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Strategic spatial planning determines where development should take place in Ireland. It can improve the quality of life, improve society and the environment and underpin the delivery of effective public services and the capacity for economic growth at national, regional and subregional levels. In other words it decides where we live, work and play – […]
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Scottish Woodlands ravages Castleforbes woodlands in Longford, with impunity from ineffectual Forest Services, Parks and Wildlife Service and government
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Our Equality legislation covers nine grounds of discrimination. This reflects the worthy ambition to be comprehensive in attacking discrimination. However, Central Statistics Office (CSO) data suggest we are far from realising any such ambition. They show that 41% of people who feel they have been discriminated against perceive this discrimination to be on grounds other […]
On Sunday 28th August Dublin’s Croke Park hosted the all-Ireland football semi-final between Dublin and Kerry, with Dublin emerging victorious. As celebrations were taking place around Dublin that evening another significant event was taking place in the city. Prominent representatives from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Republican Sinn Féin and Sinn Féin assumed their places on […]
‘Building a just society’ was the title for the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) Pre-Budget Submission. This title reflected our concern that without a strong commitment to addressing social exclusion and economic inequalities, many people will be left to observe, rather than participate in, Ireland’s economic recovery. The recent Budget provided a key […]
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A man walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender turns to him and says: “€36.80 please”. Thinking this must be a mistake, the man asks the bartender why his drink is so expensive. “Well”, says the barman, “there was people in here earlier who got a meal and a few drinks, but […]
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The Smithwick Tribunal was set up in 2005, by the Irish Government on the advice of Michael McDowell, then Minister for Justice, and sat in public in Blackhall Place from 2011 until 2013, examining the possibility of Garda collusion in the deaths of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, of the Royal Ulster […]
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I-am-a-lawyer. I’ve said it. You may feel that positions me on the level of an amoeba or vermin but I believe I am ethical, professionally competent, creative and that I and many of my colleagues often do good things fighting on behalf of the voiceless and the victimised. But I must admit there are problems […]
Long-running tensions between Fine Gael members in County Kildare are about to create difficulties for Kildare County Council and Fine Gael following the suspension of righteous Councillor Fiona McLoughlin Healy from Fine Gael for making well-founded allegations about the leader of Fianna Fáil on the Council, allegations met with a deaf ear by of cials […]
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An intriguiging High Court action which featured allegations that a leading Kildare businessman used his political “connections” to secure favourable treatment from NAMA was settled in the High Court in late October. The judicial review application taken against NAMA arose from a dispute over valuable development lands at Straffan jointly owned by retired developer, Martin […]
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ancient history.
Trump has killed tolerance, equality, international comity, the future of this planet, and of course decency
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Scrupulous neutrality offered no way of covering Trump, so many journalists lost their nerve and became Clinton ciphers
Trump threatens a US economy which competitiveness, exports, the deficit, education, interest rates and geopolitics render fragile, but so did Hillary and Congressional Republicans may help
The Middle Eastern mess is caused by the usual imperial suspects, and their agencies
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The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.
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The NPWS report made no mention of the licence restrictions to firewood, or of the prohibition on removal of oaks. It never referred the fellings to the Forest Service, the licensing authority
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Time for consensual but disciplined balanced regional development through a long-delayed new National Planning Framework
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Our hero attacks evil in the world but gets little thanks, except in the organs he part-owns (but doesn’t necessarily control)
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Public banks are coming and are difficult to hate
