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Terry Kelleher was born in 1948, in Dublin. His dad was a doctor in the British Army so he was educated in schools in Egypt, Austria, Germany, and eventually Wicklow. His elder brother John, later movie producer (‘Eat the Peach’) and film censor, recalls teaching him to walk, lured by sweets, on the Empress of […]
If Britain leaves the EU single market and customs union while the Republic stays in the EU, the North-South border within Ireland will become an EU land frontier, with customs controls inevitable and possibly passport controls. EU-based laws and standards, for example in relation to crime and justice, would prevail in the South and British-based […]
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Donald Trump conjures such intense images that it is difficult to frame recollections of a man who made him possible. What memories flood back in your mind’s eye when you think of his Republican predecessor? Weapons of Mass Destruction? That awful expression, like a ghost stirring at the back of your mind? Perhaps you smile? […]
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Even with the likelihood of charges for wasteful use of water, as recommended by the Report on the Funding of Domestic Public, the State will remain much more central to water provision than under erring market environmentalist models.
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Around 25% of the population of the earth use Facebook. Its latest accounts, presenting figures up to December 31st 2016, reveal that, at peak, there were 1.83 billion active users, 1.74 billion of those connecting from a mobile device. Figures for Ireland are less clear-cut, but 65% to 78% of the adult population is estimated […]
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RUC Chief Superintendent whose death was the Smithwick Tribunal’s focus, was not as innocent as the tribunal extraordinarily contrived to believe. Smithwick failed to ascertain how and why he was murdered and credible sources are now telling Village why Harry Breen may have been of particular interest to the IRA.
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The highest compliment I can pay Mark Williams is that after reading his ‘Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth’, I have an appetite to learn the Irish language. He exposes to the light a literary inheritance that has barely flickered in the Irish national consciousness since independence in 1922. It allows […]
Trump is a conduit for two distinct projects: Steve Bannon’s meta-historical ‘Fourth Turning’ and the tech-revivalism of PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Both intend to “drain the swamp” and build condos on top of it for themselves.
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The Right Honourable The Lord Michael Howard of Lympne CH PC QC, born 1941
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Rehabilitating George W is possible only because Trump makes all his predecessors look good
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The logic of following the UK out
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Lessons for the warming but confused citizenry from the failed 1970s predictions of global cooling
Trump’s rise – and policy on climate change – is a symptom of diseased, money-driven US politics
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On a finite planet there is no going back but reviving common ownership is one possible route to social transformation
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Even if most of the recent legacy is subpar
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From the eighth to the eleventh century Ireland nurtured an outstanding vernacular literature
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‘The Night Of’ complicates conventional scriptwriting formulas. The lawyer saves the cat, but the cat saves him. When Naz gets his saviour back all characters are freed to empathise, and survive.
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Case against Leo Sherlock’s popular Liberal.ie by CCC Nuacht and Independent Newspapers for copyright breaches adjourned
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Actually RTÉ is quite good value, though the water-tax debacle means it won’t be properly funded
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Catholic congregations are paying for Protestant abuse, though media are uninterested
