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Martin Giblin, Senior Counsel, doyen of cases challenging Irish miscarriages of justice is dead too young, at 73. Abroad, I often feel like the character in Cinema Paradiso (1988), who is informed of ...
Nailing the institutional culprits, ignored by Ireland’s deficient media By Irvin Muchnick In Ireland’s public square, I now ask yet again: “Why was Gibney living in Florida and who sponsored his ...
Soldiers from the Royal Irish Rangers taking a rest during the Battle of the Somme, 1916 The British army lost over 700,000 men in Europe’s trench warfare. And there was no escape from the Western ...
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 ...
I. The Metaphor of Sleepwalking Sleepwalking is more than a medical condition. In law and psychiatry, it signifies diminished responsibility—a mind severed from agency. Politically, it evokes inertia: ...
The government has hired private jets to transport the Taoiseach to foreign engagements and summits despite the availability of commercial options.
Three investigations are underway at the hospital into allegations of racism. By Conor O’Carroll. At least three independent investigations into serious allegations of racism are underway at Cork ...
Further allegations of racism have been made by nurses undertaking the adaptation programme at Cork University Hospital (CUH) following attempts by management to categorise previous allegations as ...
Over sixty TDs and Senators have signed an open letter addressed to Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan TD, calling on him to review the government’s policy on munitions inspections at airports. The ...
The Department of Transport’s failure to inspect aircraft at Shannon Airport leaves Ireland relying on the good faith of those transporting munitions through Irish sovereign territory. By Conor ...
Thousands have marched in solidarity with Palestine following the conflict in Gaza, but Ireland’s support of the Palestinian cause was not always so straightforward. By Diarmuid Breatnach Palestinian ...
American pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer queried the Department of Finance’s Freedom of Information (FOI) policy following a report of their meeting with officials in the Business Post. Documents ...