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December 2016 issue. Six months have been a long time in politics for Northern First Minister Arlene Foster, as storm clouds have gathered round her ascetic political persona. In May she consolidated the DUP vote and seat numbers in the Assembly elections. She seemed master of the political scene, just like newly-minted British Conservative leader, […]
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This November marks the second anniversary of my successful gender equality case at the Equality Tribunal against NUI Galway for its failure to appoint me to the post of Senior Lecturer. It was hailed as a landmark case and should have been a call to arms, not just for NUI Galway, but for all third-level […]
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“Don’t Hug Your Mother”. This is the order our father gave to my brother JP and me as we were on our way to visit our mother. It was just over a year after our parents had separated. We were ten and twelve years of age. My father’s demands were the beginning of a process […]
It could not be clearer. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 says that public bodies must, when they are preparing strategic plans, assess and identify the human rights and equality issues that are relevant to their functions as policy maker, employer and service provider. Public bodies must also identify the policies and practices […]
‘From Bended knee to a New Republic: How the fight for water is changing Ireland’ by Brendan Ogle, promises in its opening pages to take us on a journey “through the travails of a nation broken, sold and left in penury”. Ogle, unlike the many politicians and political parties he describes, fulfils this promise. The book […]
The author is a senior lecturer in the department of Modern History at Liverpool’s hope University. He has carefully mined the available documentary sources to produce a book that covers Haughey’s, much disputed disposition and policy instincts on Northern Ireland. Given the longevity and impact of Haughey’s career this, by definition, involves a painstaking trawl through […]
There is this extraordinary conjunction of interest between the legal profession and parliament. Lawyers in Ireland play a very active part in the political system. In 2010 there were 16 barristers and solicitors in Dáil Eireann – ten percent of the total. There are strong historical associations between the professions of politics and the law. […]
The consumerism-generating-capitalism- it usefully loyal, generating-consumerism cycle that characterises the developed or ‘Northern’ world depends on inequality, even as it purveys certain equalities, and is the main obstacle to tackling climate change, the most serious long-term problem facing humanity. Capitalism is struggling to maintain itself. In one formal sense this is good for equality. A crucial weakness […]
According to a recent IMF study, there are reasons to worry about a new housing-markets-triggered financial blowout. And although IMF data suggest that we are not at panic level regarding house-price inflation its researchers conclude that “there are several reasons to think that the present conjuncture is a time for vigilance”.
The Irish media and national politicians are facilitating cover-ups of a range of issues – from the issues missed by feeble tribunals to Sugarman, Ansbacher, CRH and planning in Donegal
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Former Texas Governor and 2012 Presidential Candidate, who has been chosen by US President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for energy secretary.
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In 1898 US PresidentWilliam McKinley decided it was time for the USA to have colonies and that Cuba would be first
The 2017 presidential election is a boring soap opera where the only excitement is the danger of the result
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The new American President is post-science just as he is post-truth
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Consumerism is sacred, nature dispensable
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€260m has been spent on the Limerick Regeneration programme since its inception in 2008. After a bad start a reasonable effort is now underway but new build is far less than intended.
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Boycott campaign derides organic standards for farmed salmon
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Parental Alienation in Ireland in 2016
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Blue Drum convenings suggest an appetite for change, for community cultural laboratories and for public-value cultural entrepreneurs
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The stereotypes about Europeans, traced in Tintin books, are changing
