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national / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 16, 2008 - 14:33 by Leo Magee
 2 comments (last - tuesday june 17, 2008 - 00:55)
Any attempt at developing a revolutionary project has lost all direction. All energy has been consumed within the so-called anti-war movement. The anti-war movement will be in disarray with the election of Obama. The Left are dead but serve a very useful purpose by mopping up people who amazingly want to do something to change the world. A plethora of groups now exist to neutralise dissent by consuming possible dissenters into dreary political parties (all of whom claim to be left or socialist or green or in the Irish context 'left republican' etc etc) ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 13, 2008 - 14:24 by jim travers
2 comments (last - friday june 13, 2008 - 16:29)
The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate has not only told politicians, in what now appears to be a unified one party state made up of Labour, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, that the Irish people will not tolerate any interference to our Constitution by unknown bureaucrats in the EU. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 12, 2008 - 13:31 by old fashioned Green
4 comments (last - saturday june 14, 2008 - 07:31)
these are the main reasons why I and many Green party members are voting no to Lisbon and why we refused to campaign for a yes vote. Reason no 1: REACH Reason no 2: Nuclear power Reason no 3: EU Corruption Reason no 4: EU Police state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 17:53 by jmstipe20
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Background information for the Irish referendum on June 12: The EU today lacks proper democratic procedures. The Lisbon Treaty boosts this lack of democracy making the EU even more remote to its citizens. This is the conclusion of a study by Michael Efler, Percy Vogel, Gerald Häfner, Roman Huber and Felix Wünsche. ... read full story / add a comment
Video from the Lisbon Debate hosted by the Socialist Party in Wynn's Hotel on the 5th June 2008. Here Joe Higgins outlines the No argument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89u1OMnJFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACw6U4Nbgc&feature=user http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIERKAGbl2U&feature=user ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 14:31 by Raymond Bhreatnach
4 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 16:21) 1 image
AN INFORMED AND REASONED PIECE ON WHY TO VOTE A BIG NO TO LISBON ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 11:58 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
13 comments (last - friday june 27, 2008 - 21:23)
In the last few days, Brian Cowen has stated that Ireland's future will be decided by the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. If, therefore, its ratification is so paramount with regard to the future of Ireland, and indeed Europe, then why are we the only nation voting on it? Surely, in any democracy, people are entitled to decide on issues which fundamentally shape their future, right? A half a billion people now live in the E.U., but only a few million are being asked for their opinion in a referendum being billed by Cowen as the most import in a generation. Either European democracy is well or truly a thing of the past, or Cowen, Kenny and Gilmore are exaggerating the importance of this referendum with a view to sparing their blushes on the corridors of power in Brussels. ... read full story / add a comment
The areas in which national competences will be or potentially will be transferred to the Union, and the procedure of how the national parliaments may try to retain the remainder of their competences. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday June 10, 2008 - 17:04 by paul o toole
2 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 22:04)
Nutrality in Ireland has been reduced in our constitution as nothing more than 'aspirational' by our courts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday June 10, 2008 - 01:18 by Galway woman
4 comments (last - friday june 20, 2008 - 14:34)
I just got a leaflet through the door from Labour today calling for a Yes vote. It is worse that I could have guessed. ... read full story / add a comment |
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