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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
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Artists aren’t as replaceable as they think — or as people in other fields are
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Ireland’s media are in difficulty due to finance, ownership and … Denis O’Brien
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Society needs to recognise the science of HIV and AIDS, and staunch old and new vehicles for homophobia
It needs to aspire to sustained artistic excellence and to take risks in promoting pieces that offer a vision of radical political progress in Ireland
The role of the judge, legal procedure, laws of evidence, the role of equity, the separation of powers and the organisation of legal professionals are similar in Ireland and the UK
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It needs someone who’ll challenge, and hit the Zeitgeist, ideally a comedian, in particular Oliver Callan
At 47% trust, our newspapers and broadcast media need to abandon their smugness and fight for credibility, by improving standards
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This piece is about systemic biases in the State broadcaster: about the unguarded RTÉ grandee’s view on radicals
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The real tragedy may be that news media will miss a golden opportunity to break their addiction to social media
After incredibly high levels of ‘social capital’ in the US in the first half of the twentieth century – social capital – is in decline. Is there evidence Ireland is on a similar trajectory?
Amend the constitution to rebalance relations between home-buyers and Global Capital
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The ownership and control of the material resources of the community must be so distributed amongst private individuals and the various classes as best to subserve the common good
Clearly the Attorney General would have been the best chap to provide “legal justification” using “evidence” to extend the eviction ban. It seems the government just wasn’t into it
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After sending a fleet of Ministerial limos to the first NSMC meetings, Ahern did little or nothing to promote or build on the minimal all-island bodies and co-operation agreed in 1998
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Llike his father Ray, Marc MacSharry can be a caustic critic when he sees things mismanaged. This outspoken quality generates controversy and may ultimately have been used to get rid of him from the party altogether
Housing and Tourism Departments leak with abandon, in breach of Constitution, law and Cabinet handbook