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Patrick James | March 11, 2009
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Irish & Proud & Troubled Enough… Don’t Represent Me!

Ireland has trouble enough, dealing with its share of the global credit crunch, but in good auld timely fashion there are always those who would come along to drag us further down into the quagmire. I have always been very proud of Ireland and our heritage and carried a heartfelt joy at being Irish, but lately I am finding it hard to hold my head up.

Following the recent renewed spate of violence in the North of Ireland I feel ashamed.

These murderous traitors to the Irish way-of-life, do not represent me as an Irish person nor do they reflect my views. Do these people, who are doing these terrible things, not think that Ireland has enough problems and sadness to worry about with the recession, without pilling more heartache on top of the Country’s concerns?

 

It’s time that it was realised that the Irish people no longer want violence… that Ireland can sort out it’s differences by other means and that these terrorists no longer represent Ireland nor will they be allowed to be the voice of it’s people!

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Patrick James | March 4, 2009
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Recession Ireland: The Twice-Done Country

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So we all know what’s going on in the world with economics and who wants to mention the dreaded R-word again !It’s not enough either that everyone is feeling hard-done-by and World leaders have quite nicely managed to cough things up rightly but it seems to me that Ireland has been done over twice by it’s government…

Not so long ago, all the Irish could hear on the radio and read in the newspapers was THE CELTIC TIGER… The economy was booming and the under-lying message was spend, spend, spend… all was wonderful in our bright green wonderland. So good times come and bad times come and after all that is the way of things. We had our moment in the sun and this is our darker hour, so maybe no one should be all that surprised… and that line of thought might be alright if that was what had happened.

THE TRUTH IS: Our economic prosperity was only for the few, like some sort of elitist joke. Certainly, no one I ever met really benefitted from the so-called Tiger! I know I didn’t catch a glimpse of it or even get a sniff of it on someone else! Neither did we have our cake… nor are we ever likely to eat it!

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Patrick James | September 5, 2008
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Irish Constitution – Bite Size 05 Sep 2008

Fundamental Rights

 

Personal Rights (Part 2)

 

4 1° No citizen shall be deprived of his personal liberty save in accordance with law.

 

2° Upon complaint being made by or on behalf of any person to the High Court or any judge thereof alleging that such person is being unlawfully detained, the High Court and any and every judge thereof to whom such complaint is made shall forthwith enquire into the said complaint and may order the person in whose custody such person is detained to produce the body of such person before the High Court on a named day and to certify in writing the grounds of his detention, and the High Court shall, upon the body of such person being produced before that Court and after giving the person in whose custody he is detained an opportunity of justifying the detention, order the release of such person from such detention unless satisfied that he is being detained in accordance with the law.

 

3° Where the body of a person alleged to be unlawfully detained is produced before the High Court in pursuance of an order in that behalf made under this section and that Court is satisfied that such person is being detained in accordance with a law but that such law to the Supreme Court by way of case stated and may, at the time of such reference or at any time thereafter, allow the said person to be at liberty on such bail and subject to such conditions as the High Court shall fix until the Supreme Court has determined the question so referred to it.

 

4° The High Court before which the body of a person alleged to be unlawfully detained is to be produced in pursuance of an order in that behalf made under this section shall, if the President of the High Court or, if he is not available, the senior judge of that Court who is available so directs in respect of any particular case, consist of three judges and shall, in every other case, consist of one judge only.

 

5 ° Nothing in this section, however, shall be invoked to prohibit, control, or interfere with any act of the Defence Forces during the existence of a state of war or armed rebellion.

 

6° Provision may be made by law for the refusal of bail by a court to a person charged with a serious offence where it is reasonably considered necessary to prevent the commission of a serious offence by that person.

 

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Patrick James | August 26, 2008
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Irish Constitution – Bite Size 26 Aug 2008

Following a recent conversation it dawned on me that maybe, we as people have a tendency to take the Irish Constitution for granted… I mean this is the fundamental law, of the land we live in! Hence, I decided to read the Constitution again with an older mind set than that of the young Irish person who did years ago… What struck me most was what an incredible work the Irish Constitution really is… It was truly before its time. Not with in the stifling language of the law, but in the language of every day people it is a literary work we should be proud of… and aware of its implications for our society today. With this in mind I have decided to post regular “bite-sized” extracts from the founding document… and start with its relevance to the person and their fundamental rights.

Fundamental Rights

Personal Rights (Part 1)

Article 40

1. All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law.

This shall not be held to mean that the State in its enactments have due regard to differences of capacity , physical and moral, and of social function.

2. 1° Titles of nobility shall not be conferred by the State.

2° No title of nobility or of any honour may be accepted by any citizen except with the prior approval of the government.

3. 1° The State guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizens.

2° The State shall, in particular, by its laws protect as best it may from unjust attack and, in the case of injustice done, vindicate the life, person, good name, and property of every citizen.

3° The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.

This subsection does not limit freedom to travel between the State and another state.

This subsection shall not limit freedom to obtain or make available, in the State, subject to such conditions as may be laid down by law, information relating to services lawfully available in another state.

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