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Ireland is known for its literature, but not for its science fiction. There is not a great number of Irish writers in the genre, but it is a puzzling fact that major international authors such as James White and Bob Shaw are barely known in their native Ireland. Science fiction often imagines alternative life-worlds, which […]
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The death at 81 of Sean McEniff removes one of the last old-style political fixers from Ireland’s political landscape. McEniff was the co-owner of the Tyrconnell Group, a hotel chain. In 2007 Tyrconnell had merged with the Brian McEniff Hotel Group, owned by his brother, Brian McEniff, an All-Ireland-winning manager of Donegal football team, to […]
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The 2015 Summer refugee ‘crisis’ was the moment when refugees entered the European consciousness as an existential dilemma. Many European media asked if this influx represented the death of the Schengen line, the free travel zone and even of the European project. The pan-European furore that followed contributed to the Brexit vote. Indeed it is […]
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Launching a new newspaper is a tricky proposition at the best of times, but in the middle of historic declines in print circulation, as titles struggle to manage the transition to digital first publication, it seems downright bloody-minded. Yet that’s what News UK’s Dublin outlet has decided to do, with a daily print product following […]
In the foyer collected a curious mix of tattooed half-American lefties, millionaires, NAMA refugees, journalists, politicians and the plummy denizens of Dalkey. Interestingly there did not seem to be a presence from Ireland’s hard left or even soft left, though Eamon Ryan was there. What they were there for, surprisingly, was Senator Bernie Sanders, recent […]
While the consequences of the UK’s decision to leave the EU remain unclear, one thing is certain – the power and influence Ireland, North and South, will exercise over the final decision-making is limited. The hype in May of this year over apparent ‘concessions’ gained by Ireland from the EU, about an early resolution to […]
Now that the long-awaited Commission of Investigation into the sale of Project Eagle has been conceded it remains to be seen which players will actually be on the pitch when the inquiry is finally convened. As predicted by Village several months ago, there was no chance that Enda Kenny or Michael Noonan would still be […]
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Tony Gallagher, appointed as editor-in-chief of The Sun in September 2015
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Interpreting an unusually honest politician who claims to be neither left nor right
MI5 and MI6 divert resources from persuing ISIS to cover up its paedophile blackmailings
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Chair of UK investigation (IICSA) changes suspiciously often as it investigates role of MI5 and MI6 in protecting paedophile networks under pressure from hypnotic cover-up powers of the British establishment
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UK Prime Minister not up to much
Populism, nationalism, globalisation, left/right wing and other slippery terms
In which Ireland gets an unthinktank, the self-styled Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) founded by Professor Ray Bates and sponsoring talks by discredited contrarians attended by a few from Met Éireann
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The decline of the country’s public baths is a symbol of our lack of interest in common spaces and the common good
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Old-growth deciduous forests are superior in resilience and fire resistance
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The Arts Council is moving in on Aosdána’s Toscaireacht but nobody knows just why, or even how
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Irish science fiction, dominated by writers from industrial Belfast but including works by Samuel Beckett, Kevin Barry and Louise O’Neill, demonstrates critical thinking in action
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‘24’ and ‘Homeland’ predicted a a female President and more or less Obama, but not Trump whose world seems to feature in Designated Survivor
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The London Times goes Irish in pursuit of a gap in the market for quality outward looking news and opinion
