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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
