Year: 2004

From March 22 to April 2, 60 trained Iraqi pollsters interviewed 3,444 randomly selected Iraqis for USA Today. This is one of the first polls in Iraq that seems to me well weighted statistically, though to be sure we’d have to know more than USA Today told us. The numbers are negative for the US,…

TV3 Irelands 4th TV station (launched after RTE1 Network2 & TG4) launched a teletext service in 2001, but last weekend it dropped its news & sports pages from the text servive. Teletext services are in decline in europe as digital TV takes hold but TV3 carried a full text service on digital platform, The loss…

Condoleezza Rice & Bertie Ahern take the stand today, to defend their futures, Ahern wont remember while Rice will spin the war. On June 26th they can swap notes. It will fill our news screens and deflect from the real problems they represent. avoid the TV news if you dare.

IMPACT has claimed that the Government’s stealth taxes will eventually erode incomes. [bhg comment]where were the IMPACT leaders last September/October ? lining up with the Govt. to support stealth taxes in the form of Bin Charges.[/bhg comment] The Union has said the Government’s failure to adjust personal tax credits and tax bands in line with…

The Government has decided to hold the referendum on citizenship rights on 11 June, at the same time as the local and European elections. [bhg->] I hope the electronic machines can handle 3 polls at once The fact that this date was chosen by PD/FF to hold a referendum on what will become a more…

“You guys make the mafia look like fucking monks” – Tom Gilmartin, June 1989, speaking after being approached by a Fianna Fail figure for £5 million. After five years of anticipation, builder and property developer Tom Gilmartin marched in to the Mahon Tribunal this week with potentially enough ammunition to rock this Government to its…

Martin Cullen [MC] again announces pay by use and this time a date (which FF’ers may think will help the door step abuse they are due this may/june) by 01//01/05 all counties must deploy a by volume or weight scheme for waste collection in Ireland. The fact that the hated double tax in anti bin…

Dr Henrietta Campbell Northern Ireland, their chief medical officer said: Currently over half our population have a weight problem and as many as one in five are obese.

MADRID, Spain — Authorities revised the death toll in the Madrid train bombings to 190 from 202 on Tuesday, saying there were errors in counting and identifying the mutilated bodies.