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The issue of illegal drugs comes up everyday. On the streets, in the media, and everywhere you could think of. Its drugs, drugs and more drugs.

The National Day of Commemoration, which was held on Sunday July 8th in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham to honour those Irish who died in foreign wars and in service with the United Nations, was a most solemn and moving event.  

Not contented with continuously destroying our remaining million years Forest Reserves with all its glorious wildlife and ancestral Indigenous Customary Landrights (as under Native Customary Rights i.e. NCR) in Malaysia, Malaysian Capitalist Palm Oil/Logging Corporations are expanding very aggressively into Indonesia, which includes West Papua.

Modern-day Druids work to heal humanity's alienation from nature. Druidry, rather than being a religion, is a particular way of working with and understanding the natural world and healing the planet. We offer humanity a way out of the industrial wasteland we have created by exploiting nature, and into a new age of naturalism.

I believe that she has been disgracefully treated for being forgiving and helpful to her husband Tim, who undoubtedly has a despicable flaw, when we think of the abuse of the children involved, but there, but for the grace of God, go I.

There is constant debate regarding the green environment and calls for climate change, yet for someone who has four young children I am amazed at the lack of response from our own government and the public in general with regard to packaging.

The circumstances are right for the establishment of an economic strategy which can guarantee prosperity, quality of life and equality of opportunity for all on the island of Ireland, according to SIPTU's National Campaigns' Official, Anne Speed.

Fossil-fuelled vehicles used for freight, personal travel and commuting are extremely wasteful and are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Frequent aero-flights on multi-annual holidays and business meetings add further carbon dioxide to our planetary atmosphere. Rail and broadband Internet are far more efficient for business and would conserve both the environment and our archaeological inheritances.

Can it be true that our customs and excise have a single boat to patrol our 1500 km of coastline? Imagine the crew leader planning their day.

I've just been revisiting the census 2006 figures and I've come up with an interesting statistic.