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John Gibbons interviews Liam Lysaght, Director of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. Ireland’s largely dysfunctional relationship with its natural environment was neatly summed up by former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, when he moaned that his ill-fated Celtic Tiger was being stymied “because of swans, snails and the occasional person hanging out of a tree”. While the […]
Ads are expensive and are intended to be effective. They tend to bring up the spirit of the age. So why are ads in 2016 so boring, so annoying? Is our time sterile and passionless? Has consumerism become not just the only lifestyle but the only idea? As Google pivots to world dominion have our […]
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It’s time to treasure and protect the legacy of Ireland’s most underrated modernist architect, Andy Devane
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n Shanganagh Vale, in the Dublin suburbs, the 1960s American dream was bludgeoned
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Is it possible to be small, cool and overrun?
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Brexit poses so many practical difficulties that it will not happen
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Institutionalised abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory
Global capitalism frees private owners from the social controls that sovereign States alone are strong enough to impose on them