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  January 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Ireland, one of the last countries to use non-metric speed limits, officially changes all road signage and regulations to use kilometres per hour (km/h).
Britain's tallest self-supporting sculpture, the "B of the Bang", is unveiled in Manchester by Linford Christie.
Northern Ireland police Chief Constable Hugh Orde publicly accuses the Provisional IRA of what has now been assessed as a £26.5 million robbery of the Northern Bank in Belfast before Christmas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/January_2005_in_Britain_and_Ireland   (2294 words)

  
 Ireland
Ireland's corporate tax rate is among the lowest in the EU, and the Irish Government has resolutely resisted efforts to harmonize taxes at a single EU rate.
Ireland is a member of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the Irish Government has been willing to agree to binding international arbitration of investment disputes between foreign investors and the state.
Ireland signed the UN Convention on Corruption in December 2003, and ratification is pending a review of the legal measures required for implementation.
www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2005/42063.htm   (6416 words)

  
 August 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2005 Ashes: England (444 and 280 for 6 dec.) drew with Australia (302 and 371 for 9) in the third Test at Old Trafford.
Northern Ireland: In response to last weeks statement from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that their armed struggle is to cease, the Army begins dismantling the observation post on the top of Divis Tower.
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain announces that battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment based in Northern Ireland are to be disbanded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_2005_in_Britain_and_Ireland   (3635 words)

  
 EURSOC: January 2005
Along with Britain, Australia was the Americans’ staunchest ally in the Iraq war, and, unlike Spain, we see that this alliance did nothing to harm the electoral success of Australia’s ruling pro-American government.
When Britain intervened in Sierra Leone to separate rebels and government forces in 2000, it was at the request of the Sierra Leone government.
The operation was a great success for Britain, demonstrating both its independent ability to project force and its facility with so-called “soft power.” By contrast, France’s intervention in the Ivory Coast has been something of a failure.
www.eursoc.com /news/categoryfront.php/id/54/January_2005.html   (7777 words)

  
 January 2005
At roughly 1.3 degrees above the historical average, 2005 was either the hottest or second hottest year in mankind's history, according to the research.
Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 is already aware of the idea that controlling a people’s definition of words, controlling the meanings that those words evoke in the minds of the general public, is integral to achieving actual thought control of the populace.
2005 - Battling the Flu / Pope John Paul II - February 2nd, 2005: "ROME - Pope John Paul II was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night [02/01/05] with breathing difficulties and an inflamed throat, the Vatican said.
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 Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: January 2005 Archives
Ireland has to focus on RandD if it wants to keep pace with its IT competitors but that does not mean throwing prudence out the window when those slick manhole salesmen come to town.
Still, it would be comforting if the voters in the north and south of Ireland who have, to their shame and our horror, elected Sinn Fein/IRA members to their respective assemblies would admit the error of their ways as soon as possible so that democracy can be restored to the island.
An example from 18 January 1829 entitled "Extraordinary Investigation: or the Female Husband" concerned a "person known as James Allen, 42" who had been working for a Mr Crisp, a shipwright, when he was killed by a piece of falling timber.
www.eamonn.com /2005/01   (10941 words)

  
 blackpundit.com » 2005 » January
He shows how Britain long time ago was very loose with gun control and how the crime rate in Britain back then was extremely less than the crime rate of Britain now.
Such deterrent potential was indeed acknowledged in part in Britain’s first Firearms Act, which was introduced as an emergency measure in response to fears of a Bolshevik upheaval in 1920.
Restrictive “gun control” in Britain is a recent experiment, in which the progressive “toughening” of the regulation of legal gun ownership has been followed by an increasingly dramatic rise in violent armed crime.
blackpundit.com /index.php?m=200501   (4156 words)

  
 Ireland Government Paid for Teen's Abortion in Britain in 2005
Dublin, Ireland (LifeNews.com) -- Debate over Ireland's abortion laws is escalating, after revelations that the Irish government paid for a teenager to travel to Britain for an abortion in 2005.
Ireland's Health Service Executive has confirmed the report, but refuses to discuss details of the incident to protect the anonymity of the girl.
The abortion issue took center stage in Ireland in 1992 when a 14-year-old rape victim was initially prevented by the High Court from going to Britain for an abortion.
www.lifenews.com /nat1955.html   (359 words)

