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The Green movement was born when we looked back on our planet for the first time and realised the threat we posed to our own natural world. It was a child of the 1960s, embracing and promoting civil, racial, feminist, gay, and animal rights. It was into making love not war and thinking globally, while […]
One of the intriguing characters in the story of ‘NAMA-land’, the title of the book I have written which has just been published by Gill Books, is the former general secretary of the Department of Finance, John Moran. The Limerick man was appointed to the second most senior position in the Irish civil service by […]
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Administrators, actors and particularly the media, are not taking their share of responsibility for the indulgence of predatory sexual monsters and bullies of all sorts.
The draft for this key policy evades the public interest, with its toothless ‘statutory’ backing.
Barry Cowen of Fianna Fáil, like Banquo’s brother, has proposed “a VAT holiday for a sunset period for the construction sector”.
With so much at stake and the danger that once again quantity will prevail over quality, it’s time to work out how construction might enrich our society.
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Nora Owen whose appeal is otherwise limited but who seems to know a lot about Fine Gael, of which she was once deputy leader, including perhaps what it represents, says Leo Varadkar came to her constituency as a 17-year-old and that “he was appallingly right-wing and very aggressive”. He was also overweight and seems to […]
Kenny improved the economy but had little interest in fairness or the environment; Varadkar flatters to deceive and is right-wing economically; neither he nor Coveney leaves a legacy.