Politics
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Asymmetric.
Asymmetric Engagement: The Community and Voluntary Pillar in Irish Social Partnership. Joe Larragy Manchester University Press Book review by Niall Crowley. Asymmetric Engagement’ by Joe Larragy has a title that would send you to sleep and a cover that is devoid of design, but is actually a good read, telling the story of four […]
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Predistribute and redistribute.
By Mary Murphy. The OECD groups Ireland with other English-speaking countries as having relatively high levels of income inequality. TASC has shown that since 1975, while incomes in Ireland doubled overall, incomes tripled for the top 10%, and increased by a multiple of five for the top 1%. While there were reversals for those on […]
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Vipers’ nest
An outsider should investigate Ansbacher, its links to CRH and the establishment whitewash
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Ebola’s stigma recalls leprosy
The history of leprosy in Ireland, though forgotten, is everywhere
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Democratic Féin.
By Anton McCabe. The North’s Executive and Assembly are under threat of collapse. As of mid-October the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was refusing to attend talks aimed at resolving the impasse – objecting to the “media circus” and even, apparently, the very involvement of the Irish government. The UK government is requiring the Assembly to […]
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In the soup
Celebrity comes to Cork’s penny Dinners.
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Bill fails to replicate Equality Tribunal’s investigative, equal-status, representation and appeal provisions