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Public Opinion of Forestry 2014, Northern Ireland
Statistics Public Opinion of Forestry 2014, Northern Ireland Release date: 28 August 2014 Coverage: Northern Ireland Geographical breakdown: None Issued by: Economics & Statistics, Forestry Commission, 231 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7AT Enquiries: Jackie Watson 0300 067 5238 [email protected] Statistician: Sheila Ward 0300 067 5236 Website: www.forestry.gov.uk/statistics 1 | Public Opinion of Forestry 2014 | Northern Ireland | Public Opinion of Forestry – Northern Ireland Contents Introduction 3 Key findings 4 Forestry in the media 5 Benefits of forestry 6 Climate change 7 Changes to woodland 9 Consultation on Forest Service forests 12 Woodland recreation 13 Health and wellbeing 19 Tree health 22 Wood as a fuel 23 Annex 24 2 | Public Opinion of Forestry 2014 | Northern Ireland | Public Opinion of Forestry – Northern Ireland Introduction The Forestry Commission has conducted surveys of public attitudes to forestry and forestry-related issues since 1995. Information has been collected for Northern Ireland, on behalf of the Forest Service, through UK-wide surveys since 2003 and in separate Northern Ireland surveys (around 1,000 adults) carried out in 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2014. This publication presents results from the Northern Ireland Public Opinion of Forestry Survey 2014 on: Forestry in the media; Benefits of forestry; Climate change; Changes to woodland; Consultation on Forest Service forests; Woodland recreation; Health and wellbeing; Tree health; and Wood as a fuel. A copy of the questionnaire used in this survey, giving complete wording of questions and response options, is provided in the Annex at the end of this report. Reports providing results from previous surveys are available on the Forestry Commission website at www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-5zyl9w. -
28 June 2018 Dear Councillor You Are Invited to Attend a Meeting Of
28 June 2018 Dear Councillor You are invited to attend a meeting of the Council to be held in The Chamber, Dungannon at Mid Ulster District Council, Council Offices, Circular Road, DUNGANNON, BT71 6DT on Thursday, 28 June 2018 at 19:00 to transact the business noted below. Yours faithfully Anthony Tohill Chief Executive AGENDA OPEN BUSINESS 1. Apologies 2. Declarations of Interest 3. Chair's Business 4. Deputation: Department of Infrastructure Roads Matters for Decision 5. Council minutes of meetings held on 24 May 2018 73 - 92 6. Annual Council minutes of meeting held on 4 June 2018 93 - 104 7. Planning Committee minutes of meeting held on 5 June 105 - 130 2018 8. Policy and Resources Committee minutes of meeting held 131 - 136 on 7 June 2018 9. Environment Committee minutes of meeting held on 12 137 - 150 June 2018 10. Development Committee minutes of meeting held on 14 151 - 168 June 2018 11. Conferences, Seminars and Training 12. Civic Recognition Report 169 - 176 Matters for Information 13 Consultations notified to Mid Ulster District Council 177 - 180 14 Correspondence Notice of Motions Page 1 of 180 15 Councillor McAleer to move " That in the absence of a functioning government Mid Ulster Council write to Mr Jeremy Hunt, MP. Secretary of State for Health and Mr Richard Pengeely, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health to express our concerns that people with Cystic Fibrosis in Northern Ireland are greatly disadvantaged as they are unable to access Cystic Fibrosis drug Orkambi and other drugs and request a resolution to overcome -
The Path to Revolutionary Violence Within the Weather Underground and Provisional IRA
The Path to Revolutionary Violence within the Weather Underground and Provisional IRA Edward Moran HIS 492: Seminar in History December 17, 2019 Moran 1 The 1960’s was a decade defined by a spirit of activism and advocacy for change among oppressed populations worldwide. While the methods for enacting change varied across nations and peoples, early movements such as that for civil rights in America were often committed to peaceful modes of protest and passive resistance. However, the closing years of the decade and the dawn of the 1970’s saw the patterned global spread of increasingly militant tactics used in situations of political and social unrest. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) in America and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) in Ireland, two such paramilitaries, comprised young activists previously involved in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Association (NICRA) respectively. What caused them to renounce the non-violent methods of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Association for the militant tactics of the Weather Underground and Irish Republican Army, respectively? An analysis of contemporary source materials, along with more recent scholarly works, reveals that violent state reactions to more passive forms of demonstration in the United States and Northern Ireland drove peaceful activists toward militancy. In the case of both the Weather Underground and the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the closing years of the 1960s and early years of the 1970s, the bulk of combatants were young people with previous experience in more peaceful campaigns for civil rights and social justice. -
