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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Assisted Suicide Will Poison the British Culture of Care Mon Sep 07, 2026 19:00 | Simon Cavadino
Old people in care homes regularly say "Oh I just want to die", but they almost never mean it, says Simon Cavadino. The danger of assisted suicide is staff will start to treat them like they do.
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offsite link I Wish to Register a Complaint Mon Sep 07, 2026 17:00 | Sallust
The BBC appears to have predetermined Nigel Farage's guilt over his 'failure' to declare donations. But when Sallust complained, the BBC's complaints department couldn?t even understand the problem.
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offsite link Holborn and St Pancras By-Election: Why You Should Bet Against Labour Mon Sep 07, 2026 15:00 | Mark Littlewood
Labour are odds-on to hold Holborn and St Pancras ? but the Greens at 2/1 look tempting, particularly if it?s held after the Budget, and a four-way split isn?t out of the question, says Mark Littlewood.
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offsite link Dozens of Protesters Wade into Sea to Confront Boat Packed With 140 Illegal Migrants Mon Sep 07, 2026 13:22 | Will Jones
Dozens of protesters have waded into the sea in Portsmouth to confront 140 illegal migrants rescued from a packed mega-dinghy and being escorted by British lifeboats, supported by a helicopter and a plane.
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offsite link Greenland?s Icecap Grew This Year Mon Sep 07, 2026 11:00 | Paul Homewood
Greenland's icecap is doing just fine, says Paul Homewood. It's still much larger than it has been for most of the last 10,000 years and if it is shrinking at all, it is doing so no faster than a century ago.
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Voltaire Network
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Call For Ban On Hazardous Pesticides

category national | environment | press release author Friday April 19, 2019 01:28author by pbp - People Before Profit Report this post to the editors

Press Release - People Before Profit

Research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment has discovered that Ireland’s water supplies contain hazardous levels of pesticides. Irish Water has also acknowledged the danger.
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Reacting to the news, People Before Profit’s Dublin candidate for the European Elections, Gillian Brien said:

“We cannot ignore the science anymore. Pesticides and antibiotics are polluting streams across Ireland.

“This contamination is dangerous for wildlife and may increase the development of drug-resistant microbes. These pesticides as well as contaminating our water sources are having a disastrous impact on insect life and the broader bio-diversity in eco-systems the world over.

“A recent paper in the journal Biological Conservation showed that 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. One of the main reasons for this was the heavy use of pesticides. We are facing a collapse of nature if we do not take radical action to avert insect species loss.”

Over 100 pesticides and 21 drugs were detected in the 29 waterways analysed in 10 European nations, including Ireland.

Gillian Brien said: “This is utterly shocking that our public water supplies have dangerous levels of pesticides within them.

“We must act now and ban all pesticides that are hazardous. We have moral responsibility to protect our water and eco-systems from hazardous pollution.

“There are eco-friendly pesticides available. It is time human health and our environment came before the profits of big corporations like Bayer and Monsanto.

Related Link: http://www.pbp.ie/call-for-ban-on-hazardous-pesticides/
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