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  • Ahern signs new gun control act into law (Ireland bans handguns to halt "gun culture" emergence!)

    07/29/2009 2:47:33 PM PDT · by neverdem · 25 replies · 1,476+ views
    Ireland Online ^ | 24/07/2009 | NA
    Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has signed new gun control legislation into law. The act bans handguns in Ireland and also introduces a requirement for referees, background medical checks and standards for the safe keeping of guns in the home for all firearms licence applicants. It also makes it an offence to brandish a realistic imitation firearm in public. Mr Ahern says the legislation is designed to halt the emergence of a gun culture in Ireland.
  • VIDEO - MUST see - connecting the dots: Obama, Rezko, Iraq money

    10/24/2008 11:07:56 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 27 replies · 1,845+ views
    MetaCafe ^ | 10-24-08
    According to the linked page: "Unnamed freelance journalist has the goods on Obama and Rezko"
  • Returns show Ireland votes 'no' on EU treaty

    06/13/2008 7:58:10 AM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 36 replies · 125+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 6/13/08 | SHAWN POGATCHNIK,
    Substantial election returns showed Friday that Ireland's voters have rejected the European Union reform treaty, a blueprint for modernizing the 27-nation bloc that cannot become law without Irish approval. Several senior Irish government figures conceded defeat for the treaty, which would be a major blow to the EU. An EU constitution failed after French and Dutch voters rejected it in 2005. Ireland was the only member that subjected its would-be successor, the Lisbon Treaty, to a national vote. The Irish constitution requires all EU treaties to be ratified by referendum. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said he expected all other 26...
  • Ireland vote rejects EU treaty ... (EU fears crisis)

    06/13/2008 5:17:43 AM PDT · by IrishMike · 67 replies · 498+ views
    Ireland vote rejects EU treaty Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has said substantial referendum returns show that Ireland has rejected the European Union reform treaty. Electoral officials expect to confirm the result later. Mr Ahern based his conclusion on tallies of votes produced nationally by election observers as well as early official returns. They showed the "no" camp ahead in the vast majority of Ireland's 43 electoral constituencies, while pro-treaty voters were clearly ahead in only a few. The expected result will send shock waves throughout the EU. Ireland was the only member to subject the Lisbon Treaty to a...
  • Irish PM announces he will resign

    04/02/2008 3:17:51 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 26 replies · 137+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 02, 2008 | Associated Press
    DUBLIN, Ireland — Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has announced he will resign over a cash-payments scandal. Ahern has told reporters outside his government office he will step down May 6. He has been Ireland's leader for 11 years, but his hold on power has steadily weakened since investigators alleged he secretly received cash payments from businessmen in the 1990s. Investigators say they have uncovered more than $150,000 in undocumented cash deposits to Ahern.
  • Talks on EU Constitution

    06/01/2007 7:08:25 PM PDT · by WesternCulture · 12 replies · 411+ views
    www.sr.se ^ | 06/01/2007 | www.sr.se
    Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern in Berlin last night to discuss how to resurrect a new constitution for the European Union. Reinfeldt expressed his support for the Germans’ efforts to come up with a draft that all 27 EU countries can accept, after voters in the Netherlands and France rejected the proposed constitution in 2005. After the meeting he said Sweden’s views were heard, and the meeting was part of efforts to get Sweden to play a more constructive role in EU affairs. Germany has held the rotating...
  • A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos): 3-16-07

    03/16/2007 4:44:02 PM PDT · by silent_jonny · 223 replies · 2,827+ views
    Today President Bush had a meeting with former Senator Bob Dole and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, co-chairs of the President’s Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. (Transcript) Later, the president was joined once again by Bertie Ahern, the Prime Minister of Ireland, for a St. Patrick’s Day ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Transcript) President and Mrs. Bush then traveled to Camp David, where they will spend the weekend. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
  • Gloves doffed on the W. Slope ( Culture of Corruption )

    09/28/2006 7:28:57 AM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies · 812+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 09/24/2006 | Nancy Lofholm
    The slings and arrows of a "pretty nasty" campaign have included an online onslaught of name-calling. There are dirty politics, and then there are nasty politics. Just ask the candidates ... As the election grows near, the race's normal debating and sign posting has been overshadowed by requests for restraining orders, allegations of slander and libel, the airing of arrest records, criminal investigations and an online war of words. It all started with a debate this month at a Club 20 meeting in Grand Junction. Incumbent 58th District Rep. Ray Rose, R-Montrose, startled the crowd when he asked his opponent...
  • Candidate forced to talk about arrest ( Culture of Corruption )

