From the Irish examiner.
IRELAND will refuse to give up its veto on justice issues, Tánaiste Michael McDowell said yesterday as he accused the European Union of constantly trying to extend its power. [...]
The thing I remember most from the 2002 election campaign was Ruari Quinn’s platform. The message was simple Labour were an independent party. They had a set of polices and whoever implemented they would go in power with. It was a brave strategy that many criticised yet due to its honesty lead to Labour gaining [...]
The excellent Screen Shots blog has a list of Thai bloggers providing on the ground news. There is reports that message boards and foreign news sources are being blocked. I guess the first rule of a coup is control the message. But the blogs are still going strong.
Great piece by John McCain here. I would invite everyone to read it. Here is a great line that sums more or less my up my view on Torture.
Fighting for our security alone makes this fight just. Fighting for the security of other nations as well makes it generous. Fighting for the ascendancy [...]
The old saying goes that you learn something new everyday…and in the last few days the Pope has learned just how easy it is to offend the Islamic world. In an attempt to open dialgue on the reasonableness of faith and the merits of blood shed and jihad the Pope referenced a 14th century emperor [...]
The second biggest day in Irish Sport (beside the obvious Hurling final) the all-Ireland football final is on. RTE are tracking it online.
COME on MAYO
What a game it looked like Mayo were going to be trashed being 12 points down but then they started to come back to bring the margin down to 6 points. [...]
One of the main policy platforms of the Green party is the introduction of a carbon tax. The purpose of the carbon tax is that by putting a certain amount of tax on carbon emissions that people and industries will change their attitudes, emit less carbon emissions and invest more heavily in renewable energy sources. [...]
Here is an interesting thing that will probably result in me getting loads of strange hits from Google.
But seemingly Kelloggs Corn Flakes were invented to stop people masturbating. Seemingly the founder created Corn flakes as part of a antaphrodisiac thing.
Knew there must be a reason for preferring Weetabix.
Just catching Bruce Springstein on TG4 doing an Acoustic gig. Check it out.
A while back it was reported in the Irish Times that the ESRI urges less spending, more taxes. Now I know what you are thinking: an economic policy unit coming out in favour of new taxes must have hit their heads. But no, they were not talking about raising tax for equality or other such [...]