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In 2001 Irish Times reporter Carol Coulter wrote a short article outlining allegations of abuse affecting Smyly’s Church of Ireland Children’s Home. The report referred to preparation of a report by the health board. What the report said and indeed whether it was written were never reported. The paper did not investigate further. On 16 […]
Around 25,000 undocumented people, 2000-5000 of them children, live in Ireland. Their precariousness is an inevitable consequence of a piecemeal immigration system.
Pioneering ban – despite FG opposition – on government investment in fossil fuels must now fuel improved general climate policy
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Reform the 2009 Act: recognise intention, eliminate aggravated and punitive damages and juries, cap awards, compensate oppressed journalists and elevate free speech.
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In 2007, as the spin-heavy, scandal-bruised Blair era came to a close, British journalist Peter Oborne published a harsh polemic titled ‘The Triumph of the Political Class’. The book describes the rapid growth of a professionalised cabal of career politicians in the UK from the late 1970s onwards – a self-interested clique more devoted to […]
Books by Margaret Urwin, Ann Cadwallader and Ian Cobain illuminate the viciousness of end-of-Empire Britain from Ireland to Kenya
As public hearings at the Public Accounts Committee into the controversial sale of the Project Eagle portfolio of distressed assets in Northern Ireland and Britain come to a close, its members are facing some difficult choices with potentially serious political implications. However, the absence of key individuals who have declined invitations to give evidence, including […]
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The new American President is post-science just as he is post-truth. His number one environmental priority is to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, not uncoincidentally the number one environmental priority for environmentalists.