Politics
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A New Politics For a New Decade
Upgrade the C and AG, improve transparency and anti-corruption laws and develop a vision of the public interest
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How To Boost Enterprise In Ireland
“lending to the private sector by banks has gone from a 30% annual increase to a 3% decrease”
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Height in Dublin City By Michael Smith Dublin City Council is pushing a high-rise strategy through the Development Plan variation process. After fractious public meetings it has toned down an initial draft of what it called in somewhat Orwellian terms: “Maximising the City: A strategy for densification and height”. If successful it will come into […]
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View from the wheelhouse Miriam Cotton (2009) Mayo fisherman, Pat ‘The Chief’ O’ Donnell, has been a vocal objector to the present configuration of the Corrib Gas project. Last year he was instrumental in preventing Shell from laying its disputed pipeline in Broadhaven Bay. Below are excerpts from an interview in which he claims he […]
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Erris Imagining Irelnad
“dozens of people spoke out, combining passion, anger and the trademark forensic knowledge of all aspects of the gas project. The Ministers fiddled with their pens”
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The Top Job
“Cardiff was involved… in the late-night meetings where the Government’s controversial Bank Guarantee Scheme was agreed”
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We Can’t Afford MC Carthy
“Why is there no-one out there internationally whose confidence might be bolstered by a more equal Ireland?”