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It’s time judges took DPP’s lead - Incomprehensible sentence

THE judiciary must be independent and demonstrably so. 

Fri, 16 Dec, 2016

Predictable, Pavlovian and pathetic - Conflict over rent proposals

IT was just all too predictable. 

Fri, 16 Dec, 2016

Only a palliative - Health service national plan

THE HSE yesterday published its National Service Plan for 2017, outlining, in simplistic terms, its main goal to “promote health and well-being as part of everything we do, so that people will be healthier.” 

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

But dwindling stocks real issue - €280m fishing deal welcome

THERE is a sense of deja vu about the latest deal on Irish fish quotas. 

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

A small step in the right direction - Rent controls

HOUSING Minister Simon Coveney’s plan to limit rent increases was bound to be an imperfect solution to a seemingly intractable problem. It has, predictably, attracted the wrath of Sinn Féin, who say it will put on a statutory footing the right of landlords to increase rents by 4% a year, operating as a target rather than a limit.

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

Out of touch - Minister dismisses tax charge

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan’s curt nothing-to-see-here dismissal of the Oxfam charge that Ireland is one of the world’s leading tax havens does him, our Government, and this society no credit.

Wed, 14 Dec, 2016

Refuge from a hell on earth - Massacres in besieged Aleppo

IN June 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was razed and 642 of its residents, women and children included, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company. 

Wed, 14 Dec, 2016