This is a guest post from Tara O'Grady, Independent Human Rights Activist.

A Chara,
It is encouraging to many that you publish letters on developments in Bahrain and that you provide an outlet for exposing issues there which many of us in Ireland feel particularly strongly about.

Pack your blankets and sandwiches and make your way to Eyre Square for the Galway Community Picnic.

Members of Ireland’s wealthy elite have announced plans to meet outside the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame Street on Thursday 10th March at 6p.m. to celebrate the fact that it’s “business as usual now that the election is out of the way”.
 
“We’re proud of the fact that Irish society and politics continues to promote wealth inequality,” said one of the event’s organisers who said he would prefer to remain anonymous.
 

SpunOut.ie Launches ‘Super Hero Grants’ Youth Civic Grants Scheme

Recession, depression, corruption and climate change - Ireland needs some super-heroes to save the day and the pioneering web driven youth organisation SpunOut.ie is today starting a nationwide quest to find them.

Taken from here. Cairo airport is crawling with troops and the east of the city likewise, guns pointing every which way.

Three deaths from sniper fire in Tahrir Square were reported last night. The army has withdrawn, for the time being, with just a few tanks blocking some of the side streets.

In the streets leading to the square, you could cut the tension with a knife. Then, coming down to Tahrir, it suddenly lifts as people converge through the side streets and checkpoints. All the checkpoints today are citizen checkpoints and I was searched by friendly girls and had my ID checked four times at different points before I made it in. The barricades at the square entrances are flimsy, with heaps of stones ready behind them.