The Irish Times states that Europe’s new fiscal treaty was specifically crafted to minimise the prospect of a referendum in Ireland, a high-level European official said elements of the pact were written with the objective of avoiding a public vote in Ireland. The official acknowledged to the Times that the matter was likely...
Minister Sherlock has stated that the wording of the controversial statutory instrument reinforcing online copyright laws will not be changed and would proceed. The Irish Government was “not...
“Free and comprehensive health care is set to end with the passage of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government’s Health and Social Care Bill 2011. The National Health Service (NHS), established...
A holy shrine that contained a relic of St Brigid has been stolen from a church two day’s before the patron saint’s feast day. Thieves made off with...
Irish Times - Belgium’s first general strike since 1993 brought the country to halt today in an anti-austerity protest aimed at the government and EU leaders meeting in...
Reuters Sunday- “More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the...
Some 400 people rallied outside the US embassy in London today, Saturday, against any attack and sanctions on Iran and Syria. The protest drew together long-time peace activists,...
European stocks fell, headed for the biggest two-day drop in two months, Treasuries rose and the euro weakened as Greece signalled opposition to economic oversight in exchange for...
EU leaders arrived in Brussels today to complete a German-led deficit-control treaty and to endorse a 500 billion-euro rescue fund to be set up in 2012. Greek Sound...
BBC News – Kader Arif, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), resigned over the issue on Friday. He said he had witnessed "never-before-seen manoeuvres"...
