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Anti-China hype leaves unaswered questions

WHILE the crackdown in Tibet is to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, the campaign against the Beijing Olympics, predictably, has become a political football used for generally reactionary purposes.

New buses welcome

New rules make sense in fight against road carnage

Shannon move a warning for Cork and Dublin

EU post workers will fight open market

Did we have more sunshine last December?

Workers’ woes

SO, Fianna Fáil TD for Donegal North-East and former Government minister Jim McDaid wants a three-year pay freeze for workers, supposedly to ‘protect our jobs’.

Fri, 16 Mar, 2007

New inquiry needed

THE relatives of the Stardust fire victims are right to protest until they are granted a new inquiry. There are still many questions that the original tribunal didn’t answer.

Mon, 04 Dec, 2006

Waiting game

THE 100 extra new buses that the Government has belatedly agreed to give Dublin Bus come with a sting in the tail — they will not be released until new routes have been opened up to private operators. Given the cumbersome tendering process, this could take months or even years.

Mon, 13 Nov, 2006

Legalise fireworks

FIREWORKS should be legalised. That way they could be sold in shops under strict supervision and substandard crackers would be eliminated.

Tue, 10 Oct, 2006

Sounds like America

HAVING discussed the matter with others, I know I am not alone in my annoyance with those American-type sirens that the gardaí, ambulance and fire services now use.

Fri, 21 Jul, 2006

TOTP tunes out

IT was with great sadness that I heard that the BBC is axing Top of the Pops after 42 years on air.

Mon, 26 Jun, 2006

ICTU should now support the nurses’ campaign to end A&E crisis

THE news that the Health Service Executive (HSE) in the north-east is to cut spending by nearly €10 million in a bid to stay within budget will exacerbate the already serious crisis in the service there, especially the scandal of patients lying on trolleys in A&E wards.

Fri, 09 Jun, 2006

Partnership deals are a thing of the past

WHY doesn’t the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) admit that the so-called partnership deals are dead, at least in their current form?

Sat, 13 May, 2006

GPO Rising museum is a cheap populist stunt

I WISH to correct some misrepresentations of the proposed museum and cultural centre to commemorate the Easter Rising at the GPO in Dublin.

Thu, 04 May, 2006

FF propaganda stunt is something to be avoided

I WILL not be attending Fianna Fáil’s propaganda stunt in Dublin’s O’Connell Street today for the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

Mon, 17 Apr, 2006

Irish workers paid considerably less than European counterparts

COMMENTARY by employers’ groups and conservative pundits on wage levels in the Irish economy usually boils down to allegations that wages are ‘too high’, ‘growing too fast’, ‘undermining our competitiveness’, etc.

Mon, 10 Apr, 2006

Globalisation to blame for sugar factory closure

THE closure of the Mallow sugar beet factory, with the loss of 330 jobs, is the direct result of the relentless onward march of globalised corporate capitalism (globalisation) under the dictate of the unelected World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Thu, 23 Mar, 2006

FG adopts Britain’s failed bus policy

THE Fine Gael policy document on opening the Dublin bus market to new operators (privatisation by the back door) is the same policy that has failed in Britain.

Thu, 26 Jan, 2006

Former envoy lets cat out of the bag

BRITAIN’S former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the ‘war on terror’.

Mon, 09 Jan, 2006

Ideologically-driven buses going nowhere

PD Transport spokesman Senator Tom Morrissey (Irish Examiner letters, August 23) offers yet another piece of evasion in his response to my letter pointing out how that party’s policy on Dublin bus transport was ideologically driven (Irish Examiner letters, August 15).

Mon, 09 Jan, 2006

Cowen fails to tackle inequality and childcare package is a damp squib

THE Budget has singularly failed to redress any of the major inequities in society.

Fri, 09 Dec, 2005

We must learn from the riots in France

THE riots in French cities are a grim warning of what could happen here if the underlying causes - poverty, social deprivation, racism and xenophobia - are not tackled soon.

Mon, 14 Nov, 2005

An Post’s role defined - now let’s pay for it

INSTEAD of making sweeping statements that the postal service in Ireland is poor, why don’t Government politicians demand that their colleague, Environment Minister Noel Dempsey, recognise that An Post provides a social service like CIÉ and the ESB?

Wed, 17 Aug, 2005

An Post's role defined - now let's pay for it

INSTEAD of making sweeping statements that the postal service in Ireland is poor, why don't Government politicians demand that their colleague, Environment Minister Noel Dempsey, recognise that An Post provides a social service like CIÉ and the ESB?

Wed, 17 Aug, 2005

Measures threaten our civil rights

THERE are many reasons for opposing on-the-spot fines and anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs).

Mon, 11 Jul, 2005

Superstate supporters have got their answer

I AM disgusted but not surprised at the anti-democratic statements of EU constitution supporters who are saying that ordinary people should be denied the right to express their views just because they and their sort didn’t get the result they wanted.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

Postcodes plan should be put in the junk mail

I WOULD like to know what others think of the plan by Communications Minister Noel Dempsey to force An Post to bring in postcodes by January 2008?

Mon, 30 May, 2005

Roads of gold

RTÉ’s Prime Time team are to be congratulated for the exposé of gross mismanagement and squandering of taxpayers’ money on the roads programme (May 9).

Wed, 11 May, 2005

Snowed under

WHY is that every time a snow shower falls in Ireland the whole place grinds to a standstill? Even worse when it’s been well forecast.

Mon, 28 Feb, 2005

Street menace

AM I the only one who is annoyed by Dublin City Council’s street-cleaning machines (’gumbusters’)? They are extremely noisy.

Sat, 12 Feb, 2005

Let it snow

AM I the only one who is sick and tired of this never-ending mild, cloudy, dry, calm muck?

Wed, 09 Feb, 2005

Simple answer to hospital parking chaos

THE parking situation for drivers dropping people off at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin is chaotic.

Mon, 24 Jan, 2005

Best in the world: who are they trying to fool?

‘LIES, damned lies and statistics:’ that is certainly the case when in comes to The Economist magazine’s recent survey claiming that Ireland is the best country in the world to live in.

Sat, 27 Nov, 2004

Getting there... but where’s the real train?

TRAVELLING from Dublin to Gorey on a recent Friday, on the 18:30 train from Connolly station to Rosslare, I was looking forward to a mainline InterCity service with a trolley and snack bar, as advertised in the most recent Dublin-Rosslare guide/timetable.

Tue, 14 Sep, 2004