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Criminal justice - Tanaiste to review criminal justice system on rights of accused

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Tanaiste to review criminal justice system on rights of accused Irish Independent, Ireland - Oct 21, 2006 The Tanaiste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is to review the criminal justice system in a bid to give more rights to victims. Judicial hopefuls raise few dollars to win elections San Antonio Express, TX - 12 hours ago She... Continue reading »

Pike Rovers soccer pitch suffers vandalism

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The grounds of Pike Rovers football club were vandalised over the weekend according to the Limerick Leader newspaper today. Officials from the club discovered late last week that parts of two pitches were dug up and a set of goalpost had been sawn in half. The Gardai have confirmed they are investigating the incidents which come three weeks... Continue reading »

“Moyross Czar” named

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This is the man who will be given all sorts of access to government ministers and departments in an effort to sort out Moyross as well as other troubled areas in Limerick. Former Dublin City Manager, John Fitzgerald (59) and originally from Galbally in Limerick, is a widower with four children. Both Willie O’Dea and Tim O’Malley have... Continue reading »

Lethal weapon

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Lethal weapon Almost every time I drive I think of Tony Kelly, a friend, and friend of the family, who was killed when a truck hit him on the N4 at Palmerstown. There was never a suggestion that bad driving or speeding was involved, crossing a dual carriageway at a bend as a pedestrian was the major contributory factor, but the fallout from the... Continue reading »

Moving house? Listen to Mary.

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Education minister, Mary Hanafin, provoked a storm last week when she said “I really wish parents who are choosing to move house within term time would make arrangements for their children to be in a school at the beginning of the term”. She dug herself in deeper by saying “parents moving house are more concerned with the colour scheme of their... Continue reading »

New Blogs on the Block - October 30th 2006

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Lots of new blogs on the block this week. Head Rambles - Rambles around the head of a Senior Citizen. Helen from Cork and her (almost a) year in India blog. Tractor Repair and H.R. Giger art. The Gamma Goblin blog. Sparky’s blog. Aka Denis. John Mortell’s blog. Been around for a while but am only noticing it now. Fine Gael councillor... Continue reading »

The follies of the Peace Process

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AS THE Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister prepare once again to reassemble the power-sharing Humpty Dumpty, both should be sat down with a big cup of tea and Henry Patterson’s outstanding new history of modern Ireland, Ireland since 1939: The Persistence of Conflict. This beautifully crafted, passionately argued meditation on what David... Continue reading »

N.I. Terror

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Amazing- Tony Blair et al assure the people of Northern Ireland that there’s no more terrorist threat here, and he proceeds to dismantle security posts, border watch-towers, he sends troops home and even goes so far as to disband the Home Service battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. And all because the still armed IRA are engaged in peace... Continue reading »

Leonard Peltier Campaign in Ireland Part I

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Update- Leonard Peltier Campaign in Ireland- Part I Four years ago, September 8, 2002, I arrived in Ireland for the first time. My first day in the country was spent in a besieged part of Belfast known as the Short Strand. The Short Strand is a Catholic community that has the misfortune of being an island surrounded by hostile and hate... Continue reading »

Decide for yourself: Links on Irish Unity

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Sinn Fein’s Green Paper on Reunification http://www.irelandofequals.com/ Republican Sinn Fein’s plan for a permanent piece in a new Ireland http://www.rsf.ie/eirenua.htm Current article from The Blanket: a journal of protest and dissent http://www.phoblacht.net/LOC0208062g.html... Continue reading »

Moynihan-Cronin to run for Labour in Kerry South

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Moynihan-Cronin to run for Labour in Kerry South Unison.ie, Ireland - Oct 28, 2006Kerry South TD Breeda Moynihan-Cronin is to run for the Labour Party in the next general election. She has played a strong role …... Continue reading »

Grand and Minimum Winning Coalitions

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For the good of democracy, a commentator in the Sunday Independent urges the ‘great divide’ in Irish politics be bridged by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael forming a grand coalition. This is the sort of scenario the left used to have wet dreams about. It was supposed to be the thing that would re-align politics along class and ideological lines and... Continue reading »

