09 October 2024
NATIONALISM IS NOT A SCOURGE
I am writing to express my deep disappointment at the recent editorial in your magazine (issue 83) titled...
09 October 2024
How to make a Killeen
Swings and roundabouts at Killeen Castle as Joe O’Reilly gets his property back from Nama, at enormous...
09 October 2024
Ghosts from the dodgy past must not rule our futures
In addition to the bike shed, the company of Donohoe’s supporter, Michael Stone, obtained a €40 million...
09 October 2024
Corrupted Donegal planning: outgoing Minister Darragh O’Brien must finally intervene
Former Minister John Gormley calls for publication of Mulcahy report and reset of planning in Donegal;...
09 October 2024
Stability but not business as usual; and some inflammatory racism
A three-and-a-half party system is emerging. That is, dominant Unionist and Nationalist parties, a Centre...
09 October 2024
Ireland champions ideological anti-migrantgency
Ireland pays €100,000 and joins ICPMD migration organisation accused of facilitating human rights abuses
09 October 2024
2017, when the dam broke for religious schools
Abuse in Terenure College, which had been reported to religious as far back as 1979, was exposed by Gemma...
09 October 2024
Jack Chambers, Minister for Finance
We need a reforming zeal in everything we do so that we drive service delivery, particularly in housing...
09 October 2024
Dereliction overhead: very practical solutions
Tackling urban dereliction through tax incentives, de-regulation and regulation: a big part of the solution...
09 October 2024
City of LonDONoghue
Paschal Donohoe enjoys some freedom in the venerable but evil City of London
09 October 2024
THE LAW Recent cases
Murder conviction upheld despite debate over mental disorder and intoxication impact
09 October 2024
Shark Bates
Reflections on life as an agent on the border in the 1990s
09 October 2024
The importance of rigour
Most conspiracy theorists obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real ones
07 October 2024
1980s Portlaoise run by IRA and bunch of bullies who tried to frame hero officers
Systematic bullying at Ireland’s highest security prison, Portlaoise, ignored by prison officers’ union
07 October 2024
MI6’s Greatest Hit
The British Secret Service’s manipulation of the Arms Crisis
07 October 2024
Trifol and Error
Exposing the flaws in Ireland’s new ‘Sustainable’ Fuel
07 October 2024
Climate Action Plan 2024 fails to comply with climate law and binding carbon budgets
CLM’s landmark human rights challenge to inadequate Government action on climate change is proceeding...
07 October 2024
NonPerFormance
Ireland’s revised National Planning Framework lacks the teeth to curtail unsustainable, sprawl-driven,...
07 October 2024
The IRA was wrong from 1970
Those behind the provocative Burntollet civil rights march of 1969 have miswritten the history of IRA...
07 October 2024
‘The Devil and Mr Casement’ was nitpicking, not fatal analysis
A reply to Paul Hyde’s piece in the July Village magazine
07 October 2024
Greenwashingourclimate and our future away
The best lack all awareness of what implementing a climate agenda requires, especially justiciability...
07 October 2024
Borderline crosses the line
Derivative cross-border buddy-cop algorithmic stereotype needs rewrite
07 October 2024
Obituary for ‘Obituary’
Economics of freelance journalism risk a blow to our democracy
07 October 2024
Exploring what Ezra Pound called his daughter’s ‘Hogswill’
Kevin Kiely reviews ‘Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound’ by Carol Loeb Shloss
07 October 2024
An Irishman at 75
Phil Lynott is the emblem of the rise of Irish rock
07 October 2024
Israel derailed
After initial good intentions Israel has long been an apartheid state
07 October 2024
NEUU lens
Paul Dillon reviews politicising commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial...
07 October 2024
Do not avert your gaze from Sudan
150,000 people have died; 10m have fled their homes and famine could kill 2.5m by next year
07 October 2024
VILLAGE IDIOT OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 24 DONALD TRUMP(78)
Real-estate billionaire and reality-show host. President USA, 2017-2021; voted out 2021 though does...
