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    Sinn Féin no i Shoe-in – for i First Ministry i

    20March/April 2022A SINN FÉIN First Minister is by no means certain after the Northern Assembly election in May. It is most probable Sinn Féin will be the largest party in terms of votes. In the last Assembly election, it was only 1,000 behind the DUP. However, there is a precedent for the largest party in […]

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    Rezoning for Mammon

    March/April 2022 19scheme is purely for rental and does not meet the need for local residents and their community for housing which is integrated and provides for people of mixed incomes as well as appropriate social housing. The scheme includes provision for the required 10 per cent social and 10 per cent afordable housing.Rory Hearne […]

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    RISING TENSIONS

    March/April 2022 17around Moore Street was not refected in the fnal recommendation.Claims that the compensation offer was conditional on accepting the Hammerson proposals have been rejected by ofcials of the Council and the Department of Heritage with knowledge of the negotiations. Butcher, Stephen Troy, has claimed his business on Moore St will be severely disrupted […]

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    The State, led by Micheál Martin, lied and destroyed me

    14March/April 2022IN 1999 the chairman of ISME (the small and medium enterprise lobbyist), Seamus Butler, wildly alleged that – in my capacity as CEO of ISME – I’d been involved in fraud of the EU by submitting unpaid invoices for payment of EU grants. In fact, unknown to me and after ISME had claimed the […]

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    Quinn was our champion when the State did nothing

    10March/April 2022This is a tale of greed, destruction, violence, corruption and betrayal.The Quinn Group business employing 7000 with profts of €500m/year has turned into a husk of itself with only 800 employees and meagre profts with its construction division scandal–ously losing money. Conventional wisdom blames the recklessness of Sean Quinn but there was a further […]

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    Villager News Miscellany

    August/September 20225Crick you brickOne inspiring perspective on politics, relevant to the abortion debate, came from Bernard Crick, a British political theorist who died in 2008. He wrote that politics, is a marketplace where irrec–oncilable interests come to resolve their difer–ences through compromise in order that people can devote their passions to the really important things […]

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