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Check the backgrounds of your independent candidate

General Election fever is rampant at present.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Our racecourses are not competing internationally

The proposed €55m investment at The Curragh falls well short of what is required. The racecourse, already, lags well behind Ascot, Cheltenham, Longchamps, Sha Tin, and Arlington, and embarassingly so.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Young people with disabilities should be given the the chance get out and work

I am a young person with a learning disability. The thing I want most in the whole world is a job.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Students should feel the full force of the law, too

The alleged anti-social behaviour of students in Cork, over the Jazz Festival weekend, was the subject of discussion on a local radio chat show this Tuesday.

Fri, 30 Oct, 2015

Vote-buying budgets won’t build economy

Christy Kelly may be right when he points to ‘the drawbacks’ of the budgets ‘over the past seven or eight years’ of austerity as ‘imposing inequitable cuts ... without regard to the social consequences’. [Letters, October 28]. 

Fri, 30 Oct, 2015

Southern media aren’t giving Northern politics fair coverage

Given that the political establishment and the press in the South are newly interested in what is happening in the North, I was surprised that the following story went largely unreported by media over the last couple of days.

Fri, 30 Oct, 2015

Ireland was not a warm place for Protestants

Irish historians have said, for decades, that Ireland was a ‘warm place’ for Protestants. But tell that to the people who were born in, and survived, places like the notorious Protestant Bethany Home.

Fri, 30 Oct, 2015