Politics
Flypaper society
Buglife was trying to restrain development which, as the Court heard, would probably result in two national, 17 regional and 37 local invertebrate extinctions if the development went ahead.
No Apple for Teacher
We see it in the abolition of an outrageous assumption; that people of power may beat up other people.
Opinionated
There is also the question of talent. Commonly we “know�? what we have to find out, before we find it out. Fortune favours the prepared mind.
Devaluation
Neither Minister noticed, as Advocate-General Bot now says, that he was attending a Community institution, as opposed to a Union institution.
Shut Up!
As part of their reply, in rejecting the criticism, they refer to the absolute privilege they were entitled to if they had chosen to make their disclosures in the Dail. They make the point they did not avail of this (on the basis that it might have been an abuse of the privilege).
In Mussolini’s Garden
One of the most influential ideas in Ireland is the belief that the State is superior to the citizen.
Corrib Gas case update
Due to a scheduling clash in the Court calendar the Issue is provisionally fixed for hearing on 18th November 2008.
Democracy and Free Speech
In Ireland, we have difficulty understanding broad concepts, or so it seems. Currently, the Irish Times (one, at least, of its âopinion columnistsâ?) and the Sunday Business Post (the editorial) are citing the principle of democracy to accord respect (and, possibly, equality with the Irish referendum verdict) to the âviewsâ? of other EU member states on the Lisbon Treaty. The Government itself (the Taoiseach) defends Mr. Sarkozyâs ârightâ? to express his reaction to the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by […]