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Feminism Rule
“I have never been an equality feminist. I have never coveted the lives that men lead, whether they are down the mine, or on the corporate ladder”
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Public Setors Employee Payment
Mainstream opinion is set against public-sector workers but the figures don’t add up
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“Garda sources have consistently given statements to the press which indicate their loyalty to the developer”
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The PPP Mistake
Public-sector alternatives to the infrastructure market and Public Private Partnerships in Ireland, the US and worldwide
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A New Politics For a New Decade
Upgrade the C and AG, improve transparency and anti-corruption laws and develop a vision of the public interest
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How To Boost Enterprise In Ireland
“lending to the private sector by banks has gone from a 30% annual increase to a 3% decrease”
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“The best example of subsidies from the upper-middle-classes to the state is found in the private health insurance held by over 40% of Irish people”
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Yer Man About The House
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.
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Letter To The Editors
Letter To The Editors
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“…we all know Woods’ behaviour is predictable and, frankly, commonplace.”
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Sexism in The 2010s
Sexuality is complex, discrimination is controversial and sexual discrimination is an aggregate of the fraught fractiousness of its components
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Day Of Action, November 6
“…talks effectively collapsed in June when the Government refused to entertain a union proposal for a €1 billion jobs stimulus and guarantees that public-sector pay would not be further cut”
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Height in Dublin City By Michael Smith Dublin City Council is pushing a high-rise strategy through the Development Plan variation process. After fractious public meetings it has toned down an initial draft of what it called in somewhat Orwellian terms: “Maximising the City: A strategy for densification and height”. If successful it will come into […]
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Shoddy governance, low staff morale and a rash of inexplicable resignations at the Red Cross mean it’s time for a change. by Michael Smith The venerable irish Red Cross (IRC) is controlled by four or five people who serve on what is called the Executive Committee (EC) – a governance structure comprising only volunteers. The […]
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View from the wheelhouse Miriam Cotton (2009) Mayo fisherman, Pat ‘The Chief’ O’ Donnell, has been a vocal objector to the present configuration of the Corrib Gas project. Last year he was instrumental in preventing Shell from laying its disputed pipeline in Broadhaven Bay. Below are excerpts from an interview in which he claims he […]
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A society that does not learn from its mistakes may be condemned to repeat them. Ireland was a poor country, generated a once-in-a-century boom during our lifetimes and allowed itself to be hijacked by corrupt and cute right-wing solipsists.
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Ireland’s Most Influential 100, 2009
We asked an informed and not unrepresentative group of people to list who they think are the most influential people in Ireland; and to rank them unattributably. We did not seek to influence contributors’ views of what “influential” means, except to say that it extends beyond politics and perhaps embraces “making a difference in society”; and that the candidates must be alive. The contributors did not express any views on the merits of the people they ranked. We aggregated the contributions mathematically to form the list below.