    09/26/2006 1:03:09 PM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies · 436+ views
    The Associated Press ^ | 9/25/2006 | Sara Gandy
    The race to represent part of southwestern Colorado in the state Capitol is getting a little rough. Republican Ray Rose is the incumbent in House District 58. In a debate this month, he brought up the arrest record of his opponent, Telluride Democrat Brian Ahern. Ahern was arrested in June after an argument with his fiancé. He allegedly slashed her picture with a knife and broke the windshield of her car. He was also arrested last year after arguing with a woman from Texas in Telluride but the charges were later dropped.
  • Polish premier says he's cleared the air with German chancellor

    09/11/2006 12:13:03 AM PDT · by twinself · 149 replies · 1,324+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | September 10, 2006 | unknown
    Polish Prime Minster Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Sunday he has cleared the air with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and they would meet again in Berlin on Oct. 30. He told reporters in Helsinki that a short meeting between the two was "very nice" and had allowed him to explain misunderstandings, which he claimed had been created by false media reports. "We've managed to clarify some issues that were just a matter of misunderstanding. I noticed that the chancellor had learned something from the press that was complete nonsense." He was referring to media reports that junior coalition partner — the League...
  • Taoiseach's (Irish Head of Gov.) office guards information on CIA flights

    01/07/2006 11:04:18 PM PST · by Murtyo · 9 replies · 344+ views
    Sunday Business Post, Dublin, Ireland ^ | 08 January 2006 | Paul T. Colgan
    The Taoiseach's office has refused to release any information it has about the CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' flights, on the grounds that to do so may compromise the security, defence or international relations of the state. The Council of Europe this weekend said that CIA jets travelling through Irish airports should be searched by gardai to ensure that prisoners are not being carried. A report published by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) last month had recommended that Gardai (Irish National Police) board such flights. Extraordinary rendition involves the abduction of suspected militants from foreign countries by members of the CIA...
  • Plenty of fight left in the older O’Leary

    12/03/2005 1:12:51 PM PST · by Murtyo · 10 replies · 360+ views
    Irish Examiner, Cork ^ | 03-DEC-2005 | Ian Guider
    Michael O’Leary is focused on Ryanair growth and tackling the GovernmentTHOSE hoping that Ryanair’s outspoken chief executive Michael O’Leary will go quietly into retirement are in for a surprise. While the headlines suggested that 2008 would see his departure, O’Leary has other ideas. “In 2008 I will have done 20 years in Ryanair, I will be 47. I think it is getting closer to the day when I am going to go. Is it going to be 2008? No. It might be 2007 or it might be 2009. I will go when it is a natural time for me to...
  • Rocks against reds helped lift the green on Tipp Hill(Irelands Ahern in America)

    03/16/2005 8:04:28 AM PST · by concrete is my business · 8 replies · 351+ views
    Syracuse Post Standard ^ | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 | SEAN KIRST
    work to do to see it fully put into effect, Ahern said. "A number of recent incidents involving paramilitary activity and criminality - including the brutal murder of Robert McCartney on the 30th of January - would suggest that some people have yet to fully embrace the agreement's requirements for peace and democracy," Ahern said. "The issues of paramilitary capability and activity, including all forms of criminality, will have to be conclusively dealt with if there's to be any prospect of restoring partnership government in Northern Ireland," he said. "For our part, my government will continue to make every effort...
  • Where now for the peace process?(UK/Ireland)

    02/23/2005 11:32:36 AM PST · by Alex Marko · 2 replies · 292+ views
    The British prime minister, Tony Blair, and Ireland's taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, will meet in London on February 1st to discuss ways to safeguard the Northern Ireland peace process in the wake of the collapse of the latest round of talks at the end of 2004. The meeting comes just days after Mr Blair issued a stark warning to Northern Ireland's largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein, that it would be excluded from future peace talks unless its paramilitary wing, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), ceases all criminal activity. Following the breakdown in December of the latest round of talks aimed at...
  • Bush EU summit is a waste of time, say Brussels officials

