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    Ombudsman reviews European vote investigation

    The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission – acting through local Gardaí – is currently reviewing an investigation of the original Garda probe into how Declan Ganley acquired 3,000 first-preference votes from independent candidate, Fiachra Ó Luain, in the European election count in early June 2009 in Castlebar.

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    Village Magazine March-April 2010

    The new issue of Village Magazine is officially out on news stands today. This issue, we look into the minds of the Green Party with an article by Deirdre De Burca that discusses how the party has gone too far with Fianna Fail, and two exclusive interviews with John Gormley and Trevor Sargent.

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    Villager

    Person of the Year As Time magazine names Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman its person of the year – famously with no comment on whether the winner is a good or bad force, Villager bestows his Irish honour on Brian Lenihan.  Lenihan topped Village’s most influential person list last month and is clearly the driving […]

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    No ‘ladies’ need apply

    Equality authority loses case against  Portmarnock golf club in Supreme Court Donncha O’Connell Some men need to play a version of golf called ‘male golf’ and can, in order to realise that need, run a golf club in which membership is open exclusively to male players of male golf on the understanding that the principal […]

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