I, as a Malaysian, would like to file a complaint on behalf of anti-logging and plantation villagers from the Indigenous communities, against EU officials from the EU Commission, in their complicity with the logging and plantation corporations in Malaysia.
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Peter Chin Fah Kui was obviously lying through his teeth in one of the most disappointingly lame interviews I've seen on the BBC News on the 11 June.
The attendance of President Mary McAleese at the Peace Park in Messines, Flanders, marking the deaths of Irishmen in the Great War is further proof of the political ecumenism developing in Ireland and is to be welcomed.
It now appears that a special conference of the Green Party will be held on Wednesday, 13 June, to endorse or reject the party's programme for government with Fianna Fail and the PDs. It is now clear that no commitment has been given to end the use of Shannon airport by the US war machine.
Very large numbers were expected to attend a protest public meeting in Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday 12 June, regarding the possible sale of St Michael's hospital to private developers. The public meeting will take place at 8pm in the Kingston Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.
A republican Sinn Fein commemoration has been told that Adams and McGuinness were never republicans in the first place as they have settled for “equality of status” rather than the Wolfe Tone ideal of breaking the connection with England.
Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin Aodhan O Riordain is to honour Irish soccer international Olivia O Toole in her native Sheriff Street by unveiling a portrait and plaque of her in the local community hall.
I am seeking assistance from your readers as part of continual research into the Irish language in this region and surrounding counties. I wish to record words and phrases that may have derived from the Irish language and remain in usage in the English language. Some of these words and phrases may be specific to certain areas and infrequently used or indeed out of usage.
The recent conviction of a coursing club of trapping hares without a license serves as yet another reminder that our hare population is threatened by a practise that involves netting and baiting these gentle creatures for “sport”.
Today Saturday I had the privilege to take part in the march in Dublin city centre to highlight the justifiable cause of Palestinian freedom which has been denied to them by the Israeli Apartheid regime.