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By Sorley McCaughey. Tax policy poses options to prioritise one sector of society over another. As with all choices, there are inevitably winners and losers. Professor Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has firmly linked tax policy with human rights. He has posed this challenge squarely in the Irish context. […]
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By Gerard Cunningham. Late last year, the Irish Times reported exclusively on secret courts set up by justice minister Frances Fitzgerald to regulate requests for Irish data from the UK’s GCHQ. The courts were set up after files released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that GCHQ was illegally tapping data on the internet pipes […]
To: New Left Government From: Tom Healy Date: March 2016 Re: Priorities to improve the economy and living conditions The danger, now, is that many lessons of the crash of 2008 and what led up to it have not been learned and mistaken policies are being pursued. One clear example of this is the widespread […]
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By Deirdre Murray. International-development NGOs discriminate against women even though their remit is to promote women The “glass ceiling” is alive and well in the business sector in Ireland. A survey carried out by the Irish Times (2014) of the Top1000 Businesses in Ireland found that only 25% of the c-suite jobs (jobs with the […]
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By Michael Smith. The UK’s May election looks to be as unpredictable as any since February1974, the first of two that year, which produced the first hung parliament since the second world war, giving Ted Heath’s Tories more votes, though fewer seats, than Harold Wilson’s Labour. They collapsed later in the year. Polls have long […]
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By Peter Emerson. If you buy a house, you’ll have to maintain it. Any car will have to be insured. Jewellery is best kept in a safe deposit. Works of art also need to be protected. In other words, being rich can be costly… unless, that is, your wealth is in cash. For if you […]
By Michael Smith. Gerard Convie worked in Donegal County Council as a senior planner for nearly 24 years. He has claimed, in an affidavit opened in court, that during his tenure in the Council there was bullying of planners who sought to make decisions based exclusively on the planning merits of particular applications and that […]
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Trust me, I’m a journalist After warfare and driving, the biggest waste of energy in human history is…social media. The very name. For Villager Facebook is even more self-indulgent than Twitter since it calls less for a dialogue. Being a herd-like and sociable bunch, unsurprisingly 99% of Irish journalists use social media, one of the […]
Bill fails to tackle advertising, ‘taxation’, ‘three-lawyer’ practice, direct access to barristers and Ministerial veto. By David Reynolds
By Frank Connolly. The megaphone diplomacy involving prominent voices on the Left has brought some clarity to the task of preparing a common platform around which progressive parties, independent TDs, trade unions and other organisations and groups could unite in the months before a general election. At the Labour conference in Killarney there was a […]
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By Alicia Garrigan. In a recent article in the Derry Journal the writer, Tiarnan McCarthy, describes coming across a tweet coming from an account titled ‘Worthless’. “If I ever ran away from home, I’m sure my family wouldn’t even notice”, it lamented. He notes that similar despair is “not in short supply”. He goes on: […]
Denis gets agitated about Siteserv cynics
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‘Values’ clash with a ‘prosperity’ imperative in Ireland’s new foreign-policy framework. By Lorna Gold
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Labour/SNP/Lib Dems, maybe. By Michael Smith
The French Revolution sought national independence and democracy not the Russian Revolution’s socialism. So should Greece By Anthony Coughlan
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International-development NGOs discriminate against women even though their remit is to promote women. By Deirdre Murray
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Did first lady Hillary Clinton deliver on Ireland or just pour tea? By Michael Smith
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The Guardian is a rare exception to media climate hypocrisy. By John Gibbons
Bilateral deals may supplant the UN Climate Framework long-term. By Sadhbh O’Neill
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Heather Humphreys isn’t that interested in her brief. By Michael Smith
