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Whither
justice........?
Timothy
McVeigh, The Oklahoma bomber,
executed for killing 168 of his
fellow human beings, including 19
children. Justice or vengence?
America played a leading role in
negotiating Ireland's Good Friday
Agreement, which led to the
release of hundreds of convicted
terrorists. |
This
is America. There will be no Good
Friday Agreement for Tim's army. |
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Martin
McGuinness, one of the leaders of
the IRA and Sinn Fein, and
Northern Ireland's Education
Minister, responsable for the
deaths of many more than McVeigh.
Where is the justice for his
victims?
What message does this give to
the terrorists of the world? |
Sinn
Fein is now the most popular
'nationalist' party in Northern
Ireland. |
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Ireland
says: "Fuck EU,
I'm all right (now)
Jacques"
The Irish people have spoken, and blocked the
expansion of the European Union by voting against
the Nice Treaty in a referendum.
 The no
campaign, accused by the Irish government of
being funded by right wing American
fundamentalists, included such democratic
heavyweights as, Sinn Fein (IRA) and Catholic
fundamentalists, who claimed that the Treaty
could legalise abortion etc., etc., in Ireland.
Of course, having such pillars of society such as
Dr. Philip Boyce, Bishop of Raphoe, and MEP Dana
spouting the same rubbish didn't help, as the low
turnout of 34.7% of voters ensured that the
looney brigade would win. In Donegal, even the
normally pro Fianna Fail British owned local
'newspaper' appeared to be giving better coverage
to the no campaigners.
It will probably never be known excactly why the
majority of the majority voted no, whether
because of abortion, neutrality, racism, or just
plain greed as Ireland's EU funding runs out, or
a combination of these and other concerns. One
thing is certain though, Ireland has seriously
pissed off the EU.
Since Ireland's Green Party called for the
government to use it's veto to stop the treaty's
ratification throughout the rest of the EU and
the Irish Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy
said that he thought the no vote "was a
remarkably healthy developement", sources
have informed Mad-as-Hell.Com that at least one
grouping in Brussels is seeking a full
investigation into excactly what extent Ireland's
political manipulation of it's black economy was
used in the creation of the celtic tiger economy.
Opponents of this investigation are arguing that
it would play into the hands of those, such as
the British Conservative Party, who are against
further European integration. As the Cetic Tiger
bites the hand that fed it for so long, is the
European Union strong enough to bite back.....?
 Thomas scores for his
home team!
Donegal's
independent TD, Thomas Gildea has
announced the birth of a son, with
his young wife, Ailish. Thomas, who is in
his 60s, has said that "Having a new
baby is definitely a more joyous occasion
than the election. It is without a doubt
the biggest moment of my life."
We at Mad-as-Hell.Com, who have been
critical of the TD in the past, sincerely
wish him and his new family well, and
hope that his new perspective of life
will persuade him to come clean about the
[******] businessman who installed and
maintained most of Donegal's deflectors
and the fact that the public was misled
when told that the county's systems were
voluntarily set up by the community, for
the community. It might not make him
popular with the voters, but he could
leave his son a legacy to be proud of
should he tell the whole story of this
and other things in the constituency that
he claims to be aware of; a different
legacy to what he could leave, should the
mainstream media get there first.
Baaarking mad?
A Donegal farmer
has lost his flock of sheep, claiming
them to be stolen. The Gardai
(the Irish police farce) are treating the
case as 'a missing flock', rather than
stolen, but are unable to look for the
sheep in neighbouring farm land, due to
the foot and mouth restrictions.
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Something fishy in
Killybegs
Sources have informed Mad-as
Hell.Com that rotten fish is
being processed for human consumption in
a fish processing factory in Donegal
He's back
again....
(not
that the little shit was ever away)
Still proof
of his own government's hypocricy
Details as usual in
our March edition.
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Irish
government gives in to blackmail
The
four independent TDs supporting the
government, including Donegal's Thomas
Gildea have succeeded in their blackmail
attempt by forcing the government to drop
the 'dual mandate' from the Local
Government Bill.
This means that they will be able to
continue to keep their local Co.Council
seats as well as sit in Ireland's
parliament. The stand-off between the
goverment and the four Independents over
the so-called dual mandate, had held up
the passage of the Local Government Bill
into law. The goverment has been adamant
that the ban on TDs sitting on councils
was necessary to the plan to reform local
government. However, the four
independents, who hold the balance of
power, were equally vocal in their
opposition to the proposal. Mildred Fox,
Jackie Healy-Rea, Harry Blaney and Thomas
Gildea argued their survival in national
politics depended on the maintenance of
their positions on their county councils.
