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For the current partnership Government and its political-allies-in-opposition the end of summer has brought with it some rather unpleasant affairs. And a string of seemingly never-ending, insider scandals rocking the Irish charitable and sports ‘sectors’, is just a small headache, compared to the migraines of Irish economic and tax-policy fiascos. The reason is simple: in […]
The NAMA story is the media gift that keeps on giving. Not a day passes but further damaging revelations emerge of the manner in which the agency charged with selling off the distressed and other assets arising from the State’s property collapse has behaved. Charged with disposing of commercial and residential properties on an enormous […]
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Irish politics insincerely enmires itself in the need for joined-up thinking, that ubiquitous cliché. But it skirts around the best place for it: amalgamating our erratic but once again soaring economic genius with other more real agendas – making sure we pursue ends and not just means, that we advance social, environmental, cultural and transparency […]
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Andrew ‘Andy’ Devane may not be familiar to you. However the buildings, mostly ergonomic and beautiful democratic public buildings in concrete, always imbued with his generosity and modern perfectionism, certainly will be. Early Years Andy Devane was born on 3 November 1917 in 1 Upper Hartstonge Street, in Georgian Limerick. He was the eldest of […]
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What an irony it would be, in these times of the exponentially reducing quality of public debate arising from media degeneracy, parliamentary groupthink, the tyrannical imperatives of political correctness, the moronic cacophony of the twitterati and the impoverishment of the education system, if the only functional dialectic available to our society was to occur between […]
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Simon Coveney was born in Minane Bridge, Cork in 1972. Scion of a family of Cork’s rarefied merchant bourgeoisie, Simon was one of six children of Pauline and Hugh Coveney. Both his parents were Mayors of Cork and his father, Hugh, Minister for Defence in 1994 before resigning the following year after he leaked details […]
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Walking around the complex of rocks, Doric columns and temples of the Acropolis in Athens evokes the debt Western Civilisation owes to the ancient Graeco- Roman world. It was here that the Athenian City State developed the first and most sophisticated philosophical notions of how a democracy should work. It remains remarkable how much of […]
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Driving down the dreary N11 eight miles out of Dublin a curious grouping of houses peeks intermittently over a high County Councilissue boundary stone wall. It’s just another far-flung estate. But in 1963 this represented the modernist dream: open-plan clapboard-fronted American-style houses with two garages adjoining the convenient new tree-lined dual-carriageway, one of Ireland’s first. […]
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‘Eight Million Tourists Expected To Visit Ireland Next Year As Star Wars Effect Lifts Off’ Headline in the Irish Examiner, December 1, 2015 Marrakech is a hard city to leave, because someone is always tugging at your arm. One hour south, near the highest mountain in North Africa, you can hike to a pass with […]
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Brexit will probably never happen. The news narrative has become one of delay, with the odd Brexiteer keeping the flag flying in the Daily Telegraph but a lot of stasis. Next year, there will be many stories about the major problems that Brexit will cause. Negative economic effects will loom. Village editorialised in its last […]
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The ‘United States Department of Arts and Culture’ aims to power democracy with mass artistic creativity
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Most Irish traditional news outlets offer some form of reader participation but there are heterogeneous requirements before comments can be left on sites
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The case revolved around the circumstance of the unmarried father, with otherwise no rights to remain in Ireland, seeking to avail of his fatherhood of an Irish unborn child in order to remain here – and the extent of the child’s rights
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Children are more than twice as likely to end up in care in one region of the country as they are in another, official figures from the child and family agency Tusla have shown. The records show that the number of children ending up subject to care orders is significantly above the national average in […]
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Traveller Strategy developing well but key is implementation
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Tax-haven status distorts, globally and domestically
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For the OCI head as for Robert Moses and leaders of Console, Rehab, the Central Remedial Clinic and Irish Nationwide, too much power weakly supervised was a recipe for scandal
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Time for Coveney to assert himself with some public-interest policies
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Newish Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster is in the middle of a successful charm offensive.
