What is needed is foundation of a new party of the conventional Left: modern, common-good-embracing, quality-of-life-monitoring, taxing, planning, developing, accounting, envisioning
As the French courts prepare to prosecute Ian Bailey in absentia, there is growing speculation that gardaí targeted him for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in order to protect the real suspect. The skies were still dark over the West Cork countryside when Martin O’Sullivan set off from his home in Goleen on […]
Village is unashamedly Leftist. Its agenda is equality of outcome, sustainability and accountability. These are all driven by the overarching goal of treating people as equals. The right labours freedom to the detriment of equality, tending to fixate on the provision of choices rather than on how in practice those choices are exercised. The non-ideological, […]
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at five stars Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star Movement [5SM] which has been depicted as racists and fascists who want to destroy Europe Fuller: Eleonora, how did you come to be active in politics and why did […]
The office of Public Works (OPW, the State’s building service) proposes to construct up to 15km of flood defence walls and embankments in Cork City, including dykes, concrete walls and railings throughout the historic centre of the city. The works would be carried out under the Lower Lee (Cork City) Drainage Scheme (Flood Relief) and are an effort to […]
North Kerry has become the ‘renewable energy capital of Ireland’, by default rather than strategic design. This bountiful traditional farming landscape has been obliterated by an industrial landscape of wind turbines, situated in random pattern, at the behest of developers, and not the wider community. Of 411 turbines with full planning permission in Kerry, only 200 […]