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175 Irish troops join EU Battle Group (Free article)
5 March 2012
FINE GAEL, LABOUR, FIANNA FÁIL BACK IRISH PARTICIPATION IN AUSTRO-GERMAN BATTLE GROUP » BY MARK MOLONEY FROM July until the end of 2012, members of the Irish Defence Forces will participate in an EU Battle Group. The Government parties and Fianna Fáil voted in favour of Defence Forces personnel taking part in the Austro-German EU Battle…
I second that emotion – The Julia Carney Column (Free article)
5 March 2012
WHERE DO Ard Fheis motions come from? Really. I mean, in theory party members are now spending weeks discussing the issues on which they believe the party needs to form policy. They consult existing policy documents, they touch base with people in their communities affected by the issue, days are spent wrestling with commas and sub-clauses,…
Tesco High Court injunction against Dessie Ellis TD over Eddie Stobart picket (Free article)
5 March 2012
TRADE UNIONISTS BATTLE FOR RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION AT TRUCKING FIRM TESCO IRELAND has secured a Dublin High Court injunction barring Sinn Fein TD Dessie Ellis and five members of SIPTU from the company’s distribution centre in Ballymun. The order was made on 24 February after the Dublin North-West TD observed an 100-strong picket the…
Payday loans legal loan sharking (Free article)
5 March 2012
CASHING IN ON AUSTERITY | CONSUMER COUNCIL LOBBIED TO ACT » BY CONOR MURPHY MP, Sinn Féin Assembly Economy Spokesperson WE’RE ALL FAMILIAR with the strong-arm tactics used by illegal loan sharks but a new industry is being allowed to flourish because of the extreme austerity measures being imposed on society by governments and…
Reject ‘fracking’ (Free article)
5 March 2012
Canadian activist Jessica Ernst, biologist and environmental expert 30 years working as an environmental consultant for the oil and gas industry says . . . Reject ‘fracking’ » BY MARK MOLONEY AS THE DEBATE on the controversial oil and gas exploration technique hydraulic fracturing (known as ‘fracking’), heats up, the newly-formed…
Gaeltacht Chathrach molta do Bhaile Átha Cliath (Free article)
5 March 2012
Ní fiú an moladh gan infheistíocht » LE CATHAL Ó MURCHÚ TÁ MOLADH tagtha ón Rialtas (na Fiche Sé Chontae) le déanaí maidir le Gaeltacht uirbeach nua i mBaile Átha Cliath a bhunú. Is é Cluain Dolcáin in Iarthar na cathrach an ceantar atá le hathainmniú. Cé nach mbaineann an moladh seo go baileach le Plean 20 Bliain leis an nGaeilge a chur…
High stakes and a close fight (Free article)
5 March 2012
LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION – 3 MAY | NECK-AND-NECK BETWEEN JOHNSON AND LIVINGSTONE » BY LAURA MILLER THE London Mayoral election on 3 May looks set to be a neck-and-neck contest between Tory incumbent Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone. Polls in January put Livingstone two points ahead following a boost in his support, largely as a result of…
Collective effort, not individual greed, is the only way forward (Free article)
5 March 2012
SHARING THE BURDEN | SHARE THE WEALTH » BY EOIN Ó MURCHÚ WE LIVE in a world of free market economics. And the big theory behind all this is that if individuals are freed from ‘sectional interest’ restraints (which is how the free marketers describe state controls or trades unions) then the economy will flower. Well, we all know that…
Priory Hall families 100 days out of their homes (Free article)
5 March 2012
FINE GAEL TD HECKLED OFF PROTEST PLATFORM | ANGRY RESIDENTS MARK ANNIVERSARY WITH CALL TO ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PHIL HOGAN » BY MARK MOLONEY THERE was widespread anger on the streets of the north Dublin suburb of Donaghmede on Sunday 14 February as more than 700 people held a protest to mark 100 days since the residents of Priory Hall were…
An Lucht Taistil faoi scrúdú (Free article)
5 March 2012
TV Review LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC IDIR Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, Blood of the Travellers, Knuckle agus eile, ní féidir a rá nach bhfuil an pobal siúil ag fáil an 15 nóiméad de cháil agus chlú a d’fhógair an t-ealaíontóir Andy Warhol dúinn go léir, tráth den saol ach an bhfuil siad thuas nó thíos dá bharr, sin í an cheist. Ní bheadh fadhb…
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