Politics
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Lynn Boylan interviewed by Niall Crowley. Lynn Boylan is a member of the Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle and has been an active Sinn Féin member of the party for eight years. She has worked with Ballymun Global Action Plan as a community programme co-ordinator, running courses for people making the transition from the blocks of […]
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Bryan Hayes (Fine Gael) interview
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Emer Costello MEP interviewed by Niall Crowley Collaborative, optimistic, garrulous but careful ‘It has to be about people – about more and better jobs, about equality, and combating poverty and social exclusion, about climate change and sustainable development, and about tackling discrimination’ ‘I won the support of the MEPs for my call for the European […]
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Brid Smith interviewed by Michael Smith Background Brid Smith grew up in Nutgrove, Rathfarnham, and went to school there and in St Anne’s Milltown where she was a couple of years above Miriam O’Callaghan. She went on to Rathmines Tech, to study journalism but dropped out. She then worked for five years for the Corporation’s […]
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Eamon Ryan interviewed by Michael Smith Background I meet Eamon Ryan in the restaurant under the Village Office. He is early. As usual he is metrosexually thoughtful, wry, good-natured and very well-informed, though he is strangely unapologetic and rarely truly philosophical. He recently celebrated his fiftieth birthday with an enormous party reflecting his widespread personal […]
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By Caroline Hurley. Former CRC board members Poor laws come from Poor Laws. The English Poor Laws date from the fourteenth century and, though regularly modified, were not fully repealed until 1967. They mark the beginning of the impersonal, centrally-organised approach to deprivation carried forward to health that is still characteristic, in England – […]
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By Niall Crowley. You would not immediately associate Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, with an interest in participatory democracy. However, last September he did set up a “Working Group on Citizen Engagement” as part of the voguish and typically bumptious ‘Putting People First – The Action Programme for Effective Local Government’. […]