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Councillors and the CEO are in a standoff as to whether the legal advice needs to be fully independent or if it can be delivered via the Law Agent who normally reports to the CEO. As with O’Devaney Gardens, in Oscar Traynor Road Councillors appear to have allowed leeway the CEO to rewrite the Councillors’ […]
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The Green Party should be – and appear to be – this century’s equivalent to the trade union movement. By Councillor Oliver Moran. Protests against environmental taxes in Europe, farmers’ blockades in the Netherlands, urban unrest in France, and the water-charges movement here in Ireland should cast a long shadow for the Green Party in […]
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Named one of Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ in both 2004 and 2015, Irish-American Samantha Power served as US President Obama’s human rights advisor for four years and a further four as US UN Ambassador. She is famed for her achievements but also for her conscience. By Caroline Hurley. Samantha Power was born in 1970 to […]
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The revelation that the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has failed to disclose “relevant material” to the Commission of Investigation into its controversial sale of its 11.5 billion (£1.24 million) Project Eagle loan portfolio in the North in 2014 will not come as any surprise. Many NAMA watchers have been wondering how the Commission, headed by […]