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national / consumer issues Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 14:31 by Tracy Donegan
 1 comment (last - tuesday july 29, 2008 - 17:17)
Irish women are often starved in labour despite there being significant benefits to eating - and significant risks to being starved. Why hasn't Irish medical care caught up with the 21st Century? Should women eat and drink freely in labour ? Read on..... ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / gender and sexuality Sunday July 27, 2008 - 20:42 by Belfast WSM
3 comments (last - monday august 04, 2008 - 13:50)
“Where pride once mobilised, it now marshals that consensus as our anger and frustration into a range of diversionary shopping opportunities. The battle is no longer about(if it ever has been) equality and acceptance, but liberation and simply survival as human beings against a system galloping towards the abyss.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday July 26, 2008 - 11:44 by soldierofdestiny
There is great trepidation among farmers that their stranglehold on the price of basic foodstuffs within the EEU is under threat from Peter Mandelson ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday July 17, 2008 - 16:19 by Anthony Sheridan
4 comments (last - saturday july 26, 2008 - 09:17)
Irish politicians are among the best paid in the world but clearly not everybody is aware of this fact. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday July 14, 2008 - 22:59 by joans boyfrend
7 comments (last - tuesday september 30, 2008 - 06:28)
Every generation has its political rock band: The Fugs, The Clash…and Rage Against The Machine. RATM formed in Los Angeles in 1991 and released the self-titled debut a year later, one of the definitive CDs of the 90s. The cover featured the image of the “burning monk”, who burned himself to death in 1963: an ultimate image of commitment and protest. The music was a highly potent mix of metal, funk, rap, and anti-capitalist politics. They made two more albums and a hard-driving CD of cover versions of political or socially-conscious rock and rap songs (including Springsteen’s “Ghost of Tom Joad”) after which they fell victim to internal arguments, and split in 2000. But now they’re back. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Friday July 11, 2008 - 16:38 by Stop Corruption
I believe that the deal between Dublin City council and JC Decaux, swapping the space on public footpaths for 126 billboards in exchange for a couple of hundred bikes has all the hallmarks of a corrupt deal. I simply cannot believe that, knowing the facts that are public, that any local authority in the country would agree to this deal, without someone in charge being either blackmailed or bribed to agree to it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Thursday July 10, 2008 - 18:36 by Ciaron
10 comments (last - wednesday september 03, 2008 - 12:53)
Catholic Workers are presently gathering in Worcester, Mass. , USA. The event is being organised by the Mustard Seed community in Worcester. Founding community member, longtime CW, Scott Schaeffer Duffy was in Dublin for the first Pitstop Ploughshares trial in 05. Scott, his family and community are longtime resisters at Raytheon whose headquarters are nearby. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday July 07, 2008 - 14:25 by Paul Bowman
38 comments (last - wednesday july 16, 2008 - 12:21)
As the morning of Friday 13th of June grew towards midday, the government and ... realised with mounting horror that they had not only lost the referendum for the Lisbon treaty, but had lost badly. In the end, with a turnout higher than both Nice referendums and European elections, the Irish electorate had cast more No votes, than the number that elected the FF government last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 12:57 by Cliona Flanagan
3 comments (last - thursday august 28, 2008 - 18:34)
Orange and Green politicians sometimes find it incredibly easy to come together, especially when it’s to stop progress. In May a joint letter was sent to every Westminster MP, signed by the leaders of the DUP, Sinn Fein, the SDLP and UUP opposing plans to extend British abortion law to Northern Ireland. Ironically, when it comes to a woman’s right to choose the Unionist parties are at one with nationalists in rejecting British rule in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Monday July 07, 2008 - 12:06 by Mark C
This is a poem made up of acrostics that I wrote after the G8 meetings last year documenting my thoughts on the indvidual countries that make up 'The Group of Eight". Feel free to add your own creative writing/work (and/or comments). ... read full story / add a comment
The EU’s plan to keep the illegal Lisbon Treaty ‘legal’ (=’alive’) has so far enjoyed the full support of the Irish Government and recently entered the stage where it turned out that “We didn’t need full vote on Lisbon: FG” (http://www.independent.ie/national-news/we-didnt-need-f....html) This essentially means that the Government is considering the option to finally discard the referendum NO, and to effectively overthrow the Constitution of Ireland by ratifying a new constitution, the Lisbon Treaty, on behalf of the people of Ireland. “The official decision on Lisbon should enter into legal force + comments” (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88222) 1. The plan to keep the illegal Lisbon Treaty ‘legal’ 2. What the poll results really reveal 3. Democracy: luxury or obligation? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 06, 2008 - 12:47 by Mairead Maguire
