It is worth remembering when vested intersts remind you yet again of the
structural funds we received from the European Union what we ourselves
as a nation have given to the EU. Namely, our entire fishing waters,
which was the admission price for entry.
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The surrender of our fishing waters: A continental coup
It is worth remembering when vested intersts remind you yet again of the
structural funds we received from the European Union what we ourselves
as a nation have given to the EU. Namely, our entire fishing waters,
which was the admission price for entry.
Published September 21, 2009
Maura Harrington is a spokesperson for the Shell to Sea campaign, from
County Mayo, who has now been jailed four times for her opposition to
the Shell Corrib gas project in north Mayo. Here she looks back at a
decade of resistance by the local community and its supporters against
an unwanted, dangerous and apparently corrupt exploitation of a
sensitive environment.
Published September 17, 2009
Time for the transfer of powers
Policing has again reached a critical juncture but with a fresh
opportunity to accelerate the process of change.
Published September 14, 2009
Stand together for our own good
Nationalists and republicans should have a united policy about
one most important issue: Our right to make our own political, economic
and cultural decisions.
Published September 10, 2009
The killing of Loughlin Maginn
The killing of Loughlin Maginn was to spark a chain reaction of
events that would finally lift the lid on Crown force collusion.
Published September 7, 2009
Pro-Lisbon factions get desperate
With just five weeks to go to the referendum on Lisbon 2, the Yes side
grows ever more desperate and its advocates more bizarre.
Published September 3, 2009
Bailing out the rich and powerful
In the course of the current crisis, the only
state intervention into the market has been to secure the interests and
profits of a tiny wealthy elite.
Published August 31, 2009
Nama a good deal only for the banks’ shareholders
UCD lecturer Karl Whelan on the implications of the Dublin government’s
proposed bailout for Irish property speculators and their bankers
through the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Published August 27, 2009
The scene for the Battle of the Bogside was set long before August 1969.
Published August 20, 2009
The stone that broke the North’s dam of violence
Forty years ago this weekend, the dam broke and the generational
political failure that had deepened since partition washed over all the
Irish political institutions.
Published August 14, 2009
Secret go-between shines a light on history makers
Brendan Duddy is slowly emerging as another
important name to add to that list of names most publicly associated with the Irish peace process
Published August 7, 2009
Making Sinn Fein’s message relevant
Sinn Fein is not in crisis and its continued role in and relevance to
the future of political life in Ireland is not in doubt, according to Eoin O Broin.
Published July 31, 2009
The death took place during the week of Frank McCourt, one of Ireland’s
greatest and most popular writers and a major literary figure in his
native New York. We publish an extract from his novel, ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
Published July 24, 2009
The single most important issue facing the people of Ireland and Britain
is the achievement of Irish unity and the construction of a new
relationship between Ireland and Britain based on equality.
Published July 17, 2009
Twenty-Six County’s week of shame in Mayo
In addition to the three hundred Gardai, the two Navy ships, the planes
and the helicopters the Twenty-Six County government have also brought
their ‘justice’ system out to bat for Shell.
Published July 10, 2009
A senior Irish-American suggests the areas where U.S. support might be most welcome and
productive.
Published July 3, 2009
Last week’s judgment in Belfast was a triumph for press freedom across
Europe, according to Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Suzanne Breen.
Published June 26, 2009
The official launch of the Don’t Extradite the Basques Campaign took
place last Wednesday [June 10] in Culturlann MacAdam-O Fiaich in
Belfast.
Published June 19, 2009
Mayo man Pat O’Donnell has had his boat, the ‘Iona Isle’ boarded last
night by armed, masked men and sunk in the latest act of aggression by
Shell OIl & Gas in their attempt to construct a controversial onshore
gas refinery in Belmullet.
Published June 12, 2009
Three IRA Volunteers were shot dead by undercover British forces
fourteen years ago this week
Published June 4, 2009
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