Politics
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Bland and stage-managed.
By Suzy Byrne. Party conference season concludes this month with Sinn Féin meeting in Killarney. The three party conferences televised so far this year have shown little hope for policy debate and analysis in political parties or even the harnessing of new ideas. This year Fine Gael had Ministers and Oireachtas members sitting uncomfortably on […]
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By Tony Lowes. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney is at war on behalf of big agri-business. Simon of course is brother to Greencore’s dynamic CEO Patrick, recently in the news for spurning shareholders’ objections to his €1.4m annual remuneration. Greencore long ago shut Irish Sugar, its then only product. It makes nothing in Ireland, though it […]
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Change a long time coming.
By Jarlath Kearney. A key theme at the Northern Ireland Civil Service’s annual corporate gathering last month, entitled ‘NICS Live’, was the need to start “getting with devolution”. It’s exactly five years since stable devolved government was delivered in the north by the DUP and Sinn Fein’s historic rapprochement. What then has the north’s bureaucracy […]
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Crooked harp
Elaine Byrne takes the historical perspective on political corruption in Ireland – Review by Michael Smith
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Tax wealth
Campaigners should unite to demand fairness in the tax system – Patrick Nulty
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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 – Tony Lowes
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Killing the way of life
National Traveller strategies are quietly binned as local authorities force private-rented accommodation on them – Rose Marie Maughan