Polo-necked John McGuirk, who fronts illiberal website Gript, is a serial liar and promoter of hatred, and an occasional racist
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Detective Sergeant who made protected disclosure about under-regulated phone-tracing and then served time for harassment of DPP official, claims multiple breaches of her human rights and “systemic institutional failure”, in complaint recently rejected by European Court of Human Rights
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London extradition hearing was the last stand of either Wikileaks founder or Western Intelligence Imperialism, and awaits January decision By Caroline Hurley Queensland-born Julian Assange (49) founded Wikileaks in 2006. Four years later it published several huge and devastating leaks provided by US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, including: the Afghanistan war logs, the Iraq […]
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Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions after Varadkar was accused of publishing things he shouldn’t. That Leo leaks however hasn’t yet been proven—or become a political liability for the tánaiste. That may change with evidence from a healthcare whistleblower that Varadkar, while taoiseach, leaked a confidential document to a personal associate.
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See below : The Press Ombudsman has upheld part of a complaint that Village magazine breached the Code of Practice of the Press Council of Ireland. The complaint was made under Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice. Other parts of the complaint are not upheld. Among the issues that have delayed […]
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Whistleblower says key witnesses and evidence omitted from Banking Inquiry and prepares for a public battle.
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The meaning of civilisation
When Ibrahim Al Sabe reached Eftalou beach, on the legend-suffused island of Lesbos in Greece, he was soaking wet, but indescribably happy to be alive. The engine of the rubber dinghy, carrying 45 Syrian refugees, had stopped working five times during the four-mile journey. The boat started to fill with water and almost went under. […]
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Lyrical bees
In the Sticks: Loss of habitat and food threatens a one-time harbinger of Spring – Shirley Clerkin
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What’s your beef, horse?
The media, politicians, the IFA and the CAP promote beef rather than plant foods, to the detriment of health, the environment and the poor – Frank Armstrong
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The old Irish Times website was much better than the new one – Frank Schnittger
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We’re still watching it, but everything else has changed – Richard Callanan
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The Phoenix – almost serious
The great magazine survivor divides commentators – Gerard Cunningham
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Must try harder
Investigative journalism in the North is ill-served on-air and in print – Anton McCabe
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Barefoot and masterful
Bunker Roy explains his solar-engineering college and castigates the vested-interest aid industry – Samuel McManus
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Pacific gyre
Revolting plastic ocean morass covers an area twice the size of the USA – John Gibbons
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The media must challenge power and the state, and resist interference and regulation – Harry Browne
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We’ve become used to the idea that a society based on loans is normal and sustainable – Paul Ferguson
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Nailing the institutional culprits, ignored by Ireland’s deficient media By Irvin Muchnick In Ireland’s public square, I now ask yet again: “Why was Gibney living in Florida and who sponsored his Green Card?” The long-elusive goal of a second prosecution of at least some of George Gibney’s countless alleged sexual abuses of young swimmers now […]
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British military justice backfired in the case of Irish ‘Tommies’ By Brian Flanagan School history teaches that World War I’s causes were complex: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperial ambition and decline. Sometimes the slogans were simpler: ‘the shot heard around the world’, ‘over by Christmas’, and ‘the war to end war’. New research into the Irish experience […]
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Judgment Day coming for AI algorithms, as shown by two recent reportsBy Michael Smith Nearly 40 years ago legal philosopher, Ronald Dworkin, postulated heroic Judge Hercules, an idealised judge with superhuman intelligence and unlimited time. Two impressive recent studies suggest the ideal remains human. Twelve British judges, five from the UK Supreme Court address the […]
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By Frank Connolly a 35-acre site at Liscarton was purchased for €500,000 in 2016 and placed on the market for €4.2m a year later, after rezoning A public inquiry by the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) (13 and 16 June) into the conduct of former Meath County Council Chairperson and Fianna Fáil councillor Tommy […]
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Untellable stories from Dublin’s nightlife By Ama Alzaki Let’s be honest: no one tells the full truth about nightlife. Not in Dublin, not anywhere. The headlines skim the surface: “safety on nights out,” “binge drinking”, “harassment in clubs”. But the deeper, messier stories? The ones that live in the blurry space between consent and coercion, […]
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I now live in Leatherhead, the beginning and end of H.G. Wells’s prophetic War of the Worlds (1898). Wells summoned a Martian invasion of sleepy Essex in a parable of complacency. In my last substantial contribution to Village, I charted the rise of the far right as a response to the collapse of the neoliberal […]
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Boiling doesn’t make them go away
Boiling water contaminated with THMs does not make it safe; it compounds the danger. Ireland is now in clear breach of EU law and permitting a growing risk to public health. By Tony Lowes Uisce Éireann is failing to warn the public about a dual risk: the health threat posed when consumers are told to […]
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Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, a beacon of resilience and a tireless advocate for justice reform, passed away at the age of seventy-six in a tragic house fire in Glenmacmurrin, County Galway, Ireland, today June 3, 2025. Also perishing in the blaze was Kevin Kelly, her carer. Her partner Peter Pringle, who I also knew, died in […]
