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The Irish Bank Officials' Association (IBOA) - Representing a wide range of staff in the finance sector in Ireland, the IBOA offers details of its activities and services/ benefits, news and a contact form.

Irish Airline Pilots' Association - The professional association and trade union for civil pilots in Ireland (attached to IMPACT and the ICTU), featuring background, details of services, an online application form and a members-only area.

ARENA - Irish Labour Pages - Irish labour history and trade union links.

Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - Federation of over 140 local unemployed centres, community organisations and branches of unemployed people located throughout Ireland. It is the only organisation whose sole purpose is to represent the concerns of unemployed people and to combat unemployment.

Ireland National Labour Links - Links to online labour sites

Ireland Regional Labour Links - Links to online labour sites

GPMU: The Graphical Paper Media Union - Dublin / Wicklow Branch - GPMU: Dublin / Wicklow Branch - The Trade Union organisation that represents the interests of people employed in Graphical, Paper & Media industries.

IMPACT - The largest public sector trade union in the Republic of Ireland, with over 40,000 members in health, local government, education, the civil service, state-owned companies, telecommunications, aviation, and the voluntary and community sector.

Independent Workers Union - The IWU is the newly formed independent Irish workers union.

Irish Locomotive Drivers Association - Trade union for Irish train drivers with regular news updates, safety information and campaign details.

Irish Actors Equity - Provides information on Actors Equity entry requirements with members casting profiles.

Irish Labour News - Irish labour news from the premiere international trade union website, featuring daily labour news, urgent actions, labour links, the labour website of the week, and a global labour calendar.

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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Trade Unions They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Trade Unions The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a rest period between romances. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Trade Unions Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is a rest period between romances. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Trade Unions I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Trade Unions Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Trade Unions "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Trade Unions "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Trade Unions Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Trade Unions I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Trade Unions Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Trade Unions It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Trade Unions "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Trade Unions Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Trade Unions "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Trade Unions Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Trade Unions "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Trade Unions
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