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By Ava Liange After two consecutive years of COVID-19, online learning and postponed exams, the housing crisis is once again the main obstacle that prevents students from pursuing their studies. With the start of the new academic year just around the corner, it is becoming increasingly challenging for students to find accommodation near universities. Many […]
Caroline Hurley argues that the EPA can and should be doing more to protect Ireland’s vital environment and biodiversity. Situated between the North Atlantic’s main storm tracks, Ireland has always been vulnerable to the weather. In the Royal Irish Academy’s 2020 collection of essays on Climate and Irish Society from prehistoric times, John Sweeney, a […]
By Conor O’Carroll The son of a Sligo County Councillor and former Cathaoirleach has been found advertising a property on Daft.ie to students during the week and to tourists on Airbnb during the weekend. James Clarke, son of Independent Councillor Michael Clarke, advertised the property last week on both sites before quickly removing the listings […]
Liam Lynch, a republican martyr-ic0n, is the subject of a timely new biography in this, the hundredth anniversary of the ending of Ireland’s civil war. Lynch’s first biography by Florrie O’Donoghue is lyrical and incisive, being the work of a friend and comrade. Gerard Shannon, with wider access to archival material, has revealed the complexity […]
By Caroline Hurley Military authorities increasingly try to categorise armaments containing depleted uranium (DU) as conventional, despite epidemics of cancers and genetic mutations following their use in Iraq and elsewhere. These arms use nuclear waste and take advantage of the dense weight and flammability of uranium, primarily to penetrate tank metal, of the likes of Leopard 2. Massive stores […]
Fast-food delivery companies Deliveroo and Just Eat are dependent in Ireland on illegal labour that exploits international students who risk deportation by working for them. By J Vivian Cooke. The liveried bicyclists who zip past, delivering fast food, are probably working illegally. The fast-food delivery platforms operating in Ireland such as Deliveroo and Just Eat […]
THE CASE for gay rights, pioneered in the 1980s in this country by David Norris through the courts and the European Con-vention on Human Rights, is unanswerable.
Villager News Miscellany
Charity founded by close ally of Helen McEntee, Minister for Justice, obtained €1.6 million from discredited Immigrant Investor Programme.
The State, which has been reimbursed only €242m of the €1.5bn it has paid out, should now take only lands and buildings for Community purposes; not paltry cash.
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The liveried bicyclists who zip past, delivering fast food, are probably working illegally.
Revised complaint had claimed serious new information had arisen — so the woman is contemplating litigating the reasons given for rejection, and is pursuing a civil action against the retired district court judge
Revised complaint had claimed serious new information had arisen — so the woman is contemplating litigating the reasons given for rejection, and is pursuing a civil action against the retired district court judge
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Dublin’s proposed Metro is an unplanned mistake, facilitated by egregious procedural and consultation failures over Charlemont station, that risk derailing it.
Dublin’s proposed Metro is an unplanned mistake, facilitated by egregious procedural and consultation failures over Charlemont station, that risk derailing it.
Scappaticci, an IRA assassination unit, MI5, the murder of a Westminster MP and Kincora’s stench of death
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Church and State ruined many lives, with their prejudices and institutions, including those of people who survive
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Drogheda and Louth Councils disgrace themselves by finding spurious legal reasons not to consider rescinding 1997 award of Freedom of Drogneda to the former head of the Christian Brothers who has been making life difficult for an abuse victim who is suing them.
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Five Years after the repeal of the 8th Amendment, abortion is still not universally available in the Republic
CRH systemically flouts competition and company law with impunity.
