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Another Green World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Had a useful meeting with Christian last monday, I hope the Greens in the Dail take action on this . The greens in Bolivia by which I mean the indigenous are doing serious work to protect the environment and of course if you are doing good work you face repression (if you are doing not very good work the clue is being given a well paid job by Fianna Fail!) This is a quick cut and paste from my good...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
SUDAN’S HUMANITARIAN affairs minister will arrive in Ireland this weekend for an official visit during which he will meet freed aid worker Sharon Commins and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
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Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
So as Ingrid notes, EU member states have chosen Von Rompuy as the new President of the European Council. To use the terms that Euro-politicians have themselves been using (which were nicked, presumably by Brian Cowen, from the title of a political science text on Irish Taoisigh), they have decided to go for a chairman [...]
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sarkozy told Irish PM Brian Cowen how sorry he was, but he said he couldn't substitute himself for the referee or the football authorities or European football authorities.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In spite of embarrassment over the nature of the French team's win, the appeal by Brian Cowen, Irish prime minister, for the French government to join his campaign for a rematch was rebuffed in Paris
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UnLaoised (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
We all know that the French can be a right shower of bastards when they want to be. Just ask the New Zealanders. Back in 1985, they sank a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour, drowning a photographer in the process. Ten years later, they started testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, blowing the shit out of a number of atolls in the region. Judging by the hysteria in the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Tony Blair to Herman Van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly male Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union's member states will be milling around . Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is not as anonymous as many fear, and José Manuel Barroso will be pottering...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brian Feeney, historian of Sinn Fein, Round Britain Quiz panellist and Irish News columnist, is gloating over the perceived discomfiture of Peter Robinson as he tries to find firm ground in his troubled party. The latest pimple Brian has been picking at is the police reserve issue which actually appears to have been finessed. Peter seems to working his way through the divisive issues one by one. He...
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DETE - Speeches and Press Releases (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation has today (Thursday 19th November 2009) announced the launch of the European Space Education Resource Office in a ¤475,000 project supported by the European Space Agency to promote the wider study of science using space as a theme in schools. The launch was also attended by European Space Agency representatives, including Peter...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
THE MAHON tribunal is seeking the substantial legal costs of its failed three-year battle for a court order requiring Irish Times Editor Geraldine Kennedy and Public Affairs Correspondent Colm Keena to answer questions relating to the source of an article about financial payments to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
SEANAD REPORT:IT WAS shameful thatThe Irish Timeswas knocking Máire Geoghegan-Quinn even before she had been officially nominated as European commissioner, Terry Leyden (FF) said.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
FEW IRISH children were now placed for adoption, Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews told the Dáil. The vast majority of domestic adoptions were “family or step-parent adoptions”, he said.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
IRELAND NEEDS a new electoral system that would allow TDs to serve their constituents better, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has told an Oireachtas committee.