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international / politics / elections Wednesday January 20, 2021 - 14:21 by Zachary Conti
President Biden will extend the freeze on student debt payments as one of his first executive actions after his inauguration. The Department of Education will be directed to continue the student debt payment suspension through September. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday January 16, 2021 - 17:26 by foie
PRESS RELEASE - Friends of the Irish Environment - 15 January 2021 For Immediate Release Formal end to the Bord na Mona’s peat harvesting ‘major milestone’ Warning of ‘cowboy contractors’ still ignoring peat planning regulations The decision by Bord na Mona to end all peat harvesting marked a ‘major milestone’ in Ireland’s progress towards controlling greenhouse gases and biodiversity loss, Friends of the Irish Environment said in a statement today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday January 13, 2021 - 18:18 by Zachary Conti
Gary Gensler, former Wall Street regulator will be President-elect Biden's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to Reuters. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday January 07, 2021 - 21:21 by foie
Call for change in Coillte Principal Objects as illegal felling video released Work stopped by residents due to recommence An environmental charity has called on the Government to change Coillte Teo’ Principle Objects to add ‘social’ and ‘environmental’ to its sole current sole ‘commercial’ remit. Friends of the Irish Environment released a video on social media over the New Years’ weekend showing residents stopping clearfelling of a Special Area of Conservation by Coillte Teo which was viewed more than 4,000 time over the weekend. The video, taken at Kilsheelan Woods in the Lower River Suir Area of Special Conservation, shows an extensive woodland area between the N22 road and the River Suir undergoing clearfelling. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday January 06, 2021 - 20:27 by Zachary Conti
The White House announced a $3.7 billion disaster grant for Puerto Rico to rebuild reservoirs, dams and wastewater facilities. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday December 19, 2020 - 00:20 by foie
State refuses release of 2020 images recording ongoing turf cutting on protected raised bogs Machinery at work on 28 protected raised bogs confirmed to Europe by Ireland The National Parks and Wildlife Service has refused to release images recording ongoing destruction of Ireland’s protected raised bogs during 2020. The request came from the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] who first brought the activities to the attention of the authorities in 2009. The prohibition on cutting on 56 Special Areas of Conservation {SAC] protected raised bogs was due to take effect in 1998 but was not imposed until 2009. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday December 14, 2020 - 16:03 by Zach Conti
As countries address their debt crises, policy responses can reduce climate change, asserts a new study. “Linking Debt Relief and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Experience,” examines previous debt relief processes to learn how debt and climate responses can work in tandem. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday December 13, 2020 - 19:09 by foie
The environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment has called on Taoiseach Micheal Martin to clarify the Irish government's position in relation to efforts to allow the EU to subsidize nuclear power plants. According to a document seen by Friends of the Irish environment, several countries, including France, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, want the EU to allow subsidies to nuclear plants in return for backing a higher EU 2030 climate target. However, other countries including Luxembourg and Austria, are rejecting these plans. The position of the Irish government is not clear. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday December 11, 2020 - 23:48 by Zachary Conti
By a vote of 84 to 13, the Senate passed corporate transparency legislation as part of the annual vote on the National Defense Authorization Act. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday December 11, 2020 - 11:55 by foie
Campaigners for opening of Court records claim initial victory High Court Direction to release records welcomed A new ‘High Court Practice Direction’ issued by the Court Service on 13 November 2020 has been claimed as an initial victory by campaigners seeking access to Court records after the judicial process is completed. [1] The Direction issued recently by Mary Irvine, President of the High Court, allows any member of the public to seek access to the written submissions provided to the Court by parties in proceedings after 11 January 2021. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media Friday November 27, 2020 - 22:50 by Arty She
Music can uplift, inspire, or soothe us at any stage of life. We might react with smiles or tears when we hear a certain song, depending on the kind of event that it prompts us to recall. 'Magical moments' welcomes art and writing related to memories of joy, awe, peace or happiness. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 25, 2020 - 20:30 by foie
Atlantic Bays stripped of wild fish to eat lice off farmed salmon Records show 1.6m wild fish destroyed in 4 years More than 1.6 million wild fish were taken from Ireland’s Atlantic bays to eat the lice off farmed salmon between May 2015 and November 2019. The figures, released to environmental groups through Access to Information on the Environment requests, are the first official record of salmon farming’s practices on these wild fish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 14, 2020 - 13:07 by Mary Anne Grady Flores
All seven known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 were protesting against the presence of nuclear weapons in Kings Bay in Georgia USA. Martha was the sixth defendant to go to prison. She goes there in honour after four friends testified on her behalf. One of them told the court that in a future nuclear holocaust when stricken children would ask their dying parents 'why didn’t somebody stop this, while we still had a chance to stop it? ' the response would be be: “Some people DID try to stop this. But we prosecuted them. And we locked them away.”] ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday November 12, 2020 - 20:57 by Zach Conti
On Friday, the G20 convenes an extraordinary meeting on debt reduction for developing countries affected by the COVID-19 economic crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 11, 2020 - 21:14 by foie
Call for Covid-19 ‘track and trace’ for rhododendron
The spread of rhododendron across Ireland’s countryside has been likened to Covid-19 by an environmental charity, Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE]. FIE have called for a ‘track and trace’ programme to be put in place to control the increasing spread of this ‘beautiful and picturesque death warrant’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday November 10, 2020 - 20:19 by foie
Twelve years after losing their original case against the planning permission for a LNG terminal on the Shannon River, Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] today received a High Court order quashing An Bord Pleanala’s grant of permission and awarding costs in their favour. The proposed terminal was due to process Liquid Natural Gas [LNG] from the USA for consumption in Ireland and to be distributed throughout the EU. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 07, 2020 - 23:06 by 1 of indy
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Press Release from Dept of Foreign Affairs "I am deeply dismayed to learn of the demolition by Israeli authorities on 3 November of more than 70 structures, belonging to 11 Palestinian families in the community of Humsa Al Bqai’a* in the northern Jordan Valley. These demolitions include residential, livelihood and sanitation facilities." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday November 05, 2020 - 11:20 by foie
High Court to hear challenge against unsustainable fishing in Ireland and the EU The Irish High Court granted leave today to the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] to apply for a Judicial Review aimed at challenging the EU Regulation setting 2020 fishing quotas under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) because of its failure to meet a legally defined deadline of ending overfishing in all stocks by 2020. ... read full story / add a comment
international / economics and finance Wednesday October 14, 2020 - 22:00 by Zach Conti
G20 finance ministers agreed to extend debt payment relief for the 73 poorest countries and, in principle, to have a common framework to cancel debts. The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met on global COVID-19 response plans ahead of the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday October 13, 2020 - 19:11 by Zach Conti
Analyzing the economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus, the International Monetary Fund released the Global Financial Stability Report and the 2020 World Economic Outlook Report, "A Long and Difficult Ascent." The economic outlook report projects global economic growth to contract 4.4%.
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