Bill fails to tackle advertising, ‘taxation’, ‘three-lawyer’ practice, direct access to barristers and Ministerial veto. By David Reynolds
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Get on with it: reform the Garda.
A big spin is underway about “the biggest ever reshuffle of senior gardaí” by incoming Garda Commissioner, Noirin O’Sullivan with “nearly 100 senior officers being transferred and promoted” and the Irish Times editorialising about a “bold and brave new start”. So Village decided to have a look back at incidents of corruption, malfeasance, harassment and […]
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By Frank Connolly. The megaphone diplomacy involving prominent voices on the Left has brought some clarity to the task of preparing a common platform around which progressive parties, independent TDs, trade unions and other organisations and groups could unite in the months before a general election. At the Labour conference in Killarney there was a […]
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Facebook and me.
By Alicia Garrigan. In a recent article in the Derry Journal the writer, Tiarnan McCarthy, describes coming across a tweet coming from an account titled ‘Worthless’. “If I ever ran away from home, I’m sure my family wouldn’t even notice”, it lamented. He notes that similar despair is “not in short supply”. He goes on: […]
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Begrudgers, move along
We have a new Oireachtas human-rights sub-committee
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Sisyphus and Achilles.
By Constantin Gurdgiev. Ever since October 2009 when the Greek Government finally faced up to bond-market pressures and admitted that its predecessor has falsified the national accounts, the euro area has been unable to shake off a sovereign-debt crisis. When the dust finally settled on revisions, the Greek debt-to-GDP ratio shot up from 98 percent […]
