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08 July 2024
Nationalism, a scourge
In the last thirty years Sinn Féin has become a major nationalistic force in Irish pol-itics. It seemed...
08 July 2024
Strokestown
Court of Criminal Appeal considers appeal by P J Sweeney in eviction melée case on grounds judge allowed...
08 July 2024
Drumshambles: Ukrainians evicted as legal row erupts over hotel
A legal battle over the ownership of lands around the Lough Allen hotel in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim
08 July 2024
Cerberus report to rear heads in late July
The vicissitudinous financial backstory of Mayor John Moran of Limerick
08 July 2024
No change in seat numbers
DUP a bit harder on the Protocol; Sinn Féin and Alliance becoming catch-all anti-Unionist front
08 July 2024
Hugh O’Brien: Another Prison Officer abused by the Prison Services
In September 2023 Village documented the experience of Seán O’Brien, a Prison Officer in Portlaoise in...
08 July 2024
PeterKeeley: murderer, of the FRU and RUC: scandalously unprosecuted in NI or the Republic
Edited extract from statement of Sam Rosenfeld to Kenova Tribunal
08 July 2024
Where is Wyman?
John Wyman was Head of MI6’s Republic of Ireland spy network between 1961-1972, where he probably picked...
08 July 2024
George Gibney and the scandalously unprosecuted rape of ‘Stella’
Conjoined Irish and US failures to combat youth coach sexual abuse
08 July 2024
Carmelite Cover-up
Fr David Weakliam, ringleader of abuse in Terenure College, gets a respectable funeral
08 July 2024
Green Giant
Eamon Ryan: the nicest man in politics, struggled with confrontation, and was needed by his family
08 July 2024
Green reflections
Make European Parliament more transparent and give it power to initiate legislation
08 July 2024
Panning Fanning
Rossa Fanning is Ireland’s most effective commercial advocate but a poor agent for equality or the environment...
08 July 2024
Greenhorned
Greens and experts outmanoeuvred on Planning Bill which sells public interest in quality of planning...
08 July 2024
THE LAW... Recent case law
Calling an expert witness who is unable or unwilling to comply with their duties may also have adverse...
07 July 2024
Environmental dreams, and databases
Malcolm James Coxall showed the Power of One, politically – particularly in the case of THM water contamination
07 July 2024
Hat Yes: Cattle No
Forget the excitable claims of celebrity chefs and food writers: the most damaging of all farm products...
07 July 2024
Irish people are comfortable with immigration despite media and political cynicism
The centre held in the European Parliament elections (except in Germany, France and Austria) and even...
07 July 2024
Bitten by Bitcoin
Progressives should embrace crypto as opportunity-egalitarian and because they eliminate the cut to the...
07 July 2024
Ireland is Full (of Irish men unfortunately)
Irish people aren’t as good as migrants at working
07 July 2024
A Tolerable Decline forle chic Gaelique
Protecting a declining minority and its language requires coherent efforts by the community in collaboration...
07 July 2024
The meáning of An Coimisiún’s funding
The funding from Coimisiún na Meán for court and local-democracy reporting should not be financial aid...
07 July 2024
Omnewshambles
The reason your newspaper is thin and thinly written is because of declining readership and profitability
07 July 2024
Normalising racist euphemism
Loaded racist language is intended to fudge circumstance-driven fear and foreigner-oriented hatred
07 July 2024
Thoughts of amnesia and
But history’s monsters may be partially tamed by a rereading of a work of mythology by a genius described...
07 July 2024
The Holly Tree Said
When I went to the bird feederThe holly tree said send her my love.
07 July 2024
Where Novels Come From: Making ‘A Good Enough Mother’ good enough
Our job is to effect transformation: of that moment of illumination, of that conversation, of how atoms...
07 July 2024
Schmock horror
Temple Bar authority let Smock Alley Theatre off €359k in rent but pretends arrears, as it is wound up,...
07 July 2024
Starchy Starmer
Keir Starmer, a bureaucrat who looks at government as a problem to be solved by missions, pledges and...
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08 July 2024
Nationalism, a scourge
In the last thirty years Sinn Féin has become a major nationalistic force in Irish pol-itics. It seemed...