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WICKlow standards.
By Frank Connolly. Pressure is mounting on the environment minister, Alan Kelly, to carry out a thorough investigation into the administration of local government in Wicklow following the mysterious disappearance, in early September, from his in-tray of a file containing fresh allegations over zoning and planning matters, and the illegal dumping of waste, in the […]
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By Ronán Lynch. The vast sums accruing to the 1% present at least one problem for the most avaricious: how to hide their money. With vast amounts of wealth invested in property it may be the case that offshore accounts, tax evasion and property bubbles are not unconnected. The return to life of the Ansbacher […]
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By Rachel Mullen. The Equality Tribunal has been an important part of the Irish equality infrastructure. The system whereby the former Equality Authority provided support to those taking cases of alleged discrimination and a specialist Equality Tribunal heard and decided these cases had been lauded as best practice by the European Commission. The Equality Authority […]
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By Anthony Coughlan. We will fix that Stalinist body”, the late Brian Lenihan TD said to me in the car-park of Athlone College of Technology following a debate on the Nice Treaty in 2001. The “Stalinist body” was the statutory Referendum Commission. The “Stalinism” seemingly consisted in the Commission being required to set out the […]
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By John Gormley. A refreshing and open evocation of the evolution of the fractious civil partnership legislation When excerpts from ‘In the Name of Love’, which was written and compiled by the journalist, Una Mullally, appeared in the Irish Times recently it sparked quite a bit of debate in Green Party circles. A […]
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Fuck you, Mattie McGrath.
In the bath with Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Alan Kelly. Alan Kelly contemplated his navel over the water, Irish Water, in his dirty bath. Thank Jaysus it was only thirty thousand. Thanks the lord. And the Garda tallymen. I fully accept the dirty bath, he practised, ministerially. Errors were made in […]
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In the soup: Gerald Kean.
By Frank Connolly. Fresh from his latest, and unfortunate, altercation with the Law Society celebrity solicitor, Gerald Kean, has landed himself in the thick of it again. No doubt motivated by the best of intentions, Kean has joined the trustees of soup kitchen, the Cork ‘Penny Dinners’, where his friend Caitriona Twomey has ruled the […]