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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 08, 2021 22:41 by Irish Inquiry
Following today’s protests around the country we are tapping into a hot topic in this week’s show. We will discuss how the restrictions on maternity services are affecting birth outcomes for parents and children. This special is hosted by doula Leemore and our guests include Dave founder of From Lads To Dads, Liz from Private Midwives Ireland and Orla, director of National Women’s Council of Ireland read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 06, 2021 18:35 by Gary Jordan
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The Garda Representative Association President and the Gardai are deluded if they expect to be given what they themselves deny to the Irish population read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday May 23, 2021 15:18 by Joe Terry
At the Cheshire Elite Marathon running competition, Aoife Cooke won the women’s race in a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 36 seconds, qualifying her to compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Friday May 21, 2021 23:02 by foie
Call on GAA to quantify pesticides use for International Bee Day Mayo GAA pitch cited to County Council as breaching pesticides guidelines on International Bee Day The environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] have written to Liam McCarthy, the GAA President, citing the use of pesticides at a Mayo GAA pitch and asking him to quantify the use of pesticides on GAA grounds and to ensure users have been trained to the standard required by the legislation. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 19, 2021 23:23 by 1 of Indy
This editorial from Open Eire nicely sums up the question around Vaccine Passports as it places the concept of freedom at the very heart of the matter since this is actually what it is about read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday May 12, 2021 21:14 by foie
Ireland's position on bee mortality permitted by pesticides questioned. Failure to give Ireland’s EU position on pesticides a ‘democratic deficit’. Six environmental groups have written an ‘Open Letter’ to four Ministers seeking Ireland’s position on the limits of mortalities permitted through the use of pesticides. The groups are seeking Ireland's position on pesticides in last March’s meeting of the EU’s Standing Committee on Plant, Animal, Food and Feed and what position the State plans to take at the forthcoming meeting in June. According to the letter to Ministers Ryan, Hackett, Heydon, and McConalogue, a majority of the Member States now favour at least doubling the 5% permitted threshold of mortalities after pesticide treatments (which can be repeated through the growing season) with some member states proposing to allow as much as 25% of a colony to be destroyed under the revised ‘Bee Guidance Document’. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 04, 2021 01:08 by Gary Jordan
The Terrorizing of the Irish public by the FG/FF/GP Cartel read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday April 28, 2021 21:35 by foie
High Court quashes last 8 of Bord na Mona’s ‘ghost’ planning applications Lack of public consultation leads to quashing of 10 An Bord Pleanala consents The High Court has quashed decisions of An Bord Pleanala to grant leave to apply for substitute consent, in respect of a number of peat extraction and quarry applications. The two-step, ‘substitute consent’ system, by which developers had to make ‘threshold’ applications to regularise previous unauthorised activities before applying for planning permission, was found not to comply with the EIA Directive by the Supreme Court in July 2020 in cases brought by An Taisce, the National Trust, and Peter Sweetman in relation to a quarry in County Kildare. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 27, 2021 22:40 by Gary Jordan
Is it really the Gardai that should be afraid of being filmed? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday April 10, 2021 14:50 by Joe Terry
A media news item reads: “EU pledges support for Ukraine amid Russian military buildup along borders.” Irish soldiers could be used as sandbags for on-coming Soviet air-to-ground missiles. A real possibility in the future, if Ireland does not pull back from the growing EU militarisation program. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Friday March 26, 2021 01:01 by Gary Jordan
Another day, another scandal! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 17, 2021 19:40 by Gary Jordan
Policing in Ireland in the COVID-era has brought great shame and disgrace to the Garda Siochana read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Thursday March 11, 2021 11:52 by Gary Jordan
Racism in the Royal family has been endemic for centuries. So has child abuse and eugenics. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Wednesday March 10, 2021 20:49 by Zachory Conti
Congress passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that includes Puerto Rico anti-poverty measures and $900 million of increased food aid through the Nutrition Assistance Program. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday February 24, 2021 11:20 by foie
Call on public to support EU ‘Citizens Initiative’ on pesticides facing ‘strong political headwinds’ 5878 more signatures required on pesticides Initiative for Ireland to reach its threshold Ireland remains almost 6,000 signatures short of the required number to reach its threshold in an EU Citizens Initiative calling for greater control of pesticides. The Initiative comes as the goal of a 50% reduction phasing out the use pesticides by 2030 is ‘facing strong political headwinds’, according to the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Wednesday January 27, 2021 12:19 by anthony garvey
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The Global Alliance between Toastmasters International and Rotary International offers members the opportunity to collaborate and work together to make a positive impact in their communities in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Saturday January 16, 2021 17:26 by foie
PRESS RELEASE - Friends of the Irish Environment - 15 January 2021 For Immediate Release Formal end to the Bord na Mona’s peat harvesting ‘major milestone’ Warning of ‘cowboy contractors’ still ignoring peat planning regulations The decision by Bord na Mona to end all peat harvesting marked a ‘major milestone’ in Ireland’s progress towards controlling greenhouse gases and biodiversity loss, Friends of the Irish Environment said in a statement today. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday January 07, 2021 21:21 by foie
Call for change in Coillte Principal Objects as illegal felling video released Work stopped by residents due to recommence An environmental charity has called on the Government to change Coillte Teo’ Principle Objects to add ‘social’ and ‘environmental’ to its sole current sole ‘commercial’ remit. Friends of the Irish Environment released a video on social media over the New Years’ weekend showing residents stopping clearfelling of a Special Area of Conservation by Coillte Teo which was viewed more than 4,000 time over the weekend. The video, taken at Kilsheelan Woods in the Lower River Suir Area of Special Conservation, shows an extensive woodland area between the N22 road and the River Suir undergoing clearfelling. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Saturday December 19, 2020 00:20 by foie
State refuses release of 2020 images recording ongoing turf cutting on protected raised bogs Machinery at work on 28 protected raised bogs confirmed to Europe by Ireland The National Parks and Wildlife Service has refused to release images recording ongoing destruction of Ireland’s protected raised bogs during 2020. The request came from the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] who first brought the activities to the attention of the authorities in 2009. The prohibition on cutting on 56 Special Areas of Conservation {SAC] protected raised bogs was due to take effect in 1998 but was not imposed until 2009. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Sunday December 13, 2020 19:09 by foie
The environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment has called on Taoiseach Micheal Martin to clarify the Irish government's position in relation to efforts to allow the EU to subsidize nuclear power plants. According to a document seen by Friends of the Irish environment, several countries, including France, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, want the EU to allow subsidies to nuclear plants in return for backing a higher EU 2030 climate target. However, other countries including Luxembourg and Austria, are rejecting these plans. The position of the Irish government is not clear. read full story / add a comment |
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