I arrived back in Cork today after spending Monday to Wednesday at the Anna Lindh Foundation Blogger Training for Intercultural Dialogue in Luxembourg. It was a fantastic event with 18 bloggers from 17 countries from across the Euromed region, It was an amazing experience. Not only did I learn about places I didnt know much about (Magreb and Middle East) but I also learned alot about myself and how I and others perceive me. It really opened my mind...
Image by The Workers’ Party of Ireland via Flickr In a change of heart from the last referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, the Green Party narrowly agreed to back the treaty at its convention last Saturday. There was plenty of blog coverage. Here are some to check out: CorkPolitics, IrishElection and Jim on Blogactiv. Fair play to the Greens and I look forward to seeing them on the canvass. Labour launched there Yes campiagn good and early which...
Image via Wikipedia Well it has happened. The President has signed the Defamation Bill into law today which means in Ireland you can now be prosecuted for blasphemy. Yes that is right, in this Ireland of the 21st Century I can no longer complain about God, Jehovah, Allah, The Flying Spagetti Monster, or any other deity in case I get prosecuted for the crime of blasphemous libel. Now while I am a church going person (Church of Ireland), with...
Yesterday I blogged about how I was a climate change Agnostic and I asked on my facebook status whether people were Climate Change Belivers, Agnostic or Skeptics and I got a few interesting responses so I decided to to widen the audience of question and ask people who read the blog so what are you? <br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1805446/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1805446/”>Are a Climate Change Believer, Agnostic or Skeptic?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com”>polling</a>)</span><br /> Feel free to explain your vote in...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife On Sunday I head off to Luxembourgh to take part in the ALF Euromed Bloggers Training on Intercultural Dialogue. As part of that Programme I have to look up a bit on interculturalsim. Searching Irishblogs.ie I found a few websites dealing with the issue, but most were websites and not blogs. Only two of the blogs I found were ordinary blogs but the rest were photoblogs. Does this mean that Interculturalism isn’t an...
Image via Wikipedia So the COP 15 summit is coming up in December in Copenhagen. I will be blogging about it in the lead up to it both here and on the Think About It blog when launched. Like Joe I have a bit of a manifesto going, for example learning more about Climate Change, COP15 and finding out Ireland’s poistion and expert and NGO poistions on it. For me though this is will personal aswell. While I applaud...
Are you passionate about Europe? Do you want to see the Lisbon Treaty passsed in October? Are you willing to get involved in a youth campaign to get it passed? If you answer “Yes” to these three questions and are living in the Cork Area, you might want to get involved with Generation Yes. Generation Yes is currently being organised in Cork (by me and others) and if you ant to get involved please either email me: Stephen@stephenspillane.com or...
Image by Pensiero via Flickr Another week and some more interesting stuff I have found over the past few days. Another new Irish Party? Only in Ireland is right Vladimier has an interesting post on Homosexuality and Religion Cranmer has links to a few interesting blogs on Religion An interesting website for those interested in EU – Mediterranean relations – EuroJar (via EU-Med Relations) Rebecca Storm is performing in UCC’s Quad at the end of the Month I like...
If your like me, you will want to know what committees in the European Parliament the Irish MEPs have been assigned to. I have gleaned this information off the europarl website and some of ye might find it interesting. Committee on Development Gay Mitchell (FG/EPP – Dublin) Committee on International Trade Joe Higgins (SOC/GUE-NGL – Dublin) Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Proinsias De Rossa (Lab/S&D – Dublin) Marian Harkin (Ind/ALDE – North West) Committee on the Environment, Public...
Image via Wikipedia So last night I attended the Generation Yes Event in Cork on Lisbon in Light of the Guarantees. It was a really interesting event and their will be videos, pictures and audio going up on the Generation Yes Website in the next few days. I will be getting involved in Generation Yes in Cork, so I’ll keep ye informed of goings on. Without Libertas this time round, there is talk that the UK Independence Party might...
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