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national / miscellaneous Sunday August 27, 2006 - 23:55 by jim travers
 3 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 17:12)
After publishing an article called "Waste who's problem is it" on the Rathdown/Dunlaoghaire web site , I have looked at what has changed since I first published my views back in 2003. Has the Luas system contributed to traffic congestion and has local authorities made it easier for everybody to become environmnetally concious without having to pay for the privlidge of helping them secure yet another stealt tax without doing anything for it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 25, 2006 - 14:10 by Political Hostage
3 comments (last - friday november 26, 2010 - 06:54)
On 27th July 2006 after a trial lasting almost a month the jury in the case of Det. Sgt. John White took just under one hour to throw out the case against Mr. White. For five years Garda Sgt. White had an accusation hanging over him that he planted a sawn-off shotgun at a Travellers encampment. Charged on June 20th 2001 he had always denied the claim. As White left the courthouse in Letterkenny he told waiting reporters that many of his former colleagues let him down and the only ones who had helped were some of the uniformed members of the force. This assertion from White would seem to suggest that the Garda organisation contains an inner core, namely the Special Branch. Many within the Special Branch of the Gardai have been involved in controversy for decades. There exists within the Special Branch a culture that are prepared to lie and perjure themselves to secure convictions against any individual that they want out of the way. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Thursday August 24, 2006 - 19:56 by +
3 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 - 21:55)  2 images
Suicide by dousing oneself in petrol is a relatively recent option. Logically since refined petroleum has only been available to the mass population for a relatively short time. Just as long as Irish people have enjoyed the institution of the christian brothers they have been able to purchase parafin and diesel. The first newspaper headline grabbing suicide with petrol was on October 5th 1963 in Saigon, a buddhist monk Quang Duc had had enough of the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem. His action was copied more times than anyone cares to remember. In May 1966, 5 such suicides were recorded in just one week. a 17 year old girl followed a 19 year old girl who herself followed another monk. The South Vietnamese government was unpopular, so the USA went in to sort it out. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / racism & migration related issues Thursday August 24, 2006 - 13:02 by 1st of May
2 comments (last - tuesday august 29, 2006 - 19:52) 1 image
The Afghan hunger strike brought into sharp focus the new Ireland into which our country has been transforming over the last 10 years. Our booming economy and relatively high wage levels have drawn many thousands of immigrants into the country in search of a better life here. Much as the Irish once looked to America for the promise of a happier future, so many people from less well off countries now look to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 24, 2006 - 01:43 by Gurley Flynn
10 comments (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 - 11:17)
The British Monarchy is a basic cause of Irelands problem: abolishing the monarch would help end Ireland's British problem ... read full story / add a comment |
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