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By Ivana Bacik Public debate on maternity care is currently focused on the tragic deaths of babies in certain hospitals like Portlaoise, and inadequacies in care provision that may have contributed to those awful outcomes. However, any assessment of the legal framework for maternity services in Ireland more generally would indicate the need for a […]
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By John Gormley The i-word wasn’t mentioned once in the official announcement about the Unesco designation of Dublin bay. In fact, the City Council officials managed to studiously avoid any reference to the incinerator. The omission is understandable, I suppose, because the incinerator on the Poolbeg peninsula is not compatible with the lofty desire to […]
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By Constantin Gurdgiev The Greek debt crisis muddles on through its endless cycles of emergency meetings, and of new programmes replacing old programmes, and of new loans repaying old loans, with no end in sight. After a seismic referendum, Europe’s leadership has been busy working on shoring up the structure of the common-currency block. Designed […]
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By Frank Connolly The various controversies surrounding planning and re-zoning irregularities in county Wicklow are mounting not least on the spacious desk of the environment minister, Alan Kelly, who is to decide very soon on the precise nature of an inquiry into all or any of them. Among those against whom serious allegations have been […]
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By Frank Connolly As the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is forced to explain that “the Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating activities relating to the purchase of €1.7bn of its assets, NOT the sale,” its latest controversy has embroiled the North’s first minister, Peter Robinson, in a battle for political survival that may […]
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By Anna Victoria Lynch False and damaging rumours are all too regularly spread about migrant people. This is because we often don’t react well to difference and, in particular, it can be more difficult to understand people who have a different culture. The rumours can have negative immediate and long-term effects. They build barriers between […]
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By Ronan Burtenshaw As politicians begin to throw around proposals for the last Budget before Fine Gael and Labour face an election, it’s worth remembering that this time is really the only window where citizens are encouraged to engage in economic debate. Even then the space of time is too short and the range of […]
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By Frank Connolly The appointment of retired High Court judge, Daniel O’Keeffe, as chairperson of the commission of investigation to examine a series of financial transactions by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in the wake of the Siteserv/IBRC controversy earlier this summer must have the vulture funds and their corporate advisors cowering in their offices […]