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    The cement billionaires

    Despite being a relatively mundane product, cement has created some of the richest corporations in the world, not least Ireland’s CRH plc – Séamus Maye 

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    VILLAGER Sept – Oct 2012

    Hogan’s magic touch So water charges will not become fully operational until 2016, at the earliest. Coincidentally, a general election will be held before that date. Big Phil Hogan who has gone politically AWOL after presiding over the household charge and septic-tank fiascos, is now applying his monkey-repairing-a-television-set nous to domestic water metering. Bord Gáis […]

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    Referendum will elevate children’s best interests

    The anachronistic 1937 perspective needs sensible, unradical change   Article by Tanya Ward: My childhood in Cabra, Dublin, was a happy one. Money was probably a bit tight but I had absolute certainty that my parents and family were there for me. I didn’t end up in Cabra by accident. My Grandad was deaf and […]

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