World / Politics
Exercise your right to vote
11.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
TODAY WE have the opportunity to vote for or against the Lisbon Treaty, a decision with momentous consequences for Ireland and the European Union. Our democracy is designed to protect individual rights and freedoms and enable citizens render government accountable and responsive. It cannot do these things properly unless individual citizens actually inform themselves and participate. Citizens must exercise their right to vote if they are serious about our democracy and accept the responsibilities it involves. Such freedoms wither as much by neglect as hostile assault.
Ireland
Opinions
The high cost of oil
11.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
THE RISE in the price of oil, which reached a record $139 a barrel last Friday, has produced a predictable and angry response from consumers, business and politicians. Fishermen have protested in several Irish ports at soaring energy costs. In Spain, truck drivers have blocked roads. In France, fishermen have blockaded ports. And in London, lorry drivers recently carried a coffin to the doors of parliament at Westminster to dramatise the financial plight of the haulage industry.
Ireland
Opinions
The DUP is beginning to show soap opera potential
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
The party knows it can no longer openly peddle anti-gay, anti-Catholic bile in this new era of political responsibility, writes Fionnula O'Connor
Ireland
Opinions
Adventures in the land of a thousand cock-ups
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
OPINION: You Irish are infected by a very special malady - lack of organisation disease, writes Sara Reyners
Ireland
Opinions
Urban development is working against the interests of children
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
OPINION: Ireland is, by European standards, a young nation and it has a special obligation to think carefully about what development path will best meet children's needs, writes Brendan Gleeson
Ireland
Opinions
X marks the spot as voters have their say
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
The referendum is an entrenched and proud principle of Irish public life - so use your vote, writes Elaine Byrne
Ireland
Opinions
Doing nothing about Iranian nuclear threat not an option
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
OPINION: It is time for the international community to halt Iran's nuclear programme - if Tehran obtains nuclear weapons, the Middle East will self-destruct
Ireland
Opinions
Obama an orator resurrected from a distant time
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
HOT NIGHT, New York: a little breeze in the trees in the deep stone canyons as I look out my window, thousands of little lighted windows of private lives, one of which is mine, writes Garrison Keillor
Ireland
Opinions
An Irishman's Diary
11.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
DUP Assembly member Iris Robinson has been criticised for telling a live radio programme that homosexuals could be "turned around" with psychiatric help. (The Irish Times, June 7th.), writes Frank McNally
Ireland
Opinions
Yuschenko: Privatization Revenues Should Be Invested In Ukraine's Development
11.06.2008 10:33
ukranews.com
The presidential press service announced this, citing Yuschenko's interview with the newspapers La Croix (France), Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), and ??? (Spain).
Ukraine
Politics
Cabinet Introduces Mandatory Anticorruption Check Of Draft Governmental Acts
11.06.2008 09:26
ukranews.com
This is read in the Cabinet of Ministers resolution No.532 of June 4.
Ukraine
Politics
Court Acquits Four Former Air Force Generals Of Involvement In 2002 Plane Crash At Sknyliv Airport
11.06.2008 08:22
ukranews.com
"The court has concluded that the generals committed no crimes. They are all acquitted," the presiding judge said.
Ukraine
Politics
Yuschenko's Former Doctor Bohomolets Denies He Was Poisoned With Food In 2004
11.06.2008 07:23
ukranews.com
Bohomolets was speaking in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper.
Ukraine
Politics
Yatseniuk Expresses Condolences To Relatives And Families Of Miners Killed In Accident At Karl Marx Coal Mine
11.06.2008 06:25
ukranews.com
Yatseniuk expressed his condolences in a telegram sent to employees of the coal mine, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
Ukraine
Politics
Author Says Obama and McCain Fail to Confront the Real Reasons for America’s Decline
11.06.2008 04:38
prweb.com
Award-winning author James R. Olson asserts that both candidates are ignoring the three changes that must happen for America to fulfill its destiny. In his political novel, author Olson suggests three essential changes necessary to turn around America's downward spiral. (PRWeb Jun 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1003034.htm
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