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unexplained disparities in care orders
Two-and-a-half times as many in South as in Dublin Mid Leinster
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Villager News Miscellany
Villager is Village’s standards man. He likes to see a good standard maintained but he espe-cially dislikes to see one dropped
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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commis-sioner, serves as an inspiration for the main character in ‘Borgen’,
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The Emperor has no balls
Depressing as the US election may be for progressives at least it’s spawning some spirited political art from which the rest of us can learn. For example ‘Indecline’ went viral when it erected guerrilla statues overnight of a naked Donald Trump, in several US cities. Each bore the title, ‘The Emperor has no Balls’. Though […]
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Corbin in the light
Trolls, bullies, and wounded egos stalk Twitter and Facebook. Blocks are interposed. Friends are defriended. The internet is the forum of choice in the most recent Battle of Britain that is Jeremy Corbyn. The mainstream media has joined the battle rather than offer any analysis. Cool perspectives are not available. ‘Corbyn: The Strange Birth of […]
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EDITORIAL Make Ireland ethical, equal and beautiful; and put economics in its proper place M argrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commis – sioner, serves as an inspiration for the main character in 'Borgen', a Danish prime minister who tries to juggle family life. She will know how economic concerns do not drive all agendas, […]
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General disparagement that anyone concerned with their own patch must be a small-minded xenophobe fuelled the Brexit debate. Such lazy stereotyping of Leave voters by the liberal collective undermines its own self-perception as open-minded. In the midst of this continuing existential maelstrom, my metaphysical GPS has been happily trekking a terrain of books based on […]
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Newish Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster is in the middle of a successful charm offensive. She is popular, even with some Nationalists. The vortex into normality engulfs ever more of the increasingly hateless political classes despite themselves. We have recently emerged from one of the quietest marching seasons since the Troubles began. Any friction […]