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Peace Process & the media
From The Sunday Tribune, 26 July 2008
In November 1995, I travelled with Tommie Gorman from Dublin to the Fanad peninsula in Co Donegal. We were attending the funeral of Neil T Blaney, the former Fianna Fáil minister and longtime republican independent politician. I had written a short biography of Blaney ...
28 Jul 2008 |
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Sarkozy & Lisbon II
Published in The Sunday Tribune, 20 July 2008
Nicolas Sarkozy was correct. If Ireland is to remain part of the European Union then we must hold a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty. The way forward is already very clear. The text of the Lisbon treaty is not going to be ...
21 Jul 2008 |
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RECESSION or downturn?
The use of the word "recession" in the opening paragraph of the ESRI's latest quarterly economic summary should provide enough room for the pundits - qualified and unqualified - to keep talking right through the normally barrow summer silly-season.
The media rush to recall the 1980s has been given license by ...
29 Jun 2008 |
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Leonard Cohen & why the EU needs a holiday
Saturday evening. Royal Hospital Kilmainham. No getting away from the referendum result. Even in the company of Leonard Cohen. Seventy three years old, moving with grace and still gifted with a golden voice. An icon. A poet. And what a version of Hallelujah. "I've told the truth. I didn't come to ...
17 Jun 2008 |
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Protesting Ireland
The man representing the fishermen was furious that only a junior minister was available to meet with their lobby group. They were preparing to end their protest until they discovered that a cabinet minister would not be attending their grievance meeting. But why stop at any cabinet minister? Why didn't ...
11 Jun 2008 |
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