    06/24/2004 3:32:31 PM PDT · by MadIvan · 8 replies · 164+ views
    The Times ^ | June 25, 2004 | Anthony Browne
    IT WILL cost millions of pounds, lead to the consumption of much fine food and wine, preoccupy much of Ireland’s police force and focus worldwide attention on the relationship between the world’s two biggest power blocks: the EU and US. But even though it will last only two and a half hours, European Union officials admit it is a “waste of time”. The 2004 EU-US summit taking place tomorrow in the isolated 16th-century Dromoland Castle in west Ireland will bring together George Bush, the US President, with Bertie Ahern, the Prime Minister of Ireland, who holds the rotating presidency of...
  • Blair and Ahern in Northern Ireland assembly talks

    10/04/2003 2:54:24 PM PDT · by anotherview · 169+ views
    RTÉ ^ | 4 October 2003
    Blair and Ahern in NI assembly talks October 4, 2003(19:05) The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has held a brief meeting with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to review progress in the the intensive series of talks on Northern Ireland. Speaking afterwards, on the margins of the European Council session in Rome, Mr Ahern said they want to see elections before christmas, and to see an executive with cross community support up and running. The Toiseach added that he wants to hear David Trimble say that he will work the executive positively if these matters happen. The Sinn Fein and...
  • Britain and US 'our friends' as (IRISH) ministers take tough stance

    03/21/2003 5:38:51 AM PST · by MadIvan · 33 replies · 200+ views
    The Irish Independent ^ | March 21, 2003 | Gene McKenna and Geraldine Collins
    IRELAND'S economic and political interests were best served by not abandoning "our friends" in Britain and the United States, government leaders told the Dail yesterday. During an often heated six-hour debate in which it was accused by the Opposition of supporting "illegal action" by George Bush and Tony Blair, the Government strongly defended its stance in continuing to allow the use of Shannon facilities for landing and overflights. Though coming under fierce Opposition attack for "facilitating" war with Iraq, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his ministers strongly defended their handling of the situation. No coalition backbenchers broke ranks as the Government...
  • Ahern gambles on letting US continue to use Shannon (IRELAND SUPPORTS ALLIES ALERT)

    03/18/2003 2:43:27 AM PST · by MadIvan · 8 replies · 205+ views
    The Irish Independent ^ | March 18, 2003 | Brian Dowling
    TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is poised to take the biggest gamble of his political career by supporting the US military's continued use of Shannon airport - even for an American-led invasion of Iraq. With all the opposition parties now united in calling for facilities at Shannon to be withdrawn because of the "go-it-alone" stance of the US coalition, the Government looks set to finally face a decision on the crisis. Yesterday, Mr Ahern and Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen assessed the latest developments for 30 minutes before they attended the GAA club finals at Croke Park. The Cabinet will consider the...
  • (IRISH TAOISEACH) Bertie signals that US planes can continue to land

    03/16/2003 4:51:06 AM PST · by MadIvan · 8 replies · 195+ views
    The Irish Independent ^ | March 16, 2003 | The Irish Independent
    LAST week, the Taoiseach twice signalled that Ireland would continue to give the US military landing facilities at Shannon, with or without a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq. And he did so first in the Dail, and later in remarks after his brief White House meeting with President Bush. On Wednesday, before he left for the US, Bertie Ahern refused, formally, to declare what the Government response would be to American military action against Iraq taken outside the UN framework. But the Taoiseach laid the ground for a continuation of US access to Shannon, by citing past precedents,...
  • Tell Saddam, not Bush, to stop this war

    03/16/2003 4:42:59 AM PST · by MadIvan · 11 replies · 751+ views
    The Irish Independent ^ | March 16, 2003 | The Irish Independent
    IT'S not easy to watch a generation being torn apart by this war. But any foreign war like this, a war which involves unequivocal moral questions, becomes of necessity a civil war. We are all finding ourselves in disagreement with people whose opinions we largely respect. Some of this generation are confused and wavering. If we were the first generation to grow up free of the shackles of civil war politics, now we have found our own civil war to divide us. This is our Vietnam. While it has politicised and galvanised us, it has created deep divisions that will...