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What's acceptable: The top 3 levels.
What's not acceptable/discouraged: The bottom 4 levels.
The bottom two levels can get people banned, please don't resort to these.
Further reading:
Further explanation of the above
A list of fallacious arguments and how to spot them
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Originally posted by gandalf:
All the following sites are official government / state websites except those under 'Irish Political Parties' 'General Resources', 'Statistics', 'Journalism Sources'.
IRISH LAW
Irish Constitution
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/static/256.pdf
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/attached_files/html%20files/Constitution%20of%20Ireland%20(Eng)Nov2004.htm
http://www.oasis.gov.ie/government_in_ireland/the_constitution/
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
Oireachtas Live: Pilot Live Webcasts of the Houses of the Oireachtas
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=%2Fdocuments%2Flivewebcast%2FWeb%2DLive%2Ehtm&CatID=116&m=o
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/
Comhar Críostaí - The Christian Solidarity Party
http://www.comharcriostai.org/
Communist Party of Ireland
http://www.communistpartyofireland.ie/
Republican Sinn Féin
http://www.rsf.ie/
The following political parties and groups do not seem to have working political websites:
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)
South Kerry Independent Alliance
GENERAL RESOURCES
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.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
Irish Politics Site
http://www.Politics.ie
C-Span Resources Page
http://www.c-span.org/resources/international.asp
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/
Acknowledgements
This is a copy of the previous thread compiled by Victor who did an awful lot of work in compiling and tidying these links originally. The Politics mods would like to thank Victor for this work here.
Additions
This thread will be locked. If any users have suggestions for additions to this thread please send your suggestions via PM to the Politics mods with a description of your link. Any links to illegal organisations or ones that advocate illegal activities will not be added and the users that send these links may have their access to Politics removed.
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