Politics
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Picking at Piketty
Impenetrable, focused on the wrong kind of inequality and economically flawed but timely and essential. By Constantin Gurdgiev
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Housing ownership, supply, distribution, financing, subsidisation, profit, taxation, planning, quality, standards, regulation and economics determine a lot about Irish society. By Padraic Kenna
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Abortion remains sidelined to the point where it is almost impolite to raise the issue.
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“Without whistleblowers you can’t expose corruption.”
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“I found myself shouting at the television.”
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By Michael Smith. Eamon Gilmore needs to continue showing us his edge. “Triangulate: to move in the direction of a point by partly moving away from it”. For years the Irish Labour Party in general and its now leader, Eamon Gilmore in particular, have – characteristically – triangulated. They criticise a measure but pull their […]
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Everybody’s wrong except City Hall
SIPOC and the High Court find against Dublin City Council mayor Oisín Quinn on his ethical breaches In 2011 Councillor Oisín Quinn – senior counsel; nephew of Education Minister, Ruairí, son of tycoon, Lochlann; and now Dublin’s mayor – threatened to sue Village and even drafted the apology for us! This was after we published […]