Cóir Date: 23.02.2010

Cóir Date: 12.02.2010

In a one of their more brazen judgments, the European Court of Human Rights recently held that a defendant in a Belgian murder case had been unfairly tried and convicted because the jury had not been required to provide a reason for their verdict.

Cóir Date: 12.02.2010

It has only taken two months since the Lisbon Treaty was fully implemented by the EU for the German Government to come out in support of the creation of a new EU army.

At a high-level conference on security and defence in Munich this past week, Mr Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s Foreign Minister, made a speech in which he stated that: “The long-term goal is the establishment of a European army under full parliamentary [E.P.] control”.

Irish Times Date: 05.02.2010

Ireland needs complete separation of the Catholic Church and State as a matter of urgency, the Leviathan political cabaret heard in Dublin last night. Former Labour Party general secretary Brendan Halligan, now chairman of the Institute of International and European Affairs, said the church should no longer have a role in primary education.