Politics
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Ireland’s controlled and framed Constitutional Convention shows that democracy here is still a joke Article by Niall Crowley Three years ago a tiring joke was doing the rounds as to the difference between Iceland and Ireland. Ultimately it turned out to be no joke. Now to one letter and a half-year another difference has added […]
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Remove corruption and developer-centredness from planning and local government Article by Catherine Murphy Of all the boom-era faults we should be determined to fix, planning and development law and local government design should rank amongst the most urgent. It virtually goes without saying that the present economic difficulties in which we find ourselves are, largely, […]
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Tax wealth
Campaigners should unite to demand fairness in the tax system Article by Patrick Nulty Sinead Pentony has done us all some service. In the last Village, she highlighted the fact that Ireland’s overall tax-to-GDP ratio is third lowest in the EU at 28 per cent. The burden of adjustment since the recession began has been […]
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Crooked harp
Elaine Byrne takes the historical perspective on political corruption in Ireland
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Tax wealth
Campaigners should unite to demand fairness in the tax system
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Europe is in no mood to indulge further Irish flouting of environmental directives on agriculture, fisheries, SEA, greenhouse gases, animal waste and water quality
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Killing the way of life
National Traveller strategies are quietly binned as local authorities force private-rented accommodation on them