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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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and class-based cuts to education, an engine for equality, subvert other rights and goods for the most vulnerable
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Inequality’s engine
Get rid of, or disincentivise, self-justifying, nepotistic private schools