Rows over many months failed to deliver a
compromise and the government bowed to
the pressure and withdrew the proposal.
A government spokesman said that the
Independents had been loyal supporters of
the coalition. He said that it was the
first time in four years they had taken a
strong view on a government proposal [Ed
note: not excactly accurate]
and the government was bowing to
their wishes. In other words, earn money
in your spare time ...... blackmail the
government.
Of course, blackmailing the government
over something other than a self interest
issue appears to have been out of the
question, with the news that hundreds of
cancer stricken women throughout the
country and particularly in Donegal, have
had their breasts needlessly removed due
to the lack of local radiation therepy
facilities. Indeed, Ireland's cancer
treatment as a whole has not been
favourably compared to countries such as
Bosnia.
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65,000
out of work, 134,000 claiming dole
That's
right, half the people in Ireland who are
on the dole are working, and
that's the official figure, from the
Central Statistics Office for May. But
it's not all bad news, at least it's an
improvment from 1996, when only 25%
claiming 'dole' were found to be fully
entitled to what they got.
Ireland is expected to import 32,000
foreign workers this year because of the
labour shortage, up from 18,000 last
year.
Idiots
On Line re-define the meaning of
'unlimited use'
IOL, (owned by British Telecom)
providers of Ireland's only unmetered
internet access, are cutting off
10% (2000) of their customers who they
claim are using the service too much.
IOL provide free (subject to a £20
monthly fee) access to the internet
during off-peak times....6pm to 8am,
weekdays, and all day/night, weekends.
Any customers who have used the service
for much more than 2 hours a day are
being cut off. The remainder of
suscribers who phoned to complain can
continue to use the unmetered service,
provided they use the service no longer
than 75 hours a month. For those who
didn't phone, tough.
Full details at :
Crime
doesn't pay?
Veteran campaigner for the
homeless Father Peter McVerry has said
that hundreds of people every
year are leaving Ireland's prison system
to end up homeless, jobless and forced to
sleep rough.
This is in contrast to those released
from prison, who haven't paid their debt
to society, those convicted terrorists
released under the Good Friday Agreement,
who got paid substancial 'compensation'
on their release.
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Donegal Garda taking
bribes
A member of the Gardai (the Irish
police farce) has been accused of
taking money in exchange for turning a
blind eye to both serious and minor
driving offences by sources interviewed
by Mad-as-Hell.Com. As yet, there is no
corroborating evidence, but given the
alleged and rumoured level of corruption
in Donegal's Gardai and no independent
body for dealing with complaints against
Ireland's police service, it's unlikely
that anyone will come forward.
Donegal
businesses knackered
Ireland's travelling community
has achieved something that even
foot and mouth disease couldn't do, and
forced Donegal entertainment venues to
close for a time, in a display of
apparent racism over the June bank
holiday. Known localy as knackers,
gypsies, tinkers, or just plain scum, the
community have been staying in various
areas around Donegal, where pubs etc.
closed early rather than serve them.
In the Donegal village of Mountcharles,
where members of the travelling community
spent last summer quietly parked by the
beach, the locals complained that they
were blocking the public's access. This
year, locals solved the problem by
getting Donegal Co. Council to block
access to the beach by placing large
blocks of stone at the entrance. As one
local said to us when interviewed,
"the last time the beach was used by
the local community, was when we removed
the sand dunes to use the sand on our GAA
pitch, so it won't affect us".
A sheep in the
hand is worth 2 in the EU?
An independent survey has
estimated that EU subsidy fraud
could be as high as 33% among Irish sheep
farmers.
Although not as high as in Ireland, the
same survey has shown this type of fraud
to be high in all
EU member states.
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Foot and mouth scandal
continues
Despite the complaints made to the authorities,
still no practicle FMD precautions are
being taken in most of the  county. The
politicians continue their standard spin
doctoring with the aid of the local press which
continues it's silence about the their lies.
The minister for agriculture, Joe Walsh has
ordered an investigation into the 20% extra
livestock discovered in the Cooley peninsular
where major fraud is suspected. We at
Mad-as-Hell.Com brought the matter of this fraud
up over a month previously.
Some restrictions have now been reduced. Farmers
no longer need a permit to walk (on foot?....foot
and mouth disease?)their livestock 'a short
distance' ('a short distance' has not been
defined) However, a permit is still required to
move animals by vehicle, regardless of how short
the journey. One can only marvel at the 'experts'
that came up with that one...
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