A plan to transform the half-built Anglo headquarters in Dublin into a 'vertical park' for public use would stand as a permanent reminder of the problematic nature of a system so orientated towards property development if it goes ahead. By Philip Lawton.
A plan to transform the half-built Anglo headquarters in Dublin into a 'vertical park' for public use would stand as a permanent reminder of the problematic nature of a system so orientated towards property development if it goes ahead. By Philip Lawton.
A plan to transform the half-built Anglo headquarters in Dublin into a 'vertical park' for public use would stand as a permanent reminder of the problematic nature of a system so orientated towards property development if it goes ahead. By Philip Lawton.
The 2011 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry couldn’t be more deserving. After initially being ridiculed and asked to leave his research group for his findings in 1982, Israeli Daniel Shechtman, 70, takes home the 2011 Nobel ‘kudos’ and 10 million Swedish kronor (€1,082,671) for his discovery of “quasicrystals”. By John Holden.
Rather than shovelling more money into Anglo-Irish/Irish Nationwide we could use it to boost growth, employment and living standards. By Michael Taft.
Over the next 20 years Anglo-Irish (including Irish Nationwide) will cost the Irish taxpayers €90 billion.
Just reflect on that for a moment.
Now repeat: over the next 20 years Anglo-Irish will cost us €90 billion.
Brian O’Nuallain, better known both as the novelist Flann O’Brien and the journalist Myles na gCopaleen, was a writer capable of making jokes that everyone from academics to working men could laugh at. As we celebrate the centenary of his birth we should not forget that O’Nuallain’s works, like the man himself, contain hidden sides that reveal much about the paradoxical nature of being Irish. By Ed O’Hare.
There is an unwritten law of literary criticism which states that a great writer may be many things but they can never be funny.
Brian O'Nolan was a funny man. His Cruiskeen Lawn columns in the Irish Times hilariously desconstructed colloquaial sayings, pompous journalism and godawful clichés. He effortlessly penned anecdotes on the poets Keats and Chapman, attacked Sean O'Faolain - then editor of The Bell - pretentious artists and the 'professional classes'. October 5 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of O'Nolan's birth.
A new report by the Immigrant Council of Ireland details the racist violence and harassment endured on a daily basis by migrants. By Eadaoin O'Sullivan.
The Government could meet the Troika’s requirements without inflicting pain on the poor and vulnerable, according to Social Justice Ireland. By Richard Chambers.
On 14 September, Minister for Health James Reilly announced that he had received Cabinet approval to lift restrictions on GPs treating patients with medical cards. So will this make it easier for people to access GPs and drive down the high costs of GP visits?