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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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offsite link ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclu... Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
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national / politics / elections Saturday February 26, 2005 - 10:12 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 - 22:11)   image 1 image
It has been the longest stealth tax in history.
and now the High Court have ruled it out of order.
Even millionaire old age pensioners will be recompensed due to Bertie,s generousity with Medical Cards. Wonderful! ... read full story / add a comment
louth / public consultation / irish social forum Friday February 25, 2005 - 14:21 by murphys   text 16 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 - 12:44)
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- They hit the headlines when there were too few. And now the humble spud is back in the limelight ... because there are too many. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 25, 2005 - 11:03 by Frothing at the mouth   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 02, 2005 - 10:35)
A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged because of a lack of evidence, CBS News reported yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday February 24, 2005 - 12:57 by Brian Nugent   text 28 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 - 16:43)   image 2 images
Some thoughts on reading the book 'Stasiland' on a society dominated by the secret police. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 17:01 by Davy Carlin   text 25 comments (last - monday february 28, 2005 - 11:34)
I have to give credit where credit is due ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 14:48 by Maria   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 24, 2005 - 13:37)
It may sound banal and in “what else did you expect” mode, but since I started reading the Irish Times, I have not read a single positive and objective article on Russia. ... read full story / add a comment
every visitor is shown the bullet holes he left. "to remember"
international / politics / elections Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 12:27 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 24, 2007 - 04:23)   image 3 images
Democracy does not spring up out of the ground.
The rights to equal suffrage regardless of socio-economic class, gender, or creed in a secret ballot are European rights.

They have rooted in the arguments of Greek sychophants and intellectuals, who never allowed their wives, concubines, slaves or migrants the same rights.

They have roots in the declaration of the rights of man of the French Revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:59 by Gill X   text 21 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 04:50)
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:57 by Paul McAndrew   text 23 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2014 - 20:14)
The last edition of UCC's student newspaper published a full page anti-gay rant, in its latest attempt to whip up Islamopohbia and homophobia

As a gay student I feel very badly let down by the Students Union at UCC.

If racist material had been widely distribted on campus, let alone an article in an SU funded paper whose sole purpose was to attack black people, there would at the very least have been an immediate statement of condemnation by the Student's Union.

I challenge the SU leadership to deny it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:12 by Concerned   text 41 comments (last - thursday june 09, 2005 - 18:10)
Robert McCartney' s sisters are on Marian Finucane's radio programme on RTE. Anyone who has any doubts about the guilt and activities of IRA activists should listen to these women. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 01:32 by Rasta4i's   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 11:38)   image 2 images
The terms "Biometrics" and "Biometry" have been used since early in the 20th century to refer to the field of development of statistical and mathematical methods connected to data analysis problems in the biological sciences. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 00:51 by Michelle Clarke   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 23, 2005 - 20:07)
President Bush met President Chirac today...there is an urgent need to resolve disagreements and form strategies for peaceful resolutions worldwide.

Within months, the citizens of Ireland review and vote on their choice for the EU constitution.

Perhaps it is time to review our own...in the light of the Peace Process.

Surely: our focus ought to be corrupt practices North and South but not make alleged criminality, at the last hurdle towards the conclusion of the Peace Process. The Gardai exist as do the PSNI let them seek out all illegal practices irrespective of origin and act with Due Process.

The Tribunals about land deals are evidence....... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 22, 2005 - 17:33 by rory hearne   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 01, 2005 - 02:43)
Start to make poverty history in 2005; cancel the debt



On the 23rd of February, Make Poverty History Ireland are launching their campaign to “mobilise citizens and policy makers in Ireland to bring about the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The campaign is calling for urgent policy reform in the linked issues of trade, aid and debt. Make Poverty History is mobilising around key opportunities in 2005 to drive forward the struggle against poverty and injustice”. These include the G8 summit in Scotland in July and the WTO meeting in Hong Kong in December. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 22, 2005 - 01:42 by Fintan Bolton   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 10:35)
Dr. Mohammad J. Haded, a doctor from Fallujah, and Mohammad F. Awad, director of an aid centre for Fallujan refugees, describe their experiences of the American attack on Fallujah and the humanitarian aftermath at an event in Munich. ... read full story / add a comment
Anti rubbish offensive in the Kerry mountains....
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday February 22, 2005 - 00:56 by John McDermott   text 6 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 - 10:13)   image 1 image
The Cork campaign goes on,Wicklow fights on the beacheads ,and a fierce guerilla campaign sees helicopters in action in the Kerry mountains. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 21, 2005 - 22:00 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 63 comments (last - monday december 28, 2009 - 17:54)
Seán’s ninth birthday is approaching and with this in mind his father Jimmy asks him if he would have any interest in watching Ireland Vs France this coming weekend in Landsdowne Rd. Sean is ecstatic at the prospect, so the following day his dad sets out to purchase a pair of tickets for the big game. To his dismay though, there is a reduced capacity in the stadium due to FIFA regulations and as a result Jimmy is unable to purchase tickets from any of the legitimate sources. For a while he wonders if he might chance his arm and negotiate a ticket from a tout prior to the match, but eventually his financial situation deems this option a non-starter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Monday February 21, 2005 - 16:04 by Me   text 4 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 13:54)
The Spanish government considers the European constitutional treaty pass for the citizenship, in a day in which about 60% of the ones called to the urns did not exert the right to vote. With 93,54% of the scrutinized votes, 76,49% of the Spanish that voted told 'yes' to the text and 17,43% has been decanted for the 'not'. 6% of the ballot papers has been blank. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Monday February 21, 2005 - 11:13 by chief cuntstable hugh odd bored   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 03:17)
The PSNI have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the DUP were behind the £26 million bank raid, just like they have absolutely no evidence that Sinn fein were behind it. But they might as well point the finger of blame at someone. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 21, 2005 - 10:58 by missing maysfield   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 12:30)
The predominantly loyalist Castlereagh borough's biased decision to close Maysfield leisure centre, is far from sporting or fair play. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday February 20, 2005 - 22:42 by Michelle Clarke   text 8 comments (last - friday october 14, 2011 - 21:20)
Justice delayed is Justice Denied.

The CAB will not apparently being receiving early pensions. Instead, their skills refined through the 1980's/90's scandals of tax evasion will now prove refined to the degree that we may have an effective, speedy system of tribunals with prompt delivery to the Justice system


However, in the midst of all this exciting blame festering news let us not forget the important issues. We need to review children, we need to consider restorative justice, we need to appoint educational psychologists in our schools, we need Ethics established as a mind set of those entering the work environment, government etc. ... read full story / add a comment
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