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China has used Kim Jong-un to distract and bamboozle Donald Trump while in the background it has outmanoeuvred US economic and strategic interests in Asia. Beijing is now in pole position to dominate the South China Seas and the $5 trillion worth of trade which passes through it annually. Japan, the US and the UK will be the big losers
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Our man in North Korea is now home
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Irish media hammer Russia factlessly and ignore Turkey whose human rights practice is much worse but which is in Nato
Last month Village described how Eric Witchell, the paedophile who ran Williamson House for orphans and neglected children in Belfast
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Shops focus not on quality or even appearance but on varieties that travel, so grow your own
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Met Eireann’s Evelyn Cusack has been slower than the World Meteorological Organisation to attribute current severe weather to climate change
A new Act will prohibit new licences for Ireland’s offshore oil and gas industry
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From the modalities of a Russian meme to the universal malaise. By Shane Fitzgerald
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Dublin City Council permits demolition of oldest theatre. By Michael Smith
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The Irish Film Board rebrands as Screen Ireland
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Podcasting is about to take its next great leap as Google makes it easier for Android users and gets into audio advertising making Podcasting more attractive to corporate advertisers
Michael Smith interviews Max Keiser
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It’s still a man’s world in street names, so positive discrimination is needed for living feminists
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Think again about income and social welfare
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The documents with Hugh Mooney’s handwriting on them
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Only a covert counsel can splash the dirt as the presumption of suspects’ innocence takes a popular pounding
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In this book 18 essays written by associates of Coughlan in his political activities bear on the man himself, those activities and related matters. Reviewed by Desmond Fennell
Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star Movement [5SM]
As the French courts prepare to prosecute Ian Bailey in absentia, there is growing speculation that gardaí targeted him for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in order to protect the real suspect
After evidence emerges of a covert British police unit operating in NI and of police infiltrations of campaigns dating back to 1970, it is time to reopen all the inquiries to see whether covert British police officer ‘Mark Duffy’ arranged for the parachute regiment to run amok in 1972