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offsite link Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
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Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 11, 2004 16:47 by -   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 21:50)
Below is a statement (10 November) Joe Higgins made in Dáil on the US forces’ bloody assault on Fullaja. It is followed with Joe’s exchange with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 23:16 by Ciaran Long   text 25 comments (last - friday november 24, 2006 19:03)
Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health. 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans. At least 450 different methods exist with which can replace animal experiments. So, why is animal testing still legal? read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 19:11 by hear bendover basil mcivor's dead   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 04:15)
School hounds pupil after he tells visiting President of East Timor , the school principal spends budget on flash luxury limos. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 19:09 by Ciaran Long   text 19 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 19:25)
As we come into another Fox and Stag hunting season, I can't help but think back to the last season and wonder if the Board of Education have included Bloodsports in the school curriculum. I have regularly witnessed many children participating in hunts throughout the country, even though it was clearly not a public or a school holiday. Surely it would be more beneficial to a child's intellectual well-being to follow the same educational system that a normal well-adjusted child would follow in order to become a normal upstanding member of society in later life, rather than turning into the violent blood junkies that certain members of society have become? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 00:50 by Elaine O'Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 01:23)
We held a vigil for the dead at Shannon Airport on 31st October 04. This was promptly ignored or ridiculed by the mainstream media. We expected as much, water off a duck's back etc. However, I have taken exception to the misrepresentation of the purpose of our vigil by one periodical, The Limerick Leader. Below is the offending section of Editorial and my open letter in reply. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 08, 2004 21:57 by IRSP   text 21 comments (last - monday december 13, 2004 14:10)
On 6 November 1917 was the date of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Irish Republican Socialist Party recognizes this event as a watershed in human history and therefore pays tribute to the memory of the “ten days that shook the world”. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 06, 2004 19:55 by Fuse   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 16:41)
Has there ever been anything to vote for ? read full story / add a comment
o so pretty a building all that glitterss aint gold
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 17:57 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 19:25)   image 2 images
President Bush of the USA has called for the full co-operation of Europeans in a wide range of issues, not least the shared commerce and trade which daily sees billions of $=€ cross the Deep Blue Sea and also including the War on Terror, which President Bush declared in the immediate aftermath of September 11 2001 in his first term.
Meanwhile Yasser Arafat the leader of the Palestinian people has spent a week in Percy Military Hospital in Paris, France where despite passing tests for cancer and many neurological illnesses, has this day entered into a level 4 coma. read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 16:45 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - friday november 05, 2004 17:21)
Platform 10 is the title of a new exhibition by Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 11:05 by madge   text 51 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2005 20:05)
Senior Management in the NICS attempt to bully staff to prevent them exercising their democratic rights to protest. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 03, 2004 11:06 by Davy Carlin   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 13, 2004 12:39)
Dear friends, last night saw a magnificent response by the local residents who came out at the corner of Violet Street, Falls Road, against attacks on Filipino Nurses. Three to four hundred people came out in a united stand against the attacks read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2004 21:21 by Rolf   text 54 comments (last - monday november 08, 2004 19:56)   image 2 images
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2004 01:21 by pc   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 06, 2004 21:34)
Decision to happen by the 16th December 2004. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Monday November 01, 2004 10:45 by R   text 49 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 02:10)   image 1 image
Prisoner support is non existent in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2004 23:13 by fascists out   text 14 comments (last - wednesday november 03, 2004 23:44)
With up to 3 racist attacks carried out a day in northern ireland, the ARN had organised a rally to highlight the probelm. The south belfast area which has the highest number of racist attacks, the anti racism contigent set off from shaftsbury sq at 1.00pm, with about 25 marchers, the police said we could not march unless under Parade commission rules we had stewards to protect the marchers and maintain order. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2004 15:02 by Derrick Hambleton
Article detailing the public transport alternative to car orientated city development read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 30, 2004 15:28 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 31, 2004 02:21)
Is the dance of the seven veils beginning to end where the attitude of The Irish government is concerned towards the present world (dis)order? read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday October 29, 2004 12:09 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 19:07)
'The Irish poet Brendan Kennelly once described Bewley's Café in Grafton Street as the 'heart and the hearth of Dublin'. Dublin, he said, would not be Dublin without Bewley's. These sentiments have been echoed by generations of Irish people since Joshua Bewley first introduced tea to the Irish public in 1835.

Bewley's is a name synonymous in the history of Dublin and more recently of Ireland as a whole. Bewley's itself has a rich history of growth and survival which has proved it to be one of the last bastions of tradition in a changing Ireland.' read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 28, 2004 00:37 by never trust the rich   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 04:51)
For as long as time immemorial, the greedy rich, have been waging war against the poor/working class/peasants, all over the world.

From the shanty towns of africa, to the slums of brazil and sprawling run down council estates of the developed world. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 27, 2004 23:51 by Michael Hennigan   text 3 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 17:12)
Some years ago, when I worked in a Swedish multinational, it issued a communication from HQ which read: 'Mr. X has asked to be relieved of his position as President of Y Division (the biggest in the group)..We wish Mr. X well in his future career.'

Mr. X of course go a pay-off to keep his trap shut and agree to a 2 yr non-compete clause. He was soon forgotten and the usual self-serving tripe about 'Group culture' continued to be peddled as if nothing had happened. read full story / add a comment
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