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We’re in the middle of a housing crisis. But we didn’t get there overnight. This government engineered the very crisis it found itself in and came up with its own grand plan to solve it. Or thinks it has. But it is all part of a drastic disaster economics. It involves what we have seen […]
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62 people now own the same wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people. 1% owns more than 99%. The gaps are widening. Talk of overseas aid may seem like trying to use a sticking plaster to plug a haemorrhage. In a world of trickle up economies with ever growing needs driven by conflict and climate, aid […]
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The outgoing government is showing the same lack of vision on the North as it has shown generally. In 2011, the Programme for Government had a total of 120 words on the North in its 64 pages. Significantly, 45 of these were on security: “The threat from dissident paramilitary groups cannot be underestimated. We will […]
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Taoiseach 2011-2016
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Ireland’s aid provision is 0.38% of GNI, the same as in the early 2000s
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Beleaguered and polarised, the future is a tolerant and civic nationalism
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The EU and the defeasible control of Irish destinies