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New Mini-Site Launched - Depleted Uranium Information

DepletedUranium.info - Help to publicise the inexcusable use of munitions which are packed with nuclear waste, by US and UK forces mostly, in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and possibly most recently in Libya too. Please let your family and friends know about this issue

Google+ Launches Business/Brand Pages - Fairocracy Page Added

Click on the link to go to our Google Plus Page, and add us to your circles to keep up to date. This is Google's effort to combat the growing power of Facebook, and, on first inspection, it's set up quite well

NEWS-BLOG: Full Details of the November 2011 Italian Austerity Package

Full text/data of Parliament-approved additional austerity measures for the period between 2011 and 2014, released by the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance

NEWS-BLOG: ECB/IMF Declares Democracy Outdated in the PIIGS Nations

When the public of a particular country becomes entrenched against austerity measures, a combination of politicians and civil servants in that nation do whatever they can to bypass the public's wishes

FACTS and FIGURES: Former Government Ministers' Yearly Pension Costs For Irish Taxpayers

On the 9th of November 2011, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams received an answer to a parliamentary question, which detailed the amount of pensions paid to former ministers, totalling E8,861,515 on a yearly basis

IMAGES: 2011 Irish Referendum Results Maps - Parliament Inquiries/Judges Pay

One referendum was passed and one was not - view percentage of yes/no votes in each constituency for both referendums

IMAGES: 2011 Irish Presidential Election Maps - 1st pref votes by Candidate/Constituency

Maps for each of the 7 candidates, with their 1st preference percentage share highlighted in each constituency

New-look Fairocracy.com now online

Its hopefully a little easier to navigate, with a cleaner design, better social sharing facilities, google translate has been added, plus we have added a Creative Commons (3.0 attribution unported) license to all our original text articles...

ECB Main Interest Rates to drop from November 9th

Its set to drop by a quarter of a percent, to 1.25 percent... click the link above to view all changes since the inception of the Euro/Eurozone...

Unemployment rates updated

We've updated the CSO unemployment percentage rates, from the latest available data. The CSO have adjusted some months as far back as 2006...

Results of the 2011 Irish Presidential Election

After probably the most controversial and personality-related Presidential election since the Republic became independent, the Labour Party candidate, Michael Daniel Higgins became the 9th President of Ireland...

Houses of Oireachtas Inquiries Referendum Results

53.34 percent of the public who turned out to vote, polled a NO vote, which will probably ensure many more wasteful tribunals for the country, but it also means that less power will be passed over to the already too-powerful Irish political set...

Judges Remuneration Referendum Results

The 2011 Judges Remuneration Referendum in Ireland was passed, by a massive majority, with nearly 80 percent of those who turned up to vote, polling a yes vote. As far as wages go, Judges will now be treated the exact same as every other Irish citizen...

New Resource: Blatant Image Bank

Our 2nd (and final) new website is the 'Blatant Image Bank'. It will feature the largest available resolution of all images here on Fairocracy, plus on Blatant World and Disputed Territories too. We hope that this resource will prove useful for students, bloggers and for everyone else too...

New Website Launched - DisputedTerritories.com

We have been getting a lot of hits on our 'Disputed Territories' pages on BlatantWorld.com which are quite text-heavy, and therefore hard to skim through and slow to load, so we decided to build a new website to deal with the issue of territorial disputes. All disputes featured on DisputedTerritories.com will have some general information to begin with, but we will be adding substantially to that with images, maps, facts and figures, timelines, etc...

NEWS-BLOG: How Women Fared In The 2011 General Election

Claire McGing, from the Department of Geography at NUI Maynooth, looks over the stats related to the numbers of female candidates who were elected to the Dail. With just 25 women amongst the 166 TDs, we are currently in 79th place in the World rankings...

NEWS-BLOG: Enda Kenny Announces 15 Ministers Of State

All 15 junior ministers (Ministers Of State) have been announced today by Enda Kenny, so most of the major decisions are now out of the way. View a full list, plus a breakdown of which departments and senior ministers they are all assigned to...

LIST: (Junior) Ministers Of State In Ireland

The entire list of confirmed Ministers Of State (Junior Ministers) appointed by the new Fine Gael/Labour government in Ireland, led by Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore...

LIST: Full Details Of The Current Irish Government Cabinet

Current Ministers who are part of Ireland's government cabinet, and their portfolio and political party. Plus other related government appointments...

LIST: Departments Of Government In Ireland

The 15 departments which make up the Irish governmental system, plus their senior ministers, and any Ministers Of State (junior ministers) allocated...

NEWS-BLOG: The 31st Dail - Composition Of New Irish Parliament And Cabinet

A list of the entire new Irish government cabinet, selected by Enda Kenny, with details of their ministries/portfolios + A complete list of the new Dail parliamentary groups who will be battling it out over the course of the 31st Dail...