Off-message Ó Muilleoir

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Off-message Ó Muilleoir Filed under: Fine Gael, International Politics, Irish Politics, Europe, Politics During its brief incarnation, Daily Ireland was renowned for its slavish pro-Sinn Féin line, so it was a surprise to see Máirtín Ó Muilleoir being decidedly off-message with regard to the vote on the Basque ‘Peace Process’ the other day. In... Continue reading »

Give me the pill, not a lecture

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I’m not pregnant. Thank God. I was worried for a couple of weeks, though. I felt dizzy one day and my mother immediately leapt to conclusions. Then the PMT set in, but every PMT symptom can be interpreted as a pregnancy symptom and I was getting paranoid. Phew! We’re just emerging from the two-babies-in-two-years fog and I am not sure I could... Continue reading »

Anti-homophobia Campaign

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Anti-homophobia Campaign October 29th, 2006 [ boyposter_small.jpg][ 1415-girl-poster.jpg] Last Wednesday, Minister for State Sile De Valera launched launched a campaign to combat Homophobic bullying in Secondary Schools. The campaign is part of  a partnership between The Equality Authority and BeLonG To, to find out more visit... Continue reading »

Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part

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Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part 2 Posted by WorldbyStorm in Northern Ireland, Irish Politics, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, Irish Labour Party, Irish Election 2007. add a comment Okay, the last post on this subject was addressing the need for some... Continue reading »

Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part

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Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part 2 Writes Worldbystorm of The Cedar Lounge Revolution on October 29th, 2006 Read More: Uncategorized, Fianna Fail, Green Party, Irish Politics, Sinn Féin, Labour Party, Fine Gael, Irish Election Okay, the last post on... Continue reading »

Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part

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Back to the future, or I’ve seen the past and it works! Fine Gael/Labour and a strategy for winning the next election… Part 2 Writes Worldbystorm of The Cedar Lounge Revolution on October 29th, 2006 Read More: Fianna Fail, Green Party, Irish Politics, Sinn Féin, Labour Party, Fine Gael, Irish Election Okay, the last post on this subject was... Continue reading »

We do not talk with terrorists, but why not talk with Sinn Fein?

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A question I am often asked, when talking to be people, about Northern Ireland is ’shouldn’t bygones be bygones, haven’t the IRA lay down their arms?’ Well my instant response is no they have not. Then you get pushed saying but doesn’t the IMC report say they have, arn’t all the politicans saying they have. So I sat thinking about things and... Continue reading »

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News Meath Chronicle E10m error costs town 75 homes Carlow Nationalist Lacey likely to run on PD ticket Anglo Celt Nurses strike averted at Cavan General Donegal Democrat Killybegs “becoming a ghost town” - Dinny McGinley Laois Nationalist FF TD’s brother slams “illegal” war in Iraq Longford Leader Rural poverty an escalating crisis -... Continue reading »

The PDs forget they are in government

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The PDs forget they are in government Filed under: Irish Politics, Europe, Politics Unfortunately the transcript is not up yet, but the summary of Enda Kenny’s speech to the National Forum on Europe contains an interesting comment. Seemingly the Progressive Democrat representative (Victor Boyhan) to the Forum came out against the recent... Continue reading »

Fianna Fail at 39% - FG down 2% Labour down 4%

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6% jump. Jaysus. So says the Sunday Business Post. Bertiegate does this? blogs ireland irish irishblogs politics polls... Continue reading »

Dáil Hearings on Road Safety – Brady

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The Garda Commissioner and Road Safety Chiefs are to appear before special hearings of the Dáil Transport Committee to discuss random breath tests and drug tests of drivers, according to Committee Member and Fianna Fáil TD, Martin Brady.... Continue reading »

Fine Gael’s blue shirts will out

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I see that a Google newsgroup which circulates to newspaper folk in Ireland and Britain picked up on yesterday’s post which has led to a sharp increase in traffic to this quiet corner of the internet today. And expect our solitude to be disturbed again now that Nigel Dodds, DUP MP for North Belfast, rose in the Commons yesterday to berate the... Continue reading »

All-island economy study launched

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Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain and Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday launched a new document on north-south co-operation called the Comprehensive Study on the All-Island Economy. The all-island approach seems to have the support of the north’s business community, if not that of the DUP and the Ulster Unionists. It seems to me... Continue reading »