This lady made an enormous contribution to Ireland by her dogged determination to stand up for the downtrodden and the forgotten. She showed a singular attitude of clarity when simple issues were hidden
by huge instituitional walls. It is true to say that she will be missed by the country.
May she rest in peace.
Declan Ganley is shaping up to support a Eurofederal solution and I am
in that camp politically. WE cannot go back to the madness of European
strife because if there is one thing we are good at in Europe, it is
knocking seven bells out of each other and hating others. I hate
nobody. Some I don’t like but HATE – No.
Ganley’s opposition to Lisbon I understand but did not agree.
Leaving the € now would be a catastrophe for the Irish people. How the
government deals with the debt is the issue. WE can’t bail out the
continental banks forever.
Declan Ganley: calling for a United States of Europe
Surprise at Ganley’s pro-Europe stand
HARRY McGEE
THE GOVERNMENT and main Opposition parties have reacted with surprise
and scepticism to Libertas founder Declan Ganley’s call for a “United
States of Europe”.
The Galway businessman yesterday said he had started discussions
looking to found a new group arguing for increased federalisation that
would contest the 2014 European elections .
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By Matthew Holehouse
“It is possible that the human race could become extinct but it is not
inevitable. I think it is almost certain that a disaster, such as
nuclear war or global warming, will befall the earth within a
thousands years,” Professor Hawking, the Cambridge University
cosmologist and theoretical physicist said.
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I will campaign to remain in the Euro and negotiate with the golden centre. It is us who will spend €18 bn more than we will raise in taxes this year. It is us who are on welfare support from the ECB and IMF. We did this top ourselves. I hope and face Mecca daily that Enda will succeed and get the debt partly written down over time. I know that TIME is what is needed.
Thanks to Hayeser for having the bottle to have a swipe at the car crash econodrivers in the papers. Fair does Brian – ye boy ye!
Professor Richard Tol is not the most charismatic person I ever met but his aesthete clearly does not chime with Paul Drury. Paul and myself have something in common. Were both Paddies. So Paul getting upset because Tol tells the young Irish to emigrate is a waste of emotion. I couldn’t give a flying F… what the likes of Professor Tol says about virtually anything. As for the ESRI! I think that John FitzGerald and the ESRI have a decent record. Tol seems to think that they are in dread of a swipe of retrenchment from the government. I think that the ESRI has a proud record and is a high priority institute here. I have no personal knowledge of any of their staff but I confess I met Tol in the radio studio.
I hope Tol enjoys Sussex and they him.
Good luck
and Harvey Smith
I know of many Dublin people who served in the British Army or forces.
There used to be medical scholarships attached and many were in TCD
and RCSI.
Brian Mayne, Augustine Darragh, Gerry Maher, Jack Harte and many
others are in that bracket. The Britsh Legion service at Leopardstown
quietly served ex-soldiers for years. My Half-Brit cousins served in
the British Army because there fathers were English. My brother Peter
served in the Irish Army (Lebanon included) and we are very proud of
him in my family. Some of my family were irregulars as Gerry O’Connell
might term them. I consider them antidemocrats but that’s life.
The Irish government has finally announced that it is giving active
consideration to exonerating the thousands of Irish army deserters who
joined the British Army during the Second World War. In 1945, after a
number of courts martial of such soldiers, the Dublin government
announced that it would no longer prosecute deserters. Instead, they
would be barred from state employment or any social welfare for life.
Effectively, these Irishmen who had fought for the freedom of Europe
were exiled forever from their homeland.
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University applications ‘drop by 23,000′ after fees hike
By Graeme Paton, Education Editor
Just weeks before the applications deadline for most courses, it
emerged that demand is down by almost eight per cent compared with the
same point a year earlier.
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Stephen Lawrence murder: jurors did not know about Gary Dobson and
David Norris’s violent past
During five weeks of testimony, the Stephen Lawrence murder trial jury
spent much of its time listening to detailed scientific evidence which
formed “the heart of the case” against Gary Dobson and David Norris.
By Mark Hughes, Martin Evans
The forensic evidence – blood fibres and hair found on the clothing of
the two men in the dock – was crucial, they were told.
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