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By Reuben Hambackachere On the 21st of April 2015 I officially submitted my resignation as the named individual representing the Core Group of asylum-seekers and Refugees on the Government Working Group established to examine improvements to the protection process and the Direct Provision system. The working group was set up as the Government’s response to […]
By Ann Irwin. Development and change at local authority level continue apace. We have had the formation of the Local Community Development Committees (LCDC), as part of the largely unpopular process of alignment of community development and local development with local authorities, which many believe undermines local participatory structures. We have had the very unpopular […]
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By Niall Crowley Diarmuid Martin believes in a “culture of difference” equality. He is not saying that gay and lesbian people are deficient compared to others, he talks about a ‘uniqueness’ They’re all for equality, Diarmuid Martin, GLEN, the Iona Institute, Marriage Equality, even the Government. The “Yes” and “No” sides in the May referendum […]
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By Daire Courtney. As far as my family are concerned, my two mothers are married. They tied the knot in New York just under a year ago. The Irish state does not recognise their marriage, but with luck it will soon. With two weeks to go, the posters are up, the debate is in full […]
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On the article about Aosdána in issue 36 of Village (See Mannix Flynn’s reply on page 32) Dear Editor, In his article in your publication, dated 14th April 2015, Mannix Flynn is wrong when he states, regarding election to the position of Saoi of Aosdána, “Currently, if a position is vacant for one of the […]
The case for gay rights, pioneered in this country by David Norris through the courts and the European Convention on Human Rights, is unanswerable. Everyone has the option – philosophically – to believe the equality of gay people or to deny it. But the fact is that if people chose – in a practical or […]
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By Michael Smith. Not that it seems to matter but Heather Humphreys is the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. A stranger to a national profile she came from nowhere to succeed Jimmy Deenihan, the only minister to lose that rank in July last year. Actually, she had been elected to Dáil Éireann in […]