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March/April 2022 55“Fact Check!”. He proceeded to rollick through two minutes of almost entirely accurate fact checks while pointing at an ill-at-ease but plushly-suited Michael O’Flynn and a very not-ill-at-ease Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Claire Byrne let herself down at one stage by interrupting him to confrm that his name was Tony. She would not have […]
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54March/April 2022Such campaigns could end up being at least as signifcant as any aid made available as a result of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Media. The funding problems the Future of Media Commission must address are obvious. In addition to plummeting newspaper audiences, RTÉ has not had an increase in […]
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52March/April 2022IntroductionWhistleblowing is usually seen as a cousin of “snitching”, whereas it might be more helpful to view whistleblowing on a spectrum of willing–ness to circumvent group consensus, either head-on or indirectly.This by-passes the tendency to scrutinise the whistleblower for personal “defects”, as is nor–mally the case in whistleblower conficts.According to a recent Village article, […]
50March/April 2022Over 60 per cent of households in County Galway, for example, were one-of houses, the highest in the country. Roscommon (56%) and Leitrim (52%) weren’t far behind.After 2016 there was an improvement as more apartments were built.5481, 5622 and 5292 one-of houses were built in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively – representing respecivel […]
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48March/April 2022How the media stoke the climate crisisYES, WE should rake over the coals. And the oil, and the gas. Democratic accountability means remembering who helped to stoke the climate crisis. We should hold the fossil fuel companies to account.In 1979, an internal study by Exxon concluded that burning carbon fuels “will cause dramatic envi–ronmental efects before […]
42March/April 2022Michael Williams wants an end to Judges trespassing into the role of elected legislators especially through inference of rights from the consitution. Michael Smith wants a new constitution but meanwhile, apart from theoretically (!), is relaxed about whether judges inferring rights is democratic and useful.OPINION March/April 2022 43Judges exceed their constitutional powers.In 1937 our […]
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March/April 2022 41Then a very terrible thing happened. In February 2017, he announced that he was joining Fianna Fáil which had: “the best team most closely aligned with my politics”. It was Roger Waters leaving Pink Floyd to join Foster and Allen. The young man with the enormous brain who had come racing in to […]
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March/April 2022 39Fine Gael commemorating Griffth and Collins at Glasnevin cemetery, 2016Fianna Fáil commemorating De Valera, Ennis 2021Sinn Féin commemorating Wolfe Tone, Bodenstown 2019All the nationalist parties misappropriate history, immaturelyImmationalismPOLITICSFianna Fáil and Fine Gael deny any historical analogy between their own party histories and the process which Sinn Féin/IRA are currently going through to make […]