On the day of the local elections Anton McCabe looks at the prospects for revival of the Assembly.
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Why Greens are blue: the facts show the Greens’ record in Government is deplorable.
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As he prepares to address Seanad Éireann, Frank Connolly looks at the record of the former Taoiseach
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MacSharry is very adamant that he is “his own man” and, in a strange way, given his strong footprint pedigree in Fianna Fail, he may in fact be better off being outside of the party. He has surfaced a very real issue in policy terms for the party he once belonged to — the precise […]
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Israel’s uneven democracy is now breaking
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Government Forum directs philanthropy up dead-ends
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By Michael Smith.
This article appears in Village Magazine, May-June 2023. It was written by Michael Smith and not Rory O’Sullivan. Apologies for the editorial error.
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Biden seemed to acknowledge the American future no longer looks as good as when my grandparents left Galway. By Victoria Costello. Towards the end of my forthcoming novel, Orchid Child, which explores intergenerational legacies and debts in an Irish-American family, an American teenager is walking in a wooded East Galway with an older Irish relative […]
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has just upheld a complaint about the infamous bombing of McGurk’s bar in Belfast. The complaint was made against Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI). It concerned the discovery of the covert British Army “ambush observation post” in the vicinity of McGurk’s Bar on the night of the Massacre. The overwhelming odds […]
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1. France came to terms with its most shameful military scandal, the framing of Capt. Dreyfus. Britain still clings to the wreckage of its attempt to destroy Capt. Wallace after 50 years of lies and deception. L’Affaire Dreyfus convulsed France for over a decade, 1894-1906. The scandal has come to symbolise an injustice perpetrated by […]
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Dodgy Damien English, as Junior Minister (2017-21), and Dave Walsh, now ‘retired’ former head of the planning department, were among the range of officials and Ministers in the Housing Department who served to keep Gerard Convie’s allegations about corruption in Donegal planning out of the public domain.
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And O’Brien is benefiting from favourable coverage in the paper for his precipitate U-turning Planning Bill which embraces Bord Pleanála, social housing, judicial review and the foreshore The Minister of Housing, Darragh O’Brien has been scrambling of late to hustle through the passage of the still fast-evolving unfinished but critical Planning and Development […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022.
Friday, November 18th, 2022 Peace came in the door and sat down beside me and said how glad it was to see me, genuinely, and to finally meet my wife, I knew I must take its hand though I did not know who I would be in the absence of all I had built its […]
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By J Vivian Cooke. The Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 is currently — precipitously — accelerating through the Houses of the Oireachtas. In part, it will facilitate the appointment of Oonagh Buckley as interim head of An Bord Pleanála (ABP). Village has expressed grave and detailed concerns about this process. […]
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BORD PLEANÁLA: O’BRIEN REVERTS TO RAY BURKE ERA LEGISLATIVE ETHOS Media ignore Department of Housing’s disarray over how to appoint a new Chairperson to guide discredited planning appeals body By J Vivian Cooke and Michael Smith Ireland’s crisis-raddled planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanála (ABP), is an independent, statutory, quasi-judicial body that deals with appeals […]
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Dylan. By Kevin Barrington.
There was that nervous anticipation as we sat down in the Point. It’s Bob Dylan after all. And at 81 he is still challenging. There’s none of that reverence that bordered on the mawkish that greeted Leonard Cohen. But Leonard had almost become a legacy act. While Bob was still pushing boundaries leaving an audience […]