Host Hugh Linehan is joined by Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn to look back on the week in politics: · With the giveaway budget done, will this government conclude in time for an early general election? Timing is vital, but can the Coalition arrive at a consensus given their advanced ...
but there is a marked difference in emphasis on the way each sees left of centre politics in Britain moving forward over the next decade.Informed speculation says that Tony Blair will want to hang in as Prime Minister until the eve of the next general election, either in 2009 or 2010, and...
Message from the Editor: As one election finishes, the only talk is when the next one will be IT Sunday: Athletics success flies in the face of funding levels; Brianna Parkins writes about why she is leaving Ireland Expand Count staff member Cian O'Connor (l...
but there is a marked difference in emphasis on the way each sees left of centre politics in Britain moving forward over the next decade.Informed speculation says that Tony Blair will want to hang in as Prime Minister until the eve of the next general election, either in 2009 or 2010, and...
In the 5th Century BC in Ireland, October 31 was seen as the divide between summer and winter and was called Samhain (pronounced sow-han because after a few days of partying, you have a really hard time pronouncing the letter “m” – not really, it’s just that their language is weir...
So, here it is: Agent’s info obscured, on principle. We saw it the next day. The owners were an older American couple, who’d been in Cuenca for 12 years, and bought this place while the building was being built 5 years before. They were very nice, sensible people, who’d made ...
Today is the centenary of the birth of my father, Dennis Allman. (Saint) John Larkin, Attorney General of Northern Ireland Lee v Asher’s– saved in the nick of time For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. ...
“It’s not common when moving to a new system to discontinue an app. Perhaps the agreement was lopsided,” opined Niña Sarmiento, a Filipino IT programmer based in Ireland. In that country, “SKY and Netflix are separate accounts, as well as Hulu, Prime, and Disney. The subscription...
The climate law passed by the Oireachtas in 2021arguably ticked all of those boxes in spades. It is now facing its most serious test. The law did what politics can’t do, at least not all of the time: it set Ireland on a pathway to a fossil-free future with bot...
Next, we’d add something everyone else in the neighborhood had gotten for Christmas or a birthday. Like: I wish for a new Schwinn Sting-Ray bike in flamboyant lime Since the powers that be said it was illegal to use the third wish to ask for three more wishes, a lot of us tacked ...