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Villager April 2015
Just shut up Villager is interested in the notion of ‘guest’ as applied to the ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’ show. The status seems to be precarious. Tom Cooney, a pro-Israeli former advisor to Alan Shatter, was told to leave after interrupting, Jerry Beades was ejected after being invited to ‘shut up’ (“just leave if you’re […]
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Villager – March 2015
Trust me, I’m a journalist After warfare and driving, the biggest waste of energy in human history is…social media. The very name. For Villager Facebook is even more self-indulgent than Twitter since it calls less for a dialogue. Being a herd-like and sociable bunch, unsurprisingly 99% of Irish journalists use social media, one of the […]
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Mates of Yates Under this heading in the last edition Villager made reference to Leo Varadkar. The intention of the piece was to imply that sexuality is workaday and of no particular interest but Village accepts that the reference was offensive and a mistake. In general, Village does not support the outing of the sexual […]
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Saving trees from themselves. In keeping with its general philosophy of doing more to achieve less Dublin City Council has erected signs in Merrion Square signalling that it is about to begin cutting down 300 trees there in accordance with a Conservation Management Plan. The idea is… well actually Villager couldn’t really see the […]
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