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French & Dutch vote no. UK says hold off, France says UK give us back your rebate, and for the meanwhile the naval gazing is over, the subject ‘Europe’ least wants to talk about is EUROPE. A nail has been driven through the heart of the neo liberal bosses Europe, or has it? this just…

“The figures which are just now becoming available to us show one thing very clearly, as a community we are living away beyond our means” download the wav of this sample RTE1 TV Monday 21:30New four-part series profiling the controversial politician, with contributions from colleagues, family and business associates. The first instalment focuses on his…

The High Court has ruled that Portmarnock golf club in Dublin is not discriminating against women by not allowing them to become members. In a ruling this morning, Mr Justice O’Higgins dismissed the action taken by the Equality Authority against the club. Women are allowed to play the course, with or without accompanying male members,…

Its been a busy year since last years Local Elections on June 11th With local planning and development plans & rezonings coupled with residents campaigns against living next door to phone masts we have been busy. The busiest period was December when things are usually quite, one Wednesday night we had 2 back to back…

Its hot: Dublin Weather @ 22:48: Wind E 03Kt CLOUDY 14°C H 80% Rain 0.0, Yes 14C at 11pm, so the telly is on the blink. I had a party when we forcefully removed NTL from my old residence, then I got a second opportunity to tell them PFO when I moved house. In Astra…

What a day, buying my new house today, shifting monies in bank accounts, wednesday is shopping day as Tuesday is waiting day, then off to the NCH for a photo shoot with Eleanor McEvoy (see flickr pic). Traffic was mental up the Quays and the Green is now gone all contra flow and you cant…

Dick (Turpin) Roche, the dandy highwayman is about to speed up the highway on the wrong side of the road (again). He has announced plans to ‘bye pass’ people and planners and go to the Govt. appointed Bord Pleanala for a quickie decision. It is proposed that large private sector transport, environmental and energy project…

Pat Rabbitte says“I also believe that we need new mechanisms to deal with this new type of crime, including some revised and adopted version of the UK system of anti-social behaviour orders.” Labour Youth says Michael McDowell wants to criminalise youth through the introduction of ASBOs. Anti-social behaviour is defined as “likely to cause harassment,…

I was in the local library this morning and the place was buzzing with pre leaving cert study groups. What struck me was that the groups were exclusively female. Are girls taking these exams more seriously than the boys? Year after year girls outperform boys in the results. Census figures show that more girls reach…