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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 30, 2006 - 23:39 by snobbiness is bad for your health
Northern Ireland one of the poorest areas in the UK, suffering from poverty and social exclusion, with the HIGHEST unemployment and second highest number of Income support claimants in the UK ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday April 30, 2006 - 03:58 by John McDermott
Dick"s new fighting rubbish scourge personnel carrier.! A MOBILE clean-up squad has been handed €350,000 by Environment Minister Dick Roche,in January 2006, to end the scourge of illegal dumping in his constituency by bin tax dodging,ordinary citizens. The money is being spent on a special vehicle to remove rubbish illegally fly-tipped and to buy specialist equipment including CCTV with night vision. The Wicklow Uplands Council will carry out the project in the hilly parts of the county. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 29, 2006 - 16:07 by O. McCool
Implications of Minister For Justice' comments and actions around the February 25 riots; relationship of same to Minister's re-write of the criminal code currently under consideration by the Dail. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 29, 2006 - 13:48 by Ado
Neville Chamberline returned from his final meeting with Adolf Hitler waving a piece of white paper claiming that Hitler had given him an assurances about Germanys expantionist intentions. We all know what happened next. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Saturday April 29, 2006 - 09:50 by Sean Crudden
The points system for entry into university is a token of what was a fascination in Ireland with selection processes. Is it time to relax? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday April 29, 2006 - 03:59 by Patrique
Uncivil Servant stand accused of playing politics at General Council. Uncivil Servant does not have anyone on General Council. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 28, 2006 - 15:10 by average joe
A recent medialens alert highlighted the cartoon nature of a news report/one-sided smear on Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. John Pilger described it as “one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen” - in which, Channel 4’s Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman smeared Chavez in "a piece seemingly written by the US State Department". ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 16:59 by Kathy Sinnott
I come from a long line of savers, women and men who believed that a rubber band or piece of string or jar lid should not be thrown away as it will come in handy some day. The fact that being a saver meant full drawers and stuffed shelves didn’t dissuade us, nor the fact that because of the clutter we couldn’t find the thing we saved when we finally needed it. Saving is ingrained. In our case, saving is almost genetic. Recycling was an easy concept for us. “Waste not. Want not” Recycling is just a more communal variation on saving with the advantage of no clutter. ... read full story / add a comment |
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