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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 16, 2006 - 14:43 by I. McCabe
In June 2006 the Director of Public Prosecutions revised his general guidelines. One section of the revised guidelines caused bemusement amongst some in the legal profession. Section 9 in particular which refers to the guidelines on disclosure is the one which has created a point of debate and criticism. Ironically the DPP singled out the McKevitt case as a shining example of fair procedures on disclosure when in fact the opposite happened in the McKevitt trial. Both nationally and internationally legal observers have described the disclosure process used during the McKevitt case as one of the most blatant abuses on disclosure that they have ever witnessed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 22:23 by Michelle Clarke
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What needs to be done? Game plan to combat crime for 2006......... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 20:25 by paul o toole
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Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 14:51 by M Cotton
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Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 11:16 by fourth mary
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Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly, as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously jaundiced world view. But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:40 by wsm
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A consortium of Shell, Statoil, and Marathon do a deal with the government allowing them exclusive exploitation rights to the Corrib gas field, off Mayo. Not only that, but they are allowed to write off their costs against taxes, meaning that the whole project is being funded by the PAYE taxpayer, who will receive nothing, not even lower gas prices. It may sound a bit iffy but there is no garda investigation into possible bribery or corruption. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:04 by John McDermott
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national / miscellaneous Monday December 11, 2006 - 19:31 by Saoirse
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It is all to easy to get wound up in the festive cheer and hype in the run up to Christmas and while I do no advocate going ‘cold turkey’ (excuse the Pun) on Christmas altogether I do ask everyone as you sit around your table this Christmas spare a thought for republican prisoners who spend yet another Christmas away from home and loved ones. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 16:25 by Ian Greene
Upon reading one of the redtops (tabloids) on the weekend of 3rd Sept 2006 I came across an interesting article by journalist John Mooney. The article led me on to search for a website referred to in the article. The website itself was interesting and gave an indepth background into the case of Michael McKevitt. However, one thing was confirmed to me during my search, that one can be seriously misinformed and mislead by the print media and the redtops in particular. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 03:27 by Harry Wells
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The Mail on Sunday returns today to the story the Irish Times and Irish Independent don't want to touch with a forty-foot pole. It is ironic that an Irish edition of a Conservative English newspaper shows more gumption in exposing this scandal than Irish owned newspapers. See also: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80012 - for previous Mail coverage of this story and how the Times and Indo have effectively ignored it. Who are these newspapers protecting? The Fine Gael-Labour coalition of 1973-77, who ran scared from the bombs and instituted a reign of repression and terror against republicans and the (minority) of socialists who stood up to them, that's who. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment Sunday December 10, 2006 - 21:39 by John Baker
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This is a small piece of the story of Ireland, taken on its own it is a local issue but it is being echoed right now all across the country and it raises many other issues in its wake; housing, development, local democracy, accountability, sustainability. All important and interesting but to cover all of them would make a long article so this concentrates on just one – Water, because that’s something I’m passionate about and something that is too much taken for granted in this water rich country. I trust that readers are intelligent enough to make the links. ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday December 10, 2006 - 19:00 by EddyB
The insolvency of the German maker of mechanical biolocical waste treatment (MBT) goes to court in Dublin. The former Herhof owner Treasury Holdings may have to pay more than 10 million Euro to a German community. ... read full story / add a comment |
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