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Wick-lowdown
Department of the Environment considers adding Wicklow to the other six counties under review. By Frank Connolly
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A literary fascism.
By Frank Armstrong. Literary deities loom over Ireland like US Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It isn’t philosophers, engineers, chefs, painters or even composers who summoned the Irish nation, but poets. Yet conversely their hovering presence barely registers; just as most contemporary Florentines scurry about unmoved by Brunelleschi’s dome, few here look to the sky […]
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The Politics of Disillusionment.
Ronan Burtenshaw explores four of Ireland’s new anti-austerity organisations, asking where they came from and where they are going.
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Arising from Ashers.
By Niall Crowley. If I am a baker am I really going to run the rule over all my customers to see how they intend to use my cakes before I make a sale? Baking would get a lot harder and a lot less commercial if I took on that task. I would not be […]
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Sierra Leone after Ebola.
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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Replace direct provision
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 […]
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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 […]