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Part of the 1970s was striking advertising. ‘Kilkenny Mart’ was a poster featuring a powerfully built bull with a ring through its nose. The unsubtle slogan: ‘No bull in the Irish Farmers Journal’. The old Kilkenny Mart is long gone: its successor the multi-million euro Cillín Hill facility is situated a few kilometres outside the […]
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The growth of Dublin at the expense of rural Ireland is a familiar refrain, amplified in post-crash Ireland. While it is true that Ireland has a particularly unbalanced economic and population growth pattern focused on its capital city, increased urbanisation is a global trend. Along with pressure on housing, this urbanisation poses a range of […]
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A group of United States mental health professionals has expressed concern about the mental health of Donald Trump. Psychologist Dr John Gartner said: “We do believe that Donald Trump’s mental illness is putting the entire country, and indeed the entire world, in danger. As health professionals we have an ethical duty to warn the public […]
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Featured opinions
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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