Memory, Place and Gender: Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol Cahal Mclaughlin, Memory Studies Journal, September 2017
Memory, Place and Gender: Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol Cahal McLaughlin, Memory Studies Journal, September 2017. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1750698017730872 Abstract The film Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015)1 is a documentary film edited from the Prisons Memory Archive2 and offers perspectives from those who passed through Armagh Gaol, which housed mostly female prisoners during the political conflict in and about Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles. Armagh Stories is an attempt to represent the experiences of prison staff, prisoners, tutors, a solicitor, chaplain and doctor in ways that are ethically inclusive and aesthetically relevant. By reflecting on the practice of participatory storytelling and its reception in a society transitioning out of violence, I investigate how memory, place and gender combine to suggest ways of addressing the legacy of a conflicted past in a contested present. Keywords documentary film, female, performing memory, prison, Troubles Introduction The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of 175 filmed interviews recorded inside Armagh Gaol in 2006 and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison in 2007 (Figures 1 and 2). The protocols3 of co-ownership, inclusivity and life storytelling underpinned both the original recordings and subsequent film outputs that include Jolene Mairs Dyer’s (2011)4 Unseen Women and Laura Aguiar’s We Were There (2014).5 Funding was secured from the Community Relations Council’s Media Fund in 2015 to edit a 1-hour documentary on Armagh Goal, and two editors were employed over a 6-month period to work with me acting as director. Among the possible themes that can be excavated from the PMA’s 300 hours of audiovisual material, it was felt that since the representation of women in the Troubles has been particularly downplayed, foregrounding their experiences could help rebalance what is publicly available. -
Written Answers to Questions Official Report (Hansard)
Written Answers to Questions Official Report (Hansard) Friday 22 June 2012 Volume 76, No WA1 This publication contains the written answers to questions tabled by Members. The content of the responses is as received at the time from the relevant Minister or representative of the Assembly Commission and has not been subject to the official reporting process or changed in any way. Contents Written Answers to Questions Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister ................................................................... WA 1 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...................................................................... WA 5 Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure .................................................................................. WA 23 Department of Education ........................................................................................................ WA 27 Department for Employment and Learning ................................................................................ WA 36 Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment ...................................................................... WA 40 Department of the Environment ............................................................................................... WA 44 Department of Finance and Personnel ................................................................................... WA 115 Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety ......................................................... WA -
Socialist Fight No.10
Socialist Fight Issue No. 10 Autumn 2012 Price: Concessions: 50p, Waged: £2.00 €3 Editorial: “Basic national loyalty and patriotism” and the US proxy war in Syria Ali Zein Al-Abidin Al-barri, summarily murdered with 14 of his men by the FSA for defending Aleppo against pro- imperialist reaction funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in another US-sponsored counter-revolution in the region Page 10-11: The Counihan-Sanchez family; Page 24: What really is imperialism? Contents a story of Cameron’s Britain. By Farooq Sulehria. Page 2: Editorial: “Basic national loyalty Page 12: FREE The MOVE 9; Ona MOVE for Page 26: Thirty Years in a Turtle-Neck and patriotism” and the US proxy war. our Children! By Cinead D and Patrick Sweater, Review by Laurence Humphries. Page 4: Rank and file conference Conway Murphy. Page 27: Revolutionary communist at Hall 11th August, By Laurence Humphries. Page 13: Letters page, The French Elec- work: a political biography of Bert Ramel- Page 4: London bus drivers Olympics’ bo- tions. son, Review by Laurence Humphries. nus: Well done the drivers! - London GRL, Page 14: Response to Jim Creggan's By Ray Page 29: Queensland: Will the Unions Step On Diversions and ‘Total Victory’ By a Rising. Up? By Aggie McCallum – Australia London bus driver. Page 17: The imperialist degeneration of Page 30: LETTER FROM TPR TO LC AND Page 6: Questions from the IRPSG . sport, By Yuri Iskhandar and Humberto REPLY. Christian Armenteros and Hum- Page 7: REPORT OF THE MEETING AT THE Rodrigues. berto Rodrigues. IRISH EMBASSY 31st JULY 2012 Page 20: A materialist world-view, Face- Page 31: Cosatu – Tied to the Alliance and Page 8: Irish Left ignores plight of Irish book debate. -
