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national / health / disability issues Thursday September 21, 2006 - 11:41 by Miriam Cotton
 3 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 - 12:52)
I have to take issue with Fergus Finlay’s article in last Tuesday's Irish Examiner (‘Aisling’s story shows how special people are doing it for themselves’). ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Thursday September 21, 2006 - 10:12 by W L Blower
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Just in case anyone in the SEELB area was wondering who the Governments appointed commissioners are. As you can see they represent a wide range of views that will enable them to make the right choices for the children, parents and employees in the area. Just checking there are two blue moons in the sky, and the pigs are on the runway ready for take off!!!! Douglas Osler- Chairman of the Scottish Conservative policy advisory group. Joan Christie O.B.E- Company Director, Chair of Ballymoney District policing partnership, Deputy Lieutenant of the county. Lawson McDonald-Accountant and former senior executive with the investment agency the Industrial Development Board. Pat Carvill-Former permanent secretary of the Department of education and the Department of finance and personnel in Northern Ireland, Member of the Government appointed Advisory Council of the Partnership UK 2002/03. PUK works with its public sector partners to deliver PFI/PPP solutions. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:40 by Radical Student
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By Dermot Keenan The start of the 2006 / 2007 academic years brings with it, for the first time, the burden of top up fees on new students. Previously, most students in Britain and the North (except Scottish students studying in Scotland) pay a contribution towards their tuition fees (anything from £0-£1,250 a year). ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:33 by Martin Hogan
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Gore places the scientific facts of global warming in a real life context that captures the attention of all but the most apathetic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 17:53 by chomh glic le fear dlí
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This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 21:57 by Kevin T. Walsh
48 comments (last - wednesday april 15, 2009 - 09:19)
Criminal Asset Bureau, ARA, The concept of power; absolute power Quotation: Freedom 'The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is Freedom of Thought and Action Albert Camus (1915-1960) French Writer ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / crime and justice Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 19:29 by Seán Ryan
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Crime in Limerick is spiralling out of control. Another man was killed in Moyross on Sunday night after being shot in the head. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 15:10 by Chris Murray
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" Since last week the Labour Party has consistently argued for the closing off of this loophole. For that reason when the Government was persuaded to deal with it this week, last night we facilitated it being taken, which is the reason for us not voting against the order of business.However , we have not seen the bill and there will be little time to look at the issue. I urge the Tanaiste to cause the Minister for Justice , Equality and Law reform to make it available as soon as possible. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 01:02 by David Manning
8 comments (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 - 22:17)
Five years on since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the wars that precipitated from that act are now discussed in frustratingly candid terms. While the thousands of American deaths are fittingly remembered as avoidable tragedies, the military responses, claiming the lives of many more innocent people, are described as 'mistakes' and 'necessities'. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:12 by eekkkk
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It is a weird and wonderful feeling to realise that right in front of you for once in your life in this sorry excuse for a nation that someone is actually describing in song life (as opposed to romance) as it is lived outside of the tiny Irish celebrity bubble and to realise that your unhappy hometown has unambiguously produced a living poet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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Regardless of one's position on faith groups, comparatively recent concepts of world civilisation blocks, secularism, state & religious group relations - the importance of this last week's papal history can not quickly be underestimated. Though I come to considering Ratzinger's personal apology for his anti-Islamic comments whilst on holidays in his native Bavaria from old fashioned anti-papist prejudice. Benedict XVI who wanted us all to consider his job as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church in the terms of the last war-time (WW1) pacifist "Benedict" has instead made history as the first pope to publically apologise. & what a lame effort it was, as one nun lies murdered in a inter-religious sectarian attack in Africa & the Vatican city endures its highest level security alert since the mid 19th century. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Sunday September 17, 2006 - 18:03 by diren
1 comment (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 - 00:23)
The proposed legislation to ‘manage immigration’ has far-reaching consequences, not only for immigrants, but also for Irish society. While the government preaches integration, it is doing everything to undermine it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 17, 2006 - 16:43 by Chris Murray
22 comments (last - friday march 02, 2007 - 19:13)
The Sunday news this morning is reporting that Judge Brian Curtin, who was arrested as part of operation amethyst- the sweep on Child pornography users may make use of an 'out'. He will be allowed to retire in November on the Grounds of ill-health. This means that the impeachment process will not continue. This means that the Oireachtas committee which has been investigating the case will be stopped. The Judge never faced criminal charges due to a technicality, the date of his arrest was wrongly entered into the books ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday September 17, 2006 - 15:40 by Éamonn Ó Flannagáin
Ministers have been warned about accepting Ryder Cup hospitality but what about Civil Servants. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday September 17, 2006 - 00:15 by lumsk
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Are we as people living in Ireland doing enough to avert the climate catastrophe that faces us all across the globe? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday September 16, 2006 - 12:24 by W. Finnerty.
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Is it possible to easily (and lawfully) find out if a particular person is a Freemason? I realise it is possible to simply ask them; but, would this be permitted in a court room I wonder? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 15, 2006 - 20:21 by Elizabeth Cook
Citizens of New Orleans are taking it upon themselves to enforce the right of return with everyday acts of civil disobedience. Public housing residents in particular are fighting back. HUD is attempting to shutter all of public housing in New Orleans, but residents have forced the reopening of Iberville Housing Development, and have attempted reoccupation of two other developments. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 14, 2006 - 19:35 by gníomhaí
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'Peak oil' is a term that has become almost mainstream by now- basically it signals the end of cheap oil. Most of us will have heard this already and as oil prices increase almost every month at this stage the government is finally waking up to the fact. Or is it? Recently in the Irish Times Marc Coleman, Economics Editor wrote that Brian Cowen said 'The government had NO contingency plan to deal with the prospect of a SEVERE INCREASE in oil prices' . Now, usually politicians 'put a brave face on' when dealing with times of crisis- it is rare indeed that someone in Cowen's position is so forthright, yet there we have it in black and white- the government has plainly admitted that we are on our own- we cannot rely on the government to help us through the imminent energy crisis that now faces us. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday September 14, 2006 - 18:52 by gníomhaí
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Is seirbhís poiblí í RTÉ, cén fath mar sin an bhfuil fógraí ann chomh maith le ceadúnas le íocadh? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday September 12, 2006 - 22:48 by Mick Hall
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It is no secret that an increasing numbers of Irish Republicans have become disillusioned with the Good Friday Agreement and disconcerted with SF's inability to get the British State to enforce the terms of the agreement upon Unionism. This despite the Provisional Republican Movement having committed itself to honoring its side of the agreement, which has meant it has overseen the decommissioning of most of its armory and stood down all but its most senior Volunteers, both of which went against the wishes of the majority of the organization's volunteers and the historic traditions of Óglaigh na hÉireann ... read full story / add a comment |
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