16 October 2023
Trees grow on money but also on scientific advice
In industrial forestry, CO2 emissions from soil are greater than carbon storage in trees
16 October 2023
Fascism thrives on climate breakdown
The Climate Catastrophe spawns crises to which Fascism reacts, dangerously
16 October 2023
TIME
Time for the Greens in government to champion sustainability and excellence more than time limits and...
16 October 2023
Deathly conspiracy
The fi gures for excess deaths are inconclusive which means they at least show no evidence of conspiracy
16 October 2023
The ‘omerta’ around CRH described in June’s Village extends to its liability for Mica
State aid is defined as an advantage in any form whatsoever conferred by national public authorities to...
16 October 2023
One out of nine
Of nine key environmental boundaries only ozone depletion has been made safe
16 October 2023
Mulholland Drivel
MacGill is conservative and pointless
16 October 2023
Neither window nor mirror, more the national vase
Radió Telefis Éireann was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy and as such is responsible...
16 October 2023
The Brendan O’Connor Show: revisiting analysis of RTÉ’s Newspaper Panel
Professional classes over weekend brunch… safe and a bit incestuous, with little diversity, but with...
16 October 2023
Doubting Thomas
Questioning the values of well known Kathryn Thomas
15 October 2023
Gallery Reviews, by Seanán Kerr
O BAER: Coming Home Late in the Land of the Giants
15 October 2023
Hung not tough enough
The swift demise of the voguish, diamantine Hang Tough Contemporary commercial gallery is sad
15 October 2023
Vagabond, kaleidoscopic Trojan Horse
James Merrigan on Alan Butler who is resurreceing and when burying landscape art, at the RHA
15 October 2023
The beautiful oddness of crying to symbolise trauma’s vestige and refuge
James Merrigan reviews Anne Collier: leaking, as analogy, to overcome its cold stare
14 October 2023
MayOMG
Mayo’s decorated megaliths rewrite the history of Mayo and the world: and features at Westival in Westport
14 October 2023
The call of the Wildes
The logic of a sprawling Oscar Wilde on Merrion Square demands two further statues: one of his mother,...
14 October 2023
Planet litigation
A survey of Irish climate litigation as temperature changes, and government failures, make it imperative
14 October 2023
Superwasters
Legislate for waste targets, and for reuse and refill, especially for supermarkets
14 October 2023
Bye-Bye abayas
Religion in France, always an egalitarian battleground, spawns another culture battle, against Arabic...
14 October 2023
International law always finds its violators. It will find Russia.
International law is powerless in responding to full-scale military aggression so Ukraine initiated and...
14 October 2023
VILLAGE IDIOT OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
Robert Fico (59), the populist who is to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for the fourth time, was a...
14 October 2023
Harris harassed Barrett
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris initiated criminal prosecution against whistleblower John Barrett for...
14 October 2023
Drawing Drew
Drew Harris is making news but as usual and for good reason it is all bad
14 October 2023
Heated on Health
Former Fianna Fáil TD Conor Lenihan grilled the Finance Minister about topical issues including HSE overruns
14 October 2023
Mild centrist in frenetic and fractious times
I believe in giving people opportunity and working with others in a spirit of co-operation and collaboration;...
14 October 2023
The Soul of Whitty
Like charmer John McClean and up to 20 others, Denis Whitty who has just died, 2 weeks before a criminal...
14 October 2023
DELIVER blood on it
The dynamic between Fine Gael the civil service and the likes of Deliveroo leaves delivery riders cynically...
14 October 2023
Verbatim in Triplicate
Consultants’ submission on behalf of Mary Harriet Madden replicated verbatim by three Councillors: McDonnell,...
14 October 2023
Quinn Spins
Another punch-pulling book, another media disaster for Seán Quinn: truth unclear, as media continue recklessly...
14 October 2023
237 out of 14,000
The number of planning applications does not refl ect the number of AirBnBs that require them
14 October 2023
Naming names in dereliction-blighted Charleville
Charleville, County Cork, is in the Golden Vale near the border with Limerick.
14 October 2023
Not really Peter Keeley
Peter Keeley is a psycho killer, double agent and manipulator of the truth who perpetrated the Omagh...
14 October 2023
Honest Mike Taylor, an honourable whistleblower
The forgery of a Kincora witness statement by MI5 and the RUC
14 October 2023
Portlaoise and the meaning of duty
When in 1988 he stopped an IRA evasion of extradition in apparent breach of Charles Haughey’s plans,...
