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Ireland’s submission in support of South Africa’s case against Israel over Gaza of wants genocide to be based on the foreseeable consequences of actions instead of the intent of those actions but the ICJ is reluctant to find enocide where actions can be scribed to other international cimes

Village Idiot : Maria Steen

mother, wife, architect, barrister, social conservative, former articulate spokesperson for the Catholic Iona Institute and now failed Presidential candidate.

Dubai Heir, Congo Air

When Paris police picked up a drunk Australian carrying €195,000 in cash, they uncovered an alleged money-laundering scheme led by a Dubai-based Irish horseracing heir linked to British royals.

CHINA, FINER

China’s impressive fastest-growing cities, with compromised privacy

Genesis of Genocide

Colonialisation and Genocide are analogous to psychological Abuse

Multilateralism is the geopolitical equivalent of mediation between abused and abuser

Lies Damned Likes and Statistics: online deadend

What does like mean, online?

On Whom Bloom: Leopold may have been based on a prominent Dublin Nationalist

Though for long it was assumed that Joyce’s Leopold Bloom was not based on a Dubliner, he may have been based on ‘Altman the Saltman’, a Republican and prominent Jew, of Usher’s Quay

Reading in the Durc: Paul Durcan, sadly, did not have a good sense of humo

Paul Durcan’s soft comicverse is mostly indistinguishable from whimsy

Contrition Deficit from The Rest is Politics and Piers Morgan

The disgracefully slow intellectual evolution of Piers Morgan and The Rest is Politics on Israel’s War on Gaza

Internot

The internet is largely dead

Coming for your data

Regulators in the UK and Ireland are favouring Child Protection over Privacy

Britain and Ireland are enmired in crappy mediocrity

Both smug and static, Ireland thinks of itself as upwardly mobile; Britain is traumatised by post-industrial decline

Clause and Effect: CETA could allow “plate” Canadians to undermine European public security via Ireland

CETA’s investor-court system could let Canadian-backed investments sidestep Ireland’s new FDI-security screening — creating legal and economic risks.

Be Careful with history of fascism

The Red Orchestra‘s heroic and doomed opposition to Hitler could be a template for resistance but goes unrecognised in the West

Former Green Party leader reviews John Gibbons’ book

ÉAMON RYAN REVIEWS ‘The Lie of the Land’ by John Gibbons, Sandycove (just published): “In the future people will look back and thank him for what he has done for Irish farmers, just like his father before him

Bogged Off: bogs save more carbon than forests but we squander them in Ireland

Peatlands make up just 3% of the earth’s surface but store 25% of the world’s total carbon, more than all the forests – where 80% of the carbon is in soil, not trees

Dreary Drogheda: derelict ancient buildings need immediate intervention to avert demolition

71 and 72 Narrow West Street are the line Louth County Council must hold

DeVeloping lineage

David McCullagh’s recent RTÉ documentary ignored research that de Valera’s father came from Matanzas, Cuba — not Spain as his mother told him

Gate Sleepers: How our gatekeepers lost their keys — and how to hand them back

How our gatekeepers lost their keys — and how to hand them back

Sir Garret and Squire Hockey

A new book examining the battles between Charles Haughey of Fianna Fáil and Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael overlooks the contrasting approaches they took in dealing with Britain’s covert intelligence services. While FitzGerald was happy to dance with Her Majesty’s diplomats and spooks, Haughey always recoiled.

Haughey and FitzGerald set in train undying cycles of boom and bust for Ireland

COLM MCCARTHY REVIEWS Eoin O’Malley’s absorbing ‘Charlie v Garret: the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland’, Eriu/Bonnier Books (just published)

THE LAW

Increased scarring from post-surgical infection justiﬁes

GAA’s problems with cash, governance, whistleblowers

Governance and inauditability under scrutiny

Drug Policy 2019 – 2025: inertia and reversion

Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia

Plastic bag tax for developers

There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.