At the risk of party-pooping, has any journalist or editor asked why a supposedly neutral country should invite a US military warship to dock in Dublin and for its sailors to be allowed free access to roam our streets?

Human rights groups are expressing their concern at the official visit of China's Vice President to Ireland.

POLISH prime minister Donald Tusk and his centre-right Civic Platform (PO) looked like creating history by being the first government to run full term and be re-elected.

GIVEN the empathy of the Greek people with the oppressed Palestinians, the former have surely been dealt a double whammy last week.

COMMUTERS, shoppers and businesses can expect major disruption in Dublin from tomorrow as a massive logistical and security operation gets under way for the visit of US President Barack Obama.

The Irish Anti-War Movement has condemned the US attack in Syria in which eight people died.

No deal is better than making a bad deal to share power with Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said today.

THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed a ban on Iraq from competing in the Beijing Games in a huge blow to seven Iraqi athletes who had hoped to travel to China this August, an IOC letter has said.

The Irish Anti-War Movement is calling for a No vote in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum.

ZIMBABWE’S opposition accused military intelligence agents yesterday of a plot to kill party leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

A MEMBER of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement posed as a printer for a job interview to prove that Rhodesian companies were targeting Irish workers under the pretence that they were recruiting for South Africa.

The Irish Government must stop the US military using Shannon Airport to transport troops to the Middle East, American anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan demanded ahead of a meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern today.

THE anti-Syrian opposition captured control of Lebanon’s parliament yesterday, breaking Syria’s long domination of the country, according to unofficial results and the opposition leader, Saad Hariri.

The Irish Anti-War Movement has organised a demonstration outside the US Embassy in Dublin for tomorrow to protest against what looks increasingly like the re-election of George W Bush as US President.

A leading doctor and former political prisoner called on the Government today to fly Iraqi torture victims to Ireland for treatment.

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has welcomed the planned withdrawal of Polish and Honduran troops from Iraq saying it further weakens the US occupation of the country.

ON February 15 last the Peace & Neutrality Alliance and the Irish Anti-War Movement helped to organise one of the largest anti-war demonstrations in recent Irish history.

There were fresh calls today for heightened security at Shannon airport ahead of an anti-war demonstration.

The Irish Anti-War Movement has said that a decision to ban a protest from marching through the centre of Dublin, is politically motivated.

The bombing campaign against Afghanistan will drive civilians into the arms of Islamic fundamentalists and could even lead to a third world war, members of the Dáil said today.