Politics
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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 […]
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Programme-renegotiation not enough as even finger-wagging becomes parody – John Gormley
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Mary Fitzpatrick interviewed by Michael Smith Councillor Mary Fitzpatrick, 44, was born and raised on the Navan Road in Dublin’s North Inner City, one of four children of Tom Fitzpatrick, a doctor and dentist who became a Fianna Fáil TD, She went to St Dominick’s in Cabra and to UCD where she studied politics and […]
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As he announces his intention to retire, we reprint an interview with the strongest voice on Ireland’s radical left. Michael Smith interviews Joe Higgins about a new electoral force on the left I meet Joe Higgins over tea and a brownie, on a grim afternoon in December in Dublin City Centre. He doesn’t want to […]
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By Éibhir Mulqueen. The news that bouffant New York billionaire Donald Trump has taken over the troubled Doonbeg Golf Links in West Clare, apparently for a snap-up price of €15 million, has been greeted with mixed feelings in Ireland. His second golf links in Europe adds to a 15-course empire that extends from […]
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Our communities go under the hamme
JobPath, local and community development and Local Employment Services go out to tender, but workers are fighting back. By David Connolly
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Devaluingdegrees
The Technological Universities Bill is motivated by the pursuit, by our excellent Institutes of Technology, of spiffier names. By Peter MacMenamin