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national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 18, 2012 13:00 by O.O'C.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2012 14:55)
A referendum on the Fiscal Treaty (‘SCG’/Stability, Coordination and Governance) is to be held in Ireland in May but the related European Stability Mechanism Treaty (‘ESM’) is not to be similarly scrutinised, much less put to the people for approval. Yet both treaties are explicitly linked and interdependent. According to the ESM Treaty both treaties are ’complementary’. The ESM Treaty is illegal under EU law as it stands and is therefore unconstitutional, being in breach of existing EU treaty principles which have been approved by the Irish people in previous referendums and are now part of our law. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 02, 2012 15:04 by O.O'C.   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 05, 2012 19:27)
The Government wants the Dáil and Seanad in the very near future to approve a hugely important amendment to the EU treaties without any referendum, even though this amendment and its legal and political consequences would mark a qualitative change in the direction of the EU and in the character, scope and objectives of the Economic and Monetary Union. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday March 05, 2012 02:13 by O.O'C.
We should work for a powerful No vote in the referendum on the Permanent Austerity Treaty, but we should also not be distracted from the anti-democratic process that the Government is using to bring the European Stability Mechanism into being read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 29, 2012 18:49 by cropbeye
If there is a vote on the Euro compact campagainers should not go up a blind alley.

A lot of Irish Government and establishment figures dont actually know much about the workings of Europe in depth when you scatch
the surface.

Dont waste time on them. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday February 28, 2012 01:30 by O.O'C.
DO YOU KNOW that Ireland could hold the Eurozone at our mercy regarding our national debt, the Anglo-Irish promissory notes and the terms of the Troika’s Memorandum of Understanding? This can be done by requiring a referendum instead of Oireachtas approval of the “Decision” of the EU 27 to amend Art.136 of the EU Treaties so as to authorize the establishment of a permanent €500 billion fund for the Eurozone, the “European Stability Mechanism Fund”, to which Ireland must contribute €11 billion? read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 28, 2012 01:02 by O.O'C.   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2012 12:42)
“It would be tragic and fatal if we were to lose democracy on the road to saving the euro”

- Dr Andreas Vosskuhle, President of the German Constitutional Court, 2011

“There are 27 of us. Clearly, down the line, we will have to include the Balkans. There will be 32, 33 or 34 of us. No one thinks that federalism, total integration, will be possible with 33, 34, or 35 States. Clearly there will be a two-speed Europe: one speed that moves towards a Federation for the Eurozone and one speed for a Confederation within the European Union.”  

- French President Sarkozy, 8 Nov. 2011 
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Hare Coursing: A former judge and a respected conservationist group now say it should be banned
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday February 25, 2012 00:53 by Ban Hare Coursing Now   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 25, 2012 15:38)   image 5 images
Evidence is mounting recent weeks that hare coursing can no longer ward off accusations of deliberate cruelty and ecological vandalism. Opposition to it is increasing, with a former district court judge and the prestigious Irish Wildlife Trust caoming out in favour of its abolition. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 21, 2012 01:04 by O.O'C.   text 7 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2012 15:24)
The Government seems determined to push ahead in the next few months with the ratification of two important treaties: the “Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union” and the revised “Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism.”

The two treaties would make member-states of the euro zone into regimes of economic austerity, involving deeper and deeper cuts in public expenditure, increases in indirect taxes, reductions in wages, sustained liberalisation of markets, and the privatisation of public property. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 08, 2012 22:33 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2012 17:06)
The regular bulletin from the Galway Alliance Against War read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / feature Tuesday January 10, 2012 07:20 by PAW   text 31 comments (last - monday february 20, 2012 01:11)   image 2 images   1 attached file
A Uachtaráin,

It is my assertion that the current government of the Irish Republic is attempting to initiate changes that will negatively impact the welfare of the people of Ireland.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D. is seeking to circumvent the initiation of a referendum by seeking to have a ruling from the Attorney General which will deny the people of Ireland our constitutional right to self determination which is also a principle of international law.

I am hereby petitioning you with respect in your capacity as Uachtarán na hÉireann to invoke your powers under Article 27.5.1 to call a referendum on the ESM Treaty, a proposal I believe is of such national importance that the will of the people should be accordingly ascertained.

Article 15.4.1° The Oireachtas shall not enact any law which is in any respect repugnant to this Constitution or any provision thereof. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday November 17, 2011 22:14 by Saoirse
The following is the Presidential Address delivered by Des Dalton at the 107th Ard Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin in Dublin on November 13: read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 13, 2011 16:04 by passer by   text 89 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 09:42)
After the March there were some fantastic speeches on topics such as Ireland pulling out of the Euro and grassroots Democracy at Occupy Dame St yesterday shows up United Left Alliance and SWP lack of action on very important issues read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 14:59 by Costas   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 02, 2011 11:10)
Referendums,parliaments, Democracy.Greece-Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday October 23, 2011 14:05 by newsmedia   text 2 comments (last - monday october 24, 2011 18:41)
According to Enda Kenny, the Irish people are dumb, maleable and stupid. When asking people to support a referendum vote on something as important as changing the Irish Consitution, it is simply not enough to say “This is about fairness” and hope as he obviously does that people will simply sit back in satisfaction and accept his words. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Sunday October 16, 2011 00:05 by reporter   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2011 14:01)
The Dutch papers are full of it. The crisis loans imposed on Greece, Portugal and Ireland are generating huge profit. Holland is lending 390 billion at historically low rates and they are lending monies to Ireland at historically high rates.
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international / anti-capitalism / press release Monday September 26, 2011 22:56 by Iseult OSullivan
Feasta http://www.feasta.org/ on the 22/23 of September and the Smart taxes network http://smarttaxes.org/ held an international conference on exploring Irelands debt crisis and a view on running a parallel currency alongside the Euro http://www.feasta.org/2011/09/17/the-parallel-punt/

The following people spoke or were in the panel at various times throughout the two day conference. I have summarised there main points to form opposing policy views.
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national / eu / press release Friday September 23, 2011 13:49 by O.O'C   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2011 19:27)
The People’s Movement welcomes today’s wake up call in this morning’s Irish Times by twenty six Oireachtas members and one MEP warning about the implications of an commitment by the Government to a very significant diminution of the sovereignty of the State, hoping that it can sleep walk the country into it. We agree wholeheartedly with their demand that the issue must be put to the country in a referendum. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday September 22, 2011 23:21 by O.O'C
Twenty-six members of the Oireachtas and one MEP, have joined in an initiative with the People’s Movement (which campaigned against the lisbon Treaty in the two referenda) to demand that the Irish electorate have the determining say by way of referendum on the proposals to establish a permanent eurozone fund by Treaty amendments that will be binding on Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday August 30, 2011 21:53 by O.O'C.   text 3 comments (last - monday september 12, 2011 14:36)
It is seen by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, as well as by its Fianna Fail predecessor, as a way round the restrictions on ratifying new EU Treaties without constitutional referendums here which were laid down by the Supreme Court in its 1987 Crotty judgement.

There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite if our political leaders can summon the courage to serve the Irish people rather than themselves. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Tuesday August 30, 2011 02:16 by Ruaidhrí O' Conghaile   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2012 21:25)   video 1 video file
In the current economic climate, the issue of drug policy is all too easily swept under the carpet by our politicians, who instead prefer to focus on budgetary cuts as a means of addressing our massive fiscal deficit. What our politicians apparently fail to recognize however, is the economic idiocy of continuing to pour hundreds of millions of euros of taxpayers money into a failed drug policy. read full story / add a comment
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