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Lloyd's of London is the latest institution to abandon the Net Zero agenda, lifting a ban on insuring fossil fuels. About time, says Ben Pile. Green ideology is finally meeting its nemesis: reality and the bottom line.
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With Ukraine realists sounding like Putin apologists while idealists inhabit a fantasy world where Ukraine can defeat Russia, Clive Pinder suggests a middle way: Kyiv must accept the war is lost, but win the peace.
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offsite link Britain to Suspend Visas for Countries Failing to Take Back Illegal Migrants, Says Mahmood Mon Sep 08, 2025 17:39 | Will Jones
The UK will suspend visas from countries that refuse to "play ball" on taking back illegal migrants and foreign criminals, new?Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood?has said.
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Labour keeps bragging about growth, but David Craig reckons that the ONS's dubious new method of counting overseas output as part of the UK's GDP is giving a false impression of economic vitality.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Friday October 24, 2008 23:43 by Richard Walsh   text 6 comments (last - monday september 13, 2010 17:30)
RSF have criticised the announcement that all Free State "police" are to be armed with chemical weapons. read full story / add a comment
laois / miscellaneous / event notice Friday October 24, 2008 20:10 by Brian   text 1 comment (last - friday august 28, 2009 14:06)
On Saturday 25th October, Laois Sinn Féin are organising a demonstration outside the constituency office of Fianna Fail's John Moloney TD, the Minister of State at the Dept. of Health and Children, in Mountmellick Co. Laois, over budget cutbacks and their effects on health, the elderly, and education in the county. read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / miscellaneous / press release Friday October 24, 2008 19:53 by Richard Walsh   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 16:39)
The Provos have been asked why they are protecting an informer whilst accusing agents provocateur of being active within the Republican Movement. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 24, 2008 19:39 by Mr.Peter Brady Alias.   text 13 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 00:21)
This is our seventh statement. read full story / add a comment
armagh / miscellaneous / press release Thursday October 23, 2008 21:48 by Richard Walsh
RSF have condemned Provo double-speak. read full story / add a comment
national / education / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 18:54 by Gregor Kerr   text 15 comments (last - sunday november 23, 2008 21:21)
The pensioners and the students have shown the way. Now teachers and parents are set to take on the government in response to education cuts announced in the Budget. The two Brians should get ready for another climbdown. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 16:55 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 23, 2008 16:20)
Join us in debate and decisions on the way forward for this vital campaign. We will be joined on the day by Yassamine Mather and Moshe Machover and hear messages from Iranian students and workers in struggle. Find out what is really going on behind the scenes.

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dublin / animal rights / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 15:13 by Laura Broxson
SAY NO TO ANIMAL TESTING! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 10:19 by Mark C
Across the world on Nov. 5th different groups will perform actions against commercial influences in education (including the paying of fees for third level education). This Event Notice is a call for those who are not performing actions on that day to send a "Live Greeting of Solidarity" to those who are. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 09:25 by Craigavon Trades Council
Craigavon & District Council of Trade Unions present the inaugural Jim Haughey Memorial Lecture read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Thursday October 23, 2008 05:44 by A Questioning Catholic waiting for change   text 39 comments (last - friday december 05, 2008 18:51)
This is a wonderful site run by an Irish Priest who believes in giving the full story of happenings within the Church in Ireland and worldwide and not the spin often given by those high up the ranks who give the watered down version or spin. There are interesting things to read about the Church worldwide every day even if you are not an active member of the Church or even a Catholic for that matter. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday October 23, 2008 04:47 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - monday october 27, 2008 11:37)
Monday morning will see massive nonviolent direct action taking place at Adermaston - Britain's nuclear weapons factory.
Friends from Catholic Worker and Plowshares will be joining hundreds of others in an attempt to nonviolently shut down Aldermaston.
We will try to incorporate solidaritywith this direct action into this week's Monday GPO anti-war vigil Background on Monday's Aldermaston blockade see http://blockawe.blogspot.com and http://www.tridentploughshares.org US/UK went to war in Iraq to dismantle WMD...meanwhile Aldermaston continues to produce WMD. Go figure?
*The blockade is due to go down in the morning. If anyone has the energy for a simultaneous solidarity action in the morning at the British embassy in Dublin - contact Ciaron read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 22, 2008 15:36 by Kerry Fleck   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 23, 2008 00:24)
Trade Union Friends of Palestine have organised a picket of the EU Offices in Belfast

Lunchtime picket
at the E.U. OFFICES,
Windsor House, Bedford Street, BELFAST.
On Friday, 24 October 2008,
from 12.00pm to 2.00pm.
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mayo / crime and justice / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 14:09 by -d-   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 23, 2008 10:15)
Wednesday, 15 October, 2008, Martin McDonnell of Glenamoy appeared in front of Judge Clein in the Ballina Courthouse. Garda Egan and Sergeant Gill, the prosecuting Gardai, asked the judge to activate McDonnell’s suspended jail sentences stemming from two counts of trespassing on Shell property. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 13:36 by jmullee
A protest by mainly the elderly at the budgeted means-testing for medical card for the over-70s.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 22, 2008 06:17 by gar
Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking two news photographers and a British woman who was helping Palestinians pick olives near a West Bank town.The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest.
The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers trying to disrupt the annual harvest which provides a livelihood for many Palestinians.
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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday October 22, 2008 06:07 by gar
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant's controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday October 21, 2008 23:30 by Marxism 2008 team
2008 has seen a crisis of capitalism not seen since the 1930’s. The workings of the market, once universally worshipped, have imploded and are wrecking people’s lives across the globe. Alongside this, the so called “war on terror” pursued by the same market fundamentalists, has brought death and havoc in Iraq and now, in Afghanistan, it threatens to spill over to new and deadlier frontiers. Never has it been so important to develop alternatives to the madness of the system. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges"
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 21, 2008 17:59 by Gregor Kerr
Below is the text of a leaflet currently being distributed among INTO members. Please feel free to download, print off, copy and distribute.

While it's written specifically for INTO members, the arguments in it are obviously applicable across all unions so feel free to adapt as necessary. read full story / add a comment
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