Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Starmer ?Tried to Sack Ed Miliband From Net Zero Brief But He Refused to Go? Mon Sep 08, 2025 13:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?tried to sack Ed Miliband from his Net Zero brief in the reshuffle amid worries about economic growth, but he refused to budge, it was claimed today. Downing Street did not deny it when asked.
The post Starmer “Tried to Sack Ed Miliband From Net Zero Brief But He Refused to Go” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Tube Strikes Unleash ?Pure Carnage? on London as Drivers on ?72K a Year Demand More Money, a Four-Da... Mon Sep 08, 2025 11:19 | Will Jones
London is facing "pure carnage" today as striking Tube drivers on ?72,000 a year bring the capital to a standstill demanding more money, a four-day week and 75% discounts on train journeys nationwide.
The post Tube Strikes Unleash “Pure Carnage” on London as Drivers on ?72K a Year Demand More Money, a Four-Day Week and 75% Off All Rail Travel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EXCLUSIVE: New Freedom of Information Revelation Casts Further Doubt on UK Met Office Claims of ?Hot... Mon Sep 08, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Met Office "hottest evah" claims are being inflated by dodgy station siting, heat spikes and old-school averaging, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post EXCLUSIVE: New Freedom of Information Revelation Casts Further Doubt on UK Met Office Claims of ?Hottest Evah? Temperatures appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Feminist? Open Letter Which Tells British Women to Shut Up and Get Raped ? Just so Long as the ... Mon Sep 08, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
If you're female in Great Britain, who's on your side these days? asks Steven Tucker ? certainly not the feminists, who all suffer a bad, brain-scrambling dose of PMT: Pro-Migrant Totalitarianism.
The post The ?Feminist? Open Letter Which Tells British Women to Shut Up and Get Raped ? Just so Long as the One Doing the Raping Happens to be an Immigrant appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Sep 08, 2025 00:50 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

National - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Human rights, not racism

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Tuesday March 15, 2011 17:17author by Residents Against Racismauthor email rar.info at yahoo dot ieauthor address c/o Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2author phone 087 6662060 or 087 7974622 Report this post to the editors

New government - time for a new policy

DEMONSTRATION
Time for a new policy:
HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT RACISM
Dáil Éireann, Kildare Street, Dublin
12.30 pm, Tuesday 22 March

After 14 years we have a new government, promising to bring change. But one of the areas where change is most needed is the way we treat people coming to Ireland from other countries.

For years, government policy has been based on injustice towards people who have come to Ireland to escape from poverty or oppression. Asylum applications are decided by people hired and fired by politicians, and routinely refused at a rate far higher than other countries. People awaiting a decision are left to survive on a pittance of only €19.10 a week, often living in uninhabitable hostels, and legally denied the right to work or study.

The worst part of the process is the state’s deportation machine. Immigrants are rounded up, including children in their school uniform, forced on to a plane, and kicked out of the country. Often Irish children are deprived of a parent, or are even deported themselves. People still in the middle of the legal process get deported. People who have lived in Ireland for years on end can still face deportation. Although the numbers seeking asylum in Ireland has dropped, the deportation machine has been cranked up, with mass deportations now taking place nearly every month.

Thousands of Irish immigrants in the US are forced to live and work illegally, and Irish politicians have lobbied the government there to allow them the right to work and stay. Every decent person will support this demand—and should demand that undocumented immigrants here in Ireland will have that same right.

Many of the Irish politicians who have been responsible for policies that discriminated against people from other countries are now gone, rejected by the electorate. Their attempts to whip up racism so as to divert blame from their own failures should go too. It is time for a new policy that welcomes people from other countries, allows them to live here, work here, and play their part in Irish society.

Related Link: http://www.residentsagainstracism.org
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy