A few Docklands successes do not mean Dublin’s fragile human-scale city centre can handle increased height in its historic areas
Emma Gilleece
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And Sinn Féin makes three
With the new Dáil term beginning today, any new post-election alignment could be terminal for Micheál Martin’s leadership.
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Bringing Booking.com to book
A grabby, contract-flouting Killarney guesthouse is outclassed by the emollient Merchant Hotel, Manchester.
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Irish newspapers try a bit of dynamism
With print sales declining, it is ever-clearer that podcasting and email are part of the future
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Shut up and talk
What’s to be done about North Korea? More importantly, when should it have been done? Not today or yesterday anyway.
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Obituary: Seán O’Callaghan
He would have damaged the IRA more if he had told the truth about it, rather than turning informer.
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Government-aided unaffordability
Ireland currently has no affordable housing scheme, and no plans to introduce one. We don’t even have a definition of what an affordable house is
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Red herrings and reds
Questions on Sinn Féin dominate Solidarity-PBP think-in press conference.
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Pain, again, with no sign of gain
No signs of rental insanity abating, as average rents climb to yet another all-time high.
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Our September cover story: how marketing manipulates us into a manic consumption of clothing, and what we should do about it.
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Leo puts the reputational cart before the horse; “affordable” housing in Dalkey; and no change in Ireland’s quality of water – news miscellany from the latest issue.
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The boardwalk is a substitute for resolving the quays themselves. They need to be greened and redesigned to reach their full potential.
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Hurricane harbingers
Climate change exacerbates catastrophic storms from Donegal to Houston, South Asia to the Carribean. The political reaction is unstrategic and unrealistic.
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Barry Cowen of Fianna Fáil, like Banquo’s brother, has proposed “a VAT holiday for a sunset period for the construction sector”.
With so much at stake and the danger that once again quantity will prevail over quality, it’s time to work out how construction might enrich our society.
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The pundits were DUPed
The DUP is no closer to the backwoods on corruption, abortion, or LGBT rights, than Fianna Fáil was a decade ago, or the SDLP are now.
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Failed by England
“They are from everywhere – from Asia, Africa, Europe”. Thus a North Ken resident in reaction to the horrific fire in its poorest quarter. And – in deference to his interviewer: “The Irish Diaspora is here…”. In my day, all of fifty years ago, there was no talk of ‘The Irish Diaspora’, that grand term. […]
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Ireland staying in the EU while Britain leaves will only make reunification more difficult, says Anthony Coughlan.
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A Gaelscoil is under inexplicable pressure to move from an ideal site in Wicklow to an overpriced, small, and awkward site in Rathnew.
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Corbyn offended the liberal fraternity, but his socialist ideas need a fair hearing, perhaps promoted by the young, the media-savvy, and the intelligentsia
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The toxic secrets Peter Wright withheld about MI5, MI6, the Establishment, and Northern Ireland