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The controversy over the finances of the School Transport Scheme has taken a dramatic turn following a court action by Bus Éireann to prevent the further circulation of information recently published in Village.
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Post-Troubles leaders in Northern Ireland are bad-tempered and a bit second-rate.
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Domestic abuse by gardaí is in the news with the shocking case of former garda Margaret Loftus whose complaints against her husband, detective garda Derek Bolger, ultimately given a suspended 3-year sentence for a lesser charge of assault, were not treated seriously by the force.
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Eviction compounds UCD’s complicity in partnership with suppliers to the Israeli military which implemented the genocide of Palestinians; and UCD academics were utterly ineffective By Eoghan Harris and Roisin McAleer The 132-day Break the Academic Chains of Zionism encampment at University College Dublin exposed the limits of dissent when confronted with legal and political power, […]
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Governance and inauditability under scrutiny
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Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia
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There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.