Dia Duit! Rinne mé dearmad ar Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ar suil an seachatin seo! Tá dhá bebo agus myspace amhain or an idirlion! SnaG – SeachtainNaGaeilge.bebo.com Ceol – SnaGCeol.bebo.com – www.myspace.com/snagceol An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Northern Ireland goes goes to the polls today in a very decisive election. (CNN, Breakingnews, RTÉ, BBC, France 24) The Polls are open until 10pm tonight with the counting begining tomorrow. 250 candidates are contesting 108 seats. The election is by...
Good Morning,I hope no one is suffering from ill effects of superstitions linked to lunar eclipses!!! (or still suffering from hangovers from the Irish Blog Awards or whatever they got up to at the weekend!!) An Nuachtr ar an maidin seo! Fine Gael are to introduce a bill into the Dáil this week to outlaw the sexual “grooming” of children on the Internet. (Breakingnews) This is well overdue having been on the order paper since 2004! A new poll...
Well I’m back in Cork after USI LGBT Standing Conference, where I was re-elected to Working Group on the 3rd count! Also congrats to Ms. Sonya Donneally who was elected unanimously as the new LGBTRO! woo! (P.S. If anyone wants to know what motions where passed email me!) In the news today! The International Court of Justice, is due to deliver its verdict today on whether ot not Serbia is responsible for Genocide ‘through the killing, torture, rape and...
Dia Duit! Well between the Govt. delaying the Civil Union Bill 2006 and the Polish President making homophobic remarks in Ireland (RTÉ) I’m really pissed off! The UK are to make an announcement on withdrawal of troops from Iraq (RTÉ) It is thought likely that Mr Blair will make any announcement in an oral statement to the House of Commons following his regular weekly appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions. I hope he does pull ‘em out At 5:00pm this...
Cork City is to get a new Central Library (Cork City Council) Wooo! RTÉ viewers choose our song for the Eurovision last night. Its a John Waters/ Tommy Moran composition called ‘They can’t stop the Spring’. The PD’s continue their conference today (Breakingnews, RTÉ) Among the guest speakers are Liam Doran of the Irish Nurses Organisation and Anne-mie Neyts, President of the European Liberal Democrats. A Bosnian Court has sentenced a former Serb soldier to 34 years in jail...
Dia Duit An nuacht ar an maidin seo. The row over the cost of the Mahon Tribunal continues today (Breakingnews) with Judge Mahon saying the tribunal will only cost €300m, maybe less. Also Labour are getting in on the act (RTÉ) saying that the government are trying to delay the tribunal. Well d’uh Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a former rebel as President of Chechnya (France 24) Pity he wasn’t elected. Serbia has rejected the UN plan for...
Dia Duit ar an maidin fuar! An nuacht ar an lá seo. A conference is taking place in Spain on the EU Constitution (BBC). Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain are sending ministers and Germany, Ireland and Portugal are sending observers. Im not sure what outcome it will have as only 17 member states are attending. The UN will announce its plan for Kosovo today (BBC). Hopefully...
Dia Duit! Tá sé ag cur sneachta!!!! An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Well the north’s PSNI is ser to be racked by accusations today with a new repoprt due to be launched by the Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan (Breakingnews) This could undo alot of hard work that the PSNI has undertaken under the Patten report! Well Hilary is ‘in this to win’ (Breakingnews). I hope to put up a post shortly about presidential hopefuls! A radical nationalist party...
Good morning (Im too tired to think as gaeilge let alone type it!) The news this morning! Shilpa has spoken out about being the victim of racism on Celeb Big Brother (BBC). I think racism is an abhorrent disease in todays society and the likes of Jade Goody should be treated with distain for their carry on! Senators, both Republican and Democratic parties, have opposed the increase of US troops in Iraq (BBC) Heres an article on my previous...
Morning Briefing, 1st February
Dia Duit!!! First one in awhile I know, but have been busy with campaign stuff! Dáil seats for NI MP’s (Breakingnews) I personnally disagree with them having anything to do with the Dáil as they were elected to Westminster not Dáil Eireann. France implements its smoking ban (Breakingnews). Woooo! There are now calls for a European wide ban, which i believe would be a goo idea. Ad causes caos in Boston (BBC)Jaysus, some people take things too far in...
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