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Michael Smith It is tuesday lunchtime in Liffey Valley and I am meeting Claire Tully, Ireland’s only Page 3 model. She enters the “Arc” bar – tiny – and apologises for not wearing make-up. I am not sure if people recognise her: the transients of shoppingland keep their thoughts to themselves, though I detect occasional celebrity […]
They include responsibility; the consequences for others; and, perhaps, biology itself
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They triumphed and they never got complacent
Women still travel abroad for abortions but it is unclear if abortions to save women’s lives are ever carried out in Ireland
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Public-sector alternatives to the infrastructure market and Public Private Partnerships in Ireland, the US and worldwide Dexter Whitfield In my book, Global Auction of Public Assets I examine Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Ireland and 11 other countries. The continuing fiscal crisis and flood damage could see the government further expand the role of PPPs. […]
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Mainstream opinion is set against public-sector workers but the figures don’t add up
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Former head of IDA calls for IFSC-style enterprise-generation model
Person of the Year As Time magazine names Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman its person of the year – famously with no comment on whether the winner is a good or bad force, Villager bestows his Irish honour on Brian Lenihan. Lenihan topped Village’s most influential person list last month and is clearly the driving […]
A box would have done it yer man extends the hand of sympathy across the continent to Silvio Berlusconi, Europe’s most cosmetically dynamic and artfully-coiffed premier on the occasion of the breaking of his expensive nose by a statuette in Milan.
Without civil marriage we remain second-class citizens Senator David Norris You’re probably thinking what in the name of God is that fellow bellyaching about now. Them old fairies are never satisfied. In fact I have become something of an extinct volcano. I feel like writing into the paper like those Anglo birdwatchers. My letter would […]
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We hear calls for Irish intellectuals, not only economists, to produce new thinking about the present and future of Irish society and politics. In effect these are calls for Irish intellectuals to help the nation by becoming creative thinkers about the human condition and its requirements in Ireland now. Such calls are understandable in the […]
kind of musician/composer is Paul McCartney? This may seem like an odd question, given that his unprecedented and unparalleled commercial success, even if it has not always been matched by concomitant critical approval, means that everyone thinks they have the story on Paul. After all, McCartney is listed in The Guinness Book Of Records as […]
Frank Convery – Chairman of COMHAR, the Sustainability Development Council and Peter Clinch – now special advisor to the Taoiseach on economics, were the lead authors of a 2001 report that suggested Irish forestry could account for almost 10% of Ireland’s reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, as other justifications have been steadily […]
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Hello Niall,
Before we begin, allow me to thank you for engaging in this discussion. My objective is to try to get at something I think important rather than create vast reserves of heat.
My opening question, which I’ll outline in an attempt to define the central issue as I see it, relates to the concept of “equality” as referred to in contemporary socio-ideological discourse. I don’t mean the dictionary definition, with which I have no quarrel. My problem, as someone who has for many years written about issues affecting men, women and children, is that “equality” …
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Equality authority loses case against Portmarnock golf club in Supreme Court Donncha O’Connell Some men need to play a version of golf called ‘male golf’ and can, in order to realise that need, run a golf club in which membership is open exclusively to male players of male golf on the understanding that the principal […]
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Germaine Greer Feminism is not a concept that requires definition. To define it would be to limit it when it is still in the phase of development. Rather too much time is being wasted already on arguing about whether this or that is true feminism or not. The general discourse is not helped by the […]
An Bord Pleanála and the Garda Ombudsman criticise Shell and the gardai respectively Michael McCaughan An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has rejected the proposed route for the Corrib pipeline as “unacceptable” on safety grounds. The ruling was unequivocal: houses along the route were “within the hazard range of the pipeline should a failure occur”, while “design […]
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Upgrade the C and AG, improve transparency and anti-corruption laws and develop a vision of the public interest
David Andrews resigned as Chairman of the Irish Red Cross Society (IRCS) following Village’s October article calling for him to step aside in view of issues of corporate governance and propriety including the mysteriously-delayed payment of funds raised for the Asian tsunami, under his watch. At a meeting on 28 November of the central council David Andrews referred to “wretched scribes”.
Taxes benefit society less than has been assumed as ‘the Keynesian Multiplier’ is finally being reassessed