The Red Kite Review Kite Red the to Increase His Chances of Successfully Passing on His Genes
Phase II, Issue 1 NI RED KITE POPULATION Autumn 2011 CONTINUES TO EXPAND Following the fantastic news last year, breeding attempt by a Northern Irish born when we saw the first red kite chicks to red kite. be born in Northern Ireland in over 200 years take to the skies, we were hopeful that this year the birds could repeat their success and increase the fledgling population of red kites here. At the beginning of the season, nine nest (c) AMcC sites across Co. Down were located and monitoring began, with the help of a small team of dedicated volunteers. Unfortunately the extremely stormy conditions at the end of May caused four (c) CF of the nests to fail and we were left with only five nests to monitor. As 2010 marked the end of the three-year Thankfully the surviving nest sites were release scheme, no birds were released all successful and at the end of June this year, however all eight chicks were when licensed ringers accessed the nests wing-tagged. In line with all red kites to ring and wing-tag the chicks we were born or released in Northern Ireland, they delighted to confirm that the five nests have a chocolate brown tag on their left held a total of eight chicks. This included wing and this year‟s colour is white, so three nests with single chicks, a nest with they received white tags on their right two and a nest with three chicks (pictured wings. Tables showing the colours used right), another first for Northern Ireland. -
Outdoor Recreation Action Plan for the Sperrins (ORNI on Behalf of Sportni, 2013)
Mid Ulster District Council Outdoor Recreation Strategic Plan Prepared by Outdoor Recreation NI on behalf of Mid Ulster District Council October 2019 CONTENTS CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................................................... 6 TABLE OF TABLES ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 ACRONYMS ........................................................................................................................................................ 6 FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................12 1.2 Aim ....................................................................................................................................................12 1.3 Objectives .........................................................................................................................................13 -
THE APPARATUS of IMPUNITY? Human Rights Violations and the Northern Ireland Conflict: a Narrative of Official Limitations on Post-Agreement Investigative Mechanisms
THE APPARATUS OF IMPUNITY? Human rights violations and the Northern Ireland conflict: a narrative of official limitations on post-Agreement investigative mechanisms Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) © Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The material may be reproduced, free of charge, in any format or medium without specific permission, provided the reproduction is not for financial or material gain.The material must be reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. If the material is to be republished or issued to others, acknowledgement must be given to its source, copyright status, and date of publication. This publication is available on our website. CAJ Committee on the Administration of Justice 2nd Floor, Sturgen Building 9-15 Queen Street Belfast BT1 6EA Tel: 028 9031 6000 Fax: 028 9031 4583 [email protected] www.caj.org.uk ISBN 978 1 873285 94 7 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) THE APPARATUS OF IMPUNITY? Human rights violations and the Northern Ireland conflict: a narrative of official limitations on post-Agreement investigative mechanisms Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) Recent comments from key Council of Europe and UN human rights bodies in relation to existing mechanisms investigating the conflict in Northern Ireland: The absence of any plausible explanation for the failure to collect key evidence at the time when this was possible, and for attempts to even obstruct this process, should be treated with particular vigilance. -
Appendix List of Interviews*
