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  Denis Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denis Murphy (Irish musician), an Irish traditional musician from the Sliabh Luachra area.
Denis Murphy, an Australian Labor Party politician and historian.
Denis Murphy, a United Kingdom Labour Party politician.
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 Gordon Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UK unemployment is 5.1%, down from 7% in 1997 and lower than the Eurozone's 8.1%.
Political controversy over the relationship between Brown and Blair in advance of the prospective UK general election, 2005 continued up to that election, when Blair won a reduced majority, a reduced vote share for the Labour Party, and then confirmed that he would not fight the next general election.
After the UK Local Government elections in May 2006, where Labour lost 2 in 5 of their previously controlled councils, Brown has been seen to use the failure of the Labour Party to advance his own cause in preparation for leadership.
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 BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
He doesn't act as a politician and therefore it wouldn't be appropriate for me to seek to second guess him and I'm bound to say that he will make his decision in accordance with the law and he will uphold the rule of law in the best traditions of our country.
DENIS MURPHY MP: Whether it's a debt of honour, or it's just, I think the phrase is 'fairness not favours,' I think it is perfectly reasonable for people here to ask for their government's help, a government and a party that they've supported for many, many years loyally..
DENIS MURPHY MP: We haven't yet recovered from the colliery closures of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Murphy: For the oil sector, unlike gas, there is a long history - for good reason - of emergency stocks and emergency arrangements.
Murphy answer that question, I know that the latest estimates in terms of natural gas reserves are that there is about 100 years left of known reserves.
Murphy: At the moment, average holdings in the Community as a whole are for about 115 days, or thereabouts.
www.irlgov.ie /committees-29/c-marine/20030117-J/Page1.htm   (11568 words)

  
 CND - CND IN THE NEWS
Police said it was the UK's biggest ever demonstration with at least 750,000 taking part, although organisers put the figure closer to two million.
They came as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a speech warning of "bloody consequences" if Iraq was not confronted, directly addressed those marching.
The protesters - who were part of the Voices in the Wilderness UK pressure group - were taken to a local police station and the road was reopened at 2015 GMT.
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 Tony Blair Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The seat was safely Labour despite the party's collapse in the 1983 UK general election; Blair was helped on the campaign trail by soap actress Pat Phoenix, the girlfriend of his father-in-law Anthony Booth.
The traditional tendency of governments to manipulate interest rates around General Elections for political gain is thought to have been deleterious to the UK economy and helped reinforce a cyclical pattern of boom and bust, for which Blair frequently criticised previous governments.
It fell to Blair to broker a deal on the EU budget during the UK's Presidency of the European Union during the latter half of 2005.
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 Ann Widdecombe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She was first elected to the Houses of Parliament in the 1987 UK general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone (which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997).
During the 2001 Conservative leadership election, after the resignation of William Hague in the wake of the 2001 UK general election, she could not find sufficient Conservative MPs to support her as a leadership candidate.
She supported first Michael Ancram, who was promptly eliminated, and then Ken Clarke, who lost in the final round, and afterwards refused to serve in an Ian Duncan Smith cabinet (although she indicated prior to the leadership contest that she wished to retire to the backbenchers anyway).
www.syossetnyus.com /section/Ann_Widdecombe   (1342 words)

  
 Jack Straw (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He has denied allegations by Joe Haines, Wilson's press secretary, that Wilson asked for Scott's file to be viewed for party political purposes, in the hopes of gaining information that could be used to damage Thorpe if he attempted to form a coalition government with Ted Heath.
Appointed as Home Secretary after the 1997 UK general election, he brought forward the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, increased police powers against terrorism and proposed a reduction in the right to trial by jury.
Expected by commentators to be demoted to Transport Secretary after the 2001 UK general election, there was some surprise when he was instead appointed Foreign Secretary succeeding Robin Cook.
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 Murphy genealogy and family history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Murphy is a city in Collin County, in the Dallas...
Murphy demographics, travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Collin County economy, education, environment, genealogy...
Murphy is in Jefferson County, in the Saint...
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 Irish American Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Secretary of State Paul Murphy yesterday said it was important that everyone exercises their right to vote in the upcoming election.
Politicians from across the spectrum will be keen to learn the results of today's Belfast Telegraph poll, the first snapshot of opinion since the Assembly Election campaign began.
Paul Murphy urged everyone to play their part and exercise their democratic right to vote in the assembly election on 26 November.
www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/11oct-nov/news/news01.html   (19405 words)

