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By Frank Connolly a 35-acre site at Liscarton was purchased for €500,000 in 2016 and placed on the market for €4.2m a year later, after rezoning A public inquiry by the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) (13 and 16 June) into the conduct of former Meath County Council Chairperson and Fianna Fáil councillor Tommy […]
I now live in Leatherhead, the beginning and end of H.G. Wells’s prophetic War of the Worlds (1898). Wells summoned a Martian invasion of sleepy Essex in a parable of complacency. In my last substantial contribution to Village, I charted the rise of the far right as a response to the collapse of the neoliberal […]
Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, a beacon of resilience and a tireless advocate for justice reform, passed away at the age of seventy-six in a tragic house fire in Glenmacmurrin, County Galway, Ireland, today June 3, 2025. Also perishing in the blaze was Kevin Kelly, her carer. Her partner Peter Pringle, who I also knew, died in […]
David Burke names MI6 agents within Garda and DoJ during TroublesFrank Connolly on misreporting of Project Eagle Commission report
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T’S BEEN a long four months since our last publication. Some of that is because it’s not clear what the future is for a magazine like Village.
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News Miscellany
Project Eagle Commission hampered by ongoing criminal proceedings into Coulter and Cushnahan in Northern Ireland, as they, along with Brown Rudnick solicitors, Peter Robinson, and Sammy Wilson, refused to co-operate; and it refused to consider written submissions from John Miskelly.
Occupied Territories Bill promised in Programme for Government not even on legislative programme for current Dáil
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Michael Healy-Rae’s deal with government is unlawful; and he should have resigned several company directorships when he became a junior minister
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Recent case law: Mark Tottenham
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SIPO seems to be fl oundering to fi nd reasons to refuse even to consider complaints against former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
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Unsung hero, Laurence Rush, pushed effectively for truth of Omagh bombing
Northern Ireland’s Executive produces an unimpressive but not dysfunctional programme for government, finally
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Jes Paluchowska interviewed Seán Thim O’Leary, new President of TCD Student Union: unconventional approaches to hold TCD accountable
Ireland adopts Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism and IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism
M16 agents inside the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochana during the Troubles
How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction
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Where stands Ireland?
Profile: Judge Richard Humphreys: formerly blue then red, and now legal and (not always but sometimes, e.g. in the recent Statkraft case) radically green
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Before he was convicted in 2023 in Cork Circuit Criminal Court for failing to make declarations of interest, An Bord Pleanála’s Paul Hyde left a final legacy to Dublin City — unplanned high-rise in Dublin’s city centre