I wrote the following text in November 2012 to have ready in case a smear campaign directed at the freshly renewed pro-choice movement in Ireland gained any real traction beyound the media stories mentioned below. I didn’t publish it at the time as it failed to get traction and thus this would, at best, have been […]
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The 2018 March for Choice in the aftermath of winning Repeal
This video shows all of the 2018 March for Choice pass down the quays in Dublin. This year we had won the refrendum but much is left to fight for in terms of the details of the legislation and standing down the inevotable anti-choice attempts that will be made once the lefislation comes in to intimidate […]
Stand 4 Truth – demanding accountability from catholic church during Papal visit
As many as 10,000 people took part in the Stand for Truth rally yesterday, and marched in complete silence to the site of the last Magdalene Laundry to close on Sean MacDermott street [video]. In effect this was a counter protest to the Papal Rally taking place uptake road in the Phoenix park in the […]
Occupation of 35 Summerhill Parade in Dublin to protest evictions in May
In May five houses on Summerhill Parade in Dublin were evicted on almost no notice with some 120 people being thrown on the street. All were owned by the same landlord who in order to make super profits had packed people in, 6-8 to a room, charging them 350-450 each per month for space on […]
Savita was one of us – we owe her our Yes to Repeal this Friday
At the start of the referendum campaign in March, I took this photograph showing the poster image of Savita, who died because of the 8th amendment, and in the background a huge billboard with a CGI / cartoon of what is meant to be an 11 week old foetus. Both have the common slogan ‘one […]
Women as property – bizarre tweet from No campaign leaders says more than intended
This seemingly bizarre tweet from a No campaign leader in their attempt to prevent the repeal of the anti-women 8th amendment gives a few things away about their ideological mind set. It read "Referendum will repeal our property rights. Ignore the fact the the Goverenment then plans to pass a law nationalising half the […]
Threatened & assaulted at Rally for Life as an angry No campaign steps up hateful rhetoric
On Saturday one of our photographers was assaulted and threatened at the ‘No’ campaigns’ anti-choice Rally for Life. He wasn’t injured and although his camera was punched (see video) no damage was done but this is yet another example of how the No campaign, having failed to make any impact in the polls, are becoming […]
100s of Yes posters torn down by organised gang in County Cork
In a pattern all to common across rural Ireland hundreds of Yes posters were torn down in an organised fashion by what had to be No activists across Country Cork last night. This anti-democratic rage typifies the No campaign which has has so much wealth that it is printing 10 No posters to every Yes. […]
Anti-choice groups freak out as google bans referendum ads – what had they planned?
A few hours ago the referendum campaign in Ireland took an unexpected turn when google announced it was banning all referendum based advertising across all its platforms including Youtube. The howls of outrage from the anti-choice No campaign has been going on ever since. This reaction across the No campaigns is telling. For the first […]
Repeal and the online battle – when become a billionaire isn’t an option
Over the last few days the mainstream media in Ireland has finally woken up to the way money from far right US evangelicals is being used to buy the No vote in the referendum campaign. Here we show you how to see how you are being targeted and discuss what this means for the referendum […]