World / Politics
Rule of law and the McCartney case
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
JUDGMENT FROM the Robert McCartney murder trial in Belfast carries many messages. It asserts the primacy of the rule of law in any civilised society; exposes the ruthless and self-serving behaviour of paramilitary thugs and asks ordinary members of the community to show courage in the face of intimidation. Similar considerations apply to last year's murder of Paul Quinn in south Armagh. If good men and women do nothing, evil will prevail.
Ireland
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Bill Gates logs off
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
ALFRED NOBEL is best remembered today not as the man who invented dynamite but as one who used most of his huge wealth to establish the Nobel prizes. A hundred years from now, Bill Gates may well be noted as one of the great philanthropists of the 21st century rather than one of the most influential people of the last century.
Ireland
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Time-use survey conclusions riddled with ideology
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
The survey of time use according to gender is harder to read than the Lisbon Treaty, writes Breda O'Brien
Ireland
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Solutions have priority over blame game
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
Corrective action to deal with the downturn will have to be taken before December's budget, writes Noel Whelan
Ireland
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This is no time to think about increasing public sector pay
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
The harsh reality we now face is down to two major errors in Government policy, writes Garret FitzGerald
Ireland
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Cowen must show ruthless side, with pay the priority
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
INSIDE POLITICS: The Taoiseach's task is to deliver major cuts in public spending in a climate where everyone is used to having it easy, writes Stephen Collins
Ireland
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Irish vote should be signal to call a halt to elitist European Union
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
OPINION: More ground-level democracy in the European Union is the correct response to the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty - not less, writes Jurgen Habermas
Ireland
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Time to take a proper stand on Burma
27.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
WORLD VIEW: I T IS easy to take a stand when it costs you nothing. Mary Manning knew that in the early 1980s when she saw her government issue statement after statement criticising South Africa while Ireland retained most of its business, sporting and other links with the apartheid regime, writes Joe Humphreys.
Ireland
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An Irishman's Diary
27.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
THE remote and rugged Galapagos Islands are celebrated as the inspiration for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. What is little known is the fact that their first permanent resident was an Irishman. His extraordinary adventures were recorded in the diary of a US naval captain who visited the islands early in the 19th century, writes Brendan Cardiff
Ireland
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Oh, how I hate the Beautiful Game
27.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
Craig Brown hates football and he sometimes feels as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film because of it.
Great Britain
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Gender pay audits: more inane gibberish
27.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
This lot just don't get it, do they? We want fewer laws, not more. And we certainly don't want Harriet Harman of all people telling companies who they can and cannot employ, says Andrew Pierce.
Great Britain
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is not the Empress of India
27.06.2008 20:11
telegraph.co.uk
The row that threatens to split the Anglican Communion is about imperialism more than homosexuality, argues Charles Moore.
Great Britain
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Go on, have a chuckle... it's by-election time
27.06.2008 20:11
telegraph.co.uk
Oddballs, loonies and red-faced politicians are the essential ingredients of a great British event, says Philip Johnston.
Great Britain
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America really has changed for the better
27.06.2008 20:11
telegraph.co.uk
It's not so long ago that innocent black men could be sent to the electric chair just because their accusers were white, says Lionel Shriver.
Great Britain
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The riddle of the golden syrup tin
27.06.2008 20:11
telegraph.co.uk
There must be quite a few children pouring golden syrup on their suet pudding who do not realise that the quotation on the tin comes from the story of Samson in the book of Judges in the Bible, writes Christopher Howse.
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