  
 CIA Torture Jets: More controversial in UK than Ireland? - Indymedia Ireland
Britain's intelligence agencies have been accused of helping America in a secret operation that is sending terror suspects to Middle Eastern countries where prisoners are routinely tortured and abused.
Britain is also an operational base for two executive jets regularly used by the CIA to carry out so-called "renditions".
Of all the claims of an electoral mandate made by President Bush's supporters, none were as bizarre as the one offered by John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer who helped draft the cynical justifications for the illegal detention and torture of "unlawful combatants." "The debate is over," Mr.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68584   (1936 words)

  
 Slugger O'Toole: Britain braces itself for fresh Republican campaign?
This is merely a ploy to distract people in the UK from the utter mess being made of the northern peace process by the British government.
at March 21, 2005 09:37 AM In the big public opinion political poker game thats going on at the minute it looks like the "intelligence" services are upping the stakes.
at March 21, 2005 01:14 PM In the present circumstances I know this announcement will have lots of spin on it from both sides.
www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/03/britain_braces.php   (878 words)

  
 Egyptology Blog
Meantime, the Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA Secretary- General Zahi Hawas said that the foreign expertise was used only for transferring the statue according to the terms of a tender declared by the SCA after the process of restoration was carried out by the Egyptian company.
Also King Tut artifacts to be shown in Britain, Big News Network, 24th January, 2005.
The Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) in Bonn in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom was successful in bringing the fascinating treasures from the tomb of the legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun to Germany.
www.egyptologyblog.co.uk /2005/01/index.html   (5614 words)

  
 Travel - Britain - Los Angeles Times
A new arts and entertainment venue, affectionately called 'the Armadillo,' is part of Cardiff Bay's revitalization project.
To visit these royal and religious residences is to step back into Britain's past, to a time of murder and mayhem.
Britain may have a reputation as a stiff-upper-lip nation, but London can take a joke.
www.latimes.com /travel/destinations/britain   (1166 words)

  
 AtlanticBlog: January 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Modern latex balloons for mass release are supposed to be biodegradable, so they rot away when they land on earth.
But you might notice that Ireland is an island, so they can land in the water for turtles and dolphins to eat.
All that latex to get stuck in their throats, so they can suffocate if they are lucky and starve to death if they are not.
www.atlanticblog.com /archives/2005_01.html   (3181 words)

  
 CNN.com - N. Ireland faces peace deadlock - Feb 3, 2005
In a hard-line statement, the IRA sternly rejected British and Irish government criticisms that the outlawed group was committing major crimes and primarily to blame for the worsening impasse.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland have said the failure of the IRA to decommission its weapons is blocking implementation of the 1988 Good Friday peace accord.
In January, Northern Ireland's police chief blamed the IRA for a $50 million bank robbery on December 20.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/02/03/nireland.guns/index.html   (681 words)

  
 Ferry aground, homes flooded as storms hit UK -DAWN - International; 09 January, 2005
A ferry bound for Larne in Northern Ireland ran aground on a Scottish beach at Cairnryan, Loch Ryan.
There were no injuries among the 43 passengers and 57 crew, who remained on board due to hazardous conditions.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but police in Britain warned cars and heavy trucks to stay off roads if possible.
www.dawn.com /2005/01/09/int9.htm   (368 words)

  
 2005 January
New to the board of directors at the January 2005 board meeting will be AAMI members Pam Ott and Rebecca Elgin.
Although politically incorrect in 2005, fur coats, jackets, and stoles were a part of fashion history.
Later, fur became a fashion statement when it was used as trim on dresses, cloaks and coats, or as in the 1940s and 1950s when fur coats, jackets, and stoles became highly fashionable.
www.greencastlemuseum.org /Newsletters/2005_01.htm   (2329 words)

  
 Britain 'sliding into police state'
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, is transforming Britain into a police state, one of the country's former leading anti-terrorist police chiefs said yesterday.
George Churchill-Coleman, who headed Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad as they worked to counter the IRA during their mainland attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, said Mr Clarke's proposals to extend powers, such as indefinite house arrest, were "not practical" and threatened to further marginalise minority communities.
Mr Churchill-Coleman's team had to counter IRA cells which mounted the 1991 mortar attack on Downing Street.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/january2005/280105policestate.htm   (765 words)

