COLM MCCARTHY REVIEWS Eoin O’Malley’s absorbing ‘Charlie v Garret: the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland’, Eriu/Bonnier Books (just published)
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THE LAW
Increased scarring from post-surgical infection justifies
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Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia
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There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.
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Government will tweak
income-tax bands again
in October, but don’t
expect pole-dancing and
it will quietly take a little
back is PRSI -
warm but steely politician with a cultural hinterland and proud of her big family and Council-estate roots; a Republican who’s not backing down on Hamas, equality, the environment or anything else
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Dublin City Council must not sell out the public domain of a vulnerable community off St Stephen’s Green to facilitate RCSI branding, but defer to elected representatives and finally assert the public interest
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Immigrant-student employees at Conor McGregor’s pub speak out about dubious legality of their employment and being allowed to work more than 20 hours in term time
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Procedural issues and differences
of emphasis among the relatives are
delaying the substantive hearings -
Nobody cares about SIPO, least of all RTÉ and the Irish Times, as evidenced by coverage of its hearings, especially the recent one finding FF’s Meath Cathaoirleach, Tommy Reilly, attended meetings that yielded his son a €3.7m book profit.
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Norma Foley, Leo Varadkar and other Ministers, quoting Bus Éireann and the Department of Education, have misled the Dáil on dozens of occasions about school-transport finances
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Back then to the lonely editorial in Village’s last edition which generated some hostility
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In Gaza, dreams
Resilience among the rubble By Eman Abu Zayed On the night of October 6 2023, I laid out my clothes for university like I always did neatly folded on the chair next to my bed. I packed my bag with books, charged my phone, and set my alarm for 6:30 a.m. Earlier that day, I […]
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Nailing the institutional culprits, ignored by Ireland’s deficient media By Irvin Muchnick In Ireland’s public square, I now ask yet again: “Why was Gibney living in Florida and who sponsored his Green Card?” The long-elusive goal of a second prosecution of at least some of George Gibney’s countless alleged sexual abuses of young swimmers now […]
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By Frank Connolly a 35-acre site at Liscarton was purchased for €500,000 in 2016 and placed on the market for €4.2m a year later, after rezoning A public inquiry by the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) (13 and 16 June) into the conduct of former Meath County Council Chairperson and Fianna Fáil councillor Tommy […]
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I now live in Leatherhead, the beginning and end of H.G. Wells’s prophetic War of the Worlds (1898). Wells summoned a Martian invasion of sleepy Essex in a parable of complacency. In my last substantial contribution to Village, I charted the rise of the far right as a response to the collapse of the neoliberal […]
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Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, a beacon of resilience and a tireless advocate for justice reform, passed away at the age of seventy-six in a tragic house fire in Glenmacmurrin, County Galway, Ireland, today June 3, 2025. Also perishing in the blaze was Kevin Kelly, her carer. Her partner Peter Pringle, who I also knew, died in […]
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David Burke names MI6 agents within Garda and DoJ during TroublesFrank Connolly on misreporting of Project Eagle Commission report
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T’S BEEN a long four months since our last publication. Some of that is because it’s not clear what the future is for a magazine like Village.
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