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national / history and heritage Tuesday May 22, 2012 - 20:51 by Bernardo
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In the run up to our 21st birthday celebrations, Anti-Fascist Action Ireland are undertaking a major historical survey of the Irish Far-Right from 1945 – 1991. ... read full story / add a comment
The European Stability Mechanism is a crisis fund that comes at the price of €11 billion for Ireland, that EU countries will be able to gain access to should they ratify the Fiscal Treaty. But will it be a handy insurance policy for Ireland - or an economic straitjacket? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 20, 2012 - 09:20 by Costas A.
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Standing with one foot in Ireland and the other foot in Greece and having an interest and a natural curiosity for all "things", I listen, watch and follow events that take place in both countries regarding all aspects of human life, social-political-economical and not only. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday May 19, 2012 - 18:28 by simple fisherman
6 comments (last - monday may 21, 2012 - 10:41)
As a simple fisherman I was forced to leave England because our fishing industry was destroyed by the European Union and to come to your lovely country to find work. I am hoping to help out on a campaign to save Ireland's Fish and to point out the hard lessons your English brothers learned and which may be of some small assistance to Irish fishermen. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday May 11, 2012 - 10:01 by Sonya Oldham
3 comments (last - friday may 11, 2012 - 14:07)
Formal objection to the governments 'information' leaflet which we believe contravenes the mcKenna judgement. The introduction clearly shows a bias towards a Yes vote and contains many disputable claims which are not facts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday May 07, 2012 - 01:23 by O.O'C.
3 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2012 - 09:15)
“The Member States whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism will be made subject to strict conditionality.” - Proposed amendment to Article 136 TFEU of the EU Treaties by which the 27 EU Member States authorize the 17 Member States of the euro currency area to establish a Stability Mechanism ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights and freedoms Saturday May 05, 2012 - 23:36 by RNU Activist
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A History of Felon-Setting: Felon-Setting has a long and not very honorable place in Irish history. British imperialists have used various tactics to impose their rule in Ireland for centuries. Demonisation, Criminalisation and Felon-Setting has played a massive role in attempting to isolate Republicans from their communities. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu Wednesday May 02, 2012 - 02:48 by Darcy
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BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE VOTE NO? COULD IRELAND’S ACCESS TO A FUTURE BAILOUT FROM THE ESM RESCUE FUND BE PUT AT JEOPARDY BY THAT DECISION? This is the so-called ‘Blackmail Clause’ contained in Article 136 of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday May 01, 2012 - 09:27 by Sonya Oldham
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Does the Fiscal Compact Treaty Deal with the Cause of the Crisis?
What Caused the Crisis? The collapse of the Irish banking system was principally caused by a failure of regulation and the reckless lending practices of the Irish and European banking system. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday April 30, 2012 - 20:02 by O.O'C.
8 comments (last - tuesday may 08, 2012 - 18:47)
TO: Professor Colm McCarthy Department of Economics UCD Dublin 4 Sunday 29 April 2012 Dear Colm, I am writing to you to make some points arising from your comments on the so-called Fiscal Treaty and the referendum on it on RTE’s Morning Ireland last Tuesday morning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 13:00 by O.O'C.
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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 Saturday April 14, 2012 - 12:02 by O.O'C.
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Peoples Movement campaigns: against any measures that further develop the EU into a federal state; and to defend and enhance popular sovereignty, democracy and social justice in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday April 09, 2012 - 09:20 by Sonya Oldham
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Does the Fiscal Treaty benefit Ireland? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Sunday April 08, 2012 - 00:13 by Nico
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Here in Ireland there are many 1916 commemorations that are held annually by various groups and parties, but unfortunately, only a very divided fraction of those celebrate it from a revolutionary point of view. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights and freedoms Friday April 06, 2012 - 18:50 by Patrick McCarthy
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An Appeal to the People of Ireland
Citizens, Immigrants, and Asylum Seekers: In the name of your homes, your livelihoods and your childrens future we beg you to set aside your differences and join together to restore Irelands sovereignty. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Wednesday April 04, 2012 - 23:46 by Christopher O Riordan
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Last week a circus worker at a circus based in cork was seriously injured when a Indian Elephant accidently fell upon him. I look at how in the 21st century using wild animals for entertainment ishumane and should not be acceptable. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu Wednesday April 04, 2012 - 18:51 by O.O´C.
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In a move clearly aimed at trying to upstage and divert attention from an extremely embarasing Sinn Féin private members’ motion on the ESM Treaty, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, told the Dáil on 21 March that the Government is “now negotiating with the EU authorities, and principaly with the ECB, on the basis that the €3.06 bilion cash instalment due from the Minister to IBRC [Irish Bank Resolution Corporation] on 31 March 2012 under the terms of the IBRC promisory note could be settled by the delivery of a long-term Irish government bond. The details of the arrangement have still to be worked out.” ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu Wednesday April 04, 2012 - 01:10 by O.O´C.
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The stroke? Sign up, virtually ‘on the q.t.,’ to a new permanent euro-zone bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism, to which Ireland will be “irrevocably and unconditionally” obliged to the tune of €11 billion, while all the time making great palaver about holding a referendum on the Fiscal Compact Treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday April 02, 2012 - 15:04 by O.O'C.
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 / bin tax/household tax Sunday April 01, 2012 - 15:54 by Off the Cuff
6 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2012 - 16:07)
The tax protests back in the 70s and 80s proved futile when it came to ordinary working people being heard by their government. In reality the only thing that really happened on those occasions was that working people lost a day's pay. Mass demonstration in Ireland achieves nothing. It is seen as a way for working people and the unemployed to let off a bit of steam so that everything can move along as it was. The trade union movement has not seen or has deliberately avoided other forms of demonstration beyond mass demonstration. The time for change has come, mass demonstration is no longer a proven method of having the will of the people upheld by their political representatives. ts time for change. ... read full story / add a comment |
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