Appendix List of Interviews* Name Date Personal Interview No. 1 29 August 2000 Personal Interview No. 2 12 September 2000 Personal Interview No. 3 18 September 2000 Personal Interview No. 4 6 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 5 16 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 6 17 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 7 18 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 8: Oonagh Marron (A) 17 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 9: Oonagh Marron (B) 23 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 10: Helena Schlindwein 28 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 11 30 October 2000 Personal Interview No. 12 1 November 2000 Personal Interview No. 13 1 November 2000 Personal Interview No. 14: Claire Hackett 7 November 2000 Personal Interview No. 15: Meta Auden 15 November 2000 Personal Interview No. 16 1 June 2000 Personal Interview Maggie Feeley 30 August 2005 Personal Interview No. 18 4 August 2009 Personal Interview No. 19: Marie Mulholland 27 August 2009 Personal Interview No. 20 3 February 2010 Personal Interview No. 21A (joint interview) 23 February 2010 Personal Interview No. 21B (joint interview) 23 February 2010 * Locations are omitted from this list so as to preserve the identity of the respondents. 203 Notes 1 Introduction: Rethinking Women and Nationalism 1 . I will return to this argument in a subsequent section dedicated to women’s victimisation as ‘women as reproducers’ of the nation. See also, Beverly Allen, Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1996); Alexandra Stiglmayer, (ed.), Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia- Herzegovina (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1994); Carolyn Nordstrom, Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (Berkeley: University of California, 1995); Jill Benderly, ‘Rape, feminism, and nationalism in the war in Yugoslav successor states’ in Lois West, ed., Feminist Nationalism (London and New Tork: Routledge, 1997); Cynthia Enloe, ‘When soldiers rape’ in Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (Berkeley: University of California, 2000). -
Free Salameh Kaileh and All Socialist and Working Class Militants, No Support to the Syrian Counter-Revolution Led by the Free Syrian Army and Imperialism
Socialist Fight Issue No. 9 Summer 2012 Price: Concessions: 50p, Waged: £2.00, €3.00 Greece: Trotskyist class politics not anti-austerity Popular Frontism Contents Page 2: Editorial: Greece: Trotskyist class politics not anti- austerity Popular Frontism. Page 3: GRL Motion of Support to Construction R+F. Page 4: Diversion: Stuff the £500 Olympics bonus; Where We Stand – Socialist Fight EB. Page 5: Motion to the GRL NC on 12 May on the Labour party and Labour Representation Committee. Page 6: Leitrim woman is honoured by NICRA co-founder as the ‘prisoners’ friend’ IRPSG report. Page 7: Support Republican Prisoners - Join the Protests! Page 8: The framing of Michael McKevitt - Part two By Mi- chael Holden. Page 9: Fascists attack Irish March By Charlie Walsh. Page 10: Today, 14 May, is Thaer Halahleh's 77th day on The Libyan ‘revolution’, “... Lenin warned against pre- hunger strike. maturely confronting respected native institutions, Page 11: May Day Greetings from the LCFI to the Interna- tional Working Class. even when these clearly violated communist princi- Page 12: The Malvinas: the imperialist offensive in the ples and Soviet law. Instead he proposed to use the South Atlantic By the LCFI. Soviet state power to systematically undermine them Page 14: Cultural Imperialism; Ireland, Workers Power and while simultaneously demonstrating the superiority the Sparts By Gerry Downing. of Soviet institutions, a policy which had worked well Page 17: David North’s SEP; a backward, workerist/ against the powerful Russian Orthodox Church.” reductionalist political current By Tony Fox. Dale Ross (D. L. Reissner), ‘Women and Revolution', ‘Early Bolshevik Work Page 19: Tariq Mehanna’s powerful sentencing statement among Women of the Soviet East’ (Issue No. -
Forest Service Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006 HC 1359
(UU\HS9LWVY[ )URQWFRYHU %HOYRLU3DUN)RUHVW$UERUHWXP Forest Service Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 31 March 2006 Laid before the Houses of Parliament, by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in accordance with Paragraph 12(2) and (4) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 and Paragraph 36 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (Prescribed Documents) Order 2004. 19 July 2006 Laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly under section 11(3) (c) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. 19 July 2006 Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 19 July 2006 +& /21'217KH6WDWLRQHU\2IÀFH NIA 340/03 Annual Report 2005 - 06 1 Should accessible formats such as large type, audio cassette or a language other than English be required, please contact the Customer Services Manager at Forest Service Headquarters and appropriate arrangements will be made as soon as possible. Forest Service Headquarters Dundonald House Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3SB Tel: 028 9052 4480 Fax: 028 9052 4570 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.forestserviceni.gov.uk 2 Annual Report 2005 - 06 Contents Page Annual Report for the period 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006 Chief Executive’s Foreword 5 Directors’ Report 7 Management Commentary 11 Remuneration Report 27 Accounts for the period 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006 Statement of Chief Executive’s Responsibilities 35 Statement of Internal Control 36 &HUWL¿FDWHRI&RPSWUROOHUDQG$XGLWRU*HQHUDO 38 Accounts 39 Notes on the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2006 42 Annual Report 2005 - 06 3 4 Annual Report 2005 - 06 Sloughan Glen, Co.