  
 Home > Atherton, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Galloway, however, denied that he had misused any funds raised for the Mariam Appeal and pointed out that it was not unreasonable for money from a campaign fund to be used to pay for the travel expenses of campaigners.
Galloway completely denied the story, insisted that the documents were forgeries, and pointed to the nature of the discovery within an unguarded, bombed-out building as being questionable.
In UK libel cases, the winning party is also normally awarded costs, with the loser paying the bill.
www.athertoncaus.com /section/George_Galloway   (8205 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Your tributes: Lord Callaghan
This was because he both understood naval strategy and that the "small" issues in the world were most likely to blow up into a crisis, something Thatcher could never understand, but then perhaps she needed a successful little war against a tin-pot dictatorship to boost her election prospects.
OK so Jim perhaps was not the greatest Politician or indeed the best Prime Minister we have had but this forum is designated as a tribute page and platform to berate Jim and score "political points".
If only the politicians in New Labour had principals and were people of integrity like Jim, we would live in a much fairer and decent society.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/talking_point/4385075.stm   (3657 words)

  
 Gerry_Adams - Encyclopedia online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He is President of Sinn Féin, which became the largest nationalist, republican or pro-Belfast Agreement political party in Northern Ireland in the 2005 UK general election.
Adams has denied that he has ever been a member of the IRA, although it is widely believed that he was.
This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on October 19th, 1988, the reason given being to "deny terrorists the oxygen of publicity" after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness.
en.lorefans.com /article_Gerry_Adams   (3054 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - the entire shelved E.U. report on antisemitism in europe
Michel Friedman, vice-chairman of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, indirectly accused Karsli of being an “anti-Semite,[41] and Paul Spiegel, chairman of the Central Council, demanded that the FDP should refuse Karsli’s admission to the party.
A representative of the Jewish Representative Council maintained that there had been some concern about the tone of some correspondence in the Irish Times and in debate on Israel’s policies on the Joe Duffy programme of RTE radio, but that ultimately it was not deemed to be anti-Semitic but essentially hostile to Israeli policy.
Despite denials on the part of most Greek opinion leaders and leaders of the Greek Jewish community, anti-Semitism does seem to exist in Greece, perhaps not so much in social behaviour, but rather as a latent structure.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/04/289863.html   (15421 words)

  
 Never Say Goodbye - Michael Collins - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Michael Collins declared that he was a soldier, not a politician, but the issue went to the Cabinet and was decided by de Valera's casting vote.
Murphy claims he saw how upset everyone was and he chose to go back and get the oils for the Last Rites in silence without saying anything.
The tragedy was underscored by the fact that he, along with other members of the ambush group, were local men who had to go on living and working in the same community as the friends and family of the dead leader.
neversaygoodbye.com /michael1.htm   (13485 words)

  
 UK Political Blog Feeds
Coupled with the natural sympathy that exists for her as the widow of a much admired politician who died prematurely, it is easy to understand how the grapevine factor referred to by Lord Rennard has operated.
However, the UK Independence Party and the Liberal Democrats accused Mr Neill of bad faith at the least and of breaching electoral law at the worst.
Denying the Prime Minister's accusations the Conservatives 'talk tough' on crime but don't 'vote tough,' Neill claimed community police teams were originally a Tory idea.
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 Zanu PF UK asylum network exposed
Birmingham-based Zimbabwean Community UK is thought to have given fake documents to party members and coached them on how to falsely claim asylum.
Zimbabwean Community UK was created last year with an initial £5,000 grant of lottery money.
Director Albert Matapo claimed to have smuggled in the adult children of several members of Zimbabwe's cabinet by saying they were members of the opposition MDC party.
www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/uk8.11122.html   (774 words)

  
 Home > Hayward, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Following the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Blair was very quick to align the UK with the US, engaging in a round of shuttle diplomacy to help form and maintain a coalition prior to their attack on Afghanistan (in which British troops participated).
Forty-six thousand British troops, one-third of the total strength of the UK army (land forces), were deployed to assist with the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Due to Blair\'s close co-operation with the USA on the war in Iraq, where the UK contributed by far the greatest degree of military support for the US-led invasion, he has been called "Bush\'s poodle".
www.haywardcaus.com /section/Tony_Blair   (10451 words)

