Politics
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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
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Happinessential
How might public policy reflect the claims of all social sciences to ‘Truth About How Things Work’. Sadhbh O’Neill replies to the debate between Constantin Gurdgiev and Michael Smith (Village Feb-March)