dublins spike

Ian Ritchie Architects The Dublin Spire is one hundred and twenty metres tall, making it by far the tallest structure in Dublin city centre. It is three metres wide at the base and tapers to a 15 centimentre wide beacon at the top. The top section is perforated and lit by small LEDs. www.irish-architecture.com Dubliners have a habit of making up names for things and people The spike is known as The syringe in the dinge The stiletto in the ghetto Its official name is the millennium spire

tyrone win sam the all Ireland football trophy was won by tyrone for the first time ever the cup travelled to its main town Omagh- where 5 years ago a bomb went off killing 31 people, 2 unborn yet. www.hoganstand.com

Bloody Sunday inquiry- virtual walkthroughs of city of 1972 30 January, 1972, British soldiers opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civil rights protesters, killing 13 in Derry 4 year inquiry continues using the most advanced computer drawing packages. Fourteen months in the making, the package runs on huge screens at the Inquiry's hearings in the city and records where witnesses were on the day and what they saw. news.bbc.co.uk just a few days ago, soldier m?, said he shot dead 4 people- one of which was waving a white flag or handkerchief (normally an international sign of surrender)- surely murder.

Government violated Irish neutrality www.indymedia.ie our neutrality was violated by allowing US planes to refuel at Shannon airport. Many people still fighting government, with non-violence, to resolve this

U2 tower controversy www.archeire.com it appears the winners aren’t getting to build their design, the job has gone to the architect brother of the bands manager

Food not bombs www.indymedia.ie people went to St Stephens Green to give the free food out to hungry passers by and the homeless- to raise awareness also about peace issues. They were ordered out of the park

Bincharges- many jailed www.socialistparty.net the government has brought in a new tax on waste and many people disagree with it. They are having a lot of strikes and 2 socialist politicians, 1 a minister in the government, a TD, are in jail. People are being arrested every day nearly

Schools attacked up north Sectarian violence is still on. Young kids are being terrified because of senseless people doing damage, just because the kids are from the “other side” bombs left outside some schools www.indymedia.ie

Irish social forum This weekend sees the biggest get together of Irelands environmental, social, political groups. www.irishsocialforum.org

Coca Cola banned from Students Union shop in UCD (uiversity college dublin), one of irelands biggest colleges, because of human rights abuses will not be tolerated and corpoations can be held accountable by the people www.indymedia.ie

Phantom fm returns www.indymedia.ie the best radio station was shut down because it was pirate, it did the most for irish music. Its back for a few days soon you can hear it online at www.phantomfm.com And it fuckin rocks

"globalisation and the media" indymedia screening this thursday www.indymedia.ie you can watch or show the film, direct from this weblink www.peacenews.info hit the "Download/view the video" button under the image of the paint can

i just wanted to say hello - right now im in santiago de chile. i joined a workshop witch took place in buenos aires and moved on to mendoza and now chile... its really great to meet that many people here (actually im sleeping in the place of a guy i met in maine when i was visiting mike scott - tutor from easa2002/croatia - in the states). saturday we are goin to valparaiso - it was told to be one of the best architecture schools in america. actually the pictures looked quite imperssive as the students are able to build their drafts 1:1 im looking forward to go there and will try to post some images later on...

i also met some people in BsAs related to elea - but i fear i cant afford the 1'000.- euro it costs for just one week. altough it would be awsome but.... sorry.

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