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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 18, 2006 - 19:06 by Anamia
Shell to Sea has, from the very start, been about more than the fact that a community in a remote area of Ireland were being used as guinea pigs in a vast experiment to see if natural gas could be processed on shore. What was at stake was whether the state would support the needs of big business against its own people. The central question of the campaign has always been whether communities are expendable, not in the interests of the nation, but in the interests of the shareholders. How far, the campaign asked, is a European government willing to go to support the desires of a multi-national, when these run counter to the demands of its own citizens? Could the Left in Ireland use the energy of the state's unquestioning support for Shell to expose and undermine the state's apparatus of control? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 16, 2006 - 14:43 by I. McCabe
In June 2006 the Director of Public Prosecutions revised his general guidelines. One section of the revised guidelines caused bemusement amongst some in the legal profession. Section 9 in particular which refers to the guidelines on disclosure is the one which has created a point of debate and criticism. Ironically the DPP singled out the McKevitt case as a shining example of fair procedures on disclosure when in fact the opposite happened in the McKevitt trial. Both nationally and internationally legal observers have described the disclosure process used during the McKevitt case as one of the most blatant abuses on disclosure that they have ever witnessed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 22:23 by Michelle Clarke
What needs to be done? Game plan to combat crime for 2006......... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 20:25 by paul o toole
Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 14:51 by M Cotton
Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 11:16 by fourth mary
Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly, as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously jaundiced world view. But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') ... read full story / add a comment |
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