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The hands of former Attorney General Paul Gallagher and of the property industry are all over the Planning Bill
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France finds another pot-bangers’ crisis
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A conceptual look at the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy
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Yes, Putin and his henchmen should be prosecuted for war crimes. So should those who led the invasion of Iraq
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So far, manifestations of difficulty include an insidious marginal judicial interest in historicism and a move away from unenumerated rights, particularly that of a general right to privacy
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VILLAGE IDIOT JULY-AUGUST RYAN TUBRIDY Privileged scion of Fianna Fáil Royalty, Tubridy never — unlike his mentor Gay Byrne — challenged authority or power structures, obsessing instead with antagonism to political correctness and, despite a self-conscious bookishness, promoting consumerism, environmental recklessness, and a culture of prizes for everyone. Not surprisingly it turns out he didn’t seek a correction when his employer published figures underestimating the income, which had become a totem for RTÉs need for cost-cutting and accountability — he received from it by fully €345,000 over the last five years, or that the environmentally inert Tubs received a greedy extra €75,000 annually from Renault Ireland which sponsored his show and drove at least some of its consumerist ethos. He has squandered his considerable broadcasting talents and his career is now in tatters because of greed and disingenuity. July-August 2023 79
