Celtic Tiger Faces Extinction

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Statues depicting 1845 famine victims on North Quay in Dublin.


Wednesday 17 November: This morning the Irish government will hold meetings to decide if they will accept the IMF economic bailout.

The Irish economy, known for ten years as the Celtic Tiger, faces extinction. Massive cuts have hit public services, health and welfare. Unemployment stands at 455,000 in a country of 4.5 million, poverty is on the rise and vast estates of new homes built during the economic boom lie empty like 21st century ghost towns.

Public protest is also rising, as is the anger, after the government publically declared their annual EU cheese aid program was evidence they were taking measures to combat the economic decline.

In May protestors attempted to storm the Dail and on Wednesday 3 November Garda riot police attacked a student sitdown and occupation protest with batons and dogs, similar scenes were reflected a week later in London.

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Gulf Film on Journeyman

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The 15 minute film Gulf, now under the title Crude Awakening, is to be distributed by Journeyman Pictures.

A photogallery by Jess Hurd of the investigation into the aftermath of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the unprecedented use of Corexit dispersant is available here.

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>Fire Fighter Run Down by Strike Breakers

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Monday 1 November 2010: London FBU NEC member Ian Lehair was run down on the picket line by AssetCo striker breakers at the LFB training centre in Southwark, London, where the private company was storing fire engines. He was treated at the scene and appeared to be suffering injuries to his chest.

This was the fourth of such incidents in one day. Earlier in Croydon a picketing fire fighter was run down, with a second fire fighter and a police officer being hit by trucks in Southwark.

Photogallery by Jess Hurd here.

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