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JOHN GORMLEY
Migration gyration
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SINÉAD PENTONY
Template for Equality in Budget 2016
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Villager June 2015
No interest Villager is always amazed at how some things that cost a lot just aren’t much good. Denis O’Brien’s spokesperson, James Morrissey, didn’t appear to know what he was talking about, still less to believe it, in his debate over parliamentary privilege with an impressive Micheál Martin on RTÉ Radio 1’s ‘This Week’. He […]
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As politicians begin to throw around proposals for the last Budget before Fine Gael and Labour face an election, it’s worth remembering that this time is really the only window where citizens are encouraged to engage in economic debate. Even then the space of time is too short and the range of topics up for […]
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Village Idiot July/August 2015
“The options were narrowing down the nationalisation plus a guarantee or simply a guarantee of the system itself” – Brian Cowen in evidence to the Banking Inquiry. He shows no evidence of having digested the evidence of Central Bank governor, Patrick Honohan, that any guarantee “should not have included subordinated debt nor existing senior-term debt”. […]
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Fake O'Brien-Desmond Letter
Dear Dermot, I woke up in Haiti on the morning of April 29th,to a phone message saying that RTÉ had sent me a letter with questions regarding my confidential banking arrangements with Anglo Irish Bank/ IBRC. My immediate reaction was astonishment – astonishment – that RTÉ could be used in such a way, so deliberately, […]
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In Ireland philosophy rarely features in mainstream discourses. We seem more comfortable in either the narrow empiricism inherited from our former colonial overlords or the lyrical engagement found in poetry. The unflinching analysis of concepts found in philosophical enquiry is not part of secondary educations: it still does not figure as a Leaving Certificate subject. […]
