ILGA Europe (International Lesbian and Gay Association) are running a campaign aimed at members of the European Parliament to seek their commitment on LGBT rights. So far seven Irish MEP’s have signed the 10 point pledge on LGBT rights issues. So Liam Aylward, Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell (remember him?), Pat (The Cope) Gallagher, Brian Crowley, [...]
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Photo earlier today from the Informal Heads of State meeting in Brussels. Pictures from the Council of the European Union. Enda and Nicolas Sarkozy exchanged strong words tonight. Do you think he was deep in thought practising his french in the picture? ‘Paddy voudrais savoir ce que se passe, M. Sarkozy! Ne touchez pas notre [...]
Today is International Students Day and the Irish Second Level Students Union and the Children’s Rights Alliance are holding Your World – Your Say a Consultation on Children’s Views on their Engagement in European and International Levels of Decision-Making. 100 young people from all over the country are gathering in Dublin to talk about the [...]
Tags:Childrens Rights Alliance·European Parliament·Gay Mitchell·ISSU·Liam Aylward·Prionsias de Rossa·Sean Kelly MEP
Ireland will be hosting the International Lesbian and Gay Association European Region conference in 2012 due to a successful bid made by GLEN at the ILGA conference in the Hague which took place last weekend. They made a bid video and I’m sure you’ll find something to entertain you in it!
I mentioned recently the paucity of Irish MEP’s who had joined the LGBT Intergroup of the European Parliament. I’m happy to report that this week Joe Higgins (Socialist Party – Dublin) and Marian Harkins (Independent – West) have both accepted invitations to join. They join Prionsias de Rossa and Nessa Childrers. Other MEP’s have also [...]
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During the recent session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg a debate was held on the issues facing same sex couples in registered partnerships or marriages and the lack of transferability of these agreements when couples travel between member states. The debate can be viewed here with speeches from members both for and against European [...]
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Today’s Wicklow Times is reporting that Senator Deirdre de Burca is packing her bags and heading for Brussels to work in the cabinet of Ireland’s new European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn . Now you may remember the last time Senator de Burca hitched the parachute to her back and flew. This time she is going further [...]
While I was on holidays a work colleague texted me to say she had been canvassed by Cóir. The canvasser told her that if Lisbon was passed that she would be put down like a dog. My colleague has cerebral palsy. She didn’t argue back and managed to move away. I was shocked but not [...]
Tags:Disability·EU·European Union·Human rights·Ireland·Lisbon Treaty·Society and Culture
I’m sure Ireland’s best chronicler of the activities of Chairman Ganley will be on to this soon enough. I got two texts early this morning directing me to the Irish Times and one asked why I was not in Roscommon at the weekend – like I’d be the most welcome guest at that table? Libertas [...]
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You may remember that last year I was looking for recommendations for blogs about European Union affairs to read. Yesterday I read via Jon Worth’s blog of the launch of Bloggingportal.eu. It’s a blog syndicator but as opposed to a mere aggregator it has editors which rate posts and summarise them. We don’t think the [...]
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