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Referendum Watch ... Referendum Watch ... Referendum Watch ... (Free article)
27 August 2009
Jason O'Mahony is a funny guy. Don't take my word for it check out his website www.jasonomahony.ie. He is a former member of the Progressive Democrats with a fetish for Evel Knievel and Terence Trent D'Arby, but don't let any of that put you off. The funniest thing on his site is, The Spoofer's (Improved) Guide to the Lisbon Treaty.…
Death of Senator Edward Kennedy (Free article)
27 August 2009
US Senator Edward Kennedy died this week after a long illness. He had been a member of the US Senate for 48 years and was a key legislator, a leading member of the Democratic Party and prominently active on Irish affairs, including during the nascent Peace Process.
Torture, ill-treatment, inhuman and degrading treatment - Britain's role, past and present (Free article)
27 August 2009
BRITISH MINISTERS have again been forced to deny continuing allegations of collusion in the torture of detainees in the 'War on Terror' after their own parliamentary committee on human rights admitted it could not establish the truth because information was being deliberately withheld by their own government. In a joint article in the Sunday…
Tacaíocht le léirsiú mná tí (Free article)
27 August 2009
Tá Conradh na Gaeilge ag iarraidh ar gach éinne ar mhór leis nó léi an Ghaeilge tacaíocht a léiriú do na mná tí a bheidh ag léirsiú lasmuigh d'oifigí na Roinne Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta sna Forbacha, Co. na Gaillimhe, ag 2.00in Dé Máirt, 1 Meán Fómhair 2009. Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh (CONCOS) atá ag eagrú an…
Turf cutters tell EU to sod off (Free article)
27 August 2009
TURF CUTTING was always part of Ireland's indigenous way of life. It was like thatching or hurling, part of the ethos of people who, over generations, perfected the art of self-sufficiency. ELLA O'DWYER looks at the here and now of working on the bog, the people on the cutting edge in the field, and the EU bureaucracy threatening to finish the…
Disaster developing in Sri Lanka's concentration camps (Free article)
27 August 2009
A humanitarian catastrophe has been escalating over the past three months in the internment camps in which 285,000 Tamil civilians have been imprisoned in Tamil Eelam in the north of the Sri Lankan state. Even some liberal Western media outlets have begun referring to these camps - heavily guarded by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and ringed by…
Orde leaves mixed legacy while truth still denied (Free article)
27 August 2009
The departure of Hugh Orde as Chief Constable of the PSNI leaves a mixed legacy. While he presided at a time of positive transformation in policing in the Six Counties much remains to be done and his role with others in continuing to withhold the truth about killings by the crown forces was negative.
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
27 August 2009
The Brits have always loved the notion of their 'special relationship' with the United States. Since they've never really got over the fact that they're more or less a third rate world power these days the notion that they're taken seriously in Washington allows them to pretend they're still playing with the big boys. But what do the Americans…
Ferris claims sugar industry sacrificed for speculators (Free article)
27 August 2009
Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Agriculture Martin Ferris TD has claimed that the current concerns regarding Liam Carroll's 30% stake in Greencore prove that the sugar industry was sacrificed in the interests of property speculators. Carroll bought the shares with a view to acquiring the substantial land assets belonging to the company once it set about…
More than a game By Gael Gan Náire (Free article)
27 August 2009
LADS I am disappointed in ye. Only three men turned up at Gills last Sunday to join the Vigilance Committee and one of them was scuttered, courtesy of my old friend Jim Birch, I would not be at all surprised, after a carvery lunch in the Auld Triangle.
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