Irish Congress of Trade Unions - Provides information about the activities and services of the umbrella organisation for trade unions both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) - Trade union representing members across the civil and public service and the voluntary sector. Includes press releases, membership information and details of training courses.
Ulster Teachers Union - An organization for primary and secondary school teachers. Includes information on services, insurance, and pay issues.
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Trade Unions We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Trade Unions
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Trade Unions If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trade Unions
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Trade Unions I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Trade Unions
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Trade Unions I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Trade Unions
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Trade Unions The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Trade Unions
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Trade Unions "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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,
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Trade Unions
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Trade Unions Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Trade Unions
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Trade Unions The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Trade Unions
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Trade Unions Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Trade Unions
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Trade Unions You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Trade Unions
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Trade Unions I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Trade Unions
