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RTÉ refuses Village O’ Brien ad
Correspondence between Village‘s editor and RTÉ’s ad-clearance Department Editor <editor@villagemagazine.ie> 5 Jun to Hi I hope all is well with you. Can we please get this running as soon as...
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Bus-ting myths
By Anne Graham The National Transportation Authority was unhappy with the assertion in a recent article in Village (Labour’s Weapon , May 2015, by Michael Smith), that: “… Dublin Bus continues to buy...
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Extinction again
By Ken Phelan It seems, environmentally, that we have finally reached the nadir of life. Whereas 65m years ago it was probably an asteroid that threatened all life on Earth, now it is life itself – in...
View ArticleJust for show
By Michael Smith Climate change is the biggest issue of our age. It seems likely to leave a legacy for future generations that will mean our epoch will be remembered primarily for its stupidity and...
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Capitalist Europe dies
By Ronan Burtenshaw In late September 2009 I was walking through Dublin as the city prepared for the rerun of the Lisbon Treaty referendum. Outside Dublin Castle I ran into canvassers from Generation...
View ArticleNo longer Timorous
The small tropical island of Timor Leste (East Timor) grows coffee like you’ve never tasted before! Cultivated under the shade of massive rainforest trees, free from pesticides and chemical...
View ArticleGaza again and again.
By Barry Walsh. One year on, over 100,000 people still remain displaced in Gaza. Some people are living with extended families, others in temporary accommodation and UN schools. The ongoing economic...
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Europe’s Left needs a new horizon
Ronan Burtenshaw argues that now is the time to start discussing alternative political and economic unions for Europe. 2015 has been a year when a decade has happened for Europe’s Left. In just a few...
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Sophisticated but will not pay
By Gerard Cunningham The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015 for Ireland gives an effective overview of who learns what where, here. The report describes Ireland as “a broadly engaged audience...
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Agenda 2030 to replace Millennium Goals, at UN next week. By Luke Holland.
Key is implementation. Do we really intend to keep our promises? It’s a question that begs to be answered as the international community unveils the new global development agenda for the next 15 years,...
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1916 and the ongoing danger of conservative revolution
If there’s been one new idea introduced into the discourse by the 2016 commemorations, we haven’t registered it. The Rising was an irrational response to a colonialist foe. The proper approach would...
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Smur fit-up for Merrion Square.
Montages of Diaspora Pavilion proposal When paper tycoon Michael Smurfit told his wife Norma he was dumping her for a tall Swede and wanted a divorce, in a restaurant in 1985, “she threw a glass of...
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Villager – April 2016.
Old masters – of bad practice. Christies is the agent for the export and proposed sale by auction of nine paintings and a drawing – including paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers II and...
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Now not Then
The recent multitude of events commemorating the centenary of the 1916 rising has provided ample opportunity to reconsider and admire the original wording of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish...
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Buzz wrecked
Last month, the NTMA sold the first ‘century bond’ in its history – €100m-worth of Government paper maturing in 2116 and priced at a yield of 2.35%. Given the current pricing of 30-year bonds, a...
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Sinn Féin loophole could lead to Irish PAC funds
With calls to review their policy that their TDs and senators should only take the average industrial wage (in Dublin because of higher living costs in the capital), Sinn Féin’s financing arrangements...
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Water campaign is class warfare
For good and bad Kelly killed the issue [of water charges], even if tens of thousands of diehards continue to protest the principle at occasional marches in Dublin (Village, May 2015) Paul Murphy...
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Taking housing from scandal to right
There are human rights to food, water, healthcare, a minimum standard of living, and housing. Despite western opposition they found their way into the International Covenant on Economic, Social and...
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Is equality a right?
Rights set undesirable limits on politics In practice constitutional rights have been insidiously ideological and, latterly, a conservative, money-driven distortion. By Eoin Daly Far from guaranteeing...
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