6 comments (last - wednesday july 09, 2008 - 05:44)
Twelve years in solitary confinement, 6 more years in "ordinary" prison, four years since his release confined to the prison of Israel with inhuman conditions imposed, fighting another six months sentence for having spoken to journalists, will Mordechai Vanunu ever be a free man again? It's time to end this inhumanity and let Mordechai Vanunu go free at last. His fate may now lie in the hands of the Israeli people. I hope some Israeli voices will support him in his trial on 8 July. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday July 04, 2008 - 14:55 by Phier
7 comments (last - sunday july 13, 2008 - 11:48)
Includes text no longer available on the Oireachtas timeline for this issue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday July 03, 2008 - 14:01 by Howard Holby
28 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2008 - 21:32)
So far Ireland has been the only one of the 27 EU-states to demonstrate an independent court decision in favour of democracy and the rule of law [1, 2]. In the new situation brought about by the EU-leaders’ rejection of Ireland’s decision [3, 4, 5], Ireland is again tested as the last fortress of democracy within the EU. This test is on whether the official decision on Lisbon arrived at on June 12, 2008 would enter into force, or the constitutional foundations of Ireland, similarly to the other 26 states, would be bent or circumvented to serve the interests of foreign political forces [2]? The questions and the proposition of this article are meant to provide a starting point for further legal considerations, building on the assumption that an independent court still exists to protect the constitution, the rule of law and democracy in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday July 02, 2008 - 09:05 by Howard Holby
1 comment (last - wednesday july 02, 2008 - 10:25)
How much legitimacy can Mr. Sarkozy assume in a non-existent role called ‘EU President’, under the current conditions, when the Lisbon Treaty meant to create such presidency has already been legally rejected, and the overall implementation process should have been revoked by now [1, 2]? How much legitimacy can be assumed for a politician who openly contradicted the decision of his own electorate [3, 4, 5] in order to seize power over the rest of the half billion who have never been and never will be his electorate [6]? How much credibility can be granted to a ‘president’ who helped organising the scheme [5] to suppress the opinion of the rest of Europe thus prevented the democratic constitutionalisation process in the region he is supposedly the ‘president’ of? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 27, 2008 - 22:27 by candle in the wind
After torching Rom encampments, molotoving homes, stoning and kicking women and children, Rom children are to be fingerprinted "to protect them". ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 26, 2008 - 20:12 by Brian
19 comments (last - wednesday september 09, 2009 - 11:47)
A look at the political thinking of the various groups that campaigned or voted No to Lisbon, with a view to seeing if it was possible for these groups to form a new united Irish opposition movement. ... read full story / add a comment
Would Mr. Cowen continue to represent the European Commission and the Council against his own people? Or would he finally start acting according to his constitutional obligation to his country and demand that the EU should unconditionally respect the decision of Ireland and immediately stop the ratification of the rejected treaty? Have the pro-Lisbon leaders considered that living under a dictatorial regime creates such a high uncertainty that first affects the rulers, due to the unpredictability and uncontrollability of the individual ambitions within an uncontrollable regime? Have they considered the possibility that the one-dimensional knowledge of their lawyers launching an operation with tricks and paragraphs against the nations of Europe may have been insufficient to assess the feasibility of the overall plan? Have they considered the very likely option that their Lisbon-scheme would fail when they least expect it? ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday June 24, 2008 - 12:13 by IshtarCelt
8 comments (last - monday june 30, 2008 - 09:22)
This Referendum had a majority turnout of the electorate. The reason the Nice treaty could be put to a re-vote is because there wasn't a majority turnout. So the Lisbon treaty can't be put to a re-vote. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday June 22, 2008 - 18:05 by paul o toole
2 comments (last - tuesday june 24, 2008 - 12:45)
The governments 'eventual response' will respect the outcome of the election ... read full story / add a comment |
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