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An Bord Pleanála’s logic is bad for your health
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
A few weeks ago in an article I wrote for a review of the decade, I remarked that logical analysis of a planning system that caused a gas terminal to be built on a remote, volatile bog in North Mayo was bad for your health.
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It’s time for Cowen to show some imagination
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
WILLIE O’Dea is gone and Brian Cowen is forced into a cabinet reshuffle earlier than might have been expected.
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George, Charlie and the curse of Beverley
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
FIANNA Fáil TDs struggled to hide their glee last Monday as Fine Gael hovered on the brink of internal combustion in the wake of George Lee’s political hari-kari.
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Joe Kennedy, the emigrant who never forgot home
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
WHEN Joe Kennedy walks to the podium in Citywest Hotel in Dublin next Friday night to accept the most prestigious accolade that can be bestowed on a Mayo native, he will be celebrating much more than just a personal success story.
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The last of the big spenders
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
I was trawling through some archives recently when I came across an Editor’s Chair from April 2004.
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Obama undone by cyber campaign
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama marked his first year in office by taking an almighty kicking from the American electorate.
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Don’t confuse realism for racism
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Rory Fitzgerald is an Irish-based writer for the Boston Globe. A fortnight ago he reflected on the demise of the Celtic Tiger in an article appropriately entitled ‘Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling on the Emerald Isle’.
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Monthy Python and the Minister for Snow
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
MINISTER John Gormley’s performance on Prime Time last Thursday night was one of the most infuriating displays of political hand-washing this writer has ever witnessed.
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Bloggers, TV3 and the ‘new’ media
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
ANY journalist watching TV3’s main evening news on St Stephen’s Day would have cringed with shame.
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The decade when we all went a little crazy
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
We will spend the next decade picking up the pieces from the last one, writes Editor James Laffey.
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Why we must defend our beleaguered teachers
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
LET’S face it, 2009 has been a very bad year for public sector workers. It’s one thing having your wages cut, but it’s another thing entirely to be repeatedly told you’re a burden on society, you’ve been ripping off the system for the past decade and sure any oul codger could do your job anyway.
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Personal debt is the real problem
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
MORE than a year ago I listened to a radio broadcast involving Finance Minister Brian Lenihan and economist David McWilliams. It was before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Government was still convinced the Irish economy was booming.
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Corrib and the art of bog building
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
EVENTS in Ireland in recent weeks would remind one of the final scenes of Shakespeare‘s King Lear. Even the gods of nature have turned against us as we are made to learn the bitter lessons of our imprudent past. Not only have we discovered that the homes and apartments we bought were over-priced but now it appears many of them were built on swamplands that are susceptible to flooding.
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Why we are anything but racist
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
THE headline in the Irish Times said what many have expected since the beginning of Ireland’s economic crash: Poll shows hardening of attitude towards immigrants.
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Maradona and the art of cheating
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
DIEGO Amando Maradona is a man who has had more than his share of run-ins with the governing body of international football, FIFA.
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