Inaugural Green Summer School to discuss Lisbon, climate change and migration

Green Party senators and officials will discuss the future of the Lisbon Treaty at the first ever Green Summer School in the German-Polish border cities of Frankfurt Oder and Słubice this weekend. More than 800 participants from 42 countries will attend the green ‘creative laboratory’ [...]

Pictured from left to right:  Senator Deirdre de Burca, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Dr. Shaheed Satardien, Interfaith Roundtable and Director of Intercultural Peace Centre, Tauseef Sarwar, Chairman of the Muslim Council of Ireland.

Pictured from left to right:  Senator Deirdre de Burca, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Dr. Shaheed Satardien, Interfaith Roundtable and Director of Intercultural Peace Centre, Idress Mahmoud, Chairman of the Darfur Solidarity Committee.

Madam, 
An article in your paper (Aug 26th) reported that an international conference on agricultural biotechnology in Cork heard calls from representatives of Teagasc for a more “open, transparent and inclusive” debate on the merits of genetically modified foods. 

As a Green Party public representative with a strong interest in the issue of GM, I would [...]

The Green Party’s European Affairs spokesperson Senator Déirdre de Búrca has reacted with surprise at a statement on the Lisbon Treaty issued by her party colleague and chairperson of the People’s Movement Patricia McKenna.
 

Senator de Búrca said: “As a member of the Green Party’s National Executive Committee and its European policy group, Patricia has a [...]

Senator Déirdre de Búrca was the Green Party’s sole nominee as a candidate in the Dublin area for the 2009 European elections, as nominations closed at noon today. Roderic O’Gorman and David Geary – both local election candidates in Dublin’s Castleknock and North Inner City wards respectively – submitted applications to be included on the replacement [...]

We’re a small country but we can do something about global warming HOME TRUTHS: Why the Greens take issue with Herald columnist’s attack on party proposal to introduce carbon tax in bid to end pollution Dr Deirdre De Burca.
I WAS struck by Dr Ruairi Hanley’s recent article in this paper (‘Poor, sick and elderly burned [...]