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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
mother, wife, architect, barrister,
social conservative, former articulate
spokesperson for the Catholic Iona
Institute and now failed Presidential
candidate.
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’s impressive fastest-growing
cities, with compromised privacy
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
Multilateralism is the geopolitical equivalent of mediation between abused and abuser
What does like mean, online?
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
Paul Durcan’s soft comicverse is mostly indistinguishable from whimsy
The disgracefully slow intellectual
evolution of Piers Morgan and The Rest
is Politics on Israel’s War on Gaza
Regulators in the UK and Ireland are
favouring Child Protection over Privacy
Both smug and static, Ireland thinks of itself as upwardly mobile; Britain is traumatised by post-industrial decline
CETA’s investor-court system could let Canadian-backed investments sidestep Ireland’s new FDI-security screening — creating legal and economic risks.
The Red Orchestra‘s heroic and doomed opposition to Hitler could be a template for resistance but goes unrecognised in the West
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
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
71 and 72 Narrow West Street are the line Louth County Council must hold
David McCullagh’s recent RTÉ documentary ignored
research that de Valera’s father came from Matanzas,
Cuba — not Spain as his mother told him
How our gatekeepers lost their keys — and how to hand them back
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.
COLM MCCARTHY REVIEWS Eoin O’Malley’s absorbing ‘Charlie v Garret: the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland’, Eriu/Bonnier Books (just published)
Increased scarring from post-surgical infection justifies
Governance and inauditability under scrutiny
Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia
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.
Government will tweak
income-tax bands again
in October, but don’t
expect pole-dancing and
it will quietly take a little
back is PRSI
warm but steely politician with a cultural hinterland and proud of her big family and Council-estate roots; a Republican who’s not backing down on Hamas, equality, the environment or anything else
Dublin City Council must not sell out the public domain of a vulnerable community off St Stephen’s Green to facilitate RCSI branding, but defer to elected representatives and finally assert the public interest
Immigrant-student employees at Conor McGregor’s pub speak out about dubious legality of their employment and being allowed to work more than 20 hours in term time
Procedural issues and differences
of emphasis among the relatives are
delaying the substantive hearings
Nobody cares about SIPO, least of all RTÉ and the Irish Times, as evidenced by coverage of its hearings, especially the recent one finding FF’s Meath Cathaoirleach, Tommy Reilly, attended meetings that yielded his son a €3.7m book profit.
Norma Foley, Leo Varadkar and other Ministers, quoting Bus Éireann and the Department of Education, have misled the Dáil on dozens of occasions about school-transport finances
Back then to the lonely editorial in Village’s last edition which generated some hostility
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