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Overboard band
Ireland now has rural fibre but the NBP remains a monument to bad planning, political avoidance and a settlement pattern that makes every infrastructure project cost more than it should
Current Feb-Mar 2026
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As a student, I’d hammered on the doors of the BBC’s Natural History Unit, insisting there was a major gap in its coverage.
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The main problem with Irish media isn’t newspaper closures it’s lack of investigation, narrow-ranged reporting, big tech, and feebleness
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Michael McDowell’s recent opinion piece in The Irish Times rehearses, with characteristic confidence, a series of amateur claims about Wood Quay that do not withstand scrutiny.
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Ireland’s housing debate is strangely insular. We compare ourselves obsessively with the UK, Vienna and the Nordics, while ignoring the most provocative counterpoint on the planet: China.
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The Jury on Trial
Juries: redundant lawyers’ bauble or the last bastion — Starmer’s Labour doesn’t seem to know
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Lucy Letby case suggests need for: legal aid for equal expert evidence for defence; code for experts; and facilitation of joint reports.