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Tensions rise as media standards fall Media need to look to the facts, not ideology Tensions between the local community and the Shell-led gas consortium in north-west Mayo have considerably deepened following the sinking of the shellfish boat owned by Pat ‘the Chief’ O’Donnell in mid June. The sinking of his boat and the arrest […]
Brian Lenihan’s “Farmleigh Formula” of courting an eclectic group of venture capitalists, hedge funds and Irish oligarchs to re-capitalise the banks appears to be the Government’s only big idea for reforming and restructuring this crucial sector that affects all of our lives. Brian Lenihan should be wary of vulture financiers posing as good Samaritans. The […]
n September this year I visited cemeteries along the route of the western front of the First World War, where Irish Soldiers lie among the fallen.
John Drennan – Yer Man About The House
I recently discovered that the famous Hollywood heart-throb, Matthew McConaughey, and myself, have something in common. We would both like our children to learn Irish in a Gaeltacht. I am already ahead of him slightly as I am raising my toddler here in the Connemara Gaeltacht, the same one that I was raised in for […]