Environment
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RTÉ and other media celebrate the current doomed agricultural model as sacrosanct. By Frank Armstrong No journalist can claim impartiality. We arrive from different vantages, preferences and predilections. To deny this displays a lack of awareness of the specificities of time and place, and encourages fixed ideas in our understanding of the world. It is […]
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By Frank Armstrong ‘The term “gatherer-hunter” is less often used although more accurate’. ‘On a moral level, all animal use is the same. It is wrong’ ‘I believe that human beings can tolerate a small amount of animal flesh in their diet but there is no NEED for it’ What prompted you to become a […]
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CDP into CPP won’t go
The Ballyphehane Togher Community Development Project (BTCDP) was accepted into the Community Development Programme in 1993. This was after two years of lobbying, letter writing and submissions. BTCDP recruited a Co-Ordinator and opened its first office, a two-room space over the doctor’s surgery in Pearse Square, in 1994. This year we are celebrating its twentieth […]
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Media need to look to the facts, not ideology Richard O’Domhnaill Tensions between the local community and the Shell-led gas consortium in north-west Mayo have considerably deepened following the sinking of the shellfish boat owned by Pat ‘the Chief’ O’Donnell in mid June. The sinking of his boat and the arrest of his son, Jonathan, […]
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You can’t have a memorial of something that is not yet history An Bord Pleanála should say no to commemorating residential abuse with a tunnel next to the military memorial on Parnell Square ‘the Journey of Light is drab, unimaginative, insensitive, visionless – and grandiose’ Mannix Flynn In late September, An Bord Pleanála heard appeals […]
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Veganism makes us human
Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism and Global Conflict David A Nibert Columbia University Press, New York, 2013 Review by Frank Armstrong Scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labour, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal […]
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Loaded and rapacious
Billionaires tend to be visionless climate-denying misanthropists