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By Frank Armstrong. In Sierra Leone an amusing assortment of greetings has evolved to replace ‘pressing of the flesh’ that could give rise to Ebola contagion. From elbow jabs to clasped-hand bows, a gallows humour has derived. The reality of Ebola is hidden from visitors: the main reminder the hand-held, infra-red thermometers that assail passers-by […]
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By Reuben Hambackachere On the 21st of April 2015 I officially submitted my resignation as the named individual representing the Core Group of asylum-seekers and Refugees on the Government Working Group established to examine improvements to the protection process and the Direct Provision system. The working group was set up as the Government’s response to […]
By Ann Irwin. Development and change at local authority level continue apace. We have had the formation of the Local Community Development Committees (LCDC), as part of the largely unpopular process of alignment of community development and local development with local authorities, which many believe undermines local participatory structures. We have had the very unpopular […]
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By Niall Crowley Diarmuid Martin believes in a “culture of difference” equality. He is not saying that gay and lesbian people are deficient compared to others, he talks about a ‘uniqueness’ They’re all for equality, Diarmuid Martin, GLEN, the Iona Institute, Marriage Equality, even the Government. The “Yes” and “No” sides in the May referendum […]
By Michael Smith. Not that it seems to matter but Heather Humphreys is the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. A stranger to a national profile she came from nowhere to succeed Jimmy Deenihan, the only minister to lose that rank in July last year. Actually, she had been elected to Dáil Éireann in […]
By John Gibbons. While global pollution crises, from climate change to plastics in the oceans, are showing no signs of improvement, the worst effects, we in the ‘developed world’ are reassured to believe, are clustered in poorer countries and distant ecosystems. One of the many environmental paradoxes is that, while global ecological indexes are in […]
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Border Fox The Facebook site of ‘Dessie O’Hare Crafts’ fronted by ‘Dessie from Keady who attended St Patrick’s High School’ sells innocuous republican memorabilia: glass Easter lilies and the like. But have no doubt it is the Border Fox gone retail. In October 1977, O’Hare and his IRA gang killed Margaret Ann Hearst, a female […]