Useful Links

Victor

All the following sites are official government / state websites except those under 'Irish Political Parties' 'General Resources', 'Statistics', 'Journalism Sources' and 'Abortion Referendum Information'.

IRISH LAW

Irish Constitution
http://www.gov.ie/taoiseach/publication/constitution/english/contents.htm

Irish Statute Book
http://193.120.124.98/

There is a list of recent bills at
http://www.gov.ie/bills28/bills/default.htm

There is a list of recent acts at
http://www.gov.ie/bills28/acts/default.htm


IRISH ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS

Irish elections and referendums, refer to
http://www.environ.ie/electindex.html -> "Referendums" ->
"Click here for Referendum results in PDF format 1937-1999 Referendums in Ireland (463KB)"

Referendum Commission
http://www.refcom.ie/

Public Offices Commission
http://www.irlgov.ie/poc/

Constituency Commission
http://www.environ.ie/elections/dail.html


IRISH GOVERNMENT

Irish Government Website
http://www.gov.ie/

Oireachtas (Parliament) Homepage
http://www.gov.ie/oireachtas/frame.htm

Department of An Taoiseach (Prime Minister)
http://www.gov.ie/taoiseach/government/Default.htm


UK PARLIAMENTS AND ASSEMBLIES

Northern Ireland Assembly
http://www.ni-assembly.gov.uk/

United Kingdom Parliament
http://www.parliament.uk/

The Scottish Parliament
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/

The National Assembly for Wales
http://www.assembly.wales.gov.uk/


EUROPEAN UNION

http://www.europa.eu.int/


UNITED NATIONS

http://www.un.org/english/


UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

The Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov

Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.cia.gov

US Department of State Daily press briefings
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/

National Archives And Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/nfpubs.html#pubponln

Freedom of Information Act
http://www.foia.state.gov/other.asp


AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

Australian Federal, State and Territory Governments
http://www.gov.au/


SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT

South African Government Online
http://www.gov.za/


IRISH POLITICAL PARTIES AND GROUPS

From the Public Offices Commission http://www.irlgov.ie/poc/

Fianna Fail


Fine Gael
http://www.finegael.ie

Green Party
http://www.greenparty.ie/

Labour Party
http://www.labour.ie

Progressive Democrats
http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie
http://www.youngPDs.org

Sinn Fein
http://www.sinnfein.ie

Socialist Party
http://www.socialistparty.net/

Socialist Workers Party
http://www.clubi.ie/swp/

Workers Party
http://www.workers-party.org/

The following political parties and groups do not seem to have working political websites:
Comhar Críostaí - The Christian Solidarity Party
Communist Party of Ireland
Donegal Progressive Party
Independent Fianna Fáil
Muíntír na hÉireann [registration cancelled]
The Christian Democrats (The National Party), formerly the National Party http://www.castletown.com/national.htm
Natural Law Party http://www.natural-law-party.org/ (ceased to exist December 2000)
Republican Sinn Féin
South Kerry Independent Alliance


GENERAL RESOURCES

RTÉ News Guide to Dáil Eireann [Ireland - state broadcaster]
http://www.rte.ie/news/dailguide/

National Platform [Ireland - NGO]
http://www.nationalplatform.org/about/index.html

European Movement [Ireland - NGO]
http://www.europeanmovement.ie/

Co-operation Ireland [Northern Ireland / Ireland - NGO]
http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/

Election Results - Dáil, NI Assembly, President, European (Republic), European (NI) - count by count
http://election.polarbears.com/ "Irish Election Database" [Ireland - NGO]

http://www.electireland.com/ "Irelands website for the undecided voter" [Ireland - NGO - defunct]

http://www.electionsireland.org/ "in association with Seán Donnelly (author)" [Ireland - NGO]

Nicholas Whyte's Northern Ireland Elections site [Northern Ireland - NGO]
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/ Main site
http://explorers.whyte.com/ Old site - Main site - Old site
http://explorers.whyte.com/dala.htm Old site - Dáil elections - Old site

Federation of American Scientists [USA - NGO]
http://www.fas.org

cyberjournal.org
http://cyberjournal.org/

CAIN - Conflict Archive on the INternet
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/index.html

Oireachtas - Useful Links, Frequestly Asked Questions, Political Parties and Members' Web sites,
http://www.gov.ie/oireachtas/a-misc/parties.html#Political%20Parties

