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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 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 […]
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 […]
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David Burke names MI6 agents within Garda and DoJ during TroublesFrank Connolly on misreporting of Project Eagle Commission report
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T’S BEEN a long four months since our last publication. Some of that is because it’s not clear what the future is for a magazine like Village.
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Project Eagle Commission hampered by ongoing criminal proceedings into Coulter and Cushnahan in Northern Ireland, as they, along with Brown Rudnick solicitors, Peter Robinson, and Sammy Wilson, refused to co-operate; and it refused to consider written submissions from John Miskelly.