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NAMA Shrugs Again
State’s bad bank fails to take responsibility for another inept hit to the public purse as it improperly sells to someone connected to the original debtor, blaming IT systems. By Frank Connolly...
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Out of Time
How the newspaper of reference dealt with correspondence challenging an important article it published about equality Brendan Ogle Of Unite submitted the following article to the Irish Times on 15...
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Inequality is rising in Ireland.
Important research from Unite shows Irish Times wrong on most important social issue of our time. By Suzie Mélange. In a report entitled, ‘Hungry bellies are not equal to full bellies’, to be launched...
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The right-wing QAnon anti-vaccine cult has arrived in Ireland. They, and...
By David Burke. Some of the right-wing anti-lockdown-mask-vaccine brigade believe the government’s vaccine programme is part of an alien plot. The madness and mayhem in Washington earlier this year...
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Meghan Markle and the ABC-Buckingham Palace sex-abuse scandal
By Joseph de Burca Buckingham Palace has been sitting on a time-bomb since 2015: the ABC sex-abuse cover-up scandal. The Palace is currently engaged in a most undignified war of words with the Duchess...
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Councillors need to orient away from representations that make no difference...
Educate and empower Councillors to exercise effective governance and compliance over the €5bn administered by local authorities annually; and to be public not private representatives. By Fiona...
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It’s A Crime
And there was a lie in the Dáil. By Michael Smith. Factual Background to Alleged Crimes WhatsApp correspondence headlined ‘Leo Always Delivers’ first published in the Village Magazine of November 2020...
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Carers under government bus
We can’t trust our health minister to prioritise vaccination for family carers By David Nolan As a family carer, I have implored the government to classify informal carers on the vaccine rollout list....
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The Tánaiste and I both signed the Official Secrets Act.
Leo Varadkar has somehow convinced media that he’s not bound by that Act but he is – and faces an even more serious case under the Corruption Act. By Conor Lenihan. The latest twist in the Leo...
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Dystopia here, now
Village magazine editorial – February-March In the 1970s boys comics imagined dystopian futures of out-of-control robots and rollerblade axe-fighting. They were a counterpoint to the humdrum reality...
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Vaccine queue-jumping at the Beacon and relegation of frontline staff...
Reconsider criteria for what constitute frontline healthcare workers. By Izzy Fox. News of “leftover” vaccines from the Beacon Hospital in south Dublin being given to teachers in St Gerard’s in Bray,...
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Still Standing. (Expanded version.) Richard Kerr is determined to bring his...
By Joseph de Burca. Richard Kerr, Texas, March 2021. Richard Kerr, a survivor of child sex abuse at Williamson House and Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, is hoping that his legal action against those...
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Prince Philip’s infidelity, love children and the Profumo scandal .
By Joseph de Burca. Prince Philip by Stephen Ward. Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal. As a teenager, she slept with Captain Eugene Ivanov, a Russian naval attaché at...
View ArticleDance more, drink less
Let’s not conflate our pent-up fantasies of dancing until dawn, with more alcohol sales. By Eunan McKinney. The ‘2020 Programme for Government – Our Shared Future’, committed to the urgent...
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The ‘Last Man Alive’ is still saying nothing. Des O’Malley’s silence about...
By Sean Brennan The purpose of this article is to examine Des O’ Malley’s Role in the events which are commonly known as The Arms Crisis and The Arms Trials 1970. The Arms Crisis erupted during the...
View ArticleYou can’t have too much of the best political virtues.
How failure to regulate for ethics created a climate where a PR man could deride transparency. By Vanessa Foran. I want to take you back a few months to a mad little incident that keeps coming back to...
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The Climate Bill must be amended if it is to match the Government’s promised...
By Professor Barry McMullin, Dr Andrew Jackson and Professor John Sweeney The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 published by the Government in March 2021 is a very...
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Documents prove the RUC were told about Kincora. What does the former...
By Joseph de Burca. 1. Moloney and Kinchin-White When the Kincora Boys’ Home child abuse scandal first broke, Ed Moloney was one of a number of journalists who reported details about it in the press....
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RTE’s ‘Gun Plot’: Why has it taken so long for the true narrative of the Arms...
By Sean Brennan. Neil Blaney, Captain James Kelly of Irish Military Intelligence G2, John Kelly and Albert Luykx The documentary titled ‘Gun Plot’ which was shown on RTE 1 last night was fascinating...
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Marxism and the Poet
How I grew to see that without broad Marxism the arts and its unserious, networked and commodified lit-libs are for sale. An extract from the essay ‘Being a Marxist Poet in the Twenty-First Century’...
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