For the Irish Left the latest round of polls should make sobering reading.
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JobBridge to nowhere obvious.
By Kevin Callinan. The JobBridge internship scheme in the education sector is disguising the impact of the recruitment embargo, at times displacing jobs, and providing some interns with a low-quality experience, according to recent research sponsored by the IMPACT Education Division. It confirms trade union members’ sense of the improper use of the scheme within […]
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Labour’s weapon: Alan Kelly profiled.
By Michael Smith. The rating standard for Ireland’s Environment Ministers is never how good they are but how negative their legacy. For aficionados Fine Gael’s Phil Hogan now vies with Fianna Fáil’s builder’s friend Martin Cullen and Labour’s manic gerrymanderer James Tully for the title of worst ever, but all the indications are that Labour’s […]
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And what RTE, the Irish Times and the Journal removed, and the Indo never published. Dail Eireann 28 May 2015 Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage Deputy Catherine Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 […]
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Profile – Denis O’Brien (2013).
Denis O’Brien, Ireland’s most powerful media owner, is – as an individual – exercising an extraordinarily chilling effect on journalism and journalists after grossly negative findings against him in the Moriarty Tribunal. When Village asked Sam Smyth to contribute a piece about a media topic of his choice for this edition, he replied “I’m still […]
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By Michael McNamara, TD. Though many might want to tell Paul Murphy to toddle off or stronger words to the same effect – and he deserves at least that – Murphy wasn’t just an ordinary citizen who accidentally wandered into the Dáil chamber to ask a question out of turn this week. He was there […]
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Aosdána, 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 14 April 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 Saoi (Saoithe) all it needs is for certain insiders […]
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Clintoff
By Michael Smith Although his recent profile in the Sunday Business Post of potential President Hillary Clinton was entirely uncritical, in fact the apogee of Niall O’Dowd’s insatiable need to ingratiate himself with the Clintons was on the eve of St Patrick’s day. It was then the Irish Voice publisher inducted Hillary Clinton into his […]