For the first time since Ireland gained independence in 1922, Sinn Féin received the most first preference votes in an election.
It means the left-wing nationalist party is now likely to form part of the next Irish government for the first time ever.
CrowdTangle analysis shows that the party had a large majority of the online voice on Facebook and Instagram.
The conference stressed that in going forward, there is the need for unity in what is global strife and an international struggle; the need for networking, both at the conference and beyond; and education about U.S. military bases and militarism. The slide show, prepared by Sue Ann Martinson, is an overview of the conference.
Over 800 U.S./NATO Military Bases: the Resistance Builds
On January 20, Sarah Martin, Carol Walker, and Sue Ann Martinson from Women Against Military Madness delivered a report on the First International Conference Against U.S./NATO Foreign Military Bases that they attended this past November in Ireland. Approximately 300 participants from 35 countries participated in the conference, with speakers representing peace and justice movements from throughout the world, a first step in building a global network to oppose U.S./NATO bases.
IFLA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Library Publishing
2019 Midterm Meeting Thursday February 28th – Friday March 1st 2019
Dublin Business School, Dublin, Ireland
20.9. 2017 Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons today. "I am happy that today, finally, the international community is taking this important step in implementing the NPT’s disarmament commitments – there is no place for weapons of mass destruction in the 21st century."
The Irish Times - Sat, Oct 24, 2009. She said that in recent times she had become increasingly focused on climate change and its negative impacts on the developing world. She added that the issue of climate justice was a topic of extreme urgency and was p
Roger Cole, Republican Sinn Féin Germany & Austria. "The simple realist fact is that those of us on the Peace & Neutrality Alliance by opposing Ireland's participation it these wars are the only people offering an alternative to the massive economic crisi
The Germans are now under enormous pressure. There is internal discontent leading to electoral losses by Chancellor Merkel's party, the CDU, and its neoliberal coalition partner, the FDP. The other social-democratic parties in Europe have been encouraged by Hollande's victory to move somewhat leftward. The two conservative parties in the Italian government coalition have both suffered severe losses in the May municipal elections. There is also, strangely but importantly, pressure by the United States on Germany to move in the direction that Hollande is advocating. The Germans might resist all of this - until May 31, the date of the Irish referendum. The Irish government was the only member of the Eurozone that made its agreement to the new austerity treaty on which Merkel had insisted, with the support of Sarkozy, contingent on a referendum. The polls had been showing that it was a close call, but the Irish government had felt confident it could win a yes vote. Hollande's victory may now shift enough voters so that the Irish vote is negative, in which case the austerity treaty is void. This will undermine the German position far more than the Greek repudiation of the center.
Mark Blyth (author of "Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea") interviewed by C. J. Polychroniou for Truthout 16.2.14 "The rise in debt was a consequence of the lending crisis, not a spending crisis." "the greatest bait-and-switch in human history"
April 12, 2011, Laurence Cox, preface and introduction are taken from a report, The Norwegian Oil Experience: A toolbox for managing resources? Dr Helge Ryggvik (University of Oslo, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture) produced this report in November 2010 for Norwegian ATTAC
"...turning libraries into multi-purpose community hubs is the goal of the Irish public library service, and it’s one of the few areas of civic society that appears to be benefiting from public funds even in these recessionary times. " Sylvia Thompson The award-winning new library in Ballyroan, Rathfarnham.
Alors que l’Irlande a reçu 67,5 milliards € de prêts pour son renflouement depuis la fin de 2010, le pays a transféré un montant total de 89,5 milliards € à son secteur financier au cours de la même période. 55,8 de ces milliards sont tombés dans les poches des banques créancières, toutes étrangères et certaines françaises.