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The 2015 Summer refugee ‘crisis’ was the moment when refugees entered the European consciousness as an existential dilemma. Many European media asked if this influx represented the death of the Schengen line, the free travel zone and even of the European project. The pan-European furore that followed contributed to the Brexit vote. Indeed it is […]
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Launching a new newspaper is a tricky proposition at the best of times, but in the middle of historic declines in print circulation, as titles struggle to manage the transition to digital first publication, it seems downright bloody-minded. Yet that’s what News UK’s Dublin outlet has decided to do, with a daily print product following […]
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In the foyer collected a curious mix of tattooed half-American lefties, millionaires, NAMA refugees, journalists, politicians and the plummy denizens of Dalkey. Interestingly there did not seem to be a presence from Ireland’s hard left or even soft left, though Eamon Ryan was there. What they were there for, surprisingly, was Senator Bernie Sanders, recent […]
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Ireland’s entire Multinational-based model of economic development has been exposed by the Apple decision as a zero-sum game
Simon Coveney shows no interest in radical measures like a site-value tax, implementation of the Kenny report or even introducing the Mahon-Tribunal-recommended independent planning regulator
By 2020 the plan is to attract 6.2 million tourists to Dublin. That’s the target, five times the city’s current population
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