Peadar Kirby

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    The end of Ireland’s low-tax model?

    As lobby groups have organised to try to reverse some of the cutbacks in Brian Lenihan’s first budget, little attention has been paid to the fact that the cutbacks and their impact are the direct consequence of policies that gave us 15 years of unprecedented economic boom. For Ireland’s successful model, which was eyed with […]

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    Reward for information about Libertas funding

    Village Magazine offers a €10,000 reward for comprehensive, verifiable information about the funding of the Libertas campaign on the Lisbon Treaty communicated exclusively and before 31 Dec 2008 to Village Magazine (editor@villagemagazine.ie) for possible publication. All contact and information will be treated in strictest confidence. No imputation of illegality is asserted or intended.

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    Live the Language

    I recently discovered that the famous Hollywood heart-throb, Matthew McConaughey, and myself, have something in common. We would both like our children to learn Irish in a Gaeltacht. I am already ahead of him slightly as I am raising my toddler here in the Connemara Gaeltacht, the same one that I was raised in for […]

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    There are systemic risks of errors

    You may not be sick of the election yet, but give it time. One of the more depressing aspects of elections is how little coverage is given to discussions of the merits of different policy options or the plausibility of the teams on offer, and how much is given to treating the election as a […]

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