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Paying the price for climate change
Plans to cut carbon emissions and worries over volatile exchange rates, market turbulence and inflationary pressures dominate the conclusions reached by the European Council in Brussels yesterday. p
Rights for all
The essay by Seamus Heaney in today's Weekend Review is the first in a series, devised in association with Amnesty Ireland, in which Irish writers reflect on the approach of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. p
Opinion
Social sins not a recent discovery by church
The "seven new deadly sins" story may draw our attention to the church's social and environmental teaching, writes Breda O'Brien . pAge would not affect McCain presidency
The average US life expectancy for men is 75, but data suggests that McCain will live for a decade longer, writes Noel Whelan . pEducation in from the hedge
Our school system drew its sole authority from a letter written by the chief secretary for Ireland, writes Garret Fitzgerald . pTHIS WEEK THEY SAID
It's going to be a hard year, and we need to keep working hard at it. - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern warns choppy waters lie ahead for the economy. pInept leadership ensures that pain will linger
INSIDE POLITICS: Times are tougher than they should be, thanks to the Government's refusal to face reality about the economy, writes Stephen Collins. pÓ Searcaigh not alone in having questions to answer
OPINION: Neasa Ní Chianáin's film about the poet suggests she too can be accused of misusing power, writes Dermod Moore . pDealing with complex issue of migration
WORLD VIEW/Paul Gillespie: 'THERE WILL be millions of 'environmental' migrants by 2020, with climate change as one of the major drivers of this phenomenon," according to the report on security and climate change submitted to the European Council in Brussels yesterday. p
An Irishman's Diary
LEAFING through the venerable Oxford Companion to the Year recently, I was alarmed by one of the entries for March 17th, writes Frank McNally . p
