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    Wick-lowdown, 2015

    Environment minister must order investigation of why road access given by Council to Mulryan and Dunne. By Frank Connolly

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    Villager

    Villager is interested in the notion of ‘guest’ as applied to the ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’ show.

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    Profile of Teagasc.

    By Frank Armstrong. Research and training for the agricultural-industrial complex. Teagasc is the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland. Its mission is “to support science-based innovation in the agri-food sector and the broader bio-economy that will underpin profitability, competitiveness and sustainability”. In that order, and there is no mention of quality. Teagasc was established […]

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    Battling successfully for Travellers in Cork.

    By Chrissie Sullivan. This year the Traveller Visibility Group (TVG) will celebrate its 21st year working in Cork with the Traveller community, tackling social exclusion and discrimination head-on. We have been to the fore in highlighting the many practices of institutional racism in our city. When we were set up, there were three key services […]

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    Charter 2016

    By Frank Connolly The Syriza victory in Greece has its foundations in the polarisation of that society following the collapse of the economy in the great financial crash of 2008/2009, and since. It is rooted in the implosion of the traditional parties, and in particular of Pasok, the social democratic party that dominated the Greek […]

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    Villager

    Mates of Yates Under this heading in the last edition Villager made reference to Leo Varadkar. The intention of the piece was to imply that sexuality is workaday and of no particular interest but Village accepts that the reference was offensive and a mistake. In general, Village does not support the outing of the sexual […]

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    In which Denis gets agitated about Siteserv cynics.

    D E N I S   O ‘  B R I E N   Dear Dermot, Bloody Catherine Murphy – on and on about Siteserv. Bought it for €45.4m from IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, while Siteserv owed Anglo €150m. Arthur Cox represented both sides of the sale. Perfectly fine. Chinese Walls. Top firm. Good […]

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    Cometh the hour

    In May 2013 Yanis Varoufakis, then an economics professor, addressed the 6th Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Far from being subversive he shows the dangers of radicalism, Marxist radicalism, without a strategy for implementation. The speech its notable for its honesty and its defeatism. It was inevitable Syriza fuelled by the intellect of Varoufakis, would lead Greece to Eurodefeat, albeit defeat with honesty. And honesty is not integrity.

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    2°C

    Too much to avoid catastrophic possibly runaway climate change yet unrealistic as a target. By Sadhbh O’Neill

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