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CIA apologizes for dead kennedys
October 21, 2023 at 2:34 AM
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This piece was motivated by our concerns about the significant gaps in contextually crucial information presented to the Citizens' Assembly

e.g the Assembly didn't hear any oral presentations explaining where the Irish model of criminal prohibition came from

www.thejournal.ie/readme/citiz...
Opinion: The Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to effect change
Our authors urge the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs, which meets for the final time this weekend, to be bold in their recommendations.
www.thejournal.ie
October 18, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Traumatic flashbacks to the South Terrace, qtr final 1991. Not again.
October 14, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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As we know only too well in Ireland, referenda are brutal, blunt exercises. While we have lately celebrated the assertion of rights in such exercises, we know the pain of defeat, rejection, manipulation, and exclusion. Solidarity will all Australians who have been so hurt by today’s result.
October 14, 2023 at 10:39 AM
Very illuminating perspective from EDPB chair www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
October 13, 2023 at 9:11 AM
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Leo Varadkar has accused the Israeli government of breaching international law in its siege on Gaza.
"To me it amounts to collective punishment," the Taoiseach said
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Varadkar accuses Israeli government of breaching international law in Gaza siege
Taoiseach says Israel is engaging in ‘collective punishment’ against people of Gaza over crimes of Hamas
www.irishtimes.com
October 13, 2023 at 6:27 AM
Compelling take on where UK Labour stand
October 11, 2023 at 9:16 PM