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Daft: the solution to the housing crisis depends on facts-led public-policy but we need to be discriminating about the facts chosen and who chooses them, even when it’s Ronan Lyons. By J Vivian Cooke.
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Byrne should burn
Biased. Michael Smith reviews Claire Byrne Live: The Rise of Sinn Féin (14 February, RTÉ 1)
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Donkeys and Lions led by Lyons
56March/April 2022GRADUATE RESEARCH students are often told of a drunk who has lost his keys elsewhere but insists on searching for them under a street lamp “because that’s where the light is”. It is a warning of the danger of relying on data merely because they are available rather than because they address a research […]
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Byrne should burn
March/April 2022 55“Fact Check!”. He proceeded to rollick through two minutes of almost entirely accurate fact checks while pointing at an ill-at-ease but plushly-suited Michael O’Flynn and a very not-ill-at-ease Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Claire Byrne let herself down at one stage by interrupting him to confrm that his name was Tony. She would not have […]
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2022 Media blues
54March/April 2022Such campaigns could end up being at least as signifcant as any aid made available as a result of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Media. The funding problems the Future of Media Commission must address are obvious. In addition to plummeting newspaper audiences, RTÉ has not had an increase in […]
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