The interesting and important implications of recent findings around the role of the SRY gene have been largely overlooked by a news media hungry for simple, familiar stories. By Rob Brooks.
Even before the wording has been published and a referendum date named there is one issue that looks set to dominate the debate over the Fiscal Treaty: namely, what future financing options does Ireland have in the eventuality of a ‘No’ vote? While we are not taking a position on the substantive issue in this piece, the following is intended to aid the debate by helping to answer that question. By Michael Taft and Tom McDonnell.
Through its organisational 'anti-structure' and insistence on 'questioning everything' the Occupy movement brought about its own demise. By Tom Boland.
Sinn Féin spokesperson on health Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin today called for a full inquiry into symphysiotomy, a practice he described as “a clinical scandal on a par with the clerical scandals we have seen exposed in the past two decades”.
Greg Smith’s letter announcing his resignation from Goldman Sachs, published yesterday, may well turn out to be an act of revelatory arson. By Ida Ince.
Greg Smith’s resignation letter in the New York Times yesterday (1), announcing a bridge-burning departure from his position as Executive Director of Goldman Sachs’s Equity Derivatives Division (Europe, Asia, Africa) certainly brought Wall St. to a relative halt. GS cancelled conference calls and the Goldman Flacks (PR goons) were rounded up to pour scorn on Mr. Smith’s allegations as “unrecognisable”.
The Irish Government has the power to remove the 'blackmail clause' from the Fiscal Treaty. It should use it. By Paul Murphy.
Stephen Collins's arguments for a 'yes' vote in the Fiscal Treaty are deeply flawed. By Eoin Ó Broin.
Stephen Collins is at it again. His latest Irish Times column on the Fiscal Treaty (10 March 2012) displays a disregard for the facts.
The column makes four key arguments. Let’s take them in turn.
We should not be complacent about the risk of “children’s rights” becoming another tool of state misogyny. By Wendy Lyon.
Last month the Irish Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald, announced that the long-promised referendum on the rights of children would finally be held this year.
The background to this lies in the following provisions of the Irish Constitution: