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Rural inequality - Failure to provide broadband
Rural inequality - Failure to provide broadband

CONSIDERING the growth of modern communications and infrastructure, it is hard to imagine how a single wooden pole placed in the ground 70 years ago heralded what is arguably the most important advance in the creation of modern Ireland.

Mon, 07 Nov, 2016

Celebrate old age
Celebrate old age

THERE are some 540,000 people aged 65 or more in Ireland — 12% of the country’s population. 

Sat, 05 Nov, 2016

Facts are always, and will be, sacred
Facts are always, and will be, sacred
TRYING to sort the wheat from the chaff and the truth from deception in public discourse is becoming more and more difficult. 

Sat, 05 Nov, 2016

The public pay genie is out of the bottle
The public pay genie is out of the bottle
SO, the genie is out of the bottle and, if we may mix metaphors, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men have a better chance of getting Humpty Dumpty on the field for this evening’s game in Chicago between New Zealand and Ireland than this Government has of containing public sector pay demands already flowing from the last-minute deal struck to avert a garda strike. 

Sat, 05 Nov, 2016

A dangerous momentum gathers pace - Superpowers grow restless
A dangerous momentum gathers pace - Superpowers grow restless
IT’S just 60 years since there was a popular uprising in Hungary to try to end Soviet rule — though Russian historians, politicians, and contemporary culture insist that revolt was an early attempt at regime change inspired by western intervention.

Fri, 04 Nov, 2016

Irony heaped on darkening farce - Court rules against May’s plan
Irony heaped on darkening farce - Court rules against May’s plan
JUST days ago Taoiseach Enda Kenny warned that Britain might begin the process to quit the EU — Article 50 — before the end of March and that to imagine that nothing might change before then would be unwise. How right he was.

Fri, 04 Nov, 2016

Worth the wait - Olympic justice done at last
Worth the wait - Olympic justice done at last
JUSTICE delayed may well be justice denied, but athlete Rob Heffernan, who, last night, became the first person to be presented with an Olympic medal on Irish soil, will be happy that justice has, four years after the event, finally been done.

Fri, 04 Nov, 2016

Education may change attitudes - Rape statistics
Education may change attitudes - Rape statistics
It is a horrifying image but, at the same time, strangely a comforting one as we tend to see rapists and those who sexually assault as violent, sub-human monsters intent on subduing their victims who are strangers to them.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2016

Shocking but not surprising - Women priests
Shocking but not surprising - Women priests
THE statement yesterday by Pope Francis that women will never be allowed become priests in the Catholic Church is shocking but not surprising.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2016

Defamation law - Law will have to strike a balance
Defamation law - Law will have to strike a balance

A REVIEW of the defamation law announced yesterday by Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald is to be welcomed but it must be orchestrated in such a way as to make real and lasting changes and to strike a fair balance between freedom of expression and protecting a citizen’s good name.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2016

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