Daily Archives: May 10, 2004

Massive Vote

Voting is coming to an end in India’s general election. I was just checking some of the stats about the election out of curiousity; there are 182 constituencies in 12 states with more than 200 million voters in this round voting from 218,000 polling stations. There are over 2,000 candidates vying for places in the [...]

Slithering McDowell

Michael Noonan has hit out at the government and McDowell in particular over the ‘McCabe Killers affair’. Rumour has it the IRA killers of Garda Detective Jerry McCabe would be released under the terms of the GFA even though the government had sworn at the time of their conviction that they would serve their full [...]

Gardaí prepare for Bush visit

Georgie arrives in Dublin on the 25th June, and protesters from the “Stop Bush campaign” and the “Irish Anti-War Movement” are planning a peaceful protest in Dublin on the 25th then the following morning in Clare. No doubt the water cannons will be out in force again!