Source – World Socialist Website (WSWS): French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to implement a severe austerity program should he win another term in next month’s election. He announced his intention of saving €53 billion primarily through mass layoffs in the public sector and cuts in health care. His opponent, Socialist Party candidate François...
Greece is to hold an early general election next May 6th. The (unelected) Prime minister Lucas Papademos stated that he would formally request the election from President Karolos...
60 or more protesters were present. According to RTE News: “Gardaí were present and said the incident passed off without any of the protesters getting close to the...
Guardian News September 2011 – Council leaders and MPs in Britain attacked plans to drill gas wells in Mendip Hills, near the city of Bath, which they fear...
Guardian: The gas leak (so far uncontrolled), is from a gas pocket 2.5 miles underground. Oil company Total believes it has found the source of the gas leak...
Japan Times – March 2012 - Radiation inside the reactor 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached a lethal 73 sieverts per hour...
Tuesday - The Government has purchased Irish Life from Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) for €1.3 billion. The Irish Times says that the order fulfils a State “commitment”...
The Minister for Local Government has ordered city and county councils to set up teams of staff to call to the homes of people who refuse to pay the...
Japan Times / NHK – “Thousands of people formed human chains in Germany and France to protest the use of nuclear power on Sunday, the first anniversary of...
Image: James Joyce Bridge, Dublin. http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Joyce_Bridge_detail.jpg Construction seems to have begun on the Marlborough St. Bridge project. This is a pedestrian bridge linking Marlborough Street and Eden Quay...
