Ken Loach’s new film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has had the British press up in arms, with one paper declaring that it is “designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud.” In fact the critics had their condemnation in print before any of them had seen it! George Monbiot has [...]
Our emerald isle is not so green, according to a report by the European Environment Agency, which gives the republic bad marks on such things as greenhouse gasses, ozone and municipal waste. “If it had also looked at rust bucket nuclear power plants, we’d have scored quite high because we don’t have any,” the Minister [...]
Slugger O’Toole is reporting on the Irish Government’s plans to remove 2,300 archaic laws from the Statue Book. So, no more dropping suspected theives in deep water attached to millstones, or charging Frenchmen discriminatory taxes.
People living in Dublin have got their first real glimpse since the bombings of the 1970s of what life has been like for many people in Northern Ireland for many years. Is this Republican Sinn Fein’s way of showing unionists that they would be treated fairly in a united Ireland? I think it’s safe to [...]
“We signed (in favour of the pipeline), but they didn’t tell us what it was about.” http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2E7117F-1390-4BD1-808E-EF06CD260F42.htm
Looks like the Irish Government have been up to their old tricks again. Although officially neutral, Ireland allowed itself to be used as a refuelling point for United States military before, during and after the Iraq war. Even today there is a large amount of American military traffic though Shannon Airport. All of this was [...]