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS University College Dublin [Ireland - QauNGO]
http://www.ucd.ie/~politics/irpols.html


STATISTICS

Irish Statistics [Ireland - official site]
www.cso.ie

Central Intelligence Agency - The World Factbook [USA - official site]
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Country Watch [USA - private site(?)]
www.countrywatch.com


JOURNALISM SOURCES

South Asian Journalists Association
http://www.saja.org/tipssources.html

poynter.org
http://www.poynter.org/


ABORTION REFERENDUM INFORMATION

Irish Times - News In Focus - Abortion Referendum
http://www.ireland.com/focus/abortion/

Links on Boards.ie
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42500

ConUladh

http://election.polarbears.com/

Irish Election Results count by count

Keeks

Originally posted by Victor
Can a mod put a sticky on this?

Irish Constitution
http://www.gov.ie/taoiseach/publica...sh/contents.htm

Link Doesn't work

should be http://www.gov.ie/taoiseach/publication/constitution/english/contents.htm

gandalf

Nice work Victor. Consider this thread stuck.

Gandalf.

gandalf

Fianna Fail

Fine Gael

Labour Party

Progressive Democrats

Sinn Fein

Green Party

Socialist Party

Victor

Lists amalgamated.

bonkey

Can I delete all bar the first post then?

jc

Victor

I can't believe it, but I voluntarily reduced my own post count ... aAAGHHHH!!! Anyway, thanks to the contributors. I don't mind what way it goes as regards deleting, but the list should be updated from time to time and other (than me) people should be recognised for their contributions.

ConUladh

Check out http://www.electireland.com

It doesn't work too great at the moment but it appears that when we get closer to the election they will have each candidates views

Not really worthy of inclusion yet though, one to watch

jd

http://cyberjournal.org/

Some interesting stuff on progressiva activism etc
jd

Victor

Nicholas Whyte's Northern Ireland Elections site added http://explorers.whyte.com/ Main site
http://explorers.whyte.com/dala.htm Dáil elections

Victor

Originally posted by Victor
Nicholas Whyte's Northern Ireland Elections site added http://explorers.whyte.com/ Main site
http://explorers.whyte.com/dala.htm Dáil elections

Site has moved to: http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/

jd

http://www.iol.ie/~tdermody/index.html
Irish site - says
It is directed primarily at those who are active in left wing politics or the labour movement, who are engaged with feminist issues, or who are concerned with environmental or human rights campaigns. Indeed, it should appeal to all persons who have a general interest in philosophy, politics, and science.
jd

ciderandhavoc

Young Progressive Democrats
http://www.youngPDs.org

Victor

Just a reminder to register to vote, if you have not done so. Registration is done between November and January each year. Resident non-citizens have certain rights to vote.

Information:
http://www.environ.ie/elections/vote.html#regis
http://www.environ.ie/elections/vote.html#ureg

Dublin City Council have some forms (but not the main form) online at http://www.dublincity.ie/services/forms/frmindexcat.htm

The new (main) registration form has a section for opting out of the commercial copy of the register (to cut down on spam).

Next year's Register of Electors is now being compiled. To ensure that you and members of your household will be registered, complete and return this form JMMEDIATELY.

1. BE SURE TO INCLUDE:

Every person over 18 living at your address;

17 year olds who will be 18 by I5th February next;

Any eligible person who normally lives at your address but is temporarily away.

2. DO NOT INCLUDE:

A visitor staying temporarily at your address.

3. CITIZENSHIP

Please indicate the citizenship of each person on the application form: this will determine the elections at which that person may vote.

4. TWO VERSIONS OF THE REGISTER

From 2004 or earlier if possible, registration authorities will publish two versions of the register - the edited register and the full register.

The edited register will contain the names and addresses of persons who have indicated that their details can be used for a purpose other than electoral or other statutory use, e.g. for direct marketing use by a commercial or other organisation.

The full register lists everyone who is entitled to vote and once an edited register has been published can only be used for an electoral or other statutory purpose.

If you want your details or those of any member of your household to be included in the edited register, you should tick the YES box in column (v) at part 3 of the form. If you do not want the registration details to be available for direct marketing or other non-statutory uses, you should tick the NO box.

