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Guide to referendums, 2024 Unfortunately the wording is ineptly drafted, selling short children and parents in non-marital families and carers, both non-family who won’t be Constitutionally protected and family who’ll be recognised as carers whether or not they want to be
You don’t understand incipient AI, and nor do I, but whatever it is it’s fast
Media and state agencies would be well advised to start building their followings outside the traditional social media silos before the storm clouds gather
Niall Crowley reviews ‘Micheline’s Three Conditions: How we fought gender inequality at Galway’s university and won’ by Rose Foley and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
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Refusal of ‘widow’s pension’ to surviving civil partner was contrary to the Constitution
High defamation awards, and media outlets settling dubious cases rather than incur the expense of letting them proceed, have propelled SLAPPs onto the political agenda in Ireland
Conor Lenihan reviews Richard O’Rawe’s astonishing ‘Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad and the British Spooks who Ran the War’
Without wolves or lynx, our ecosystems remain barren, depleaed and overrun by proliferating deer
Ryanair’s O’Leary spins the figures to downplay aviation’s impact.
Time to pass legislation banning cruel hare-coursing
The main lesson of history is to avoid war crimes and genocide
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Ireland, a bit player in the Crusades, again takes a different stance from other bloodthirsty Western states on the war in Palestine
Lawyer Christopher Stanley reviews the eloquent and beautiful ‘Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place’, by Martin Doyle. The peace process in Northern Ireland which has followed the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 is best seen as transitional. During this transition, reconciliation requires a consensus of the voices of the dead being spoken through […]
In industrial forestry, CO2 emissions from soil are greater than carbon storage in trees
The Climate Catastrophe spawns crises to which Fascism reacts, dangerously
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Time for the Greens in government to champion sustainability and excellence more than time limits and efficiency in the now-rushed Planning Bill just approved by cabinet
The fi gures for excess deaths are inconclusive which means they at least show no evidence of conspiracy
State aid is defined as an advantage in any form whatsoever conferred by national public authorities to undertakings on a selective basis
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Of nine key environmental boundaries only ozone depletion has been made safe