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Armstrong wrong on dairy by Catherine Logan Frank Armstrong’s article ‘Contrary about Dairy [Village, June-July) contains numerous inaccuracies regarding dairy. Dairy foods play a significant and important role in a healthy, balanced diet and are included in dietary recommendations throughout the world. Inaccurate information and communications on dairy, or indeed any food/nutrient, may lead to […]
Formulaic and incestuous – promoting journalists and politicians along with a strange number of PR and legal voices (see spreadsheet below) The discussion on Marian Finucane’s radio show (Sunday 25 May) had turned to the financial troubles of former billionaire businessman, Tony O’Reilly. It was, said regular guest Stephen O’Byrnes, a kind of a tragic […]
Heaney:going through the poetic motions Ireland’s timeless bard of farmyard, bogs and prehistory by Kevin Kiely After his death last year the Independent newspaper described Séamus Heaney as “probably the best-known poet in the world”. According to the BBC, at one time Heaney’s books made up two-thirds of the sales of living poets in the […]
Abortion remains sidelined to the point where it is almost impolite to raise the issue.
Outside multinationals it’s grim – even for property and competitiveness. By Constantin Gurdgiev ‘The national property price index peaked at 70.0 in December 2013 but slipped to 69.1 in March 2014’ In the recent elections Fine Gael and Labour insisted on recounting their successes in reversing the economic crisis: tens of thousands of jobs created, […]
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Strong, principled women like Christine Buckley are essential for cultural change – by Ivana Bacik
Official Ireland is indifferent. This time about Donegal