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Culture is ethics not just aesthetics
Arts and culture supplement the deficits of politics and economics, should be relevant, participatory not consumerist, and generate empathy
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We’re already doing/not doing it
Commitment required to equality-proofing policy and expenditure, not just to transparency
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22% of dáil
Needed: childcare, cash, confidence, culture and candidate selection
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New Constitution
We need to change specific provisions, and the restraint of judicial interpretation
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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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Next: Nexit
Free movement of persons has always been essential to fragile border areas
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Unbroken Continuity
In 96-year-old John Hunt, Republican Sinn Féin traces the Fenian tradition, via the 1940s, into the present
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Some Consolation
Though there are substantive problems, charity transparency is improving
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Swindle at TSB 2016, and 1958 to 1993
Victims of Windle-stopped-Swindle never reimbursed £339m leaving PTSB open to possible claims
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Wicklodium
Litigation and allegations of wrongdoing dog the garden county as a motion to downzone Newtownmountkennedy data-centre lands is defeated
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Church in the Lurch
Developer TIO, including Nama, denies damaging church foundations and fabric and An Taisce’s allegation it jumped the gun on commencement notice and works on St Mary’s Church in Dublin’s docklands
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Wall aces it again on Nama
Intrepid Wexford TD alleges Nama advisor, Cushnahan, was paid £5m by Cerberus for confidential information
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The EU has been the most important force for social, economic and environmental progress and peace, in Europe – no petty agendas – for sixty years
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Class not gender is intractable
There are well-meaning campaigns to increase the number of female voices in Irish media and politics. Equal treatment of the sexes is a war that needed to be fought. It doesn’t just benefit women, it benefits men as well, as men can be freed from a race to the bottom of macho culture that tends […]
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Polar Czechs
Aflons Mucha’s Slav Epic enjoys glorious pride of place in the Czech National Gallery in Prague. It is a cycle of twenty large and portentous paintings completed between 1910 and 1928 recalling the history and myths of a heterogenous people inhabiting territory from the Asian steppe to the shores of the Mediterranean. The artist imposes […]
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Meat-hane
The figures were so astounding that I refused to believe them. I found them buried in a footnote, and assumed at first that they must have been a misprint. So I checked the source, wrote to the person who first published them, and followed the citations. To my amazement, they appear to stand up. A […]
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If you’re looking for a chirpy, upbeat assessment of how humanity will, in the nick of time, get its clappy act together to tackle dangerous climate change, then Kevin Anderson is probably not the person you need to talk to. Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and deputy Director of […]
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The people who brought us Brexit didn’t know what the effect of the breach would be. No one did; or does. Leading British Leave campaigners, including Boris Johnson, appeared to consider that Britain could retain access to its single market but implement some limits on free movement. In fact, if Britain is to be in […]