Politics
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Private educational privileges. By Niall Crowley The current defence of inherited privilege in the debate about the Education (Admissions to Schools) Bill is ugly no matter how you dress it up. There is the call to ethos and tradition, the soothing reassurance that this is not about excluding the disadvantaged, and the satisfying flexing of […]
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The social ‘protection’ racket.
By Tom Boland. Protection’ can sometimes be a euphemism for threats. A classic mafia racket is to ask businesses for money in exchange for ‘protection’, which is actually a threat of violence for non-payment. However, the extortion is dressed up as a community service. Recently, social welfare in Ireland has turned into a ‘protection’ racket. […]
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Yes in May
A toolkit for marriage-equality campaigners
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Traveller Visibility Group celebrates 21 years overcoming prejudice
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Consciences of goldfish
Increase emergency beds, keep rents down and generate sustainable homes by allocating 50% of social houses to homeless households
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RIAIsing the stakes
Confidential meetings of senior RIAI members agreed to seek resignation of CEO, John Graby, but did not follow through