Leo puts the reputational cart before the horse; “affordable” housing in Dalkey; and no change in Ireland’s quality of water – news miscellany from the latest issue.
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The boardwalk is a substitute for resolving the quays themselves. They need to be greened and redesigned to reach their full potential.
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Hurricane harbingers
Climate change exacerbates catastrophic storms from Donegal to Houston, South Asia to the Carribean. The political reaction is unstrategic and unrealistic.
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Barry Cowen of Fianna Fáil, like Banquo’s brother, has proposed “a VAT holiday for a sunset period for the construction sector”.
With so much at stake and the danger that once again quantity will prevail over quality, it’s time to work out how construction might enrich our society.
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The pundits were DUPed
The DUP is no closer to the backwoods on corruption, abortion, or LGBT rights, than Fianna Fáil was a decade ago, or the SDLP are now.
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Failed by England
“They are from everywhere – from Asia, Africa, Europe”. Thus a North Ken resident in reaction to the horrific fire in its poorest quarter. And – in deference to his interviewer: “The Irish Diaspora is here…”. In my day, all of fifty years ago, there was no talk of ‘The Irish Diaspora’, that grand term. […]
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Ireland staying in the EU while Britain leaves will only make reunification more difficult, says Anthony Coughlan.
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A Gaelscoil is under inexplicable pressure to move from an ideal site in Wicklow to an overpriced, small, and awkward site in Rathnew.