Politics
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The news that serial non-litigator Gerry Adams is to sue over allegations he sanctioned the murder of IRA informer Denis Donaldson, cannot surprise. Contrary to what has become the received wisdom, the former security force agent in the IRA did not tell BBC Northern Ireland’s ‘Spotlight’ programme on September 20th that Gerry Adams sanctioned the […]
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Unemployed are mistreated
At the INOU’s recent Annual Delegate Conference delegates called on the Government to “significantly increase Jobseeker payments – at a minimum to the rates in early 2009 – including reversing the cuts to younger jobseekers”. This call was made in recognition of the financial difficulties facing unemployed people. It reflected that the poverty rates experienced […]
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We struggle in the consumerist war-free West with the other, with Strangers. When someone with a credit card and pale skin settles in another land we often hear them referred to as an ‘expat’. Others permanently abroad are deemed ‘migrants’, ‘illegals’ or ‘asylum-seekers’. Few of us have direct experience of the conflicts that devour post-colonial […]
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Discovering Casement
No evidence Rising hero and philanthropist wrote ‘Black Diaries’
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Hugging Brexit
Leaving the EU will be a disaster, but also an unprecedented radical opportunity for the Left
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Let’s Kill some of the Lawyers
Corporate law is boring but trials are fun
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TCD fell 20 places to 98th and UCD fell 22 places to 176th but they both complacently blame inadequate funding