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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 19:30 | Calli Morganite

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offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 21:00 | Mind Agent

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Sat Aug 02, 2025 00:54 | 1 of indy

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Farage Would Be Better PM Than Starmer, Voters Say for First Time Tue Oct 28, 2025 15:46 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?suffered a fresh blow today as polling showed Nigel Farage is voters' preferred choice as Prime Minister for the first time and the Labour Party hit a new low of its own.
The post Farage Would Be Better PM Than Starmer, Voters Say for First Time appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shabana Mahmood?s Determination to Get Justice for Grooming Gang Victims is an Example to Labour Tue Oct 28, 2025 13:49 | Julian Mann
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's determination to get justice for grooming gang victims and not water down the inquiry into the abuse perpetrated by her perverted co-religionists is an example to Labour, says Julian Mann.
The post Shabana Mahmood’s Determination to Get Justice for Grooming Gang Victims is an Example to Labour appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nature Has ?Abandoned Science for Social Justice? Says Richard Dawkins Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:51 | Will Jones
Top scientific journal Nature has "abandoned science for social justice", Richard Dawkins has said as he backed a letter written by Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov which accused the journal of "social engineering".
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offsite link Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent Tue Oct 28, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
The Guardian is ramping up its efforts to ban all views that dissent from climate orthodoxy, branding them 'misinformation' and calling on Ofcom to act. This is not how real science works, says Chris Morrison.
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offsite link The Mask Pushers Are At It Again: They Just Never Give Up, Do They? Tue Oct 28, 2025 07:00 | Dr Gary Sidley
Mask mandates are creeping back into NHS hospitals while the WHO has now decreed that face masks must be a core response in future 'public health events'. Dr Gary Sidley says we must resist this harmful intervention.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Woodburn Forest exploratory drilling update - Shale Gas Bulletin Issue No. 76 Update

category antrim | environment | news report author Tuesday March 15, 2016 23:21author by shale Report this post to the editors

Work is proceeding in Woodburn Forest, near Carrickfergus (NI), to construct a drill site for an exploratory well.
The Stop the Drill campaign opposes the drilling, which will take place 380 m uphill from a major drinking water reservoir serving 130,000 people, arguing that it places drinking water at risk of contamination. The site is owned by NI Water, Northern Ireland’s only water utility, which has given permission for the drilling by Infrastrata to go ahead, on the condition that hydraulic fracturing is not used.
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Protesters have maintained a presence at the site since mid-February and have received support from actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo, who announced that the clean water advocacy group he founded, Water Defence, will send water-testing kits to local residents.

Campaigners from Stop the Drill protest that the work has been allowed to go ahead without an approved waste management plan and that permitted development rights have been granted "by default" by the Department of the Environment (DoE) by ignoring a request for its views on the project.

InfraStrata sought an injunction against protesters at the site, but the legal action was adjourned until after workmen moved onto the site, and the protesters were warned not to obstruct the work. Confirmation was given to Lord Justice Girvan on March 10 that contractors were able to access the site without obstruction

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