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Call for Coombe inquiry
Husband’s forty-year quest for truth about wife’s death following anaesthetic
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Corruption Sleaze
Corruption Sleaze
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Zoning change destroys new town plan
Planning decisions in east Meath could occupy a team of investigators for several months
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By Anton Mccabe. Stormont 2, Republic 1, Westminster 3 For the last few weeks MLAs have finally been permitted to tweet and email from the Assembly Chamber after the Speaker granted permission for MLAs to go online during debates. Willie Hay said members could use discreet hand-held devices on the benches, but stressed that laptops […]
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Traveller prejudice 2012.
By éibhir Mulqueen. One of the few benefits of post-boom Ireland is that it has given us back an old self-image we are comfortable with, that of being resourceful, creative and even welcoming. Inconveniently, the treatment of Ireland’s 22,000 Travellers remains an open sore on the national conscience. In 2002 a woman in her seventies, […]
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Mahon, the media and Olivia Mitchell.
By Michael Smith. It was never really reasonable to rely on the sort of minds that took 15 years and up to €300m to deal with an ‘urgent’ examination of corruption in one county to then produce a radical and dynamic report. The Mahon Report nails easy targets among the rezoners: four dead dinosaurs (three […]
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Treaty about currency stability and confidence – leading to growth YES By Lucinda Creighton: It’s all about generating confidence, so we can borrow and spend The Stability Treaty is about ensuring that we sustain a stable euro, which will lead to recovery and growth. It is about restoring confidence abroad and enhancing the influence we have […]