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Village Magazine, Issue 49, October 2016 Editorial Village’s agenda remains as always: equality of outcome, sustainability and accountability. Defeated Democrat US Presidential contender, Bernie Sanders, thinks in these terms but his Democrat vanquisher Hillary Clinton is ideologically vague, compromised, jaded and ultimately conservative; and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, is post-ideological/narcissistic with no interest in […]
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During the hearing Mr Justice Zaidan told Clare Daly TD to “stand up straight”, perhaps a push too far under our delicate balance of power between judiciary and legislators
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Between May 2007 and November 2009, 111 complaints about alleged Garda violence and intimidation were submitted to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, but none was upheld
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I cannot accept that Ministers for Justice Shatter, McDowell, Lenihan, Ahern, O’Donoghue– and their bureaucrat minions – did not know of the taping by Garda of solicitor-client calls
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Unpopularity with FF will hardly cost Leo Varadkar the FG leadership. The real threat comes from Frances Fitzgerald staking out the ground.
Brexit has arguably opened a debate on the constitutional position of the North but has simultaneously re-emphasised the supreme authority of the British government
The new rate of €193 will still be €11.30 below the maximum working-age payment made in 2009; and €102.70 for 18-24s
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Instead of managing their own shops, charities contrive private subsidiaries, which then donate their annual profits back to their parent company as ‘Gift Aid