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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
COLM O’GORMAN, executive director of Amnesty International in Ireland, has described as “barely credible” Green Party TD Ciarán Cuffe’s statement that he did not “believe” Shannon airport was being used by US flights involved in extraordinary rendition and that he was against extraordinary rendition.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
THE GOVERNMENT must admit that Shannon airport was used as a launching pad for rendition operations by the CIA, according to a new report from Amnesty International Ireland.
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
This is a photo from the Save Tara campaign. Tara Group Smoke Out Greens The Irish Sun - Tuesday, September 9, 2008 DEMONSTRATORS Siobhan Rice, Vincent Salafia and Colm MacNiallais, of the Save Tara Campaign don fat cat suits and smoke cigars to protest at Green Party headquarters in Dublin yesterday. They say the land for road construction at Tara highlights the Greens ’sell-out’ since...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Friday Flight homeWe left the hotel at 715 am for a 900 am flight out of Shannon Ireland. I went through Immigration customs and security with no problems. Now I'm on the plane to Newark New Jersey. I'm really excited to use my cell phone again We have just over a thousand more miles until we land. I can see land outside my window we're passing by Newfoundland and Labrador at the mo
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Shannon 19 Clontarf 19:Cruel and unusual punishment is normally a term reserved for situations far more important than a rugby match, but Clontarf will be tortured by the manner in which they lost the All Ireland League Division One final at Thomond Park this afternoon.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009
All-Ireland League semi-finals: Shannon regained the bragging rights local rivals Garryowen with a narrow 16-12 win at Coonagh this afternoon. The Limerick side will meet Clontarf in the Division One final after the Dubliners dumped out defending champions Cork Constitution.
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Peace Forum to commemorate 6 Aniversary of start of Iraq War An important peace forum is being held at the Park Inn Hotel at Shannon airpport on Sat 21 March. Among other objectives, this peace forum is intended to initiate the process of establishing accountability for Ireland's shameful complicity in the deaths of over one million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
Please attend this important event on 6th aniversary of Iraq War Over ONE MILLION people have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Ireland has participated in and been complicit in these wars. These Iraqi and Afghan people are our brothers, sisters and our children, not, "some others" in a "them and us" war of resources. Show your solidarity with the victims of a war that used...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 02/28/2009
After all the bad news we've heard about the tech industry this week, here's a snip of positive news coming from Intel. EE Times reports the chip giant is investing over $50 million in a major expansion at its Shannon Free Zone R&D facility in Co. Clare, Ireland. Over the next four years Intel will hire 134 new employees, bringing the total employment at the site to about 300. Earlier this week...
TechChuck (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
Intel has announced that it will invest over €50m ($63.5m, £44.3m) to expand its Irish operations, a move that will boost employment at its R&D facilities in Shannon by 134 jobs over the next four years. According to IDA Ireland, the investment will raise total staffing at the facility to 300. Two projects will be supported by the funding, one in hardware and one in software. The hardware...
Airline News & Opinions (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
The flag carrier of Ireland Aer Lingus is proposing cheap air tickets departing from Boston to several destinations such as Dublin, Shannon, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Manchester, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid and Cork as from $169. Source: Aer Lingus For additional information visit AirValid
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Private Cargo Planes Continue to Transport U.S. Arms When I began looking at the air cargo companies that the anti-war activists were sighting at Shannon Airport in Ireland and Prestwick Airport in Scotland in 2006, I found an interesting connection. The private airlines being used to haul arms to various war zones had historical links the covert air cargo services used by the CIA dating back to the...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
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