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international / education Saturday February 13, 2021 - 04:19 by Makuachukwu
Lee Merritt gives a great explanation of exactly what this is and what it is intended to do, Yes, we are at war!!!!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Friday March 13, 2020 - 02:58 by newsmediaanews
Chelsea?Julian - the Truth ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Wednesday December 31, 2014 - 19:54 by T
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This is an extremely important story and should be the final wakeup call to the public at large over the real dangers of weedkillers and GM crops. Even though the study applies to the USA, and generally we have GM food labeling, our animal feeds very likely contain significant amounts of GM crops. Also Roundup itself even on ordinary crops is used widespread both in agriculture and in gardens. It is highly likely we are all regularly exposed to residues of this weedkiller, although in all likelihood at the moment this is probably more prevalent in the USA where the situation is a lot worse. However, there are continual efforts all the time to introduce GM crops into Ireland and both FF and FG have given their support to the corporate lobbyists promoting its use. Hopefully news like this just might stop it in its tracks but it won't do anything for the tens of thousands of families already affected by autism ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Monday September 15, 2014 - 22:42 by T
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The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the American warfare/police state. The corrupt Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Thursday October 06, 2011 - 15:51 by opus diablos
This extract gives an update on the current state of play, and a little background, from the yankee 'backyard' of Latin America. It indicates there are lessons for our predicament that our betters would prefer we didn't learn. ... read full story / add a comment
Language Courses in August: Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 21:05 by LM
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Today, students from NUI Maynooth staged a picket at the office of Aine Brady T.D. The protest was organised by the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) campaign, who were also involved in the Castlebar secondary level walkouts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 01:54 by LM
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Approx 100 students from two secondary schools in Clondalkin (Coláiste Bríde and Moyle Park College) took part in a walk out on budget day against the cut backs in education and increased college fees. The students gathered in front of the office of John Curran TD in Clondalkin village and got a lot of support from passing cars and pedestrians. Since then, Shane Donnelly, one of the leaders of the walk out has been suspended from school pending a board of management meeting later this week which will discuss and decide on his expulsion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Tuesday November 23, 2010 - 15:53 by Sean Crudden
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One is lucky to know a person who can fix one's car, or a person who can fix one's computer (even if that woman is in India); and watching a professional trouble-shooter in action is as good in value as watching a skilled musician or a class sportsman doing their thing. But one extends the paradigm into human affairs and human relations at one's peril? ... read full story / add a comment
Episode 5 of the Irish History Podcast is out now. This episode "changing times" looks are very important but relatively unknown period in Irish history - 902-930. After the Vikings were driven out in 902, war broke out between the two biggest factions in Gaelic Ireland - The O Neills and The Eoganacht. The result of this war heralded great change - ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Thursday November 04, 2010 - 21:47 by Pax
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Published here in the national interest and in light of recent events. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 10:29 by Gillian Browne
The Global Women’s Studies Programme at National University of Ireland, Galway offers an exciting MA programme focused on gender, globalisation and rights. The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights is still accepting applications for 2010-11 to fill the last few remaining places. The final closing date for all applications is July 30th. “ ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday May 15, 2010 - 09:11 by Greg Lukianoff
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Evolutionary scientist Dylan Evans at UCC has been disciplined for showing an article on sex in fruit bats to a colleague in the context of a debate on human exceptionalism. Supporters of the campaign to reverse this include Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins and others. ... read full story / add a comment 
The second episode of the Irish History Podcast has been released ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Friday April 16, 2010 - 21:44 by D. Grant Haynes
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A culture and educational system that permits a student like Irish teen Phoebe Prince to be bullied and harassed until driven to suicide needs to undergo vast systemic changes immediately. ____________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Monday April 12, 2010 - 09:31 by MediaBite
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Dr Gavan Titley of NUI Maynooth has written a guest article for MediaBite in which he analyses media coverage of the teaching union conferences last week. ... read full story / add a comment
LASC and Age Action invite you to submit photos for the Latin America Week Photo Exhibition 2010 This is an opportunity for LASC and Age Action members, volunteers and friends to exhibit photos of Latin America and Ireland related to Food Sovereignty and Older People during Latin America Week 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Sunday February 07, 2010 - 19:08 by John Cornford
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Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link. Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education Thursday November 19, 2009 - 22:01 by Aidan Rowe
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The Student's Union of NUI Maynooth has confirmed, via email correspondence, that they will not be encouraging NUIM students to support the strike on Tuesday. The full text of the email correspondence is presented below. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 17:36 by o as if
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The parents of girls who attend St John's Girls' national school, in Carrigaline, County Cork, have been instructed by the school's principal, Catherine O'Neill to provide toilet paper for their daughters. It's one those stories which appeals to an international audience and especially the lurking anti-Irish sentiment still present in AngloSaxon media or perhaps if not anti-Irish, a sour sense of resentment that other English speaking peoples never got to enjoy 2 Lisbon Referenda or a jaunt on the pig's back of the Celtic Tiger. Whatever the true classification of the story doing international commerical & state rounds today, msot readers will admit it illustrates a wee home truth. ... read full story / add a comment |
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