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Greenhorned
Greens and experts outmanoeuvred on Planning Bill which sells public interest in quality of planning very short

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As government again removes asylum-seekers and their tents, the notion of ‘a criminal offence in principle’ remains unknown to law and the Canal Act expressly disapplies itself to persons using canal property for less than a week in one place. By Michael Smith. Ten days ago, on 11 May, I asked the Department of the […]

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Although the Department of Enterprise originally did not disclose the number, it has now revealed that all 18 of the 18 applications reviewed in the audit of the Immigrant Investment Programme were found to be deficient. By J Vivian Cooke. Further details have emerged about the Department of Justice’s 2019 internal audit of the Immigrant […]

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Gript (and others): at see on Dublin
A recent intervention by Leo Varadkar was salutary in highlighting the implications of the Dublin Convention and Regulations for the treatment of asylum-seekers

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The opinion polls show the Green Party marooned on 4% (or 5%), a disgraceful haul for the party with the agenda of the epoch but about right for a party that is abjectly failing on signature cli-mate targets

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Republican dogmatists believe the Army Council is the legitimate government of Ireland

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Former PD firebrand, Senator Michael McDowell, is doing only ok; and has lost his liberal, or any coherent, edge
