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30 years after 1984
The booted future: inequality, surveillance, US and market hegemony, climate catastrophe, violent insecurity.
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Dissent and democracy
Apart altogeter from ineffiency, there is no redress against ongoing Garda abuse
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In which Denis revels in an upbeat profile in the Business Post and celebrates even more deals both by himself and his older and slightly cleverer colleague Dermot Dear Dermot, Huzzah on getting that whopping apology from the Sunday Times for implying you weren’t the man behind the IFSC. Does the pope shit in the […]
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By Villager Past pupils at rugger-loving, unisex, feepaying Blackrock and Belvedere Colleges have written to alumni urging them to campaign against the Education Bill which is intended to remove “soft barriers” to admission by forcing schools to publish entrance policies. The Belvedere students’ union has circulated a smug sample letter directed against Minister for Education […]
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We need to talk about the Gardaí.
Political compliance and media silence on scandals redolent of police state. By Tom Hanahoe, Terence Conway and John Monaghan. Between May 2007 and November 2009, 111 complaints about alleged Garda violence and intimidation were submitted to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission – established in 2005 and invested with more public hope than legislative power – […]
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Imprison fewer women.
By Ivana Bacik. Women are a tiny minority in prisons and a particularly marginalised and vulnerable group. On average, only about 3-4% of those in prison are women. While prison numbers in Ireland generally have stabilised and even reduced in recent years, there have been increasing numbers of women committed to prison. There was an […]