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The late Late Late
It needs someone who’ll challenge, and hit the Zeitgeist, ideally a comedian, in particular Oliver Callan
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At 47% trust, our newspapers and broadcast media need to abandon their smugness and fight for credibility, by improving standards
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Unchecked biases
This piece is about systemic biases in the State broadcaster: about the unguarded RTÉ grandee’s view on radicals
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Mastodon Extinction
The real tragedy may be that news media will miss a golden opportunity to break their addiction to social media
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After incredibly high levels of ‘social capital’ in the US in the first half of the twentieth century – social capital – is in decline. Is there evidence Ireland is on a similar trajectory?
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Amend the constitution to rebalance relations between home-buyers and Global Capital
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Justice depends on your worldview
The ownership and control of the material resources of the community must be so distributed amongst private individuals and the various classes as best to subserve the common good
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Clearly the Attorney General would have been the best chap to provide “legal justification” using “evidence” to extend the eviction ban. It seems the government just wasn’t into it
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BERTIE AHERN:
After sending a fleet of Ministerial limos to the first NSMC meetings, Ahern did little or nothing to promote or build on the minimal all-island bodies and co-operation agreed in 1998
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Mac the Knifed
Llike his father Ray, Marc MacSharry can be a caustic critic when he sees things mismanaged. This outspoken quality generates controversy and may ultimately have been used to get rid of him from the party altogether
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Housing and Tourism Departments leak with abandon, in breach of Constitution, law and Cabinet handbook
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Research shows that dual practices may incentivise consultants to curtail their supply of public care to stimulate the demand for private care
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In 2021 members from both of Ireland’s main coalition parties supported the introduction of a ‘third category’ of worker, neither employee nor self-employed, but this was dropped by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael after workers expressed their opinion that this was not what was needed
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PRISON DISSERVICE
The prison service is as dysfunctional as the Garda and military, it’s just that fewer influential people care
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Traditional but not DEMOCRATIC
Jeffrey Donaldson has set up a consultation panel to formulate his Party’s view on the Framework. The answer he hopes for is obvious. All eight are DUP pragmatists
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Emigration becomes Immigration
Far-right co-option of asylum-seeker protests highlights growing anti-minority sentiment in our society
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Meath Council fraud nailed in new report
On 21 February two senior Council officials met Marry and Sheils to discuss the findings of the report, including that the Council had made payments to a company for jobs that it had not carried out and withheld payments due to P Sheils Plant Hire for work that it had carried out on foot of successful tenders
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