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China not in hand
A recent Guardian article was naïve about China’s aspiration to reduce its climate-damaging meat production and consumption.
Mark Godfrey
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For nearly 20 years before his death in 1989, my father, who left school at 11 and drove a mailcar for a living, railed against the undemocratic evil of the European Thing. He brought me to understand that its operation depended on replacing intelligent politicians with stupid ones for the purpose of absolute control – the […]
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Culture is ethics not just aesthetics
We need to address the future through a new lens, that of citizenship, if arts and culture are to play their necessary role in improving the quality of life for all. In looking forward we have, firstly, to understand that we are not just dealing with a recession and its aftershocks. There is a resetting […]
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A new source tells Village that Smithwick Tribunal unduly relied on double agent Fulton’s evidence that Corrigan was the colluder. Confusingly, the PSNI named someone else as the colluder
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22% of Dáil
Ireland had, until this year, an appalling record on women’s participation in politics. Men always represented at least 84% of TDs. The proportion of women TDs had never increased above 16%. Voter choice was severely restricted, with no women candidates of any party fielded in several constituencies in both the 2007 and 2011 general elections. […]
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Wireless is Wiremore
Rupert Murdoch’s proposed move to buy up the Wireless Group (formerly UTV’s non-television assets) as June drew to a close has livened up the stolid Irish radio market with the introduction of a sharp new player. The cash offer of 315p per share has added summer excitement to a radio market so settled in its […]
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Last month, the UK referendum on membership of the European Union posited a seemingly simple question and delivered an obviously complex outcome. The vote on June 23 came in with a massive turnout of 71.8 percent, the highest for any UK-wide vote since the 1992 general election. In the end, England voted by a strong […]
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The Limerick 2030 Economic and Spatial plan, published in 2013, proposes a new bridge for the city. However, the plans are wading through deep controversy about the design, location, funding, timing, public consultation process and even intent.
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We’re already doing/not doing it
You would have to wonder who put this one in the Programme for Government. There seems no intention actually to do it. That, sadly, is not a new phenomenon. This time is different though. They don’t even seem to know what it is. Nonetheless they said they “would develop the process of budget and policy […]
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(Wall)aces it again on Nama
The charging of another former NAMA official with the leaking of confidential information has added to the already significant pressure on the agency’s chairman and chief executive and on finance minister, Michael Noonan, to concede an independent inquiry into its activities. Paul Pugh (56), from Clontarf Road in Dublin, is charged with disclosing confidential information […]
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Claire as Hillary
Season 4 of ‘House of Cards’ came out on Netflix earlier this year and was gobbled up in a matter of weeks by its fans. The opening sequence will be familiar to them, a series of shimmering images of Washington DC, first in morning light and ending with the channels of motor traffic pulsing through […]
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We can oppose the murderous racist right without serving the murderous technocratic centre by being clear about the principles on which we stand.
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Little England dumps on Europe
What’s that on your flag and leg, Boris?
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Joe O’Toole
Former independent Senator (1987 to 2011), General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (1990-2001)
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Development aid and Britain
The UK’s influence is financial and symbolic
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China not in hand
A recent Guardian article was naïve about China’s aspiration to reduce its climate-damaging meat production and consumption
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Fixers and floaters
Yanis Varoufakis says the euro was a mistake but – implausibly – if the Eurozone and EU broke up now, the ultra-Right could benefit
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The pencil and the mouse
As democracy and the common good break down, expect a Brexit re-vote
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Time’s up for the elite
But after Depression, Brexit and Iraq will the centre hold in the UK, the EU and abroad?
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Fight for a bright future
We can oppose the murderous racist right without serving the murderous technocratic centre by being clear about the principles on which we stand