COLM MCCARTHY REVIEWS Eoin O’Malley’s absorbing ‘Charlie v Garret: the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland’, Eriu/Bonnier Books (just published)
Current October-November 2025
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THE LAW
Increased scarring from post-surgical infection justifies
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Governance and inauditability under scrutiny
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Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia
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There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.
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Government will tweak
income-tax bands again
in October, but don’t
expect pole-dancing and
it will quietly take a little
back is PRSI -
warm but steely politician with a cultural hinterland and proud of her big family and Council-estate roots; a Republican who’s not backing down on Hamas, equality, the environment or anything else
