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Mary Harney now
It’s (still) time to go, for a Minister without either party or achievements.
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A Left divided
Practical efforts to unite the radical Irish left are now going nowhere.
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Ireland undervalues equality
The equality agenda is collapsing
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“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” – so sang The Clash in their classic hit of the 1980s. According to two contributors to the December edition of Village, it is a question being asked by many members of City and County Councils, particularly in the Dublin area. In the December issue, former Councillor Mick […]
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Our Thatcherite in Europe
One thing you can’t fault Charlie McCreevy for is his consistency. The palpitations in the world economy might have exposed his allergy to financial regulation as reckless, yet McCreevy’s faith in unfettered capitalism remains undimmed. Since taking up his post as the EU’s single market commissioner in 2004, McCreevy has repeatedly recited the mantra ‘less […]
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Time to break the political mould
Progressive political forces and parties must ally electorally to offer a real alternative at the next election, says Peadar Kirby
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Lessons from Dell
The loss of almost 2,000 jobs at Dell’s Limerick plant was a body-blow to the city as the recession started to bite
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Tensions rise as media standards fall Media need to look to the facts, not ideology Tensions between the local community and the Shell-led gas consortium in north-west Mayo have considerably deepened following the sinking of the shellfish boat owned by Pat ‘the Chief’ O’Donnell in mid June. The sinking of his boat and the arrest […]
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Journalism, politics and property are interdependent.
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No sooner had the boom come crashing down in 2008-2009, than right-wing commentators came out of the woodwork insisting on a ‘quick fix’
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Reflections on Tony Gregory
Maureen O’Sullivan succeeded to Tony Gregory’s seat on Dublin City Council after his death in January 2009. Here, his long term political colleague offers reflections on Gregory’s life and career.
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“The people who got us into this mess in the first place are not the people to get us out of it”. [David McWilliams, Irish Independent, 19 November 2008] This is the most pertinent advice from any journalist since the simmering economic crisis boiled over. In general, however, a crushing absence of credibility infuses Ireland’s […]
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Declan Ganley, snakeoil salesman
The honeymoon is over for Declan Ganley and brand “Libertas”. But the brand‘s keeper, having being carried grinning over the publicity threshold by the sycophantic initial media coverage, is none too happy about it. In fact he seems to be verging on a paranoia which is shared, for example, by one of the latest “successful […]
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If you had been born Smith you too might suffer from sneaking regardery for more exotic names.
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The Legacy of the PDs
On the last programme of the “Bertie” series on RTE there was a clip of Mary Harney claiming credit for deregulation and tax cuts – the realisation of the PD agenda. And there was another clip of Charlie McCreevy acknowledging that without the PDs in government he would never have been able to achieve the […]
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The notion that Bertie Ahern would assist a group of US venture capitalists to take a chunk of equity in the major Irish banks is as risible as it is dangerous for the economic future of the country. His role in advising Drumcondra- born Nick Corcoran of the Mallabraca consortium surfaced on the same day […]
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What a difference a decade makes! Since the opening of public hearings ten years ago, there has been a sustained effort to transform the perception of the Flood/Mahon tribunal into corruption from a role as ethical saviour of Irish politics to one of a glorious waste of public money. At the outset it was going […]
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Brian Lenihan’s “Farmleigh Formula” of courting an eclectic group of venture capitalists, hedge funds and Irish oligarchs to re-capitalise the banks appears to be the Government’s only big idea for reforming and restructuring this crucial sector that affects all of our lives. Brian Lenihan should be wary of vulture financiers posing as good Samaritans. The […]
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John Rawls (1921-2002) is often said to be the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century. He was a professor at Harvard University in the right-on seventies. His most famous work is A Theory of Justice (1971). He refined it endlessly which made an already over-elaborate theory even trickier. His theory is intricate, full of […]
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With the collapse of hands-off capitalism in the Western World, it’s nice to live in a country where the leader has his hands on everything. That, at least, seems to be the mood in Italy, where Berlusconi’s approval rating has soared to seventy per cent as the markets have plunged. The key to understanding the […]