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By Anthony Coughlan. The EU establishes a post-war arena where European Nation State interests continue to work themselves out. Take Germany for instance. That great realist Germany’s own Otto Von Bismarck once said: “I have always found the word ‘Europe’ on the lips of those powers that wanted something from others which they dared not […]
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By Hayley Farrell. Dublin is the 21st greenest out of thirty leading cities in Europe according to the 2010 Green Cities Index. London is in 11th place and Berlin, with an impressive 40% percent parks cover, is Europe’s eighth greenest city. Scandinavian cities occupy the top three places of the ranking. Dublin has a modest […]
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By Niall Crowley. Sandro Gozi, Secretary of State for European Policies in Italy, caught the spirit of it. On behalf of the Italian Presidency of the European Council he spoke of a lost decade where the main reason for establishing the European Union: the advancing of fundamental values such as equality and human rights, was […]
Village February in shops Friday 6th (and every first Friday).
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By Séamus Maye. Just when it seemed that the Ansbacher scandal had receded into the distant past, up pops Gerard Ryan, a respected civil servant with an explosive dossier. Ryan’s revelations and indeed frustrations, go to the very core of what has passed for Irish politics and institutional regulation for several decades now. The suppression […]
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By Caroline Hurley Ebola was first identified in 1976 in Sudan in a cotton factory, with bats suspected as the reservoir species. The disease typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, though also in Venezuela, Cambodia and Indonesia. The largest outbreak so far is the ongoing epidemic in West Africa, which is […]
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The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry by Edward Clarke. Review by Frank Armstrong. Few of us can recite a poem in its entirety. Perhaps this no longer matters as even an infant can now find whatever it was on YouTube. Yet many of the outstanding technological advances humanity has made only seem to increase stress levels, […]
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By Tom Boland. Protection’ can sometimes be a euphemism for threats. A classic mafia racket is to ask businesses for money in exchange for ‘protection’, which is actually a threat of violence for non-payment. However, the extortion is dressed up as a community service. Recently, social welfare in Ireland has turned into a ‘protection’ racket. […]
For understanding so little about life and death that they would burn a man alive.
Pressure intensifies on Irish Aid to engage the private sector more pro-actively.
Journalism gets used to the idea that principle can be dangerous.
Multinational States to break up into national ones.
Are Clooney and wife losing touch?
In Greece the backlash finds concrete form
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And drainage to increase the speed of water flowing from the land and through the rivers has increased the propensity of our towns to flooding
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Humanity has breached four of nine key boundaries: biodiversity, CO2, deforestation and water pollution by agriculture
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Lacking any new targets or any teeth the Climate Bill is useless and environmental NGOs should have said so
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We are prisoners of competition and individualism
