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Reazoning For Mammon
March/April 2022 19 scheme is purely for rental and does not meet the need for local residents and their community for housing which is integrated and provides for people of mixed incomes as well as appropriate social housing. The scheme includes provision for the required 10 per cent social and 10 per cent aordable housing. […]
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RISING Tensions
March/April 2022 17 around Moore Street was not reflected in the final recommendation. Claims that the compensation offer was conditional on accepting the Hammerson proposals have been rejected by ocials of the Council and the Department of Heritage with knowledge of the negotiations. Butcher, Stephen Troy, has claimed his business on Moore St will be […]
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Everywhere Salvatore of Lucan’s art combines a rigorous and searching honesty about all the most characteristic aspects of a single place, time and self with the intense feeling of a world which is not that place and time – even his name: as much serious as joking, as much old as completely new. […]
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6 Ormond Quay Upper Dublin 7 D07H324 The Secretary An Bord Pleanála 64 Marlborough St Dublin 1 D01 V902 14 April 2022. By email only to bord@pleanala.ie, communications@pleanala.ie Re: the imperative of An Bord Pleanála pursuing a criminal complaint under Sections 147-149 and 156-157 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (the “Act”) against […]
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14 March/April 2022 I N the chairman of ISME (the small and medium enterprise lobbyist), Seamus Butler, wildly alleed that – in my capacity as CEO of ISME – I’d been involved in fraud of the EU by submittin unpaid invoices for payment of EU rants. In fact, unknown to me and after ISME […]
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Dolphin Square VIP sex abuse. Dolphin Square was opened in London’s Pimlico in 1936. It soon became a magnet for all sorts of scandal and intrigue: espionage, political, sexual, not to mention mysterious deaths. ‘Scandal at Dolphin Square’ provides a riveting account of the lives of a rolling maul of fascinating and complex characters. As […]
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a few hundred pages of hard books – or else a few minutes with the sculptures of Giacometti Theorists try to understand the world as if unfolding in a giant process with certain rules, whereas for artists the point is to observe it as a spectacle of which any thoughts and representations are just […]
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10 March/April 2022 T his is a tale of greed, destruction, violence, corruption and betrayal. The Quinn Group business employing 7000 with profits of €500m/year has turned into a husk of itself with only 800 employees and meagre profits with its construction division scandal- ously losing money. Conventional wisdom blames the recklessness of Sean Quinn […]
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In poetry the nearest figure to Patrick Kavanagh is Charles Baudelaire. Both were often destitute. Both found a verse that was above all music, not aspiring to music, like Walter Pater said of every art-form, but music itself made of words and because of it more profound. For both men the heart […]
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Try Harder Garda
Try Harder Garda
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The debate in Ireland about joining NATO, or some sort of an EU military arrangement, is now on the political agenda like never before. Pro-neutrality advocates argue that the country is sleep walking into a military alignment of one sort or another with Western military powers. They point to the fact that US air force […]
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One of Greek tragedy’s foremost concerns is the contemplation of polarities. In a part of Sophocles’s Antigone, Ismene tells her sister, “You have a warm heart for cold things”, In ancient Greek culture, warm things are alive, cold ones dead; but for Antigone, now, the fire of her life and self has its source in […]
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The Media’s treatment of the lies: an epic scandal ignored. It was March 1998. The RTE journalist Geraldine Harney informed me that I was to be dismissed by the ISME directors Peter Faulkner and Eoghan Hynes. She was doing the decent thing. Nevertheless, it was a preposterous suggestion and I told her so. However, in […]
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In a whitewashed barn decked out with Ulster flags, Union Jacks and pictures of the Queen, their leader in charge of this meeting sat at an old table. He pressed a button on a tape recorder. A voice boomed out: I address you as the commander in chief of the organisation, Silent Defenders. Author Ciarán […]
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Macron – and on
78March/April 2022And whether or not Ireland likes it, on convergence. Two years ago this is what he told the Economistabout Europe: “So, frstly, Europe is gradually losing track of its history… Europe has forgotten that it is a community, by increasingly thinking of itself as a market, with expansion as its end purpose. This is […]
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Ukraine: Ireland to Russia’s UK
76March/April 2022Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine faces being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of Russia’s one-time sphere of infuenceBy Michael SmithINTERNATIONALUkraineUkraine may have been a backwater, romanticised originally as the land of the Cossacks, until recently though it is the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia of […]
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March/April 2022 75duplicity. Despite this, we managed once again to hold the line and steer the group’s reports from developer-friendly surrenders to solid conservation manifestos. History repeatsIn 2015 we had worked with then Fianna Fáil Senator Darragh O’Brien drafting his Moore Street Renewal Bill which reimagined the area as primarily a cultural and historic hub. […]
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74March/April 2022‘Strategic Action Plan for the NPWS’ which is the planned outcome of the Review process”, he replied to a written Parliamentary question on 21 January 2022.This technique of making a fnal report part of an ongoing multi-part bigger report, to avoid release, has been resolutely struck down by the EU Commissioner for Environmental Information.Unfortunately […]