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WE DIDN’T need Prime Time’s sting operation to tell us there was endemic corruption in our planning processes in this country. We only had to look at our destroyed landscapes and our ghost estates, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 10 Dec, 2015

Holiday hoodlums are no match for some of our political gurriers

ON THE first St Patrick’s Day while at university in Texas in 1964, I was interviewed by the local daily newspaper as I was the only person from Ireland among more than 15,000 students.

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Response to Hobbs’s programme is really about freedom of expression

IF you were Eddie Hobbs, presenter of the Rip Off Republic series on RTÉ, wouldn’t you just love to have a Minister of State attack you, especially with a threadbare attack like that launched by Tim O’Malley this week.

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WHILE corrupt planning practices involving Ray Burke have been exposed by the Flood Tribunal, many of the matters were reported as early as 20 years ago.

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