July 12, 2015 Patrcick Cockburn, www.independent.co.uk Create! Banking, Finance and the Economy, Greece, Ireland

By Patrick Cockburn for the Independent - Shuttered banks are a striking physical symbol of economic disaster, but even they are not proof that the final dénouement is at hand. I recall a six-and-a-half month strike that closed all banks in Ireland in 1970 which was meant to have similarly calamitous results as predicted for Greece today, but in fact had very little destructive impact. Contrary to expectations, Irish people rapidly found other ways of carrying out the functions previously performed by the banking industry. The economist Michael Fogarty, who wrote the official report on the bank dispute, was quoted by the Irish Independent as saying that “the services of the clearing banks proved by no means as indispensable as would have been expected before the dispute”. Others take the example of the Irish bank strike as evidence that much of what banks do is a “socially useless activity”. My father was not alone in enjoying the crisis which turned out to be no such thing. Almost half a century later, many Irish people remember with relish how they successfully replaced the banks with other ways of dealing with payment and credit.

Irish Burn Water Bills, Fly Greek Flag In Solidarity At Mass Dublin Protest

June 22, 2015 Paul Hosford, www.thejournal.ie Resist! Austerity, Greece, Ireland, Water

A LARGE CROWD has marched to the GPO in Dublin today as water charge protests return to the capital. Having taken a backseat to campaigning for the same-sex marriage referendum, is once again at the forefront of the political agenda. Today in Dublin, thousands marched to the GPO, where they heard a speech from independent TD Catherine Murphy and proceeded to burn their Irish Water bills. There were a number of Greek flags on display, as protesters used the event to show solidarity with the country, which is teetering on the edge of default. Union officials and leaders from the Right2Water campaign also addressed the crowds. While there was a small Garda presence, no incidents have been reported.

Ireland: Thousands Say No To Water Charges

June 21, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Human Rights, Ireland, Water

By Jennifer Baker in Revolution News. Ireland – Today is the latest affirmation of overwhelming public opposition to the privatization of the nations water. Not only is privatizing the nations water a disturbingly bad idea, Dennis O’Brien the head of the ‘Irish Water’ corporation is one of the biggest crooks in the country. People elsewhere might argue that they have to pay water taxes, or charges, but in Ireland, the citizens are already paying increased rates of central tax part of which is earmarked to accommodate the cost of maintaining and upgrading the water supply and infrastructure. Also in 2000, Irish people were given an exemption to the article 9 requirement of the European Commission domestic water directive which requires European governments to charge for domestic water supply, an exemption the current government allowed to expire at the end of 2014.

Over 80,000 Turn Out For Right2Water Protest In Ireland

March 22, 2015 Right2Water, www.facebook.com Resist! Ireland, Privatization, Water

Following today’s massive National Demonstration which saw well over 80,000 people from all over Ireland converge on Dublin to assert their Right2Water, the Right2Water campaign has again called on the Government to abolish domestic water charges. The trade unions affiliated to the campaign are also calling for a referendum to be held following abolition of the charges to enshrine public ownership of our water in the Constitution. Speaking at today’s event, CWU General Secretary Steve Fitzpatrick announced the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine water in public ownership in the Constitution following abolition of domestic water charges. A new Article 28 section 4:2:1 would be inserted to read: "The Government shall be collectively responsible for the protection, management and maintenance of the public water system. The Government shall ensure in the public interest that this resource remains in public ownership and management."

The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves

March 17, 2015 John Martin, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Education, History, Ireland, Slavery

They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives. We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.

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