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Cynicism on Direct Provision
Frances Fitzgerald ignores report on Magdalene Laundries of our time. By Fiona Finn
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After a difficult journey, North’s unions are anti-sectarian, anti-one-sided parties and anti-austerity. By Anton McCabe
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Justice in the dark
The Workplace Relations Commission will anonymise its decisions. By Michael Smith
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Affray in Bray
No records of how seafront restaurant got right to unusual 250-year lease. By Frank Connolly
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Contagious
Allegations about NAMA in North begin to focus attention on disposal patterns in South. By Frank Connolly
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Fingering McCreevy, Dunne and Mulryan
The axis of developers, bankers and politicians is not being adequately probed by Banking Inquiry or media. By Frank Connolly
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Perspective
Focus anger and energy to promote equality and sustainability
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By John Horgan Is the writers’ and artists’ tax exemption scheme now on life support? Suspicions that this might be the case were first aroused when it was disclosed last year that a review of this scheme instituted by Finance Minister Michael Noonan last year had “abolition on the table”. It has now emerged that […]
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Canon – and on and on
The Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre was established in 1904 and became the first State-subsidised theatre in the world, and ultimately one of the best brands in world theatre. Worthy, certainly; old, yes: the question is more whether it is any good, or any good bearing in mind the resources that go into it. The Abbey […]
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As politicians begin to throw around proposals for the last Budget before Fine Gael and Labour face an election, it’s worth remembering that this time is really the only window where citizens are encouraged to engage in economic debate. Even then the space of time is too short and the range of topics up for […]
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Village Idiot July/August 2015
“The options were narrowing down the nationalisation plus a guarantee or simply a guarantee of the system itself” – Brian Cowen in evidence to the Banking Inquiry. He shows no evidence of having digested the evidence of Central Bank governor, Patrick Honohan, that any guarantee “should not have included subordinated debt nor existing senior-term debt”. […]
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Fake O'Brien-Desmond Letter
Dear Dermot, I woke up in Haiti on the morning of April 29th,to a phone message saying that RTÉ had sent me a letter with questions regarding my confidential banking arrangements with Anglo Irish Bank/ IBRC. My immediate reaction was astonishment – astonishment – that RTÉ could be used in such a way, so deliberately, […]
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In Ireland philosophy rarely features in mainstream discourses. We seem more comfortable in either the narrow empiricism inherited from our former colonial overlords or the lyrical engagement found in poetry. The unflinching analysis of concepts found in philosophical enquiry is not part of secondary educations: it still does not figure as a Leaving Certificate subject. […]
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Deputy Catherine Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 in order to make an addition to the First Schedule, to expand the areas under which an examination under section 9 may be conducted, and to provide for related […]
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Portuguese parallels
In 2011 Portugal was at the forefront of Europe’s anti-austerity movement. Yet, four years later, as elections approach in the Autumn, there is no chance of a Left government to ally with Greece’s Syriza or the recent municipal victories in Spain. What went wrong? And can Portugal return to the frontlines? Village’s Ronan Burtenshaw interviews Bloco de Esquerda’s […]
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If Colonel Gadaffi were still running Libya there would not be mass migration across the Mediterranean, with thousands drowned because of unscrupulous traffickers. Gadaffi was guilty of the sin of all those secular dictators. He was too independent of ‘the West’. Britain and France, backed by America, bombed him out of existence. Their excuse was […]
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Robert O’Byrne is an aesthete – possibly Ireland’s only one, a writer specialising in the fine and decorative arts. He is the author of more than a dozen books, among them ‘Luggala Days: the Story of a Guinness House’; a biography of Sir Hugh Lane; ‘A History of the Irish Georgian Society’; a ‘Dictionary of Living […]
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Oh Broadsheet.ie! Where did you come from and why do I flit to you so reflexively? Why are the newspapers, which you for some reason call “De Newspapers”, suddenly so full of you? You are George Orwell for our Irish age. No concern needed, these post-modern days, to secure the “hearing” that motivated him: with […]
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By Michael Smith In 2013, I wrote in Village that Denis O’Brien, Ireland’s most powerful media owner was exercising an extraordinarily chilling effect on journalism and journalists after grossly negative findings against him in the Moriarty Tribunal. I detailed his litigious “promiscuity”: how a large number of Ireland’s best-known journalists including Eamon Dunphy, Sam Smyth, […]