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35THe crisis in Ireland is just the latest, though the worst, of a series of boom and bust cycles since independence that have marked the history of the frst Irish republic, such as it is. The crisis is an outcome of global neoliberalism, but also of the dysfunctional nature of our jaded political system. economic […]
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12 — villageJune – July 2013sINCe publication of the working paper by Thomas Herndon, Michael ash and robert Pollin (HaP), ostensibly subverting the 2010 paper by Carmen reinhart and Kenneth rogof (rr), the Irish left has, like a small boy who has been told that glucose is good for him, been sugar-high with renewed anti-austerity […]
14 — villageJune – July 2013Shatheadvillager likes shatter. well likes is a little strong. likes more than any other Fine Gael member of government, apart from Frances Fitzgerald, per-haps. or respects. anyone that annoys the Garda, the legal profession and judges, inspires a debate on their respective contributions to the common good and then wins […]
18 — villageJune – July 2013THe oeCd recently released an update of its income inequality sta-tistics. This provides a high-level analysis of income inequality across 33 oeCd countries for the frst three years of the crisis, up to the end of 2010. while important, the data used are 3-4 years old and a lot has […]
20 — villageJune – July 2013THe North’s High Court has quashed an order by regional development Minister, danny Kennedy, to proceed with construction of two parts of the a5 dual-carriageway. This is the largest planning-re-lated decision ever overturned by a court in the North. The grounds were that the department of regional development had failed […]
21THe journey from “Croke Park” to “Haddington road” has been bumpy for public-sector management or public-sec-tor unions. Pay and working hours have been the main focus. Issues of gender equality have not received much attention.This is shameful given that the public sector is a major employer of women. In 2010 the edu-cation and health sectors […]
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22 — villageJune – July 2013newsTemple Bar – Dublin’s crony quarter 23so what’s happening in Cultureland that nobody in the arts wants to talk about? what of Temple Bar Cultural Trust (TBCT), dublin Contemporary, the City arts Centre, the Hugh lane, and IMMa? and more. why, oh why, are our poets so silent? our artistic […]
25oNe in fve women in Ireland is abused by a current or former husband, partner or boyfriend, at some stage in their lifetime. since 1996 there have been 190 women murdered in the republic of Ireland, of whom 74 were murdered by a partner or ex-partner. In all of the resolved cases, 99% of perpetrators […]
26 — villageJune – July 2013THe political demise of ulster unionist, lord laird, who has lost the party whip after being stung by the Daily Telegraph/BBC Panorama in the latest ‘cash for access’ scandal, may not be as shocking to those who have observed, and been at the receiving end, of his political antics over […]
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20% of people in Northern Ireland believe in some form of creationism“
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Pre-eminent but formulaic, it still dominates listenership surveys
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First: exercise; then: cut sugar and add fibre
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Newspaper readers will pay only if their subscription brings them high-quality content
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Nicola Carroll interviews Kevin Barrington about his new e-book ‘I love the Internet’
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Digital media tightens the squeeze on complacent print media
Children featured prominently in one of the most controversial fracas of the 1913 Dublin Lockout . Tellingly the actual children’s interests were instrumental, not really a matter of concern for the grown-ups and their politicking. One hundred years later, has anything changed in the status of children in Ireland, asks Niall Crowley, commissioning editor of this Lockout special [one of a series]
