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Refugee Reality
FOI complaints show lunatics taking over the asylum-seekers
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Anti-bloodshed brothers
Connolly and Pearse were united primarily by aborrhence of WWI’s blood sacrifice
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Smur fit-up for Merrion Square.
Norma Smurfit is now proposing a €2m pavilion for the west side of Merrion Square in Dublin. The plans will go before the full council at its April meeting, to see whether they should move forward and should go out to public consultation.
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If there’s been one new idea introduced into the discourse by the 2016 commemorations, we haven’t registered it. The Rising was an irrational response to a colonialist foe. The proper approach would have been to analytically survey the strengths and weaknesses of the occupying power, and to have respectively avoided and exploited them with the […]
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The portentous Latin quoted Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “who is watching the watchers?” jumps to mind in any consideration of the conduct of the Law Society of Ireland in its treatment of one-time member, solicitor Colm Murphy since it appears to show that the Law Society itself does not adhere to the standards that it imposes […]
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The option of increasing tax on diesel to cut dangerous emissions was discarded by the outgoing government amid concerns of upsetting road hauliers and increasing the cost of doing business in Ireland. A second possibility of raising carbon tax on solid fuel was also ignored by then Minister of Finance Michael Noonan because of fears […]