  
 January 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wiki Ireland
January 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wiki Ireland
2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →
This page was last modified 00:18, 2 June 2005.
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 March 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the two by-elections in Ireland, Shane McEntee of Fine Gael takes the Meath seat, while an independent, Catherine Murphy is elected in Kildare North.
After more than 30 hours of debate in the Commons and the Lords, the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally passed and given the Royal Assent.
Sinn Féin suspends seven members over their alleged involvement in the murder of Belfast man, Robert McCartney, who was killed on January 30.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_2005_in_Britain_and_Ireland   (747 words)

  
 January 2005 Contents
In 2005, we will once again offer the seven-day eastern Caribbean cruise with ports of call at St. Thomas, Tortolla, Nassau and Half Moon Cay.
In 2005, Holland America offers a 10-day cruise that puts in at Curacao, Aruba, goes part way into the Panama Canal, turns around and docks in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, and proceeds to Holland America’s own private island at Half Moon Cay.
The Dublin, Ireland, congregation marked its 30th anniversary, David Stirk tells us, and it was also the first time for the autumn festival to be conducted there.
www.wcg.org /wn/05january/all.asp   (12521 words)

  
 January 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iraq is to close all its land borders for three days around the 30 January elections in an attempt to enhance security, election officials have said.
Japan Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warnings near the Izu island chain south of Tokyo after a strong undersea earthquake (6.8 on the Richter scale).
In Peru, prime minister Carlos Ferrero and defence minister Roberto Chiabra survive a censure motion in parliament connected to earlier nationalist uprising in January.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/January_2005   (5004 words)

  
 Talk:January 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wiki Ireland
Talk:January 2005 in Britain and Ireland - Wiki Ireland
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 Winning 2005 USA Walker Cup Team Visits The White House | USGA
Winning 2005 USA Walker Cup Team Visits The White House
The 2005 USA Walker Cup team gathered Monday afternoon for one last victory celebration.
President George W. Bush, center, meets with members of the USA Walker Cup Team and USGA officials in the White House's Oval Office Monday evening.
www.usga.org /news/2006/january/walker_team.html   (150 words)

  
 January 2005 Articles
On Friday, January 7, 2005 Sergeant Kevin Benderman, stationed with the 2-7 Infantry Battalion at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, refused an order from the Command Sergeant Major of his unit Samuel Coston to deploy to Iraq and requested a General Courts-Martial.
On Sunday, January 9, 2005, nineteen-year-old Andres Raya shot two police officers, killing Sergeant Howard Stevenson of the Ceres Police Department, and was himself killed in the ensuing gun battle.
On January 6, the World Bank announced it would release $73 million in cash to Haiti’s government of Gerard Latortue, which was installed by foreign powers after elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from office.
dissidentvoice.org /Jan2005.htm   (10371 words)

  
 Harrogate Churches Together: January 2005
Sunday services change from 9 January to: 9am Communion, 10:45am Worship and 7pm Evening worship.
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have adapted this year's programme from materials created by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; the text and concept comes from Slovakia.
There are opportunities to join in prayer with others in the area for both Christian Unity coming in Christ's way and for the unity of humanity.
www.harrogate.co.uk /churchestogether/events/2005Jan.htm   (548 words)

  
 June-2006 Mission Yearbook
After “retiring” in January 2001 from Worldwide Ministries of the PC(USA) as coordinator of finances, Mehdi Abhari was commissioned in June as a PC(USA) mission worker at the 213th General Assembly in Louisville.
He continues the work he had been doing for many years, on a voluntary basis, with Iranian Christians in diaspora, being seconded both to the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Iran and the Association of Iranian Presbyterian Churches in North America.
On a cool Sunday in February 2005, the Rev. Nuhad Tomeh worshiped with the members of the Presbyterian Church of Baghdad to whom he brought greetings of solidarity and support from partner Presbyterian churches from the PC(USA) and from around the world.
www.pcusa.org /missionyearbook/Jun/21.html   (361 words)

  
 CNN.com - Man charged in Belfast bar murder - Jun 4, 2005
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Two men have been charged in connection with a January attack that left a 33-year-old man dead in a crowded Belfast bar.
The murder cast a shadow over the Northern Ireland peace process.
McCartney's four sisters have campaigned in Britain, the United States and at the European Parliament in Strasbourg for his killers to be brought to justice.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/06/03/nireland.arrest   (274 words)

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