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Hurricane harbingers
Climate change exacerbates catastrophic storms from Donegal to Houston, South Asia to the Carribean. The political reaction is unstrategic and unrealistic.
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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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Village Idiot June 2017
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I have spoken to Fred Holroyd from time to time. Holroyd worked with the British army and MI6 in Ireland, 1973-75, and has written a book about his experience ‘War without Honour’. Incredibly, British spies are still meddling with his post. Holroyd has furnished me with a photograph of an envelope he received from me. […]
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As a younger, and perhaps wiser, Leo Varadkar once said: there is no messiah who will lead Fine Gael from the desert into the promised land. This did not prevent him from presenting a decidedly messianic image as he posed for the cameras following his decisive victory in the party’s leadership contest on 2 June. Since then […]
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Now that the long-awaited Commission of Investigation into the sale of Project Eagle has been conceded it remains to be seen which players will actually be on the pitch when the inquiry is finally convened. As predicted by Village several months ago, there was no chance that Enda Kenny or Michael Noonan would still be […]
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Sun editor, Tony Gallagher
Tony Gallagher, appointed as editor-in-chief of The Sun in September 2015
