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By Niall Crowley There is a disturbing silence about people with disabilities in institutions. HIQA has kept plugging away with its inspections and reports that document deplorable and unacceptable conditions. But that seemed to be it, until the HSE finally called for resources to do what is needed – deinstitutionalise. The HSE has just sent […]
The historic UN Summit on the new Sustainable Development Goals is only weeks away. Everything is all but agreed. The final-outcome document has been in wide circulation since early August and all that remains now is a photo shoot with world leaders and a massive corporate party in Central Park to usher in a new […]
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The political Left, whether social democratic, communist or Trotskyist, has always found the European Union problematic. This is because supranational EU ‘integration’ poses the issue of national independence and national democracy so acutely, something many on the Left find embarrassing. They prefer to concentrate on economic issues, for on political ones like national independence they […]
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After years of Dublin City Council (DCC) vandalism and neglect, its senior management has conceded that that the current layout of Wolfe Tone Park which it manages – and indeed designs – has not worked, and redevelopment is being considered. But are DCC capable of appropriately redeveloping the park; and, can they be trusted to? […]
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