Tunnel Boring Machine used at the Yucca Mountain (Nuclear Waste Storage Facility) in the United States Photo: (Wiki, Public Domain) – Tunnel boring machine at the construction of Yucca Mountain. From http://www.ymp.gov/documents/feis_2/vol_1/ch_02/figv1c2/f_2_14.htm, Wikipedia File – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tunnel_Boring_Machine_(Yucca_Mt).jpg Tensions continue to run high in Co Mayo as a truck carrying machinery for a controversial gas project [...]
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This week, journalist Greg Palast was in Ireland, to discuss the practice of “fracking” and its record in the United States. The talk was organised by No Fracking Ireland, the video was recorded by Trade Union TV. Greg Palast Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RXyN0InzCdw Source: Video: Greg Palast Talks about Fracking, by Donagh of Dublin [...]
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Field of Maize/Corn. Photo: (Wikipedia) – Edge of a field of Corn or Maize, Zea mays; north-eastern Lower Saxony, Germany. Author, Christian Fischer – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZeaMays.jpg “In a riveting victory against genetically modified creations, a major biotech company known as Syngenta has been criminally charged for denying knowledge that its GM Bt corn actually [...]
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The Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) on the Hill of Tara. Photo: Hill of Tara – the standing stone. Author: Przemys?aw Sakrajda, 11th 7th 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tara_stone.jpg The Lia Fáil (stone of destiny) standing stone, on the Hill of Tara in Co Meath. and a national monument has been vandalised, it was revealed today. According to [...]
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No Kidding From Friday’s Irish Examiner: On Friday, the Chief returning officer, Riona Ni Flanghaile, declared the official national result of the Fiscal Treaty referendum at Dublin Castle. The treaty was carried by a ratio of roughly 60% to 40%, with 955,091 in favour of the treaty and 629,088 against it. The [...]
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From Bondwatch Ireland: Today, May 28th, AIB has paid a bond of €2.25bn taken out four years ago, May 28th 2008, when AIB was still a private bank. “We now own AIB, just as we now own IL&P, acquired both banks during the recent Troubles. Why? So they could rob us, the Irish people, [...]
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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 will lead to highly toxic chemicals pumped into the ground in a threat to local water supplies. Two Australian-owned companies, Eden Energy and UK Methane, have [...]
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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” to acquire the IL to complete the €4 billion recapitalisation of the group’s banking unit, Permanent TSB, it neglected to say to whom this commitment was [...]
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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 on the north side of the Liffey connecting to Hawkins Street and Burgh Quay on the south side. The plan was conceived by Dublin City Council. [...]
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“You could argue that the people who lent the money to them have a responsibility, and they do, but nobody forced Greece to borrow the money, nobody forced Ireland to borrow the money or banks or Irish households to borrow the money,” Bruton said. “One must first face up to one’s own responsibilities.” Former [...]
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