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Exclusive: the traders report on the Economic Impacts of the Proposed Traffic Management Changes in the Draft Dublin City Centre Transport Plan 2023 New report says Transport Plan would reduce retail spending in the City Centre by €141,253,366 in 2028 (when all the proposed changes would be in place) and lead to corresponding reductions in […]
As government again removes asylum-seekers and their tents, the notion of ‘a criminal offence in principle’ remains unknown to law and the Canal Act expressly disapplies itself to persons using canal property for less than a week in one place. By Michael Smith. Ten days ago, on 11 May, I asked the Department of the […]
Although the Department of Enterprise originally did not disclose the number, it has now revealed that all 18 of the 18 applications reviewed in the audit of the Immigrant Investment Programme were found to be deficient. By J Vivian Cooke. Further details have emerged about the Department of Justice’s 2019 internal audit of the Immigrant […]
Dodgy Donegal County Council and its acting director of planning: still at it
The opinion polls show the Green Party marooned on 4% (or 5%), a disgraceful haul for the party with the agenda of the epoch but about right for a party that is abjectly failing on signature cli-mate targets
Republican dogmatists believe the Army Council is the legitimate government of Ireland
Former PD firebrand, Senator Michael McDowell, is doing only ok; and has lost his liberal, or any coherent, edge