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Trump and Biden are culturally Irish By Stephen Corbett Donald Trump could repatriate Apple and Google, rip up the Good Friday Agreement,  and next March 17th spend the day on the greens at Mar Al Lago. Expect anything from the United States nowadays. That’s why I’m sounding the alarm from Scranton, Pennsylvania, birthplace of Democratic […]

Judicial review sought to overturn planning board decision By Frank Connolly. The residents of a housing estate in Ashbourne, County Meath, are fighting to retain the only open space available to their children after a decision by An Bord Pleanála (ABP) to grant permission for three apartment blocks on the land. The Millbourne Residents Association […]

Damien O’Reilly pushes an agenda against “some” unspecified “thug” environmentalists, in the Farmers’ Journal. By John Gibbons The announcement in October that RTÉ’s radio programme ‘Countrywide’ had entered into a 12-month sponsorship deal with the Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) represents an unusual, arguably unprecedented departure. The IFJ  is bound at the hip with Ireland’s most powerful agricultural […]

If only the Independent Alliance had performed as well as the rip-roaring book Part 1 Review Michael Smith reviews ‘In bed with the Blueshirts’ (Atlantic Books, €12.99) and speaks to its suspiciously unselfrighteous author Shane Ross can write, analyse and judge. We saw it when he wrote for the Sindo and in his juicy books about the […]

A valuable contribution to preserving the memory of the Conflict and to the continued out-workings of the fragile peace (in) process in this Northern Ireland, this Narrow Ground.  In addition to the most recent edition of De Smith’s ‘Principles of Judicial Review’, the other two most used book on my desk are Coroners’ ‘Law and […]

Lands purchased for €500,000 in 2016 are put up for sale for €4.2 million in 2020 after planning obtained on behalf of sons of Councillor who discussed their rezoning By Frank Connolly A Meath County Councillor is under investigation as his two children stand to reap over €4.2 million from the sale of lands re-zoned […]