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Irish infrastructure used in US Drone strikes
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All together now
Restore political life by restoring community life
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Not quite feeling the Bern
McWilliams and Sanders at the Bord Gáis
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Neoliberalism cloaked as modernity
Ireland should brace for market worship dressed up as equality of opportunity and favouring those who get up early
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Henry Phelan
Unarmed and drinking lemonade with colleagues in Mullinahone off-duty, the first garda murdered was shot in the face, probably mistaken for his brother, in 1922
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Ungenerous Ireland
Economic migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and asylum-seekers-turned-refugees
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Sean McEniff
hotelier and rogue king of Bundoran’s slots
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Leo’s paradox
A radical would have no place in unradical Fine Gael
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Exoneration
Former Manager Sheehy had clear understanding of the law and ethics though Wicklow Council breached EU waste law
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Cookeing up a NAMA investigation
Judge John Cooke’s remit is usefully wide as there is much that has not been investigated by PAC; though key potential witnesses may not co-operate, and Michael Noonan is now gone
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The nasty party?
NORA OWEN whose appeal is otherwise limited but who seems to know a lot about Fine Gael
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In the acknowledgement section of philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s last major book, he thanked his editorial assistant for a “pertinent critique” of the draft work. As he was then finishing up working for Ricoeur, in 2014, that editorial assistant, fresh-faced Emmanuel Macron, professed himself “like an excited child at the end of a show”. Macron, now […]
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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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Confusion fuels need for mediation
Not entirely due to its own efforts, Aosdána has often been more associated with controversy and letters-page hullaballoos than its members’ artistic fruits – perhaps most darkly in 1997, after writer Francis Stuart’s horrific remark on Channel 4 that “the Jew was always the worm that got into the rose and sickened it”. Back then, […]
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The London-based Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was established in 2014. It has a mandate to investigate VIP abusers with links to Westminster. Regrettably, it cannot be described as truly independent since it is a creature of the Home Office, the parent department of MI5 which blackmailed, protected and exploited paedophile networks in […]
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May Be Not
Theresa May was born in 1956, in Eastbourne, England, only child of Hubert Brasier and Zaidee Mary May. May’s grandmother Violet chose the name Zaidee, because she was highly religious and Zaidee is the name of Abraham’s wife in the Old Testament. Her father was a Church of England clergyman who served as Vicar of […]
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The ruins of summer
Growing up on the Mill Road in the suburb of Corbally in Limerick, I was always intrigued by what I considered to be the remains of an entrance to an ancient Greek temple leading down into the river. A forgotten gathering place bereft of any purpose. Having moved to Dublin I discovered other open-air baths […]
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Editorial: The Nasty Party?
Nora Owen whose appeal is otherwise limited but who seems to know a lot about Fine Gael, of which she was once deputy leader, including perhaps what it represents, says Leo Varadkar came to her constituency as a 17-year-old and that “he was appallingly right-wing and very aggressive”. He was also overweight and seems to […]