The basis of all criminal justice is that a person is innocent until proven guilty. However this isn’t always the case.

Gerry Adams has never been convicted for being a member of the Provisional IRA army council. In fact he has never been convicted of IRA membership. The connection between the IRA and Sinn Fein has [...]

The votes of the dosing times poll are in and the results are as follows.
39 votes cast.
Pds 10 votes
Fine Gael 6
Labour 6
Greens 5
Fianna Fail 4
Sinn Fein 4
Independent 2
Will not vote 2
Socialist party 0
Now as can be seen the votes are not very accurate to the main public opinion. It is highly unlikely that the [...]

(Hat tip Slugger). Are pressure groups in America the reason that the IRA/Sinn Fein have friends in America while Hamas have none. Why the IRA in films have Brad Pitt and are favorable and Hamas don’t.
An articles on the subject.
What’s a terrorist, what’s a freedom fighter?
and could you imagine Hamas getting the same coverage in [...]

Call me crazy but I’ve always believed that the State should encourage people to find employment and contribute to society and the economy. In my opinion the best way of doing this is to ensure that persons on minimum wage are better off, financially, than those on the dole. I was dismayed to read in [...]

No sequence of events can ever be exactly repeated twice. The chaos theory suggests that any number of factors, changes in temperature, most famously the flap of a butterflies wings can change absolutely the order of minute events which make up an experiment. By experiment I mean anything a meteorologist predicting the weather to the [...]

No employer can discriminate against someone on grounds of sexual orientation or gender. However priests and brothers can only be straight men and nuns can only be straight women. Is this wrong? Should the church be forced to adhere to the employment laws considering that priest get paid? Should men be allowed to be nuns [...]

This was annoced in the Budget on Wednesday. Part of the plan is to stop 3rd level
institutions pitched against each other across all key disciplines. To me that seems to be saying that only one university will cover a topic. If this is true then I have to disagree with it. This is going to [...]

This weeks we run through our Top 6 episodes in Simpsons history. We accept that making such a list is close to impossible, but these are the 6 that came to mind first. Unsurprisingly, Homer features heavily in all of these episodes.
6. Marge vs Monorail
Mr Burns is fined $3m dollars for illegally dumping nuclear waste [...]

On Budget the budget dominate the news. So other news items sometimes can get left behind and on noticed one that grabbed me was. Tom Parlon on Midlands Radio.
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The debate was about Decentralisation and the programme was running a txt poll. 94% of people in the poll said they were satisfied with the governments policy. [...]

Hey we have a new poster on The Dossing Times no idea what CK will write about but welcome anyway.