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The Smithwick Tribunal was set up in 2005, by the Irish Government on the advice of Michael McDowell, then Minister for Justice, and sat in public in Blackhall Place from 2011 until 2013, examining the possibility of Garda collusion in the deaths of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, of the Royal Ulster […]
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I-am-a-lawyer. I’ve said it. You may feel that positions me on the level of an amoeba or vermin but I believe I am ethical, professionally competent, creative and that I and many of my colleagues often do good things fighting on behalf of the voiceless and the victimised. But I must admit there are problems […]
Long-running tensions between Fine Gael members in County Kildare are about to create difficulties for Kildare County Council and Fine Gael following the suspension of righteous Councillor Fiona McLoughlin Healy from Fine Gael for making well-founded allegations about the leader of Fianna Fáil on the Council, allegations met with a deaf ear by of cials […]
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An intriguiging High Court action which featured allegations that a leading Kildare businessman used his political “connections” to secure favourable treatment from NAMA was settled in the High Court in late October. The judicial review application taken against NAMA arose from a dispute over valuable development lands at Straffan jointly owned by retired developer, Martin […]
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Trump has killed tolerance, equality, international comity, the future of this planet, and of course decency
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Scrupulous neutrality offered no way of covering Trump, so many journalists lost their nerve and became Clinton ciphers
Trump threatens a US economy which competitiveness, exports, the deficit, education, interest rates and geopolitics render fragile, but so did Hillary and Congressional Republicans may help