WELCOME == Hi new visitors to european indymedia

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday October 18, 2002 20:43 by iosaf = o as if barcelona

till sunday morning Irish time, traffic will increase to this site and others of the European area

now till sunday morning Irish time, traffic will increase to Ireland and other European sites. Ireland is now article 2 on the transnational global indymedia network.

Welcome Ben vingudo
Ireland is for a short while the most important
place for the democratic exercise of a global mandate against

The European Union which has subverted the social and labour progress of a generation and now wants to expand its frontier of poverty and destitution and war wrecked humanity further to the east and the north and the mediterrean area.

Ireland is one of the eight neutral states in Europe.
It is one of four neutral states in the European Union.
[Europe has many friendly indymedia sites where articles and commentaries are published in english].

Its neutrality is threatened by provisions of the Treaty the Irish electorate are being asked to ratify by amendment to their constitution.

Most of the Irish people meaning Irish citizens can not vote in this referendum. Only Irish citizens with residency in the Irish state may vote.
There are 3.5 million people living in Ireland.
Only about a third at most may vote.
And sadly it is much less.
You the reader new to this site probably have met an Irish person. (who may have no vote today).
You may have learnt English from an Irish person.

gurbh maith agat
is Irish (a gaelic language spoken in North Western Europe) for
Thank you