Politics
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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’. […]
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’In a democracy the voters have a right to make stupid and irresponsible decisions, the right to vote for gombeens and bribetakers who will ignore development plans and rezone every blade of grass in the country’ ‘The Greens ,while in power, initiated the enquiries; Fine Gael and Labour put a halt to them – for […]
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By Kathleen Lynch. The impact of rising economic inequality on inequality in education is profound, especially over time. Education is essentially a competition for advantage in an unequal society. Those who have most resources and wealth, outside of education, can and will use it to gain advantage for their children within schools and colleges. Under-resourced […]
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Rory Hearne’s piece in the last issue of Village was certainly provocative – as all hymns to revolution will be – though it seldom rose beyond the predictable and even most Village readers will have probably filed it under evidence-free Marxist rant. Those not sympathetic to his, sadly not untypical, analysis-cum-diatribe will have probably glazed […]
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by Michael Smith Angela Kerins was born in Waterford and grew up between Cashel and her mother’s hometown of Tramore Co. Waterford. Educated at the Presentation convent in Cashel, she was trained as a nurse and midwife in England in which role she worked in the UK, the middle East, the USA and Ireland.. She […]
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Emasculated banking inquiry
Prosecutions more important than another inquiry. by Frank Connolly. Expect much false confidence in advance of the promised Oireachtas inquiry into the failings of the banking system leading up to the disastrous guarantee of September 2008. Public expenditure and reform minister, Brendan Howlin, promised that the inquiry will provide “answers to fundamentally important […]
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“The alternative to State bailouts was a takeover by private equity groups, which were hovering over the carcasses of the Irish banks. If the private equity groups were allowed inside the door, the board, staff and culture of the banks would have been filleted. Suddenly re-capitalisation looked a lot more attractive”. Shane Ross – ‘The […]