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Game up for Irish agriculture
Re-orient Bord Bia, Origin Green, AgriFood 2030, Food Wise 2025 but start with the Department of Agriculture. Just do it sustainably
Opinion
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UNambitious
Ireland will again exercise its place on the Security Council to promote consensus rather than vision and values
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As Covid takes everything from the Young, Society and the Media single them out for even rare breaches of the rules
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Focus on the 12.8%
We need to refocus on those who could actually die from Covid – and de-focus on the rest
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by Michael Smith It’s 2020. We’re transitioning to a civilisation with a wiser sensibility. We’re defenestrating monuments that subvert our values. What’s the first erection we should remove? On its twentieth anniversary, it’s Dublin’s spike, the ‘Spire of Dublin’, a tiger in metal. Dublin lost the run of itself in a boom that started in […]
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Coronavirus shows that our self-destructive civilisation is fragile. But the earth may be on our side. by Michael Smith. This article argues that self-destructiveness including neo-liberalism facilitates twin scourges: plagues and environmental catastrophe (“ecocide”). In reacting, as you would expect, against ecocide Gaia, the force that regulates the earth’s environment, also attacks plagues and those […]
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Government projections on how long a lockdown will last hijacked by pessimism not evidence, though readers will make their own minds up as to whether Ireland’s trajectory is more like those of China, Singapore or South Korea than those of Italy and Spain. By Michael Smith. It is obligatory to preface articles about Covid-19 with […]