This is the old form

http://www.dublincity.ie/services/forms/frmdocs/votersfrm.doc

New form attached (79k)

swiss

I've merged the Useful links and voter registration threads to keep sticky real estate to a minimum .

Just in case anyone notices.

Éomer of Rohan

Communist Party of Ireland

Much as I should hate these Stalinist twats, I will be charitable and give you their link to include since you missed it the first time around.CPI Bi Lingual Website

hmmm

wacky right wing Israeli stuff, which sometimes has interesting (and maybe even true :P) stories

www.debka.com

Dónall

Well, Republican Sinn Féin have a site here:
http://www.iol.ie/~saoirse/video/index.html

Among other things, they want Athlone to be the capital of a federal socialist republic of Ireland. The last person to seriously toy with that idea was Queen Elizabeth I, funny how things come round.

Victor

General law database
http://www.bailii.org/databases.html#ie

Statutes passed by the Northern Irish Assembly (including pre-1922 Acts from Westminster / Dublin)
http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/

ciderandhavoc

News from each irish political party is available throughout the day on Politics.ie - http://www.Politics.ie

Shameless plug, as its my site, but its worth a look at least!

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.fas.org/index.html Fedaration of American Scientists
Info & links to lots of military/political stuff
arms sales - WMD - reports etc.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/index.html

article6

Political Parties: Comhar Críostaí (Christian Solidarity Party)

tenderloins

http://www.independentfiannafail.com is the Independent Fianna Fail Website.

Other Sites for IRISH POLITICAL PARTIES AND GROUPS
Marian Harkin TD, MEP
www.marianharkin.com

Paudge Connolly TD
http://homepage.eircom.net/~paudgeconnolly/FRAMES.HTM

Mildred Fox TD
http://www.mildredfox.com

AngelofFire

www.labouryouth.ie

Victor

http://www.constituency-commission.ie/

http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs/con2004.pdf

solas

http://www.feasta.org/
"Feasta's Mission is to identify the economic characteristics that Irish society must have in order to be economically, environmentally and culturally sustainable and to share this analysis with the widest audience possible.
Encouraging public debate between mainstream and alternative economists and engaging with media and politicians, in particular regarding budgets and economic news. Working with schools, community development organisations and the general public to educate. "

Lots of interesting and informative articles, newsletter and updates of topical issues.
subjects range from democracy to energy and climate, including full reports and submissions.

feel free to remove if inappropriate.

FTA69

www.irbb.rr.nu

Irish Republican Bulliten Board, good site for debate and discussion.

true

FTA69 wrote:

www.irbb.rr.nu

Irish Republican Bulliten Board, good site for debate and discussion.

I have looked at the site above. It it was just a site for republicans ( as in people from , for example , Fianna Fail, the republican party ), fair enough.
However, it seems to contain a lot of pro-IRA material, not just provisional IRA but real IRA and Continuity IRA. There are links from it to other websites as well, one of them for example called "REAL IRA". After the Omagh bomb atrocity, I find it surprising that these links and links to links should be tolerated, as even if it encourage one extra person in to their movement is that not one too many ? Over to you , moderator.

FTA69

The site is hosted by Na Fianna Éireann which is aligned to Republican Sinn Féin, I also believe that it explicitly states that no views expressed on the site are necessarily those of Na Fianna's. For example, if someone posted a link to boards.ie on a different site, and someone on the latter found my pro-IRA stance offensive would it be justified to remove boards.ie as a link?

No it wouldn't because people are entitled to an opinion regardless of what that may be.

marco murphy

true wrote:

I have looked at the site above. It it was just a site for republicans ( as in people from , for example , Fianna Fail, the republican party ), fair enough.
However, it seems to contain a lot of pro-IRA material, not just provisional IRA but real IRA and Continuity IRA. There are links from it to other websites as well, one of them for example called "REAL IRA". After the Omagh bomb atrocity, I find it surprising that these links and links to links should be tolerated, as even if it encourage one extra person in to their movement is that not one too many ? Over to you , moderator.

Anyone with any opinion can speak there,it is one place that free speech is allowed.

true

To show the other side of the coin, this is a site for Families Acting for Innocent Relatives FAIR. It is a site dedicated to the victims of terrorism in N. Ireland.


http://www.victims.org.uk/main.html

FTA69

New Republican Forum-

http://aontacht.net