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For once, a broadsheet is talking about Village’s initiative to prosecute possible offences arising from the planning and payments tribunals and banking collapses. To be specific, it’s the Sunday Times, and we welcome their interest. The next step, when we have our press conference, will be to get some accurate coverage. This morning I wrote […]
Why do billionaires tend to be visionless climate-denying misanthropists? Village Oct/Nov 2013 – 11 Oct As evil plutocrat villains go, Australia’s Gina Reinhart is straight from central casting, writes John Gibbons. The daughter of a mining tycoon, she is now regarded as the world’s wealthiest woman, with an estimated worth of around $20 billion. […]
Public sector not reforming or cutting – as taxes rise Health service inflation second highest in EU ‘spending on health has shrunk by just 128 million euro over the last two years’. ‘Between December 2005 and mid-2012, cumulative Irish consumer price inflation (CPI) was 9.5%. Health CPI was 21.4%’ With an early […]
Article on Louth Planning: Mark Dearey was not a member of Louth County Council in 2007 and so did not vote, indeed could not have voted, for the Carnbeg material contravention mentioned in our News section article which focused on payments made to appellants who withdrew their appeals from An Bord Pleanála, “Nearly […]
Could I write something, the Village editor asked, “about the difficulty of getting The Frontman considered in Irish (and other?) media?” And already I can hear the dry laughter of other writers, who can only dream of such “difficulty”. I was interviewed about my critical book on Bono twice in one day on TV3; I […]
New Improved Pat Frontline’s bloodsport is the ideal formula for steady Kenny; and he for it “It is important to acknowledge that Kenny is a master of eliciting the core information “ “We’ve been rescuing the banks for a year. But are they grateful?” Dee dee dee. Opening credits. The set looks like the Krypton […]