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Student Transport Scheme Ltd (STS), a private company, wants Ireland’s school-bus-service contract put out to public tender and hopes that it will be awarded it on competitive tender. The company, with Tim Doyle and Brian Lynch as shareholders is intended as a tender vehicle for an Irish-American team in the bus industry. It initiated still-ongoing […]
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Alan Shatter coming good
There are few people who are neutral on the subject of Alan Shatter. Almost by definition, Ministers for Justice stand in the eye of the storm almost from the very minute they take up office. Usually, they are blown along by events. The murder of Veronica Guerin in 1996 was the defining moment of Nora […]
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Dissidents and dissenters
While focus over the past year has been on Loyalist alienation, there is also a significant level of nationalist alienation in the North. Dissident Republicans have small but real support. Far beyond their circles, there is a discontent: a feeling that the Assembly has not delivered, and that the DUP is running government: of dissent. […]
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Unavailability of accounts and a report, and denial of profit, don’t stack up. by Michael Smith (Feb 2014, Village Magazine) Student Transport Scheme Ltd, a private company. wants Ireland’s school-bus-service contract put out to public tender and hopes that it will be awarded it on competitive tender. The company, with Tim Doyle and […]
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By Kevin Duff The look of shopfronts in Dublin City Centre is in freefall, owing to an absence of effective planning enforcement for shopfront planning permissions and unauthorised shopfronts, signage and uses. While Grafron St and environs and oft-maligned O’Connell St have developed some shopfront pride over the last decade, the streets nearest the Liffey […]
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Risteard Ó Domhnaill “Shell was using OSSL to win hearts and minds in Mayo to progress the project but suddenly things changed, and tracks needed covering” Desmond Kane, OSSL Seventeen years ago this month, the Petrolia drilling rig hit a natural gas field 50 miles off the west coast of Mayo. According to Briain Ó […]
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