Comment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by shea
don’t see why, the majority of the tapes are still secure aren’t they, the american court denied the brits the rights to them as i understand it, but anyone named in published tapes or tapes published...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by roddy
Do you not find it strange that only those who were anti GFA were involved in the Boston project.Would this not cause the “history” to be a tad unbalanced.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by shea
No in so far as its a point of view, has its own value. Academics in the future will i presume know the context and the back round of the individuals and not take it as an over all view. Yes in that...
View ArticleComment on Being neutral by Jim Monaghan
Many moons ago, I read this on Ukraine. Well worth a read if you can get a library to dig it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_or_Russification%3F
View ArticleComment on Being neutral by Jim Monaghan
Liberation, Russian style “On February 3, the day after the breakout, the Russians began “mopping-up” in the ruined city. Many serious crimes were committed against civilians,[34][35] most notoriously...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by Jim Monaghan
McCann on Ukraine and reply http://www.irishtimes.com/debate/letters/crisis-in-ukraine-1.1733825 and http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/if-we-have-to-pick-a-side-over-crimea-let-it-be-russia-1.1731105
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by Mark P
Jesus H Christ, now that’s an unexpected and distasteful development,
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by Jolly Red Giant
Mark – where have you been for the past 18 hours???
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by sonofstan
Less unexpected but equally distasteful is the reaction in some quarters – alright, P.ie – where, despite generally hating his politics, they can’t see what he’s done that’s so wrong, and suggest the...
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by Jolly Red Giant
Some of the stuff is disgraceful. And nonsense about Nulty doing the ‘decent’ thing by resigning and no comment about his indecent behaviour that brought all this about.
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by workers republic
Alcohol is blamed for a lot. But I often suspect it might be “the Real Thing”! But, it is desperate stuff, no excuse.
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by Mark P
I’ve just seen some extracts from the Sunday World’s print edition on twitter. There seems to have been a pattern of creepy behaviour towards women constituents, not just the single incident with the...
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by sonofstan
I wouldn’t be surprised if the SW had stuff in reserve for next week – by resigning, Nulty may have neutralised the impact of further revelations.
View ArticleComment on Patrick Nulty resigns by Mark P
Are you serious? You don’t think that a TD sending creepy sexual messages to women who sought his help as a local representative is a resigning matter? How exactly is any woman going to feel...
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by steve white
don’t think its too controversial that it will be probably be held in october will there be any SWP(or PBPA) candidates going for it?
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by Mark P
They’ve never stood there before and likely would be insignificant if they did so. However, they do seem to have taken to standing against stronger left candidates almost as a matter of principle, so...
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by Liberius
My understanding is that the legal definition of a month in Ireland is the 28 days of the lunar month. which, since they introduced that 6 month limit, means that the maximum time between the vacancy...
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by Liberius
Actually, looking at that again, it seems the limit is only about how long can go by before the writ is issued. If so then you’d have to add the 25 days maximum that can pass between the writ being...
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by Ceannaire
I understand that however six months is defined, it pertains to the time by which it must be called, but that there is then up to three weeks till polling day.
View ArticleComment on Byelection(s)… delayed… by RosencrantzisDead
Under Irish law, a month is deemed to be a <a href="http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/act/pub/0023/sched.html#sched" rel="nofollow">calendar month</a>. So it would be Sept. 22 plus...
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