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Why no prosecutions?
Why no prosecutions?
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By John Gormley. I know how Tom Gilmartin must have felt listening to Pádraig Flynn speaking on the Late Late. You’ll recall that this was the evening that Pee just couldn’t stop talking about how difficult it was to keep three luxury homes and in the process also ‘dissed’ the developer, Mr Gilmartin, who had […]
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Buccaneers
The Treasury boys once had little Dublin at their feet
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Dirty laundering
Diesel laundering is lucrative but filthy and dangerous and could easily be stopped
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Let’s renege on €30bn NAMA bonds
Leave our useless banks with worthless IOUs
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Whistleblower
Jonathan Sugarman Our man in financial services
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Masterclass in spin by Garda Ombudsman
The independent Garda watchdog produced a report about the Corrib Garda ‘rape tape’ that misinformed the public and undermined the women who brought the recording to public attention
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Social Partnership is corruption
illegal corruption – in its various forms and expressions – is hardly a rarity in Irish soci-ety. This much we know.
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Gurdgiev mischievous in blame game
Macdara Doyle of ICTU responds to Constantin Gurdgiev
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Harry Browne
Too often, careful journalism links to the information needs of a capitalist elite, while the reality-TV sort piggybacks on its undeserved reputation
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On Mahon and Irish corruption
As Mahon finally grinds to a somewhat disappointing report, it is time to recognise that corruption, even more than its cousin greed, did for Ireland in our time
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Denis O Brien
right of reply
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Interesting to see how the Irish Times, the newspaper of record, handles challenging and sensitive stories concerning the political establishment – when you know what the real story is. Here’s an article from a December edition: Councillor’s property stake and vote to be investigated MARY MINIHAN, writing in the Irish Times THE STANDARDS in Public […]
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After Durban, delivering a 20 per cent emissions cut moves centre-stage, for Ireland We need to move quickly from the headline figure to a hard-minded sector-by-sector approach. The new climate agreement reached in Durban is bitterly disappointing for its lack of ambition, revealing a world held back by the continued foot-dragging of the United States. […]
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Counselling Often Beats Pills
[October 2011] Irish doctors over-prescribe anti-depressants, writes Éibhir Mulqueen One of Ireland’s most recognisable actor exports, Gabriel Byrne, is now famous in the US for a role whose function has just registered in his home country. For the last three years, Byrne has played Dr Paul Weston, a well-to-do psychotherapist in New York featured in […]
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Illustration: Phil Connors. [Archive, October 2011] Gary Fitzgerald on how and why the public interest has been hijacked. From 1995 until 2007 Ireland experienced one of the largest asset-price bubbles in the history of the world. We are now living with the fallout: negative equity and huge personal indebtedness. Recently there have been growing calls […]
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‘The bogs are gone’
[October 2011] Commissioner Potočnik hauled in Minister Deenihan and made it very clear that Ireland would indeed face an eye-watering daily fine if the turf-cutting didn’t stop, writes Tony Lowes In the ongoing turf wars, Ming the Mendacious and his followers were struck what may be a fatal blow last month. Minister for the Environment […]