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Dermot McLaughlin mismanaged Temple Bar and, facilitated by the uncontrolled Arts Council which never took responsibility for failures in Temple Bar, is now arrogantly calling out mismanagement in Listowel. By Michael Smith Temple Bar Properties converted Temple Bar into a high-rent drink-driven cultural centre in the 1990s. Its focus then moved from physical regeneration to […]
The stench of death associated with the Kincora child sex abuse scandal is heady. It includes the murder of a Westminster MP by an MI5 agent inside the IRA. The murderous agent was Alfredo ‘Freddie’ Scappaticci. The victim was Robert Bradford, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party. He […]
Conor Lehihan probes ‘Anatomy of a Lie’ by Paul R Hyde. Sir Roger Casement was an icon for the British Empire in the Edwardian age. His two peripatetic reports on the degradation of natives and exploitation in the Congo and the Amazon were truly ground-breaking in the evolution of human rights. They were also solace […]
RTE’s lead talent has rarely covered environmental topics and the range of gas-guzzling cars he drives goes some way to explain why. By Conor O’Carroll. Amid the ongoing controversy over payments made to Ryan Tubridy through a barter account by RTÉ as part of a sponsorship arrangement with Renault, his relationship with cars ought to […]
Prigozhin is a Putin construct and illustrates underlying Russian structural deficiencies including indulgence of oligarchs and a dysfunctional relationship between the public and private sectors that I recall from my time there. By Conor Lenihan. The Russian government has gone to enormous lengths to maintain an illusion of business as usual on the domestic front, but […]
If the goal of RTÉ is to be the nation on the airwaves, it always appears instead like a clique. By Suzie Mélange.
Radical opinion from the European Court of Justice’s Advocate-General suggests EU Commission is closing down the EU’s non-scientific, short-term, socio-economic approach to total allowable catches of cod, whiting and plaice when those overfished stocks are caught as inevitable by-catch. By Tony Lowes. The EU Commission dealt with this in a way similar to the ‘no […]
PBMay-June 2023May-June 20235It seems so long ago that this column would start with nice animal drawings of the US President. Now all Villager’s Presidential ideas are typed.Bumpy for TrumpieManhattan DA Alvin Bragg, sitting on his 34-point indictment, may soon have company in his pursuit of Trump, from prosecutors elsewhere. Special counsel Jack Smith is considering […]
Introduction. Chris Moore, formerly a reporter with BBC NI, was among a small group of – genuinely – courageous journalists who put their lives and careers at risk by reporting the hard truth about the Kincora child abuse scandal when it first erupted in the 1980s. He has never stopped. Moore has posted a story […]
Introduction. In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General, Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues decided to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs that “a direct armed clash between the army and the [Loyalist Ulster Defence Association], when the former was already facing the IRA, […]
The interdepartmental Rubik’s cube of work permissions for migrants yields a passive income for the official account owners from the labour of vulnerable non-European workers who have to risk life-and-limb while working without insurance, leading the basic payment per delivery for a Deliveroo worker in Ireland to drop from €4.39 to €2.90
The Environment and Emergencies Forum 2023 addressed how to balance environmentalism and humanitarianism, focusing on crises in Haiti, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine
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Ireland’s two years on the Security Council added little special and our diplomats should perhaps be more modest
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General Order No 1 issued by the US Chiefs of Staff and approved by President Truman, following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II, mandated theoccupation of Japan and Japanese-controlled areas, including Taiwan, by forces of the Allied Powers
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The second phase of the extinction appears to have been driven by global heating
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Moylisha on the Carlow-Wicklow border is united in hostility to the prospect of Lithium mining
Dealing with planning matters in a specialised planning list is better – and cheaper
EU Commission tells ECJthat social and economic, as well as scientific,factors, must be weighed by Minister for Marine in deciding if the taking of a fish species, that is safeguarded by a quota of zero but which is inevitably caught when targeting another fish species, renders the whole catch illegal
Only a handful of the rainforest projects managed by the world’s leading provider of carbon offsetting showed evidence of deforestation reductions
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EPA research shows we are on track to cut emissions by only 12.8 per cent by 2030 instead of the government’s target of 35 per cent