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Moya Doherty – together with her husband John McColgan – is best known for founding Riverdance, the show that put a modern twist on traditional Irish dance. What began as the interval act during the 1994 Eurovision song contest ended up making Doherty one of the richest women in Ireland. The Sunday Times Rich List […]
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Most right-thinking Irish people think the UN is progressive, scrupulous and transparent. They may think the Security Council is compromised by geopolitics but the intiatives emanating from the General Assembly are benign. All that worthy peace-keeping, progressive resolutions ending wars. Climate. Children. Education. We need then to take at look at the world’s largest corporate […]
Eoin Daly: Rights set undesirable limits on politics.
Michael Smith: Rights are desirable trumps on law and politics.
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There are human rights to food, water, healthcare, a minimum standard of living, and housing. Despite western opposition they found their way into the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). They have wrongly been denied as rights in Ireland since O’Reilly v Limerick Corporation [1988]. This article is about the right to […]
The water campaign is only the start: we’ll fight the weak incoming government on housing, precarious working conditions, abortion rights, and more
With calls to review their policy that their TDs and senators should only take the average industrial wage (in Dublin because of higher living costs in the capital), Sinn Féin’s financing arrangements are again in the news. According to its press office, Sinn Féin staff have taken an average wage for as long as the […]
Interest rate changes following the end of quantitative easing, changing tax rules, overleveraged companies, global shocks and policy inertia pose big risks
A family’s struggle to get help for their clearly suicidal only child.