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To: New Left Government From: Tom Healy Date: March 2016 Re: Priorities to improve the economy and living conditions The danger, now, is that many lessons of the crash of 2008 and what led up to it have not been learned and mistaken policies are being pursued. One clear example of this is the widespread […]
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By Deirdre Murray. International-development NGOs discriminate against women even though their remit is to promote women The “glass ceiling” is alive and well in the business sector in Ireland. A survey carried out by the Irish Times (2014) of the Top1000 Businesses in Ireland found that only 25% of the c-suite jobs (jobs with the […]
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By Michael Smith. The UK’s May election looks to be as unpredictable as any since February1974, the first of two that year, which produced the first hung parliament since the second world war, giving Ted Heath’s Tories more votes, though fewer seats, than Harold Wilson’s Labour. They collapsed later in the year. Polls have long […]
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By Peter Emerson. If you buy a house, you’ll have to maintain it. Any car will have to be insured. Jewellery is best kept in a safe deposit. Works of art also need to be protected. In other words, being rich can be costly… unless, that is, your wealth is in cash. For if you […]
By Michael Smith. Gerard Convie worked in Donegal County Council as a senior planner for nearly 24 years. He has claimed, in an affidavit opened in court, that during his tenure in the Council there was bullying of planners who sought to make decisions based exclusively on the planning merits of particular applications and that […]
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Trust me, I’m a journalist After warfare and driving, the biggest waste of energy in human history is…social media. The very name. For Villager Facebook is even more self-indulgent than Twitter since it calls less for a dialogue. Being a herd-like and sociable bunch, unsurprisingly 99% of Irish journalists use social media, one of the […]
Bill fails to tackle advertising, ‘taxation’, ‘three-lawyer’ practice, direct access to barristers and Ministerial veto. By David Reynolds
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A big spin is underway about “the biggest ever reshuffle of senior gardaí” by incoming Garda Commissioner, Noirin O’Sullivan with “nearly 100 senior officers being transferred and promoted” and the Irish Times editorialising about a “bold and brave new start”. So Village decided to have a look back at incidents of corruption, malfeasance, harassment and […]