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The death has occurred of Sir Anthony Hart, the retired judge who oversaw the Hart Inquiry into child sex abuse in NI. Village has written extensively about the findings of the Hart Inquiry since it was published in 2017. In the main we were critical of Hart’s findings, especially in so far as they related […]
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Hart report into Kincora naively believed MI6 that it never blackmailed ‘homosexuals’ but contains nuggets of insight, nevertheless By Joseph de Búrca Part I 1.SIR DICK WHITE’S CONFESSION Sir Anthony Hart has just delivered his report on historical sexual abuse in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, the media have largely ignored it because it appeared on the […]
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POLITICS MATTERS. It has the potential to iron out the unfairnesses of nature and luck. We talk a lot about it. We’ve achieved a lot with it. There is an undercurrent of politics that moves irrepressibly towards respect for all – sex, sexuality, race are no longer the barriers they were recently to equal treatment. […]
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More people die of economic inferiority in this country every year than died in 30 years of the Troubles. Even when our police force are shooting unarmed men, Irish liberals side with the establishment, in untypical silence.
In the four Dublin local authorities there are just 1000 units on-site and a further 1900 at various stages of procurement/planning. Over the coming years that’s under 3000 new build units – not even enough to house all those who will become homeless and those currently in emergency accommodation.
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