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Gogarty and the redactions
Judicial unpicking ignored the context
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Trying to run before it can walk
Get rid of BID
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PAUL GALLAGHER
The following shows an exchange of correspondence between Paul Gallagher SC, Attorney-General in the FF/Green government (2007-2011), and Village about our publishing the Ansbacher dossier including some of what it says about him, in our Dec-Jan issue
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Environmental and social agenda Juncked
New commission has learnt nothing from manifest anger in recent elections
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Charter 2016
Let’s marshal the new mood in Europe with a stringent platform for the Left
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Village Idiots February 2015
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Twenty years ago Colm MacEochaidh and I offered a reward of £10,000 for information leading to the conviction of persons on indictment for rezoning corruption. I had spent a year campaigning against a controversial rezoning of attractive fields in Cherrywood, Co Dublin, pushed through in murky circumstances by Monarch Properties which was subsequently found to have […]
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BID (Business Improvements District, now known as DublinTown) is a not-for-profit quango, funded by hundreds of retailers in an area, 2,500 of which are compelled by the City Council – acting under the Local Government BIDs Act 2006 – to pay an extra rate to it. Businesses must vote in favour of becoming a Business Improvement […]
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China astir.
By Peter Emerson. Nineteen eighty-five: Mikhail Gorbachev; the start of the end of Soviet communism. Those were exciting times. The collapse of the Berlin wall, the first Russian elections, the quests for Georgian/Lithuanian independence, and so on. Life was changing, fast. And even those who opposed such changes, like those of the Albanian regime, with […]
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Cowspiracy
Stop Feeding Your Cancer: One Doctor’s Journey Dr John Kelly Pentheum, 2014 $13.99 Review by Frank Armstrong A documentary called ‘Cowspiracy’ is currently doing the social-media rounds. In time it could have an influence comparable to Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as the devastating impact of animal agriculture and fishing is laid bare. […]
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Agri-culture
By John Gibbons and Paul Price. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”. Novelist Upton Sinclair’s famous observation could well have been describing Agriculture Minister, Simon Coveney, a rare ambitious and ascending star on an otherwise jaded Fine Gael front bench. Coveney’s understanding […]
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By Frank Connolly. Judging by the speakers at the massive rally in Dublin on 10th December against the Government’s water charge regime, the protest is far from over – and it is no longer just about water. Despite media efforts, most notably in RTÉ, to downplay the scale of the mobilisation on a mid-week, mid-winter, […]
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By Edel McGinley. Enda Kenny wrote to President Obama in November to commend him on the “humanity and leadership” he had shown in his efforts to regularise undocumented migrants in the United States. The Taoiseach’s words demonstrate great empathy for the many undocumented Irish in the US and an understanding of the need for decisive, […]
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Village Idiot – November 2014
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DENIS O’BRIEN Denis celebrates his widening ascendancy in the rich lists with his even less-press-friendly co-baron, Dermot. Dear Dermot, Bit quieter […]
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Michael Fitzmaurice
Michael Fitzmaurice, new Independent TD for Roscommon-South Leitrim
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Denis O’Brien
Denis has been busy while his senior billionaire colleague has been keeping his head down