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More help, faster
Ireland has the power to respond to the refugee crisis in Greece Nadi, a young Iraqi woman wrings her hands in despair. She has brought her family this far in search of safety and is now waiting to see if they will be relocated to another country in Europe. Her husband, who has difficulty walking […]
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Quays, pees, pleas Years after they banned trucks from the riverside, Villager’s principal experience of Ormond Quay in front of the Village office is still really just somewhere to get run over. The gentlemen from Eircom have kindly removed the two drug dealers’ telephone boxes outside the door, so urine from the city’s drunkards can […]
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Martyr for a cause
A man whose body was found in the Dublin mountains on Friday 30 September had successfully campaigned to have a quarrying operation in the area closed down last year. Michael McCoy, a father of three in his early sixties, who was last seen walking his dogs in the Brittas area of county Dublin on the […]
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The serious business of proofing
The May 2016 Programme for Government commits the Government to “develop the process of budget- and policy-proofing as a means of advancing equality, reducing poverty and strengthening economic and social rights”. In doing so, it specifically recognises the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) as an independent expert body to support the development of […]
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Too big to fail, or even be reformed
Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis back in 2008, European and US policymakers and regulators have blamed the international banking system for systemic risks and abuses. Regulatory and supervisory authorities have begun designing and implementing system-wide responses to the causes of the crisis. What emerged from these efforts was an explosion of regulatory […]
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US media change, post-Trump
Scrupulous neutrality offered no way of covering Trump, so many journalists lost their nerve and became Clinton ciphers