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Lebanon tense over assassination allegations
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Irish artists launch cultural boycott of Israel
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When is 'I do' taboo?
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Religious experience and the modernist novel
Perhaps we in Ireland are now contemplating “God’s afterlife” in a supposedly post-religious world. ...
Bahrain Diary: 'Too much Honky Ponky'
For a Muslim country, the number of women who work as prostitutes in Bahrain is remarkably high. The...
Lessons of industrial accidents not learned
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Policy choices and the political business cycle
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Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tuesday's Programme, 31 August: As Anglo Irish Bank reports huge losses - what can we expect from the year in politics? Will the Green Party stick out the full term or will an election be called? Conor Lenihan, Aine Kerr Joan Burton and Damian English discuss with Ivan Yates. Tonight with Vincent Browne begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting is copyright TV3 Television Network |
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Forces that shaped white-collar betrayal
Those who have ruined the country came through a mostly Catholic schools system without any sense of being part of a society IN HIS speech in Rimini last week Diarmuid Martin said: "School catechesis, despite the goodwill of teachers, does not produce young Catholics prepared to join in the Christian community. Sometimes, after 15 years of catechesis, young people remain theologically illiterate.Comment on this Latest programme All Tonight blogs
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Topic: As the government looks at a possible u-turn on Anglo Irish Bank - what are the prospects for NAMA and will AIB need to be nationalised? Panellists: Cliff Taylor, Constantin Gurdgiev, Oliver Gilvarry and Paul Sommerville join Guest host Ivan Yates Do we detect ''green shoot'(ist)s''? Is sheriff Gormley about to shoot that darn money grabbin outlaw.. ''Anglo Banco'' down! As John WayneComment on this Latest programme All Texts and Emails
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Forces that shaped white-collar betrayal
A quick PS to the above: if there's a Kipling poem that the financiers should read, it's http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm.
Forces that shaped white-collar betrayal
What a bizarre premise - that following Kipling's If leads to sociopathy. It might be possible that slavishly following a single dictum leads to social problem,...
Core values ignored
How can you call for more funding, we've no money left!!! The community sector should realise that we have one of the largest deficits in the world and that it ...
Losing our souls to technology's trinkets
"What is the point of all this industry, this innovation, this cleverality, other than to make money for the designers, the manufacturers, and the retailers?" U...
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UCD sociologist argues against utopian ideal
There has been a lengthy discussion at PW over the last few weeks on the need for and prospects of a united front of the Irish Left. http://www.politicalworld.o...
Irish feminism still faces challenges today
Stephie, I think you completely misinterpreted the final line of the article. The point of the statement, I believe, was to acknowledge that there is a battle- ...
Losing our souls to technology's trinkets
I agree that for many people it is all just another channel to consume the pap the media churns out to amuse people But when the Indian government can show of...
Irish feminism still faces challenges today
Women still have many more battles - I believe the glass cliff is even more dangerous than the glass ceiling. Once women break through the glass ceiling and ta...
Irish feminism still faces challenges today
[i]"The current battle for feminists, it seems, is to prove that there is still a battle to be fought"[/i] The proof is there. Women earn less, and are more l...