  
 UK TV Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Exclusive to UK Style, a series in which a team of green-fingered experts come to the rescue of ghastly gardens in dire need of attention.
Exclusive to UK Style, presenter Natasha Stillwell meets people who have moved to the Isle of Skye and finds out about their different experiences of relocation.
Despite getting off to a prickly start after his decision to question the politician about her private life, Louis soon embarks on a journey that takes in the Tory Party Leadership contest, an appearance on `Breakfast with Frost' and a holiday cruise to the Arctic Circle with Ann and her 89-year-old mother.
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 David Blunkett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
After Labour\'s landslide victory in the 1997 general election, he became the UK\'s first blind cabinet minister as Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
The role of Education Secretary was a vital one in a government whose Prime Minister had in 1996 described his priority as "education, education, education" and which had made reductions in school class sizes a pledge.
Mrs Quinn denied this, claiming that both children were her husband\'s.
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 Bilderberg Conference 2002, Chantilly, Virginia, nr. Washington D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The most senior politician to give evidence to the tribunal so far said it was "ludicrous" to suggest that there was a deliberate policy to shoot civilians.
Bristol, UK Bilderberg Batters Bush; But Unity remains on NWO http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_09_02/Bilderberg_Batters_Bush/bilderberg_batters_bush.html The United States took its worst beating ever at the secret Bilderberg meeting but there remains complete unity on the goal of establishing a world government.
Politicians have said that our military is not equipped to protect our borders the same way that it protects South Korea’s.
comnews.us /_www.bilderberg.org_2F2002.htm   (19231 words)

  
 Jim Cusack, the new Freddie Starr, ate my hamster - Indymedia Ireland
Denis Donaldson was a piece of shit - the British would have had all the justification in the world to knock him off years ago - but they had greater justification to use him instead as an asset to disrupt the IRA's terror campaign.
Its magazine section is worse; a litany of features about politician's daughters and c-list Irish celebs in London and who they are sleeping with.
The UK used to have a similar problem with lazy, reactinary tabloid masquerading as a broadsheet journalism; it was called The Daily Mail.
www.indymedia.ie /article/75645&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false   (1142 words)

  
 CNN.com - UK spy's murder threatens peace  - Apr 5, 2006
Denis Donaldson admitted being on the payroll of the British secret service.
Denis Donaldson, 56, who last year admitted spying on fellow Irish nationalists, was found fatally shot and with his right arm nearly severed in his isolated home in rural Ireland on Tuesday.
The two leaders, who are expected to give the province's politicians a November deadline to agree on forming a power-sharing government, both expressed concern over the murder, but said it would not delay their plans.
edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/europe/04/05/nireland-shooting/index.html   (828 words)

  
 Origins - articles which explain how and why the Bilderberg meetings began.
Denis Healey, on the other hand, who was in from the beginning and later acted as British convenor, says that 'the most valuable [meetings] to me while I was in opposition were the Bilderberg Conferences'.
Such was the ideological impasse that lay at the root of all subsequent events, and it is therefore essential to look more closely at the role of corporate America, the key stall-holder in the world market, and the group that would stand to lose the most in the case of failure.
For them, political control was now important: politicians could not be entrusted with the task of avoiding, repudiating the temptations of this new ideology.
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 Charles_Kennedy - Encyclopedia online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959), is a British politician who was the leader of the Liberal Democrats (the third largest political party in the United Kingdom) from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006.
GUU was the last all-male student union in the UK; during his time as president it is claimed that Kennedy opposed admitting women as members - he has personally denied this.
Kennedy's spokeswoman denied the report and complained against the BBC which had broadcast it.
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 Home > Syosset, NY, New York Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was elected leader of the Liberal Democrat party on 2 March 2006.
He also captained the UK athletics team in 1965 and 1966, and held the British 100 metres record from 1967 to 1974.
He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1968 and became a Queen\'s Counsel in 1982.
www.syossetnyus.com /section/Menzies_Campbell   (1249 words)

  
 BBC News | TALKING POINT | Clinton: What role for the future?
He is obviously a very intelligent, quick politician but for America, his battles need to be chosen carefully.
It is extremely dangerous that he or any politician take on the role of saviour and global police man.
With the recent President's visit to Ireland and the UK, it is clear he has a genuine interest to help ease the deadlock of the Northern Ireland feud.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/1066899.stm   (2997 words)

  
 Ian Paisley Biography,info
In December 2005, the supposed ringleader, Sinn Féin's Denis Donaldson, was exposed as a British intelligence agent who was originally recruited in the 1980s.
Paisley, an ardent teetotaller all his life, often asked journalists and nationalist politicians "let me smell your breath" when they asked him particularly tough questions, insinuating they had first taken on board some "Dutch courage".
In the 1980s, the UK Unionist Party's Robert McCartney described Paisley as a fascist.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Ian_Paisley   (4787 words)

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