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national / environment Monday March 06, 2006 - 21:42 by c murray
The case against the state challenging the constitutionality of the amended National monuments act 1930-2004 has been deffered for the third time. The date for judgement of this important case had been variously given, the last one was Feb 16th, the day of the launch of the Planning and Development Bill 2006,(The Strategic Infrastructure Bill)I am not a lawyer, and have not studied the details of the Carrickmines case too closely, but the locus of the case was based on the signing of the joint consent order to destroy the castle remains at Carrickmines and to remove sections of the revetted fosse. Ministerial consents for destruction of a national monument could occur after 21 days sitting of the Oireachtas, which in real terms gave the minister his unreviewable discretionary powers.The judgement was listed for tomorrow but is now deffered, it will have a direct repurcussion on the situation at the Tara Complex and other heritage sites in Ireland. No reason has been given for the deferral. The case has been put back for mention for Thursday the 9th of March. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday March 06, 2006 - 16:23 by Shoplifter
Crime is now seen as undesirable because of the impact on the victim rather than the financial impact, as such shoplifting should be decriminalised. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 06, 2006 - 15:18 by James Reilly
It is astonisihing that only Susan McKay has raised the question of the bona fides of FAIR in a substantive manner. It is not as though the information is hard to come by. For instance: FAIR demonstrated outside Stormont about the early release of Republican prisoners. When asked by David Dunseath of the BBC about the early release of loyalist prisoners Frazer replied “They should never have been locked up in the first place” ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 06, 2006 - 00:58 by Pat fitzgerald
According to the Irish Times two protesters who sued the State and Garda Commissioner for assault following the reclaim the streets protest three years ago have settled out of court. No details were disclosed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday March 05, 2006 - 20:06 by Sean
From WCR 11. We don't usually print articles from WCR so soon after publication but in light of requests made in the wake of the rioting in Dublin sparked by an attempted Love Ulster rally we are making this article available online at this time. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 05, 2006 - 15:32 by MichaelY
A response to a Martin Mansergh article in the irish Times ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday March 04, 2006 - 15:22 by Keith Martin
One of the biggest lies to emerge over the year was the lie that nuclear power is the solution to the problems of climate change. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday March 03, 2006 - 18:00 by Andrew McGrath
The challenge currently under way in the High Court to the lunatic M3 motorway has brought out an important fact that the corporate media have, as is their wont with important facts, ignored: that the present administration has done more to undermine heritage protection than any in the Republic's history. ... read full story / add a comment |
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