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Villager News Miscellany
Ireland’s submission in support of South Africa’s case against Israel over Gaza of wants genocide to...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Village Idiot : Maria Steen
mother, wife, architect, barrister, social conservative, former articulate spokesperson for the Catholic...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Dubai Heir, Congo Air
When Paris police picked up a drunk Australian carrying €195,000 in cash, they uncovered an alleged money-laundering scheme...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
CHINA, FINER
China’s impressive fastest-growing cities, with compromised privacy
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Genesis of Genocide
Ireland’s submission in support of South Africa’s case against Israel over Gaza of wants genocide to...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Colonialisation and Genocide are analogous to psychological Abuse
Multilateralism is the geopolitical equivalent of mediation between abused and abuser
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24 October 2025
Lies Damned Likes and Statistics: online deadend
What does like mean, online?
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Internot
The internet is largely dead
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Coming for your data
Regulators in the UK and Ireland are favouring Child Protection over Privacy
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Be Careful with history of fascism
The Red Orchestra‘s heroic and doomed opposition to Hitler could be a template for resistance but goes...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
DeVeloping lineage
David McCullagh’s recent RTÉ documentary ignored research that de Valera’s father came from Matanzas, Cuba...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Sir Garret and Squire Hockey
A new book examining the battles between Charles Haughey of Fianna Fáil and Garret FitzGerald of Fine...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
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’,...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
THE LAW
Increased scarring from post-surgical infection justifies
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
GAA’s problems with cash, governance, whistleblowers
Governance and inauditability under scrutiny
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Drug Policy 2019 – 2025: inertia and reversion
Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Plastic bag tax for developers
There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Drudget 2025
Government will tweak income-tax bands again in October, but don’t expect pole-dancing and it will quietly...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
The Village Interview
warm but steely politician with a cultural hinterland and proud of her big family and Council-estate...
Current October-November 2025
24 October 2025
Pork on York Street: cosy package for College of Surgeons without Councillors’ approval
Dublin City Council must not sell out the public domain of a vulnerable community off St Stephen’s Green...
Current October-November 2025
23 October 2025
Conor cons immigration authorities
Immigrant-student employees at Conor McGregor’s pub speak out about dubious legality of their employment...
Current October-November 2025
23 October 2025
Omagh Bomb Inquiry grinds on
Procedural issues and differences of emphasis among the relatives are delaying the substantive hearings
News
23 October 2025
DiSIPOinting, Coverage of the proceedings of the state’s ethics watchdog disappoint
Nobody cares about SIPO, least of all RTÉ and the Irish Times, as evidenced by coverage of its hearings,...
News
23 October 2025
Illegal state aid laid bare by exposure of bank records
Norma Foley, Leo Varadkar and other Ministers, quoting Bus Éireann and the Department of Education, have...
Current October-November 2025
23 October 2025
Reprising the meaning of anti-racism and transphobia
Back then to the lonely editorial in Village’s last edition which generated some hostility

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