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Unions lockout the young and dynamic
Ireland needs Unions that represent the public interest: not unethical and Social-Partnered pay-day monkeys
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The media must challenge power and the state, and resist their interference and regulation
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Scrub 1983 hypocrisy
The fundamental problem is the 1983 amendment has not stopped over 150,000 women travelling to England for abortions
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Programme-renegotiation not enough as even finger-wagging becomes parody
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Government should broker equitable, sustainable relations between EU and Global South/ACP
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Sweet – perhaps, but vicious
INTERVIEW WITH PETER SWEETMAN: The cost of litigation, Judge Michael Peart suggested at a recent conference, is “a deterrent to any but the rich, the courageous and the foolhardy”. Ireland’s most famous serial environmental litigant is Peter Sweetman, a long-haired, septuagenarian photographer, wood-sculptor and former jockey operating with or through various groups, companies, and as […]
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CRH: A history of scandal.
Michael Smith.
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Hogan’s magic touch So water charges will not become fully operational until 2016, at the earliest. Coincidentally, a general election will be held before that date. Big Phil Hogan who has gone politically AWOL after presiding over the household charge and septic-tank fiascos, is now applying his monkey-repairing-a-television-set nous to domestic water metering. Bord Gáis […]
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O’Brien can’t be worse than O’Reilly
Somehow failed billionaire O’Reilly – who lost INM and Waterford Glass – escaped media derision
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A better Europe
Niall Crowley sought three alternative perspectives on the future for a better European Union.
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Cormac Sheridan replies to Frank Armstrong’s article about GMOs in the last edition of Village
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Promoting the interests of corporations and the ultra-rich under the guise of concern for the poor is an effective public relations strategy
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Two-off
Clientelism means councillors pressure management to grant permissions
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Bog savaged
It is estimated that there has been a 99% loss of the original area of actively growing raised bog in Ireland, and one-third of the remaining 1% has been lost in the last 10 years
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New life for the GPO
The 90th anniversary of the blowing-up of the Public Records Office, 30th June 1922, calls for the National Archives Public Office to be rehoused
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Make eating beef taboo again
An environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like a philanthopist who doesn’t happen to give to charity
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Stuck in the sticks
Keeping the home fire burning at a social and environmental cost
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The Arts – Part of the Problem
Most spending on the arts – apart from community arts – does nothing for the disadvantaged
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Stano, punk polyglot
The revolutionary Threats’ synths-player was always challenging in the creatively-loaded, dangerous early 1980s
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US-style EU lacks rootedness in Western Europe, history, Christianity and popularity